Editing Once more with feeling/Logs/Small Group/In Denandsor/Anshu, Splendor, and Ziyad (Bullying)

<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:32:20)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"What is it?"</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:33:26)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"Your behavior. I'm sick of the way you take moralistic stands and proceed to bully people with them."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:35:22)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"How have I been bullying people?"</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:38:40)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"Let's see. Insisting you need partial control of other people's armies. Trying to take things they're emotionally dependent upon away. Do I need to continue?"</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:39:50)</font> Ziyad interjects "Actually I insisted on control of the army. I thought it would reduce the general tension in the camp. Furthermore it strikes me as better to have several capable Solars in command of our mortal military forces."<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:40:12)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"...That's not the story I heard."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:40:42)</font> Ziyad shrugs.<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:42:48)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"I assume you're referring to the slavery vote we just held, as well?"</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:42:59)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"I am, yes."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:43:27)</font> Ziyad: "That I would prefer you not to have pushed. And I agree with Splendor. Weaning her views away from it first would have been wise."<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:44:29)</font> Ziyad: <font color=navy>"As it is, she may now become an enemy of what we all seek to build here."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:46:17)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"I was trying to reach a compromise with her with just that goal in mind - weaning her, that is. But she was ignoring me, refusing to engage in negotiation."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:46:59)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"...Quite frankly, I didn't see much negotiation taking place from your side of the argument."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:47:51)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"I asked her what her objections had been to the laws of Great Forks, so that we might move forward."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:48:09)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"She answered, saying she was unhappy with the limitations on what sort of punishments were permitted."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:48:56)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"To which I responded by politely telling her that I did not think we would be able to accomodate her in that respect, and asked her if there was any other objection that we could accomodate."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:49:29)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"And that is when she began ignoring me."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:51:50)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"*After* I specifically asked for her input on how we could accommodate her."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 11:52:30)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"I wonder why."</font> Splendor says sarcastically. <font color=#ff9933>"If I got told that my objections were going to be ignored, which, to a sixteen year old, you more or less did, I would have started ignoring you too."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:00:55)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"If she wants to be treated as an adult, as an equal, that's how I'll treat her. She can't have it both ways, not now, not while Creation is in in such peril."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:01:28)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"There's too much at stake for us to waste time coddling her. I was and still am willing to compromise with her, because I know we need her army, but I can't do that if she's not willing to meet me halfway."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:02:06)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"...She was *trying* to meet you halfway. Then you started dismissing her objections."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:03:21)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"Now, yes, she is partially to blame here. But not completely."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:05:21)</font> Ziyad: "Now to be fair I'm not certain either party was trying to meet the other halfway. Both were seeking advantage not compromise. Neither were trying to see it from the others shoes."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:06:11)</font> Ziyad: "But as you said, both are to blame. She needs to learn to behave like an adult if she is to act like one and Anshu needs to learn to control his temper."<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:06:21)</font> Splendor nods.<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:06:45)</font> Ziyad turns to Anshu.<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:07:06)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"That was the other thing I wanted to talk about."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:07:30)</font> Ziyad: "Frustration is a simple enemy to beat but one you let beat you everytime. And everytime you surrender to it you look weaker than those you are fighting. Whether in court, duels or pitched battles."<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:10:44)</font> Ziyad looks as if he is about to say more but stops himself short.<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:11:46)</font> Ziyad: "Those who maintain their composure look better. And politics is all about looking the better person."<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:12:16)</font> Anshu: Anshu nods. <font color=navy>"It is a curse, one that has become... stronger since I Exalted. I have been trying to restrain myself better. I would point out that it was Nuwa who called for the vote. Which is ironic, since she is usually the one with the most restraint."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:12:29)</font> Splendor snorts.<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:12:59)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"Well, more restraint than some others, at least."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:13:05)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"Nuwa is not much better. She assumes that her own positions are correct far too often."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:17:54)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"That seems to be a common thread with Exalted, if I may say so."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:48:06)</font> Splendor: <font color=#ff9933>"It is, yes. In both ages."</font> Splendor smiles thinly. <font color=#ff9933>"I've heard stories that would put House Cynis to shame."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:54:29)</font> Anshu: Anshu's mouth thins in disapproval. "Would that Cynis would pay more attention to their duties as Exalts than to their debauches. But I suppose it is inevitable. We are fundamentally still merely human."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:55:58)</font> Splendor shrugs. <font color=#ff9933>"What duties? We were created to fight the Primordials. Unless I'm sorely mistaken, the Isle is not aware that the Yozis have Exalts of their own."</font><br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:59:02)</font> Ziyad: "From what I know of the Dynasts they just do publically what others hide behind closed doors."<br>
<font size=1>(09/11/09 12:59:09)</font> Anshu: <font color=navy>"Protecting Creation. Protecting the mortals under their authority."</font><br>