Drugged By Drudgery

[Antero Black]

Antero wakes up and sees that he is back at the anarchist house. He lays in bed wondering why Sasha betrayed him. In the other room, he can hear Sasha talking to another man. He closes his eyes and listens.

(Anima, Sasha and Antero are back at the anarchist house, and Lady Blue was in an abandoned building where Sasha left her.)

[Iivari Koivu]

Iivari stands in the forest, hiding behind the birches. He listens to the exchanges between Grove and Autumn and is not sure what to make of it.
He listens to see if perhaps he will have some insight into why Autumn is so bitter towards Grove.

[Freak Boy]

"As opressed as always." Freak Boy said, deciding to bring up the flaws with Kautsky's idea of Socialism some other time. "Red Infinity is keeping the world under a tight grip, but the tighter they squeeze this world, then the more countries will slip through their fingers.

"Red Infinity was planning to build some thingyamamy machine that would read peoples' thoughts! I don't know if they've built it yet or even if it passed developmental phases, but you can see how desperate they're getting. Also, Joseph Stalin is working for Red Infinity now... I found it fitting, considering Stalin's idea of an equal world seems to match Red Infinity's."

[Korbinian Kautsky]

"A machine that reads minds? That is truly horrible indeed. I hope that this project is still in planning and never comes to be."

[Freak Boy]

"The Rebels have their contacts. I know that Bassarov would never let Red Infinity do something like that... " Freak Boy said, trying to ignore his black eye.

[Korbinian Kautsky]

"In some ways I feel happy to be here. It is much less stressful. When you are captured you never worry about getting captured. If you work and go along with things here, it is not so bad at all. I am sure with time, you will adjust to being here just as I have."

[Freak Boy]

"Yeah, that's gonna happen." Freak Boy said, rolling his eye. His black eye was too swolen to allow much movement. "Forgive my lack of tolerance towards condecension. Anyway, I don't plan on staying long."

[Korbinian Kautsky]

"Oh, well I doubt you can escape. We are very remote here. There isn't a teleportation booth for at least 800 kilometers." Kautsky replies.
"The guards here are pretty tough as well, even if you could escape them, you would have to travel many hundred kilometers through the frozen wilderness to the next town."

[Freak Boy]

"Teleportation booths? Good god... it's sad to see how spoiled the rest of the world is." Freak Boy said, deciding to test his legs. He stood up and began pacing back and forth. "I grew up in America; a desolate wasteland with next to no tech crap. No teleportation booths, no high powered laser cannons, nothing like that.

"When I want to get somewhere, I walk or steal a car... in this case, I think a tank would be nice. Unfortunately, I cannot both drive a tank and operate the cannon at the same time..." he said suggestively.

[Korbinian Kautsky]

"I don't think I have seen any tanks here. Though there are trucks." Kautsky replies flatly.

[Freak Boy]

"Yes, trucks over there and the munitions warehouse that holds the guns made by forced labor camp C... Guards here may be tough, but a chimp could outsmart half of them... the one by the gate's a drooler. Red Infinity is really desperate for work, something that hasn't changed since you were imprisoned. All that we would need to do is outsmart these neanderthals and steal a few MP5s. Then we shoot anyone in our way, making our way to the trucks and drive until it's out of gas. Once that happens we need only wait for the supply trucks that deliver the food to show up and then hijack one of them and take the supplies, thus ensuring our safe return to civilization."

[Korbinian Kautsky]

"I will have no part in such a foolish plan. If I try to escape and was recaptured, I would be executed. I am much too important to die now. I will not risk it. But if you are so over confident, you are welcome to try. I am sure if you were recaptured, they wouldn't care enough to kill YOU."

[Freak Boy]

"You'd be surprised. The only reason they didn't kill me was because at my public execution I would have been rescued by the Rebel Forces. And, another thing, seeing as how you have just insulted me, I do believe it's my turn." Freak Boy said. He looked Kautsky in the eye and cleared his throat.

"Your politics are nothing but a socialist sham. There are three kinds of Socialism; true Socialism, promoted by Lennin and Trotsky. There is Red Infinity's Stalinist government which is so borderline communist, it's not even funny. And then... there's you..."

[Josh the Crash Master]

Where the hell were all the anarchists? They moved around too much, Josh couldn't keep track of all of them. He skates down the road, not really aiming to be impressive or flashy, he wasn't in the mood right then. He missed Antero, his respected friend and the one dude who hadn't been hostile at all to him. Well, even if he was cute with his blue hair and lip piercing, it wasn't nice to not tell him where the anarchists were always moving to. He wanted to talk to Ms. Weil again, she had seemed really nice, and not that bad looking either. His only really problems were with Zinn and Irvine. Irvine was a jerk, and Zinn was too synical and she wasn't ever jolly, she was creapy.
It was getting really cold in Amsterdam, and he had been searching for almost a month now. Maybe they'd gone from Amsterdam while he'd been escorting that little girl to Helsinki. He hadn't seen anyone in the old house, but he checked there on every occasion. He was going to go check there again.
He hopped off of his board and walked into what seemed the old anarchist house.
"Hello?! Anyone home?!" He called.

((I've been gone for so long, is the house in the same place or did it get destroyed more?))

[Lady Blue]

I finally notice Anima by my side, well after I have cried my heart out. "Help me..." I mutter in a small voice.