Act One: Silence's Second Scene

[Lin]

[Establishing]

The courtroom is absolutely abuzz with the series of shocking revelations that had come. Their were implications to all of these things and their would no doubt be a reckoning, but Silence didn't completely comprehend what these might be. He didn't answer the questions from the busybody Barnibus Clements and didn't notice the disapproving gaze of Abigail Wright. Before he made his way out of the courtroom, he simply told his sister, "I got something to do, I'll meet you back at the house."

Silence left the courthouse with great speed. His head was racing and he was thinking, thinking about the morbid details that had been described. He also couldn't help but think about. . .

Salem 1678

It was a winter day, the kind you never expect nothing to happen on. I was outside for some reason, maybe causing trouble or maybe bringing in fire wood. Probably the firewood, because that was before everything went to hell. I had finished whatever it was I was doing and went into the house and I had intended on telling someone about something interesting that I had seen that day, but instead I opened the door to my parent's room and my father was their hanging from the rafters and that was when everything went to hell.

Resentment had been building up ever since then, though usually it was building when he saw the preacher on the account of what he had said on that day, but now it was building for another reason altogether, which is also the reason that Silence made sure to get out the courthouse first. And is Thomas walked out the door, he found out the reason because at precisely that moment he was tackled. . .

[For K-Man: if you want to add to the flashback with "what the preacher said" on the day the Sykes father (or "father"?) died that would be awesome.]

[TheZebraShakes™]

I have nothing to add rite now, but with Thomas getting tackled, I'll wait for yakumo to weigh in before I cast my vote.

[Yakumo]

Thomas hit the ground with a heavy crack against the wood of the courtroom steps. Dazed, he took a blind swing at his attacker. The blow connected, but it could only be called a blow in name as Thomas was not much of a fighter. As the grappled on the ground Thomas eventually saw who was on top of him. "Silence, let's talk about this!"

[K Man]

(I'm somewhat hesitant to say anything as it's all backfired as of late. But sure, I'll throw something in.)

"Aren't you going to put poppa in the ground with the rest of them?" Little Silenced tugged on Carrington's waistcoat.

The Minister swatted away the child's hand as he would an errant fly. Without looking down, he simply stated. "Your poppa deserves this for what he did."

Silence looked on. Not two hours ago the butcher had cut his father from the rafters from which he hung, the rope deep in a purple trench around his neck. Silence could not understand what had happened or why, nor was he finding answers in the Preacher's presence...but where else was he to turn? He watched two men unceremoniously dump his father into the pig sty, his body slowly sinking in the deep brown puddle of swine feces. There was no speech from the scary black coated Minister, there were no attendees save for himself and his sister in the cold dusk, shivering. Why was Minister so mean?

Carrington looked down upon silence, his face darkened by the broad hat into something even more terrifying. "Your father....your sister....your whole damned family deserves to burn in hell." The scary man turned and began to walk off. "...and if God has his way, I'll make sure it's very soon..."

[K Man]

Oh, I see that now. I'll edit. That's what I get for trying to multi-task

[TheZebraShakes™]

#salembaby
omg, do we have to flashback even further to find out what the Sykes did to the preacher. Lolololol this game is harsh.

[Lin]

"Talk about this?" Silence yells as he slams Thomas's shoulders back to the ground, with a look of death in his eye. "You take my sister's honor and you want to talk about it? You KILL MY NEPHEW and you want to talk about it? I guess those things ain't sins if you do'em to a Sykes!"

[I'll take a die at this point]

[K Man]

(It's like a flashback inside of a flashback that's inside another flashback....everyone got their totems to keep this shit straight?

I vote black die on this one.)

[Yakumo]

"You don't understand! You are like family to me. I didn't want to do it, I love her. I love my son..." Thomas has tears in his eyes and his head throbbed from hitting the ground, but he couldn't bring himself to fight back. He knew what he did and there was nothing he could say right now to change Silence's mind.

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Let's see where a black die takes us here.

[TheZebraShakes™]

Ok black dice,

This is complex

[Lin]

The words Silence was about to say were, "I would kill you if I was a man like the preacher done thinks I is, but us Sykes aren't like that."

The action Silence was about to take was helping Thomas up and dusting him off and shaking his hand hand and telling him, "It that damned preacher we gotta take care of."

However, only the words, "I would kill you" which sounded an awful lot like "I wanna kill you" came out before Gregory Shaw and Allister Smith roughly pull Silence off of Thomas and get in some cheap shots of their own. Of course this action gets Silence's ire back up and while they are dragging him away he starts yelling, "The preacher's got his evil eye in you too? You ain't gonna make me stop, I ain't gonna let none of this stand, you mark my words Thomas! We gonna end this."

That probably didn't come out right.

[Black dice to Yakumo, K-Man's turn]