FROM: @WEHFRIED || TO: @ALL (backdated like hell, aka before spiderland)

[gerechtigkeit]

Before Gallipoli, it was discussed that we should come up with aliases to call each other, and have backstories to speak of while there was downtime in the war. At the time, we knew the Regency was there, but they wouldn't be so visible. It was enough to not be asked too much by the natives of the time, and allowed us the conditions we needed to blend in as a unit of reinforcements that was beached at the wrong location.

The situation may be different here, but I'd suggest we come up with different aliases from before, considering we'll be facing the Regency out in the open. Using your actual name isn't suggested- it could cause problems and endanger the rest of this cell if you do so. Try to pick something you'll remember easily enough.

Feel free to suggest names and ideas for yourselves, or help others. The BCE has a list of them you can pick from. The sooner we can compile a list, the easier it will make it for all of us to recall while in the middle of the mission.

[Boy, talking like this is a reminder of speaking with soldiers before battles. That was a long time ago, and he's getting back into the hang of it. Also, guess who's bad at suggesting names? THIS GUY. Thankfully, the BCE has a posh name generator that can be found here.]

Comments

@CRUELLA

[reillumination]

Talk about names that should go now.

[ w h y ]

[inconstantly]

considering i've always caused more trouble than is necessary i think it should stay

[reillumination]

Yeah, maybe. You look like the type who's either death or glory.

[inconstantly]

i would agree with that

a habit of giving into impulse means i never have complete control of my actions

[reillumination]

I thought so.

Look here. All humans can lose their ability to control their impulses in the right circumstances.

[inconstantly]

i know i'm going straight to hell anyway

really no use in holding back

[reillumination]

Most movers and shakers are.

Sometimes instinct is beneficial, but reason gives humans a different edge. Depending on your situation, using both can be twice as useful.

[inconstantly]

the thing of it is that i need to stay free

while reason can be fine enough i've found that it often has the affect of placing someone on too narrow of a path, now matter how much they initially intended to keep a sense of spontaneity

[reillumination]

It's good to know your rights.

Reason is all that keeps humans apart from the beasts, but spontaneous actions are never truly spontaneous unless the ability or willingness to think is suppressed entirely. Unless there no inhibitions left to be had and you are already lost to instinct, that first decision to throw away reason will always be conscious.

But, if you do it often enough, there's no doubt it becomes easier.

[inconstantly]

well yeah everything you do is going to have some kind of reason behind it, even if that reason is just that it feels good at the time like all the young punks

i don't think that discounts human spontaneity at all. i certainly don't want to live my life purely based around when i am going to eat next

[reillumination]

Life is wild. Even if you choose it, why not do what feels fine? There's no harm in losing yourself once in a while.

Spontaneity can be as much a personality trait as anything else. But, even if I wanted to plan that out, I don't think I could. It's a good thing I gave up on that a while ago.