Conversation 278: COAST ORB / reflectingwaterthought

CONVO: Dead industry polluted the waters. Though the boom is long forgotten, the damage continues.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Rhetoric Wait -- take a longer look at yourself and how you're reflected in that slick chemical rainbow. What do you *see*?
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3 You Some kind of metaphor for me?
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4 You [Discard thought.]
5 Rhetoric The engines of fortune once roared here. Great wealth poured into Revachol, the Delta. As did smoke, waste, sickness, life...
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6 Rhetoric The engines stopped. The West Revacholian industrial base was dismantled after the war. Now, extinguished coke furnaces dot the landscape. A landscape despoiled by industry.
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7 You I don't see the problem. Revachol moved on to a service industry. Get with the times, yo.
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8 You There was a serious dereliction of duty in this clean up.
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9 Rhetoric Right. Here's some advice that's good for business and life: never fight a losing battle. I'm not even going to argue with you.
10 Physical Instrument Filth! This needs environmental action -- now!
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11 None
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12 Rhetoric Perhaps you could dedicate your life to cleaning it up. But you're a cop. You must concern yourself with different messes. Even so: it's pretty to think.
13 You West Revacholian industrial base? That's so me.
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14 Rhetoric Yes. Fortune left you too, leaving only pharmaceuticals and a sub-par service based industry.
15 You Just me, I guess?
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16 You Some nasty water?
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17 Rhetoric This is more important than you. That's the blood of industry you see before you. The run off from Coal City, further down the coast.
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18 Rhetoric No! For a second, think about something other than yourself -- think about *the blood of industry* here before you. The run off from Coal City, further down the coast.
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19 Rhetoric Exactly! The *blood of industry*. The run off from Coal City, further down the coast.
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20 Conceptualization Metaphor. It's always metaphor.
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21 You What happened?
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