CRYSTAL

[muckspout]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Edgard
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: nope nope nope

[In the dead of night, a loud somewhat drunk voice erupts.]

Good evening Riftwatch!

This is the Maker speaking.

What makes a good person?

Comments

[indissection]

Would it not be crueller to engage in false hope?

[muckspout]

Think you should let a person be happy even if their happiness is misplaced. Doesn't seem cruel to me.

[indissection]

Perhaps it is simply a foreign concept to me. [ Happiness was always second to politics. ]

[muckspout]

[Edgard responds with great dramatic sadness.]

Happiness is a foreign concept to you?

[indissection]

It was, yes, for quite some time. Is that truly such a surprise?

[muckspout]

[Still a tone of great sorrow.]

Suppose not, but it is very sad. [Huge sniff and some rustling as Edgard wipes his face.]

[indissection]

[ She can't tell if he's being genuine or facetious. ]

Is it? It's how many of my fellows grew up.

[muckspout]

[Now, Edgard has been overtaken with the thing everyone learns which is that alcohol is in fact a depressant.]

It is. I know many as well. Everything is sad. Everything is so sad! Why is it like this?

[indissection]

[ Bro. ]

Perhaps because we're fighting a war?

[muckspout]

[Mournfully]

Yes, exactly, always.

[Dissolves into tears.]

[indissection]

... What is wrong with you?