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[Yuan sounds serious, tired, and grouchy. But doesn't he always?]

I've been down to the prisons. No one is left inside.

This has been a long time in coming. I know that many inside and outside the Peace Patrol have noticed its decline. The inaction, the indecisiveness, action too bold or too secretive when it was taken...a lack of focus. We tried to be everything we could possibly consider the castle needing to keep order, and in taking on so much, we began working at cross-purposes to one another.

This is the official annoucement, then: The Peace Patrol is disbanded, as of this entry. The main headquarters area will be repurposed as a general information and gathering center, and remain secure in case of emergencies. Those who have materiel in headquarters, please claim it; anything that remains by the end of the week will be stored securely elsewhere.

Those who still have an interest in making the castle a better and safer place for others, I encourage you to do so. The remaining facilities are at your service - use them as you see fit. Form your own groups, if you choose, but any groups so formed will be better off starting fresh without the stain of association with the Patrol in any case. I will not be forming my own, nor will I be joining any such group myself, but if anyone would like assistance with something specific, I'm willing to hear you out.

[Martel]

Have you got a minute?

[/Martel]

[Doctor]

Might I prevail upon you for storage space for some of the things Tony left behind? I can't think of anywhere more secure to put it than the TARDIS.

[/Doctor]

((OOC: So that's finished. I checked, and Legato has been moved. Anyone else who was still in the prison, please assume that your character woke up in bed in their room at the castle, or wherever else you please - we're going with 'the castle did it' on this one, just to bring closure to the whole mess.))

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[Huh.]

[Well this changes some things for sure.]

Thank you, Yuan.

[That said, he's going in to retrieve Tony's red sunlight lamps from storage. Definitely not leaving those with no security on where they're going or who would have control over them.]

Understood.

And for what it's worth, you did a damn fine job considering all the random cultures people are from.

[Then it was true after all. BRB lookin' for the prisoners.]

Edited 2012-03-15 05:49 (UTC)

Of course. I already have the suit he bequeathed to me, so moving the others won't be too much trouble.

[he's ... not even going to think about the rest of the announcement, right now. he'd just barely gotten back in good spirits, after all, and to start thinking about how fruitless and pointless all his hard work was, in the end, without much in the way of apology to him ... well.

he's not going to think about it.]

[Eleven frowns as he reads. Well... that wasn't quite what he'd expected.]

Of course. I'll gladly take the suit left to me, the steam powered vehicle I was helping him with and whatever else you need moved.

What? No. No, you have got to be fucking shitting me.

You make the effort to bring us all together, and now that it's going to shit, you call it a STAIN? Sounds like you're just giving up.

[TCH. he is officially disgusted with you, now] I thought you had bigger balls than that.

I haven't done anything worthy of thanks.

...I appreciate the sentiment.

Thank you.

...I wish I could have done better. In the end, I wasn't the leader they needed, and with everything now...it's better to let them start fresh. It has to be.

Thank you.

The Patrol has a long, checkered history that began long before you arrived. I had hoped that I could make it something worthy of the people in this castle.

I was wrong. I wasn't the leader needed to make it happen, and as things stand, letting others begin afresh seems like the best course of action for everyone's sake.

Call me names if you like, but if it makes you so angry, better that you use that energy to begin your own effort. For my part, I'm done pretending to be a hero. ~~I haven't been-~~ [He shuts up, and hastily blacks that last part out with a pen soon after it's recorded.]

[annnnnnd now that it's been brought up, he's thinking about it. lovely. curtly:] No, you weren't, so it fell to me because I was your second. You could have said something before now, Yuan. You should have.

[he sighs, trying not to let his temper get the better of him] You're always saying how much older than me you are, how much more you know ... honestly, what did all that vast experience tell you about this? That leaving it alone would eventually make it better?

No. I...

I'm sorry for leaving so much to you. There's nothing...no excuse I can possibly give that would be enough, I simply...it was too much. I should have done this long ago, before it came to the point that I was laying things on your shoulders by default.

I'm sorry.

I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. It was an accomplishment.

Pretending? Pretending. Ohhh, fuck, that's a good one, that's GREAT. Our High And Mighty Leader was just playing DRESS-UP this entire time! That makes me feel a whole lot better!

You might be done being a hero, but you're sure as fuck not done being a jackass.

This meant something to a lot of people. And you weren't even there to watch them WALK OUT, like I did. You didn't even see that ... the ... the breakdown of their faith that they were doing something good. Something right.

You put the dog down, but you couldn't even take it to the vet yourself and be in the room with it. No wonder you don't want to help anyone else, I bet the castle itself is just adoring you, right now. You'll probably be here forever at this rate. You're too useful.

Hah. [He chuckles bitterly.] That's more kindness than I deserve, but I'm grateful for it.

Why do you say that?

Do you want me to argue with you, Mark? Because I agree. This failure is mine, and I'm not laying it on any of your shoulders. That's another reason I won't be leading or joining any other groups for the time being - no one needs the stigma of being associated with me, not after this debacle.

For what little it's worth, I'm sorry that I couldn't be what all of you needed.

[An arrow to Mark's thread right above.] The kid's got a point. By the end, I was falling apart as much as the rest of the Patrol put together. I couldn't see it through, and it's caused a lot of people pain and grief.

[softly, but in a tone that's still absolutely dripping rage]

So you're just going to be a martyr. That's great.

Have fun with that.

[Oh, that loud moron.]

Better late than never. The decent thing was to put it to rest, and that's what you've done.

That's not why I-

[a long silence, and then] Whatever you do next...good luck. I mean that. [And the journal closes.]

...Yeah.

[he sighs] ...Mark's a good kid. I feel especially bad for letting him down - most of the others are old enough to be understanding. I just hope he doesn't take it too hard once he cools down.

[Since Yuan directed her here...]

Throwing a tantrum doesn't help you.

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