New research facility of the Seitenhuber branch family of the GDN
Ernst and Kasimir Seitenhuber present
K: So we found the signature of a curse and the latest batch shows a significant reduction in its intensity, but the effect is not yet strong enough for production use. I need you to authorize more lab rats, uncle.
E: Well done. Consider it done. You’ll have the paperwork tomorrow. Before we shut down for the day, anything else in the news?
K: Sure. Dad made it into YouTube. Well, he is on a news channel.
E: That isn’t good enough?
K: No. We need our own channels. Everything you get is EOA or rank amateurs spreading vitriol and stupidity. Hell, I even found a channel by the Cabal. It’s called „centaurs and celebrities“.
E: On the last front I’d deem silence superior.
K: Maybe, but all that silence has turned us into the sinister ones.
E: It was necessary.
K: Seriously, why? The policy has failed. We would not have the issues we are facing today and some of us would still be alive had we started recruiting ritualists and fighters ten years ago.
E: Hindsight is always perfect.
K: Is that always going to be the excuse?
E: Not always. And you are right. It often was an excuse. Yet, tell me, can you imagine the Cold War with us and the Cabal forced onto opposite sides?
K: It wouldn’t need to have started. I am outright saying it. We could have killed Hitler. Avoid the whole Cold War. End the war early.
E: And then? Become rulers, because those who kill leaders will have to be rulers or be hunted down as a threat? Now, in that specific case we could have made it look like an accident. But, hindsight …
K: We may end up as rulers anyway.
E: May. Is that a reason to accelerate the process and make the outcome certain?
K: What do you mean by that?
E: What do you think would have happened had we made essences available to 19th century aristocrats. Yes, I know, many of us are aristocrats. But even they did not want magic armies clashing on battlefields.
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K: But all the good we could have done.
E: There is that. Tell me, you said we could have recruited ten years ago. Why not three?
K: The upset of industries by the introduction of … OK, you got me there.
E: That doesn’t make you wrong. Yes, it was never the right time, but actions even if justified each time you look at them may be unacceptable in the aggregate over a long time.
K: You think so.
E: I do not know. I remember a similar talk between me and W.D.R. fourty years ago.
K: You debated a radio station?
E: No. Wilhelm Dieter Rademacher. Called indeed W.D.R. after the radio station.
K: So what did you discuss?
E: The same as we now only with me in your role. WDR died in the battle around the nuclear power plant. I still remember his signature old-style disruptive wand with the hollow ignition chamber design.
K: Dad and I saw such a wand at the battle of the river in use.
E: Really. Hm. Was his found?
K: I don’t know. We have his dosimeter badge.
E: Maybe we should look into that as you suggested. Where was it found?
K: At the site where they intercepted the anchor entity. Together with a corpse and another badge.
E: His corpse wasn’t found?
K: No, he must have turned into rainbow smoke.
E: He always had excellent body control. No wonder he dissolved. When we discussed his wand the last time he said that he prefered effect over rate of fire and efficiency. Or as he put it „If I want a continous stream, I can go out and piss at the monsters.“
K: That is very crudely put.
E: I had the temerity to point out that at category 2 he could in fact not piss at anything. He went out into the snow and pissed his wife’s name into it. Magnificent body control.
K: Uncle, are you bullshitting me?
Age and too many meetings can turn the combination of aura control and poker face into an art form.