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ID	Character	Dialogue	Conditions	Links
0	None			1
1	None
2	You	"Would you say it was a bunch of apes dukin' it out?"	Variable["whirling.dreamone_apes"]	3
3	Joyce Messier	"Why of course -- we're talking duke-out central. Full-swing intraspecies warfare."		7
4	Rhetoric	Now's your chance -- ask her who she is -- she won't get out this time.		323
5	You	"What is the Zone of Control?"		174
6	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		37
7	You	"And the apes -- were they evil?"		8
8	Joyce Messier	"No. I would say the apes were neutral." She looks at you, her gaze sharp.		11 12 279
9	Joyce Messier	"The Zone of Control is the third incarnation of Revachol. After the failure of the Suzerain and the Commune."		235
10	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The charge dissipates into the dark water. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		6
11	You	"Sounds like evil to me."		15
12	You	"Okay -- neutral."		16
13	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building.		14
14	Joyce Messier	"Then you would have died fighting against them. Long before the Beachhead... our time is a shadow cast by that day."		50
15	Joyce Messier	"On the other hand..." She turns north, to the bombed out buildings lining the waterfront. "Maybe you're right."		344
16	Joyce Messier	"On the other hand..." She turns north, to the bombed out buildings lining the waterfront, then shivers slightly.		344
17	Shivers	The wind stops, there is silence on the dark water of the Martinaise inlet...		13
18	None			19 20
19	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	17
20	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	14
21	Kim Kitsuragi	"It was a kerfuffle all right," the lieutenant mumbles from behind his notes.		74
22	You	"No way. I wouldn't have fought with the communards."		18
23	Joyce Messier	"Yes, an acute thiamine deficiency can be exacerbated by alcoholism." She blinks her green eyes. "Exacerbated means 'made worse.'"		55
24	Joyce Messier	"I see, yes. A deluge of geopolitical questions."		55
25	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		43
26	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		38
27	None			28 29
28	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	110
29	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	164
30	You	"I had a deluge too. In my head." (Point to your little head.)	Variable["whirling.mirror_deluge_mentioned"] and Variable["pier.joyce_deluge_heard"]	57
31	You	"Truly a kerfuffle."		81
32	None			169
33	None			34 35
34	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	10
35	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	173
36	Joyce Messier	"Him and tens of thousands of his wonderfully fascist kingsmen. It was a wild time."		32
37	Shivers	IT'S ALL YOURS.		173
38	Shivers	POCKMARKED BY CANNONS.		164
39	Joyce Messier	"Yes, King Guillaume had a nose for bad PR. He ran before it -- what is the expression -- went down? Anyway, Gil got out alive and his nephew Frissel got shot in his place..."		36
40	Joyce Messier	"I prefer the term risk averse. King Guillaume was nobody's fool -- he could smell a PR disaster brewing. So he got out alive and his nephew Frissel got shot in his place..."		36
41	You	"Smart king."		39
42	You	"Cowardly king."		40
43	Shivers	THERE IS PEACE IN THE HEART.		163
44	You	"With privatized healthcare and a work ethic that does not turn your brain into sponge tissue."		33
45	Joyce Messier	"The real king abdicated and lived out a long and productive life as a venture capitalist in Graad."		41 42 347 336
46	None			47 48
47	None		Variable["tc.date_fifty_one"]	68
48	None		(Variable["tc.date_fifty_one"]) == false	195
49	None			169
50	None			169
51	None			52 53
52	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	129
53	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	127
54	Joyce Messier	"Oh, lots of people. Even the king got shot in the head, or thrown beneath a horse. Or drowned. Accounts differ. It was unceremonious." She shakes her head. "Just as well -- he wasn't actually the king. Just the king's nephew."		45
55	You	"Anyone else get shot in the head -- on the opposing side?"		54
56	You	"Until it's all mine -- every pigment-drenched black leaf of money in Revachol."		232
57	None			58 59
58	None		Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]	23
59	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]) == false	24
60	Shivers	THE AGE OF MAN IS OVER.		118
61	None			169
62	Shivers	IT'S ALL YOURS.		117
63	Shivers	CAPITAL IS PAST.		115
64	You	"And after that?"		67
65	Joyce Messier	"The Twenties saw a decade of urban war: West of the river levelled, offshore platforms in flames... Still, it's regarded as an improvement on what came before: '08 to '19 was simply hell..."		64
66	Shivers	REVACHOL FOREVER.		108
67	Joyce Messier	"The Thirties? Things settled down in the Thirties. Revachol East transformed itself into the world's largest tax haven -- with the international community's blessing. For the first time in a long time it seemed like things were going somewhere."		77
68	Logic	51 - 8 = 43		197 195
69	Kim Kitsuragi	"This does not represent the official RCM opinion," the lieutenant says from behind his notes.		70
70	Joyce Messier	"Don't worry, Kras Mazov shot fifteen million people in the head. But that was all the way over in Graad."		75
71	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		60
72	Half Light	A quietly simmering rage.		80
73	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		62
74	Joyce Messier	"Yes. The Insulindian Deluge they call it."		75
75	None			30 55
76	Conceptualization	All that untaxed income must have fuelled The New. That can only mean one thing...		90 91
77	None			78 79
78	None		Variable["tc.thirties_and_new"]	350
79	None		(Variable["tc.thirties_and_new"]) == false	91
80	None			169
81	None			82 83
82	None		IsKimHere()	21
83	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	74
84	Joyce Messier	"Yes -- the red deluge. The Insulindian Deluge they call it."		75
85	None			86 87
86	None		IsKimHere()	69
87	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	70
88	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		63
89	Joyce Messier	"No. It was a market mirage fuelled by cocaine and quantitative easing. The Forties dispelled it like a cold splash. An isola-wide hangover, you might say. And here we are..." She curtsies.		340
90	You	"That's when they discovered Disco."	Variable["tc.thirties_and_new"]	92
91	You	"Were they?"		89
92	Joyce Messier	"Yes. And quantitative easing. It was a market mirage, unfortunately. The Forties dispelled it. An isola-wide hangover, you might say. So, here we are..." She curtsies.		340
93	None			94 95
94	None		IsKimHere()	100
95	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	351
96	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks and a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		66
97	You	"Until the middle class, the gentry, and the workers are all gone and the age of man is over."		218
98	Joyce Messier	"Welcome to reality, baby."		109
99	You	"That's a tragedy."		84
100	Kim Kitsuragi	"Khm." The lieutenant puts down his notes for a moment. "Opinions expressed here do not reflect the official position of the RCM."		189
101	You	"Sounds like they should have shot more people in the head then."		85
102	None			169
103	Empathy	All she can see are vague outlines of a great winding down. The doldrums. People killed, but no great transitions of wealth. It makes her feel old -- and something else. Something you can't put your finger on...		243
104	None			242
105	Logic	For her to be where she is Wild Pines Group must have picked the right side.		102
106	Inland Empire	Something tells you her life and yours are not that similar. Maybe it's because she has a boat and you have... that necktie? A pair of pants?		181
107	You	"Coupris is still around, aren't they?"		161
108	Joyce Messier	"Forever?" She cocks her head sideways. "In twenty years Revachol went from a king to a commune to a Zone of Control. She is forever. But the next thing she will be is something else."		93
109	Empathy	From the looks of it the Fifties haven't been much better for the Zone of Control -- you can see it in her eyes. Days slipping away....		119
110	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The charge dissipates into the dark water. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		26
111	None			112 113
112	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	200
113	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	163
114	Joyce Messier	She's silent a moment, contemplating. When she finally speaks, her tone is wistful: "We could have had so much more. Every one of us -- if only we'd played it right."		123
115	Joyce Messier	"Past?" She cocks her head to one side. "That's what Dobreva, the leader of the communards said, before she got a bullet in her head. Don't get me wrong..." There's sadness in her voice...		144
116	Joyce Messier	Her voice is almost wistful. "We could have had so much more. Every one of us -- if only we'd played it right."		123
117	Joyce Messier	"All yours?" She nods. "That's been the motto of many an indotribe. There is something clarifying about that strain of ultraliberalism..."		131
118	Joyce Messier	"Over?" She nods. "That's entropolism, the very height of late Modernity: evacuate this world. You may prove a truly Modern Man yet."		93
119	None			120 121
120	None		Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_fifties_unsatisfied"]	125 122
121	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_fifties_unsatisfied"]) == false	105
122	You	Say nothing.		114
123	None			169
124	You	"Liquidate the rabid, prion-infested dogs who want to kill everyone -- with cleansing artillery fire."		27
125	You	"You don't seem to be thrilled..."		126
126	Joyce Messier	"I've no right to be dissatisfied," she shakes her head. "This shirt is Barbara Muskova. This raincoat is impervious to rain and is guaranteed for a hundred years, my daughters will wear it. No, it's just..." She looks at the crumbling tenements, paint flecking from the stone...		116
127	Joyce Messier	"Good. Not that it would have mattered -- in the end, the Commune forced everyone to the barricades."		50
128	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building.		127
129	Shivers	The wind stops, there is silence on the dark water of the Martinaise inlet...		128
130	You	"Happily."		51
131	Joyce Messier	"Believe it or not, Wild Pines isn't even the most notorious example -- that would be Saint-Baptiste. You can go quite far with that attitude."		93
132	Shivers	The cold runs down your spine -- she gestures toward the waters.		183 130 22
133	You	"That's enough about the times."		210
134	Joyce Messier	"Oh, and the anarchists too! They shot them well. So well one forgets they even existed."		284
135	Joyce Messier	"Then you would have died, most likely. Not far from here -- maybe even right here, during the Beachhead, defending the coast the day the Coalition took the city."		132
136	You	"Which side was Wild Pines Group on?"	Variable["pier.joyce_logic_pines_hub"]	201
137	Empathy	She's not gloating. It's a relieved celebration.		134
138	Joyce Messier	"Anxious to hear more about mineral rights or who got shot in the head?" A flash of teeth in her feisty grin.		61
139	Joyce Messier	"So a quarter of humanity..." she calculates, "...simply lost their minds? And how would you stop a prion -- a complex folding protein; un-life -- with the technology 50 years ago?"		202 124 44 160
140	You	"That's it then. Another topic."		138
141	Joyce Messier	"Those would be the communists. Generally speaking, 40 million people got shot in the head during the World Revolution. But the communists -- they all got shot in the head."		137
142	Joyce Messier	"Modernity. They developed the marvels of interisolary communication, telematic milieus, radiation, coloured plastics. Meanwhile, in Revachol West, the aftermath continues for the fifth decade."		46
143	You	"What have we been doing all that time?"		65
144	Joyce Messier	"Capital is finished. But understand this -- its end won't free anyone. It will only lead to more suffering."		93
145	Half Light	Here's some wisdom lady. SAY THE DEATH THING.		104
146	You	"Our lives are not the same."	Variable["pier.joyce_auth_lives_not_same"]	147
147	Joyce Messier	"No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think."		5 235
148	You	"Who got shot in the head?"		141
149	Joyce Messier	"Of course not. It was a highly infectious microorganism that destroyed brain tissue. The actual causes of the Revolution were material. The pandemic only provided the spark."		172
150	You	"Wow, really?"		149
151	You	"I don't know what I would have done differently."		135
152	Shivers	A cold creeps up your spine, reaching its tendrils up your neck, toward the back of your head...		139
153	You	"I would have sought a medical solution. Sounds like tzaraath drove those people mad."		152
154	Half Light	Your jaw clenches -- give the lady a taste of your wisdom.		242
155	None			156 157
156	None		Variable["pier.joyce_inland_future_vision"]	103
157	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_inland_future_vision"]) == false	80
158	None			External: (758, 42)
159	Kim Kitsuragi	"My position, ma'am? My parents got ripped to shreds in the Revolution -- I would have gone the same way. I was saved by being two years old. That's my position -- the abattoir."		271
160	You	"Okay. Maybe it's impossible. What happened had to happen. And always will."		185
161	Joyce Messier	"That's not Coupris, dear. It's just a brand name, snatched up by a Vespertine holding company. No, the real Coupris is as dead as the king they bet on."		255
162	None			143 140
163	Joyce Messier	"Good hygiene, really? A very moderate solution to an extreme problem. It's those sort of half-measures that doomed the authorities in Graad..."		273
164	Joyce Messier	"Liquidate?" She nods. "That's what King Filippe kept screaming from the Sol Aurum. Liquidate, liquidate!" she says in a sing-song-y kind of way.		265
165	Rhetoric	Not so fast -- who is she in all this? Ask her who she is, she owes you an answer.		323
166	None			167 168
167	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	182
168	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	184
169	None			2 148 287 198 136 225 133
170	You	"What did this tzaraath do?"		171
171	Joyce Messier	"It made people overthrow their governments."		150 179
172	Encyclopedia	It was a funny time in history. They'd discovered transistors and rock music, but they didn't know anything about prions. Nobody did.		236
173	Joyce Messier	"A poor remedy for prion disease," she says. "That was the attitude of most of the more moderate indotribes, particularly those who supported the king..."		260
174	Joyce Messier	"A city state divided into free market zones. Under the everlasting interregnum of the Coalition of Nations. And you, of course -- the Citizens Militia."		178
175	None			176 177
176	None		Variable["pier.joyce_what_are_you_asked"]	4
177	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_what_are_you_asked"]) == false	165
178	Esprit de Corps	The clatter of typewriter keys fills the main hall of a re-appropriated Silk Mill -- Precinct 41. Chad Tillbrook presses ENTER. Outside: Officer Elfboy Williams slams the door of an armoured motor carriage...		9
179	You	"No way."		339
180	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building.		184
181	None			146 5 235
182	Shivers	The wind stops, there is silence on the dark water of the Martinaise inlet...		180
183	You	"Probably."		166
184	Joyce Messier	"No -- almost certainly. The Commune would have forced you. Such was the fate of the undecided."		50
185	None			186 187
186	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	203
187	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	205
188	Suggestion	There is curiosity there that goes unnoticed. The lieutenant takes a step back, absent-mindedly.		159
189	Joyce Messier	She turns to him. "And what is your official position, lieutenant?"		188
190	Shivers	ALWAYS.		205
191	Joyce Messier	"Forty-three years. Hard to fathom, I know."		162
192	None			193 194
193	None		Variable["pier.joyce_who_are_you_open"]	175
194	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_who_are_you_open"]) == false	323
195	You	"It's been like this for how long, exactly?"		191
196	Joyce Messier	"Time flies."		162
197	You	"Wait, you're saying it's been like this for 43 years?"	Variable["pier.joyce_logic_fortythree_years_afdtermath"] == true	196
198	You	"When was this kerfuffle?"		204
199	Shivers	The cold runs down your spine as you say the words, like a small electric charge that seeks grounding.		269
200	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The charge dissipates into the dark water. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		25
201	Joyce Messier	"They picked the winning side. That's why they're here and others are not."		206 207
202	You	"With some hygiene, modest social care and perhaps a little research program."		111
203	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The charge dissipates into the dark water. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		208
204	Joyce Messier	"The Turn-of-the-Century Revolution?" She smiles, mischievously. "Don't answer it -- it's a trick question."		211
205	Joyce Messier	"Always," She nods. "That's the can't-do-attitude that truly defines Late Modernity. You may prove a Modern Man yet."		257
206	You	"They chose wisely."		209
207	You	"They got lucky."		209
208	Perception (Hearing)	A dog barks, a gunshot echoes off the walls of some distant building. A woman's voice...		190
209	Joyce Messier	"Perhaps it wouldn't have turned out that way had I been in charge. I might've bet on the king and led the Pines to doom."		214
210	Joyce Messier	"They are what they are -- who knows, an afterbloom may yet come..."		272
211	Joyce Messier	"The Revolution began in '02, on the isola of Graad, though by the end nearly the whole world had gotten involved."		212
212	You	"Who started it?"		270
213	Joyce Messier	"You and everyone else. But that's got nothing to do with preventing the Revolution. Ah, well... What was was, I guess."		322
214	You	"You would have sided with the king?"		222
215	You	"At any cost -- until humanity is free and the age of Capital is past."		238
216	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The cold dissipates into your parietal lobe like a dissolved bullet. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		71
217	You	"I asked you -- who are you in all this?"		228
218	None			219 220
219	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	216
220	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	118
221	You	"I would have made off with the mineral rights."		213
222	Joyce Messier	"I would have sided with the cannons. If you'd seen the calibres of the things, you might've, too... " She thinks. "Perhaps it's better I was born when I was..."		261
223	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The cold dissipates into your parietal lobe like a dissolved bullet. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		73
224	None			100
225	You	"What would you have done differently?"	Variable["pier.joyce_when_kerfuffle_done"]	226
226	Joyce Messier	"Good question." She cranes her neck: "What would you have done differently?"		227
227	Volition	No -- her first.		252
228	None			229 230
229	None		Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]	241
230	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_amnesia_known"]) == false	251
231	None			169
232	None			233 234
233	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	223
234	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	117
235	You	"What happened in the rest of the world?" (Proceed.)		142
236	You	"Where did it spread from there?"		266
237	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The cold dissipates into your parietal lobe like a dissolved bullet. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		88
238	None			239 240
239	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	237
240	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	115
241	Joyce Messier	"And I asked you, past-less detective of the Citizens Militia. What insight has acute encephalopathy given to you?"		145
242	None			217 153 268 221 151
243	None			244 245
244	None		Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_great_shadows"]	72
245	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_empathy_great_shadows"]) == false	80
246	None			247 248
247	None		Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]	249
248	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_shivers_grounding_on_revchopice"]) == false	108
249	Shivers	The wind stops and for a moment there's silence. The cold dissipates into your parietal lobe like a dissolved bullet. All is quiet on the Martinaise inlet...		96
250	You	"Until this insanity is crushed and Revachol reigns -- a suzerain forever."		246
251	Joyce Messier	"And I asked you, philosopher-detective of the Citizens Militia."		145
252	None			253 254
253	None		Variable["pier.joyce_vol_you_first"]	242
254	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_vol_you_first"]) == false	154
255	Inland Empire	She narrows her eyes -- turning her gaze to the future out of professional habit...		155
256	You	"What came next?"		267
257	None			258 259
258	None		IsKimHere()	224
259	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	231
260	Joyce Messier	"Coupris, Resplendent... both gone now. Those that survived mended their ways. They're all ultras now."		257
261	Joyce Messier	"Ten of the fourteen indotribes got it wrong: Feld, Coupris, Tricentennial... So I suppose I would have been in good company."		262
262	None			263 264
263	None		IsTHCPresent("torque_dork")	107
264	None		(IsTHCPresent("torque_dork")) == false	255
265	Joyce Messier	"In the end they liquidated the Sol Aurum. Melted the palace cube down to gold and platinum and sold it for bullets. Strange times," she says almost wistfully.		257
266	Joyce Messier	"From Revachol and Graad? Not far. The world managed to cauterize itself. Mazov's government was overthrown in '08, and the Coalition crushed the Revachol commune two years later. It was The End."		256
267	Joyce Messier	"Why, you and I, officer--" She spreads her arms, raincoat flapping in the wind. "Our lives in the Zone of Control."		275
268	You	"I would have killed more -- 400 million -- if that's what it took."		199
269	Joyce Messier	"I see -- a tenth of humanity." She's unfazed. "The key of History is in the lock -- keep turning, at any cost?"		215 250 56 97
270	Joyce Messier	"It wasn't a who, but a what. A pandemic of tzaraath, a particularly virulent prion disease, which the authorities in Graad proved unable to contain. Then Mazov came along and overthrew the government."		170 236
271	Joyce Messier	"Understandable," she nods.		49
272	Joyce Messier	"Anyway, enough sentimentality. Is there anything else you want to know?"		192
273	Joyce Messier	"When they failed to step up, Mazov and his party stepped in. In this particular case, maybe a more robust state response might have been appropriate..."		257
274	None			169
275	None			276 277
276	None		CheckEquipped("neck_tie")	106
277	None		(CheckEquipped("neck_tie")) == false	278
278	Inland Empire	Something tells you her life and yours are not that similar.		181
279	You	"They're good apes, actually."		280
280	Joyce Messier	"I don't know about that..." She turns north, to the bombed out buildings lining the waterfront, then shivers slightly.		344
281	You	"Did the communists and the anarchists shoot back?"		285
282	You	"You could say they got totally shot in the head."	Variable["pier.joyce_concept_totally_shot_anarkists"]	283
283	Joyce Messier	"Indeed. They piled them in mass graves in Ozonne and, well -- that's the last anyone heard of those people."		281
284	Conceptualization	She likes the totality of it.		282 281
285	Joyce Messier	"Did they ever. Before they got shot themselves, they shot two million people."		286
286	None			31 99 101
287	You	"Who got the mineral rights?"		288
288	Joyce Messier	"The liberals got the mineral rights." She looks up to the sky, then inland at the crumbling city. "And by mineral rights, I mean everything."		289 292
289	You	"Okay, and by liberals you mean..."		290
290	Joyce Messier	"Liberals are usually middle-class people, detective. Or the remaining gentry. The beneficiaries of the pre-revolutionary arrangement."		291
291	Joyce Messier	"Some were rich enough to stay with the Constitution; with monarchy -- big mistake. Others bet on the Revolution, they were called the Ultras, or ultraliberals. They fared well."		292
292	You	"How did the liberals win it all?"		293
293	Joyce Messier	"They didn't win so much as survive. We were the last ones standing when the war ended -- everyone else got shot in the head, remember?"		349
294	You	"If everyone got shot, who was there to surrender to?"		295
295	Joyce Messier	"To foreign intervention -- the Coalition. Those people really took the mineral rights."		296 298
296	You	"Wait. You just said the liberals already took everything."		297
297	Joyce Messier	"The liberals took everything that wasn't nailed to the ground -- the Coalition took the ground," she stomps her rubber booted foot. "The ocean, the laws and the people."		298
298	You	"Who are the Coalition?"		299
299	Joyce Messier	"The Coalition of Nations. Graad, Mesque, Vesper, Messina, Oranje and Sur-La-Clef -- the armed centre of the world. They landed here and ended the Revolution. It was the moralist thing to do."		300
300	Empathy	There is bitterness in her voice -- tempered with understanding. She is critical, but ultimately understands the cause.		301
301	You	"Moralist?"		302
302	Joyce Messier	"The moralists believe in keeping everything exactly the way it is. They believe in mineral rights -- and not shooting people in the head..."		303
303	Joyce Messier	"At least not in the same manner and volume as the others do. They are the long-standing provisional rulers of Revachol now -- the Coalition Government."		338
304	Joyce Messier	"This is their Zone of Control. They embolden the RCM with crumbs of the same law they took. Technically speaking -- you are a moralist."		305
305	Encyclopedia	The colour of moralism is blue. The official motto of the Moralintern, or Moralist International, is: 'A blue forget-me-not; a piece of the grey sky'. Unofficial: 'For a moment, there was hope'.		306
306	None			308 307 309
307	You	"Not just technically -- practically as well. I like what I've heard about these people."		312
308	You	"I don't think I am moralist, ma'am."		311
309	You	"If always picking the option that doesn't commit to anything then hell yes I am -- and also not."		310
310	Joyce Messier	"An almost endearingly moralist standpoint," she bows. "It must be hard to take a moderate approach to head-shooting in your line of work."		321
311	Joyce Messier	"Of course," she sizes you up. "Not easy to be moderate about head-shooting in your line of work."		313
312	Joyce Messier	"A devout man of the centre," she nods. "Hard to come by. It's good to have someone who takes a moderate approach to head-shooting -- in your line of work I mean."		321
313	Hand/Eye Coordination	Rooty-tooty pointy shooty!		314
314	None			315 316
315	None		Variable["pier.joyce_hecordination_rootyshooty"]	317 318
316	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_hecordination_rootyshooty"]) == false	320
317	You	(Cock your finger pistols.) "Rooty tooty pointy shooty!"	IsTHCPresent("finger_pistols")	319
318	You	"Rooty tooty pointy shooty!"	IsTHCPresent("finger_pistols") == false	319
319	Joyce Messier	"That's the way of History." She nods.		320
320	None			169
321	None			169
322	None			169
323	None			324 325
324	None		IsKimHere()	326
325	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	335
326	None			327 328
327	None		Variable["pier.joyce_exited_times_hub_with_kim_once"]	329
328	None		(Variable["pier.joyce_exited_times_hub_with_kim_once"]) == false	158
329	Kim Kitsuragi	"Or -- you could not eat all the candy at once, let the ma'am rest for a while, and return to this later?"		330 331
330	You	"Later, yes. Let my mind cool a bit."		333
331	You	"No. More. NOW."		332
332	Joyce Messier	"Voracious," she nods approvingly. "I'm up for it. What'll it be?"		158
333	Joyce Messier	"Too much reality at once can prove too much," she nods. "There's plenty of time later. For now, is there anything else I can help you with?"		334
334	None			External: (765, 26)
335	None			External: (758, 42)
336	You	"I don't care about kings. Tell me one more thing..."		337
337	Joyce Messier	"About head-shooting?" She smiles.		32
338	Physical Instrument	The rulers of Revachol -- and also the world. These guys are strong.		304
339	Joyce Messier	"Indeed. Tzaraath is a highly infectious microorganism that destroyed brain tissue. The actual causes of the Revolution were material. The pandemic only provided the spark."		172
340	None			341 342
341	None		Variable["TASK.joyce_keep_asking_later"]	343
342	None		(Variable["TASK.joyce_keep_asking_later"]) == false	98
343	Joyce Messier	"Welcome to reality, baby."		109
344	Empathy	No. The tiny apes are doing all they can to be better. It's not their fault.		346
345	Half Light	The apes will never change, they are all evil. End of discussion.		274
346	Rhetoric	It takes time for the apes to change. And work. Perhaps what happened here was part of that time -- and part of that work.		345
347	You	"I loved that king. Fucking communists..."		348
348	Joyce Messier	"Which one? Actually -- it doesn't matter. King Guillaume has always been my favourite. He could smell a PR disaster brewing. So he got out alive and his nephew Frissel got shot in his place..."		36
349	Rhetoric	We -- she's one of them. Of course.		294
350	Inland Empire	Then you happened. Your youth in the Thirties.		76
351	Composure	She is not at all fazed by your genocidal sabre rattling.		352
352	Suggestion	A counterargument, but still -- your historic mass-murderer fantasies have only endeared you to this person.		49

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