Article 42: There is No Hope
This is part 42 of a series. Go to the 1st Paper for the first part.
Daily Blurb
May 4, 1779
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There isn’t much to say. The revolution is over, betrayed. We fought hard, we fought valiantly, but in the end, it wasn’t enough. It seems as we have all been mere pawns. It appears as if Lady Lila has used us. We are at the Daily Blurb and believe that we won’t be free. So, we have decided to discontinue our newspaper. We do not know what the government would do to us should they catch us.
In our final article we bring you some rumors that we have currated.
This has been the common consensus among the last citizens of Vision to still believe in the revolution. Many think that all of this was her doing, or at least, that she profited from it.
Anonymous
Lady Lila has been using us. She used us and the other revolutionaries to secure absolute power. When she was on the original council, she was given seniority and had the most power. However, it’s other members such as Modon Genette and Frederick Jarte could overrule her should they choose to. She used the revolution to secure complete power for herself.
After all, she is the head of the new government. People love her; council members revere her. All re subservient her. The few that disagree with her are booted out, like Gareth Masou. She has complete control over Vision. She has no credible opponents.
Anonymous
Though Lady Lila most likely did not start the revolution, she certainly used it. After all, what better way to stop the people from clamoring for a democratic government, then to give them one with you at its helm? It seems as if Lady Lila is far more shrewd than any of us had suspected. If she could play both Lady Lila and Eliza Wellington, then she would most certainly pull the strings of the revolution even without direct contact with it.
Anonymous
The bread dole is the cumulation of Lady Lila’s work. It must be. It was the reason why she stopped SciTech. She wanted to be the one to receive the attribution. But, she wouldn’t do it right away because she wanted the situation to become dire enough. Because she waited until she did, she quite literally kept many families from starving. Of course, if she had done so earlier, many more would have been saved.
Anonymous
I am a staunch revolutionary. But, I am still skeptical of Mordon Genete and his death. He worked with Lady Lila for a time. Could it be that he still did, or rather does? I believe that he was a traitor, a sellout. Lady Lila encouraged him to play a role and he did so.
Anonymous
This could all have just been propaganda to throw us off. Eliza being Lila, the bread, the Morning Star, all of it has spooked us. Quite possibly this is all to spook us. Lady Lila, a farce; the Morning star, a fake; the bread, sadly real. But, we must not let the flame of revolution die. We must carry on. We can still form a utopia.
Anonymous
Mordon Genette died a hero and so I don’t want to give up the flame. I do not want his sacrifice to be in vain. I know that many believe him a traitor but, I disagree. After all, he was vouched for by Samantha Key, and she was the best of us. If we cannot trust her judgment and intuition, then who can we trust? She was the last of the great revolutionaries. We must believe that Mordon Genette was a revolutionary.
After all, he wrote the Letters of Utopia. Mordon Gentee kickstarted the revolution. Why would he create a government he had no part in unless he was a revolutionary? No, we must carry the flame. We must continue to fight for the democratic utopia that he longed for,
(The Daily Blurb passes no judgment on the validity of these rumors.)
We are sad to close and we sympathize with those who want to carry the flame of revolution. However, it has become too risky for us to continue. Also, we do not feel as if we are helping. We are merely feeding rumors. We have clung to life, but we do so at the detriment of those who read us. So, we say goodbye and we say that Lady Lila/Eliza Wellington has beaten us, and, it seems, the revolution. Genette is dead, Key is dead, King has fled, Gareth Masou has been driven underground, the Morning Star is now a farce. We are the last candle that bears the light of revolution, the last flickering candle. And, without anyone to snuff out our dying flame, we must regretfully do it ourselves.
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