[002] VOICE

[epimethean]

Right, okay, who did it?

[Thanks, exasperated British voice. That's it, that's the post.]

Comments

[vanisland]

No one is going to confess to that kind of thing, even if they had done it. Really, this seems more like a cover-up than anything else.

[epimethean]

Well, it's not like it's going to matter either way, because we're all pretty much buggered, with this stunt. Whoever did it might as well just fess up and get it over with.

[vanisland]

And what if whoever is responsible isn't numbered? He or she will never see this if that's the case, and then all you'd be doing is making us think one of us has screwed us over.

[epimethean]

What, you think everyone on this network is trustworthy? There's motives all over the place! Get at Thundercorp, stop the buzzing...you don't think there's a single numbered person here who's capable of doing something this ridiculously reckless and stupid?

[vanisland]

As a matter of fact I do think there are such people. It's just that the pretense of looking for ecoterrorists based on a bombing attack is extremely flimsy.

[epimethean]

Well, sure, they're not actually going to say what they're really looking for, that would be about as stupid as bombing the Dead District in the first place.

[vanisland]

Yes, but why would an ecoterrorist destroy something with so little value?

[epimethean]

Because it wasn't an ecoterrorist, obviously.

[vanisland]

Good, we agree. Although I think what that company has planned for down the road just takes the "eco" out of it.

[epimethean]

It's just an easy scapegoat, is all.

[vanisland]

Too easy. Anyone that puts any real thought into it - you know, like us - is going to realize that's clearly not the case.

Of course, everyone other than us just stops thinking every so often, so it's actually going to work.

[epimethean]

That's what they're looking for, though. They don't care if we see right through it, just that everyone else does.