[filtered to people who are interested in the welfare of the castle and the situation with Legato; filtered away from evil people, Legato's allies, and people who would pass information onto them, filtered away from the first gens and those who would pass information onto them, also filtered away from Uru]Given that it seems we're still stymied on what to do with Legato, I am going to elaborate on my suggestion from earlier.
If, after I go over this, you have nebulous complaints but no suggestions, please save them until you have actual ideas to contribute. If you feel that it's "not your job" to help but would like to criticize anyway, save it. When you take it on as your job, you can control what happens. If you're not willing to do that, then shut up.
Moving on.
Simply turning Legato loose is a terrible suggestion for a number of reasons. For one, we don't have limitless minders for him - anyone who was keeping an eye on him would have to do it all the time, or break into shifts so he was watched all the time. People have lives and this is obviously impractical, obviously also because he could mobilize the townspeople against them easily, and probably a lot of them would die. I hope we care about the lives of the townspeople enough to think about that, and it should negate it outright. Besides this, Legato still has some allies free - other people who worked with him under Riful. Joshua is obviously one such, and he'd probably team up with Legato if bribed with an ice cream come, if he even needed that. A minder might be able to handle Legato, but could they handle Legato and Joshua? Besides, if he escaped, we'd have a hell of a time digging him out wherever he went to ground. Just look at how Joshua is still free.
The outpost, on the other hand, offers a secluded area and a controlled environment to keep him in. He can be minded all the time, and his minders won't need powers to keep an eye on him either. He can have some range of motion there and more stimulation but he won't be as dangerous or hard to control.
I suggest we devote one of the rooms to being his, and collect teams of people willing to mind him on rotating shifts - say two weeks each. Someone is always with him, always watching him, and if he has visitors, he is not left alone with him. If you want to cry at me about how that's so cruel not to give him privacy go devote your misplaced sympathy to the townspeople.
I suggest we install a padded shackle or something in one of the rooms. He can be leg chained at night, and drugged in case he figures out a way to slip out somehow - though we can also watch him overnight. This will obviously require support and participation from other residents so no one gets burned out or has to spend too much time out there when they'd rather be doing other things, and people will have to help supply people living outside in the outpost with food, books, and other things they might need.
If anyone has suggestions to give, I'm happy to listen to them, but Zelman is probably right at least in that Legato is just getting worse the longer he's left in prison and we should do something. If we don't want to execute him, this is the next-best thing, I think.
( Brock )( Uru )( Crowley & Aradia )( Abel )[Whew! What a chore.
After that talking and some of those tough filters, Rin can be found... sitting on top of one of the castle's towers admiring the view. Nope, not looking out a window, or standing on the roof, but sitting on top of the tower with her feet dangling over the edge.
From here the landscape bends up dizzyingly and unnaturally around the castle, like it's being viewed through a glass sphere or a kaleidoscope. All around is a tapestry of the forest, fields and down, bending up past where they should disappear into horizon and deliriously detailed. It's like something Salvador Dali would paint, is what Rin would say, if only she knew who Dali was!
... Dictated, sounding calm.]If anyone wants to get outside and look out around from someplace high up, you should. This is quite a sight. I wonder if photographs would develop this just how it looks?
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