THE HERO OF THE IMPERIUM

[hegantha]

Characters: Amberley Vail, Commissar Ciaphas Cain, and YOU
Setting: All around the safe floors. The cafeteria, dorms, etc.
Format: Actionspam is cool, threads with cain and amberley will be done separately
Summary: Propaganda is good! Everyone should know that there's a hero among us who stands up for good humans and helps protect them from the tower!
Warnings: Discrimination towards aliens and anything practicing magic. The shoot first, ask questions kind of discrimination.

[ Amberley and Cain can both be found about the tower today, the almost seven foot tall man following behind the smaller woman dressed in his normal military garb with his chainsword at his side. You do get the sense that he's being dragged around by her, mostly because of his stoicism and her cheery enthusiasm make a pretty jarring contrast.

The two each have a stack of handmade flyers they're handing out, which Amberley made with a marker and some scrap paper. Not the most high tech propaganda out there, but it was better than nothing. Everyone who runs into the duo will get one of these.



At least they're trying to help, even if it's in their own horribly misguided way. ]

Comments

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko, meanwhile, readies her fingers to snap and gets the mental image she needs ready. If he doesn't shoot, everything will be fine.

If he does, this will all go to hell in a handbasket.]

[hegantha]

[ She sighs, seeming more annoyed than concerned. Amberley also gives off an attitude that shows she's in control of the situation, not Cain. ]

Shooting her won't silence her.

[ Even if they did kill her, she'd only come back to tell her tale of being shot down for something Tohko seemed to be completely trivial. People would believe the book girl over herself or Cain and Amberley isn't in a position to handle the negative attention. ]

Though really, I'm disappointed, Tohko. I thought we were friends. Aren't friends supposed to be more considerate to each other than this?

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed before she looked at Amberly and replied. She looked a little less annoyed, but she was still angry.]

We are friends. However, it's not right to pull large groups of people away from each other for no reason. Aliens and sorcerers abiding by all sorts of different laws and rules are here, but that doesn't make them bad and it doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least try to work together. Flyers like these will only create unnecessary conflict.

You are my friend, Amberly..but friend are also supposed to help each other not make huge mistakes or let them do something that they'll regret.

[hegantha]

Honestly, it seems more like you refused to listen to Ciaphas even though he made good points and even tried to compromise. If I wasn't here right now, your complete refusal to compromise probably would have ended up with you dead. You talk of unnecessary conflict, but your stubborness seems to be creating more problems then the two of us right now.

And I have nothing to regret. I will never regret serving the Emperor and please don't ever tell me that I am wrong for having faith.

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed again, growing a bit more annoyed. Amberly was her friend..but what she was doing wasn't good, even if she did have her heart in the right place.]

I listened to your friend. However, he just made the same points over and over again while ignoring what I said. I didn't see where he tried to compromise either. While your actions haven't caused any conflict now, if people really take to this, it's going to cause more harm than good in the long run.

I'm willing to listen to a good argument. But both you and your friend have to understand that since the Tower is a melting pot of other universes, there are going to be good magicians and aliens here. They're not all out to kill people, even if that is the way it worked in your universe.

And since our universes are destroyed, we shouldn't worry about things coming from them to hurt other people here.

And I'm not telling you that you're wrong for having faith. There's nothing wrong with faith. But there is something wrong with stereotypes.

[hegantha]

It's not as if we're actively hunting the lot. If we were, your concerns could very well be valid. However, I see nothing wrong with being careful. I'm sorry, but as much as you insist there could be good sorcerers and xenos here, between Ciaphas and myself we have over two hundred years experience almost getting killed by these creatures several times over, much more than I could ever count.

You can't really ask us to throw that away just because you say so. The most I think I could do is be willing to ally with non-humans and magic users during a combat situation, but even then, I would never turn my back to them.

[tohko_amano]

..That's true..but getting it into people's heads that most, if not all, magicians and aliens are bad might start up some unnecessary infighting if it spreads, and it's not going to earn you any allies that would happily be your friends if not for this.

[Tohko then sighed.]

I understand that you've been fighting with them in your universe for two hundred years. I'm not expecting you to completely change overnight..but couldn't you at least try to talk happily with a few? Make a friend and see if everyone here is that bad?

After all, you couldn't have expected, in your two hundred years worth of experience, to be thrown into this Tower, so there might be a few more surprises in store for you. After all, I'm friends with a lot of magicians here, and a few aliens. They're not all bad, I promise. Even outside of combat.

[hegantha]

I have spoken to some, and as polite as they are, I cannot be sure that I am being deceived. Though taking to them over the terminals is something that I have no problem with.

[ Since, you know, you can't be killed through a computer. ]

[tohko_amano]

I'm pretty sure that you're not being deceived or tricked. Out of curiosity, who did you talk to?

[hegantha]

Sorry, that's confidential.

[tohko_amano]

[That surprised Tohko a little bit.]

May I ask why? It's not like I'm planning on meeting any of these people later on.

[hegantha]

Oh, it's nothing like that. I just can't go around telling everyone that these people are non-humans and sorcerers, that's all.

[tohko_amano]

..[Tohko gave an annoyed sigh again.]

Unless the people you met specifically told you not to tell others that they were magicians or non-human entities, then I don't see the problem. You're forgetting that I, and several other people here, don't share your views on magicians and non-human entities. We're not going to fly into a panic.