Acinciturk22111
From Create Your Own Story
her you know from around the way. she's not a good friend, but the interests of not stirring animosity you share goods and services. today she's transporting herbs and poultry from the public settlement to the north. you lodge a complaint about the cathar mystics that escaped to the east who have been terrorizing people into asset forfeiture.
"easy with your vendetta please. we're catching them. i still stand by my claim that being on the side of the bishopric is easy - all of those cathars involved in the pillaging have lived a miserable life."
it's a topic that you tend to smoothly reply to, perhaps from some invisible coercion against them like the rancher suggested. you've dealt with many awkward exchanges on the topic of the cathars before, as it is with this one:
"first it was the frankish papacy and its sympathizers, then in 1902 there strict vagrancy extradition laws in france with its neighbours to condemn that lifestyle and now they're still under the thumb miles away in greenland in anarchistic northern settlements just trying to get by. if you were looking for a second opinion, even though i know you have no interest in a difference of opinion in general, the plundering is a survival instinct because we're trying to blow them away in the promotion of a 'strong and savage' northern front. the mid-century rude awakening is that cathars are a faction congenial in the future and they've popularized asceticism as a lifestyle both here and on the oceanic continent. millions of people identify as cathars."
"now, listen: while i don't have a lot of time today they won't want buy all these luxuries. they probably don't have the goods i'm after trading for them either, so you'd be doing me a favour if you could buy up some of this. chickens in the northernmost settlement aren't an everyday thing as you know."
you point out a phial in her breast pocket which you wouldn't rule out as opioids. she produces it, looking at it pensively:
"you can have the opioids. i don't care about taking them anymore. in fact it'd be good to get rid of these"
