>>@SGT | TO: @ALL.

[byhand]

I usually reserve these communications for private networks, but it seems necessity has hastened our meeting. For the safety of myself and my family, I would be of no uncertain gratefulness if you would refer to me as Sargent, and little else. Though I am sure, with time, some of you will come up with more colorful nicknames.

Pleasantries aside; welcome, new faces and old, and I must ask this with all seriousness and kindness: What have you done?

Things are moving at the wrong speed. The prognosticators were not expecting to compensate for such a load. Several droids have begun misfiring, our protochron readouts are gaining sentience, a prophet is missing, and the birds are growing increasingly agitated. This is not the series of events your ancestors knew, much less my progeny.

To put it simply: things are not moving apace. I cannot say for sure if this is your influence, or the influence of an outside power, or perhaps both. And yet:

Mary Wollstonecraft, who was not supposed to enter Paris until next month, is already here.

The King's Trial has not even been proposed by the revolutionary government.

Mirabeau sleeps still in a place of honor.

I will put more work into discovering the source of this snarl in history. But you must be warned: every action you have here changes the lives of untold million not yet born. Tread carefully, for as the poets say: you walk upon dreams.

Comments

[byhand]

Why do you think I would know, young man? If you think so little of my opinions? Who schooled you on rhetoric? Their work is rather lacking.

[chariotry]

I may be unimpressed, but that doesn't mean you don't have any information that might be of importance to me.

If it was you who brought me here, that'd make you my Master. So I sure hope it wasn't you.

[byhand]

If so, I should hope whoever trained you did a better job of teaching you to leverage such information from others.

Man is born free, but all the world around he is chained. I can call no one of will or pride my servant, and I am no master.

[chariotry]

[ This would be endearing if not for the fact that Achilles is an asshole. He likes that answer, even if it's poses as an inconvenience for him. ]

What a Master and Servant is in relation to what I am has nothing to do with the kind you're speaking of. But that still gives me the answer I was looking for.

Don't insult my teacher. He's around here, you know. And if he isn't up to defending his own honour, then I will for him.

[byhand]

[too late hes already endeared 2 u]

Happy to serve, my boy.

Oh? And what lengths would you take to defend a man who left you poorly suited for your task?

[chariotry]

[ NO I MEAN... HE'D BE ENDEARED TO THIS OLD MAN but he's going to be stubborn. He's wary of leaders since Agamemnon okay.

Also insert joke here about Achilles' answer being that he'll have a temper tantrum and sit out on all his given missions. ]

The easy answer would be I'd kill you.

But hopefully I won't have to go that far. For your sake you should settle for a spear tip aimed at your face and apologize.

[byhand]

[I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN....... Sarge just don't care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

I'd like to see you try. If your teacher was so poor a hand at every other aspect of your education, he must have left much to be desired in the realm of combat. Regrettably, I will not be able to meet you in person for some weeks. I await your acquaintance, and, I suppose, your honor in combat.

[chariotry]

Some weeks? And why is that, Sargent? Are you unfit to come out here on the front lines with us?

Typical.

I expect you'll be watching me fight anyway. Then you'll eat your words about my teacher.

[byhand]

Yes, that is precisely why. I am unfit. An old injury, among other things.

But I have never lost a battle to a son of Thetis, and I doubt I ever shall.

[chariotry]

[ Oh.... no.

Achilles' blood thunders in his ears. There's that familiar rush, the need to act, but there's no one in front of him to lash out at. ]

Explain yourself.

[byhand]

It was not an insult, my boy. You were always too quick to anger.

I was a friend of brave Thetis, long ago. It's time passed far from the memory of man; I shouldn't have brought it up, if it troubles you.

threadjacks very gently; un: ponytailed

[horsepowered]

Sometimes, it ins't the schooling, but if one continues the practice after the lessons are concluded.

[byhand]

The student should never be blamed for the failings of the teacher, I've always found.

[horsepowered]

A student can choose what he pursues outside the classroom, and so my own opinion is that it is the onus of the student to further their own education once they have left the classroom for good.

But it is true enough that the results do have a reflection. Things will be refined and readdressed in the future

[Even though he's well aware that it's Achilles and shit ain't gonna change.]

[byhand]

A student ought to pursue what which will strengthen him, if he is taught correctly.

I find it charming that he defends you, however.

[horsepowered]

It's a strength and a weakness in him.

[byhand]

Attributable to your guidance?

[horsepowered]

Not so much as a natural part of him.

[byhand]

You believe it is his nature to defend you? My, my. That is a first.

[horsepowered]

That's putting words into one's mouth. I was alluding to a loyal nature.

[chariotry]

[ You're throwing him under the bus instead of having his back... Achilles is going to tsun very hard. ]

Is that you... Teacher?

[horsepowered]

[Yeah....someone just fucked up in trying to point out that it's pretty rude to insult a teacher about a student's behavior.

The tsun is absolutely deserved.]

...We should talk in person.

[chariotry]

Of course we should. Just tell me where you are and I'll come find you.

[horsepowered]

Naturally

[Do you want to move this to a log or someone's contact post?]

[chariotry]

[ My contact post!! Chiron will have to tell him where he is anyway :) ]