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OKAY SO i dropped the ball majorly here, but IMPORTANT PLOT THINGS with Merlyn happened at the interview, and although I failed to get them played out in time, they are still canon and of BIG IMPORTANT MUCHNESS please read k

In roughly chronological order, here's what happened:

Tony died. Merlyn had very little outward reaction to this, but the astute observer may notice that he's spent a lot of time scribbling in note books. If challenged, he produces lesson notes, or harmless writings from his own world which he says are for his students.
About two days before the interviews, Merlyn disappeared into his own room for an afternoon. The cameras trained on him showed no seditious activity, just an awful lot of pacing and some scattered exclamations to the birds.
At the interviews, Merlyn was interviewed by Pablonius. (This thread is still ongoing)
He answered a couple of questions, then asked to make a public apology for his behaviour. A couple of paragraphs into his prepared speech, the Capitol twigged, and he was dragged offstage by force, still shouting his speech.

Currently, Merlyn is officially missing. People who were present backstage at his interviews, however, may have seen him shot down. His execution was relatively private, but not entirely hidden.

But the important thing is that even killing Merlyn hasn't managed to shut him up. Over the course of the next few days, certain documents will start to appear around the Capitol. Whether they end up in the hands of Capitolites, Districters, or Offworlders is up to the players. They can be found in various high places around the city. Sometimes places where people have already checked. It's almost like a little bird brought them.

Those documents (handwritten on various types of paper, often with different types in a single document) are as follows:

Four copies of his apology speech
A chapter of Thomas Paine's Common Sense
The introduction to John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
A chapter from Gerrard Winstanley's The Law of Freedom in a Platform
This speech
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Feel free to have any of your characters find one or more of these, or to hear of them from someone else. Also, if you think of a really obvious speech or chapter for him to have written out in this vein, possibly pass it my way and we can discuss whether it might have happened?

I'll probably be back to full speed come Monday. Merlyn will not. He is dead. Goodbye, Merlyn.

(ping me here or on Plurk if you have any threads with him you'd like to do backdated before his death)

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Aw poor Merlyn.

Sandy will remember him fondly for their one afternoon of intensive education.

He liked teaching you, Sandy. pls to remember his thinly-veiled critique of violence in an evolutionary context.

Oh goddammit, Merlyn, you're getting Leo emotional and taking care of your bird. He might find Common Sense and the Declaration of Rights but he's going to miss you, you coot

Aw, bless. Merlyn's ghost would like to thank him for looking after the bird.

Dammit Merlyn. If Emily finds any of those pamphlets she's burning them, just to make sure you don't cause even more trouble.

wow rude

I am sadder than I expected to be. (Roland is not. Roland will be exasperated and utterly unsurprised.) I should really look up the book Merlyn is from and order it so I can see Merlyn in an environment where he (presumably) does not get quietly executed...

YES YES YOU SHOULD

you can get it on kindle for like a fiver for all five books in the series iajs

It is ordered. Can't promise I'll read it once it arrives, because I have at least 10 now that I bought with full intention of reading them. But it looks good!

Oh nooo ;A;

Altair's favorite place is the rooftops... lmao don't hoard them all, Altair.

If there is another hacker post, Psii might use one of these papers instead of the customary video. Probably Elie Wiesel's.

Ooh! That would be pretty awesome, ngl.

It's similar to Psii's experiences, and it's a pretty big revelation to him that there were human rights activists who understood what he went through.

Plus Elie Wiesel is one of my favorite people. :)