One thing about Arklay. Seems a lot of things get started, but rarely finished.

I’m aware of efforts to restart some sort of council, raise Arklay from the Wild West to some sort of Ordered Democracy. Of sorts. I don’t know all the details. I don’t need to. If I could say anything about it, it would be first to focus. Then just fucking do it.

I arrived in Arklay shortly before the Keepers disbanded. I was new, and to me, their dark clothing and assault weapons seemed more threatening than comforting. After they disbanded, and I learned what they were, I was dismayed. Apparently people talked. Talked shit. About the Keepers. Fuck, they weren’t the enemy! I don’t understand why instead of talking shit, they didn’t talk to the Keepers, and express why they were talking shit instead of hurling insults. I know I should have.

So I get to work this morning, and get into a chat with the AES Security Director. Some shit went down. Folks got shot. At the fucking hospital! It got more intriguing. People were defending and aiding the one who initiated the shootout. Holy Jesus Fuck! The town could collapse, but if that hospital is maintained, it could eventually be rebuilt. It has to survive, or many die. Many. The suspect needed to be chained to a bed, not roaming back to wherever he hailed from.

Worse yet, I learned friends of mine may have been on the other side of the line.

I likely would have shot them, in defense of the hospital and security director. I would have died inside. Died.

I’m an Anarchist. Sometimes a violent Anarchist. My main beliefs though, throughout this fucked up new world, are that we are better together than apart. If we don’t pull together, it all falls apart.

I’m not sure of what this new initiative is. I don’t really fret it though, except on one level. The hospital shootout is an example of why we need to pull together, not apart. I don’t fret it because, as an Anarchist, I know the new order, whatever it is, is by the consent of the people. Shit gets too corrupt, I’ll probably expose my violent side. As will most. Again. I’d die inside.

I hear of initiatives all the time. Solutions. Hell, I have my own floating out there. So many never get done. Or they fall apart. Like the Keepers. Like various businesses. Factions. Forces. This one may float. I sure as hell hope so.

Whoever’s behind the new initiative for Arklay at large, all I can say is railroad that bitch if you have to, but get it done.

Just focus. And fucking do it.