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medicalpunch) wrote2013-08-07 09:12 pm
medicalpunch) wrote2013-08-07 09:12 pm
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[On day 5 of their time in Luceti Valley, the tax hike has gone through, and Sakura Harukawa is pissed. She's taking to the streets of Lowtown, but not in a militant, fist-waving rage -- oh no, she has better plans.
She's taking the whole matter quietly, building up a resistance. Going door to door, checking on neighbors, chatting -- and trying to sow the seeds of a rebellion. Validating the anger of all the other Lowtown folk, agreeing that something has to be done, voicing her thought that the Mayor will never do anything, and the fat-cats around Lake Catheria are just going to enjoy their comfort on the backs of the working folk.
So if you're at home, or tucked away in a little corner business in Lowtown, you'll get a visit. A little 'hi, how are you?' Concern about how well you'll weather the hike. She wants to know that everyone will be all right, and wants to make sure that they'll all band together in the face of pressure, instead of falling apart under it.]
She's taking the whole matter quietly, building up a resistance. Going door to door, checking on neighbors, chatting -- and trying to sow the seeds of a rebellion. Validating the anger of all the other Lowtown folk, agreeing that something has to be done, voicing her thought that the Mayor will never do anything, and the fat-cats around Lake Catheria are just going to enjoy their comfort on the backs of the working folk.
So if you're at home, or tucked away in a little corner business in Lowtown, you'll get a visit. A little 'hi, how are you?' Concern about how well you'll weather the hike. She wants to know that everyone will be all right, and wants to make sure that they'll all band together in the face of pressure, instead of falling apart under it.]
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[It was hard not too, when it was the hot topic for every conversation along the streets in Lowtown. He was more concerned about it than he was going to let on to his wife. The deals he was running on the side would help, but it was far from a solution to the problem.]
What about it? [His tone was easy, as if commenting on the weather.] Do ya have something in mind?
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In mind? Not entirely, not yet. But... I want to reach out to people. If we're going to get through all this mess, we have to do it as a group. There's way more of us than there are of them -- that has to count for something.
And even if it doesn't, even if we can't stop them doing this to us... maybe we can at least keep each other from falling.
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[The state of the economy had bugged him for far longer than he let on to others. The tax hike was barely a blip on the horizon when he started working on the side to pay for his son's schooling, and the entire time he thought about how absurd it was. There didn't need to be this divide between the wealthy and the working class. The people in Lowtown could support themselves in his opinion, if they collectively gathered the courage to separate themselves from their dependency on the Lord Mayor and the denizens of Hightown.]
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[That's actually... pretty hopeful. If other people are already having similar thoughts, then it should be easier to get Lowtown organized.]
What I'd really like to do is see us all supporting each other. Between us all, we can make sure people eat, we can make sure the needy or sick get cared for... and most importantly, we can stand up.
No one wants to be a slacker. But we need our work to bring results, we need it to be enough to feed us. And if they won't give us that...
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Those were my exact thoughts. We'd be much better off if we can get ourselves outta the hands of the big guys in town hall, but that's gonna be hard without risking anarchy. I can't think if a clean and pretty way to do it.
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I'm not here to start a revolution. But I want to make sure that no one's going to go cold or hungry through anything except their own laziness.
It shouldn't be so much to ask. [But apparently it is, if you ask the aristocracy.]
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[Because Cliff? A revolutionary? Please.]
I just mean that the people right now are too tied up with being angry to really see all these things. It might be something that we should just let run for a bit, 'til things cool off.
Nothing's going to get done if people don't wanna listen.
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Some people don't have time to just blow off steam. The people who need help the most... [She swallows] They're the ones we need to find immediately, the ones who won't make it till the next paycheck without help. And people who have a little more, who can help.
I don't think we can afford to wait out people's tempers.
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It might take some doing though, because people have their pride to consider. [Like he did. It was why he worked to the point of exhaustion to pay for his son's education.]
But, we'll all need to take a few blows to our pride before the end of this.
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Pride... I don't know how many people can afford to have their pride. If it means starving, or freezing... it's summer now, things aren't so bad, but what happens this winter when temperatures drop?
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People are stubborn. It ain't gonna be easy.
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No one can eat hope, or pay the landlord with it.
[She's not arguing with him, precisely -- just trying to be very realistic. If people don't band together, if they start to see evictions...]
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[All. Too. Well. He wanted to knock a few heads and get people to think a little, but that was going to be too difficult at this point.]
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If we all do our best, if we all help each other, then we can get through it. And deny as much in taxes as possible to the fat cats, for that matter. They can't make money off us helping each other, after all.
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I'm sure we can. If everyone joins their efforts, there has to be a way.
If we can't... [She just shakes her head.] I don't know what will happen, but it won't be good.
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[She hopes they will, anyway.]
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I've gotta hunch that it'll work out for the best one way or the other. Do your thing, but don't stress yourself out over it. Trust people to understand this for themselves sooner rather than later.
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[She sighs. He is right -- but then again, it's hard not to stress, to see the looming disaster that's about to break over them, once the tax starts to tighten belts and wallets.]
Yes.