Wrath (Blogophilia 4.11)

Van Winkle strolls off stage left. As he does, the strains of "The Barber of Seville" fill the room. The short, stout man creeps in to the room. Traces of white shaving cream drip off his balding brow on to his yellow hunting jacket. A leather razor hangs from his belt, speckled with red liquid matching the trapper hat.

"Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting Mortals."

With a quick turn he firers. Marty ducks as the indigo cloud hangs over his seat. Picking himself up, Marty shakes his hand.

"Hi Sandy! You can relax. No Mortals here."

"Owh, good. That wascal Bugs had me singing 'Summertime' again. I hate that song. Livin' ain't easy. I'm gonna bwast him good one day."

He puts down the gun.

"Hewwwooh. My name is Sandy."

He waves his hand across his face. The hunting clothes are replaced by a loose fitting green t-shirt with violet pajamas. The gun is now a White Russian and the cartoon voice is replaced by the scratchy voice of a surfer dude.

"Like, you know, Man. It's hard to be Elmer Fudd when you really want to be Jeff Lebowski."

The remark brings laughter from the crowd. Picking up the drink, he strolls up to the edge of the class.

"Yeah, being Wrath man isn't always California Dreaming. When I took on the form of Lebowski, I wanted a change. I'd been sent up many times for projects where I was the lead. I wanted to find out how it was on the receiving end. I also found out Don Henley was one of us. That's why I hate the Eagles and their orange surises. "

He takes a sip.

"These are so much beter. If you disagree, well that's your opinon, Man. "

Putting down the drink

"But all this isn't a waste of time. I'm setting up how Wrath, in both long and short term usage is often key to getting a Mortal to flip. Marty may have mentioned the Wisconsin Project, where I took a Mortal similar to Elmer and brought him to the extreme. I bore easily, pushing limits is not a issue for me. In that project, the artwork I left behind scared everyone senseless."

"Remember Father Paul?" pointing back up to the billboard "Wrath is a lever when dividing groups of Mortals. How does it work? All you need in most cases is the threat. Get one of the Deriders to imply their form of discipline is how it's going to be and the Cynics head for the hills. Or suggest someone might become a lampshade. Supporters will shrivel up like marigolds on a hot day."

"We used this method at the end of the 3.16 project by tricking the Sanhedrin into thinking the project was targeting them. The final termination code was a work of art. All it took was flipping a Zealot. What was surprising was the Supporters all caved. Maker himself was impressed with the outcome overall. But the perpetual war afterward didn't make him happy. You can’t win them all and it wasn't any different really than before."

"When you Tempters and Demons start singing for your supper, you will be assigned simple jealousy jobs. And while envy is covered in the next segment, what you learn here will apply. The step by step method Devil's Quill has built is designed to wreak havoc. First, find which of the first three Sins cause error messages in the target. Don't be afraid to use combinations. Even if they backfire, there will be interesting results, such as with the Wisconsin project."

"Second, make sure the target loses the ability to care about consequences. We know almost all of them will be joining our ranks at the end. Make them realize it isn't necessarily a bad outcome."

"Finally, use the tools of Envy and Wrath get them to completely abandon their base programming. We are a beta testing outfit and it is our job to break the product. Destruction at the end is the final goal."

Sandy chugs the last of the Russian.

"Anyway, I got to meet Sobchak at the alley. Were doing target practice on the pins. Good Luck."

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Topic-Christine Wichman

Pic-Dahlia Ramone

Pic guesses: Singing for your supper (in blog), Busking, Street artist, Feed the kitty, Down on the corner, Strumming, Serenade.0