1 - Have I made you desperate?

[lacksconviction]

[He takes his time before introducing himself, establishing the purpose of this place, the fact that his magic definitely was depleted and not coming back by any means known to him, and weighing up the odds of his escaping by the usual means, before deigning to make his first journal entry. He has taken off his ridiculous supervillain hat, for effect:]

My my, is this not an ambitious effort? Certainly, a more elaborate one than the last chamber in which I was imprisoned. To whose hospitality do I owe my gratitude, may I ask? Which one-eyed wolf has clamped these strange jaws around my throat?

[He smiles, but it's unconvincing. His eyes look strangely pained.]

Or perhaps I expect too much in assuming this a prison, rather than an arsenal of purloined weapons, or a vault to hold the spoils of war?

[A slight pause, before he decides he's giving away far too much, and clicks the communicator off.]

Comments

[Private]

[lacksconviction]

You speak like one who wishes to exclude himself from such titles?

Are you not an ant, friend?

[Private]

[diedinnewyork]

...Ants don't know they're ants. I may not know much, but I know they can't think of themselves or acknowledge themselves.

and I'm pretty aware of what I'm worth. Down to a penny in fact.


But Hey, I'm sure everybody up there is giving you useful information. You're talking about wolves and everybody's giving you the same tired speech. Good luck with that.

[Private]

[lacksconviction]

Really? My first thought of ants is rather different to yours. I don't know what an ant thinks. I care not if it acknowledges itself. It is so small as to be entirely insignificant to me.

So you see, what you think, or know of yourself tells me nothing. Is there some reason why you should not be just as entirely insignificant as the rest of them?

[Private]

[diedinnewyork]

I like you, you're fun.

[It is quite possible this man is insane.] What do you think differentiates people from the others?

[Private]

[lacksconviction]

And you are mindless.

You must make yourself significant. There is no single test for it.

Re: [Private]

[diedinnewyork]

Better to be mindless then to be asked to lead. Humanity is a joke, this place is a joke, and what can I say, I like telling jokes.

But see, by implying that you're implying that there's a standard. I'm asking what that standard is. What does significant mean?

[Private]

[lacksconviction]

You are not human then?

And if you need to ask, then know that you are not. It is innate.