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Fighting! By Soldier War is a complex matter. Sometimes, battles are fought externally; against a clear and common enemy, against crises with an external origin. Sometimes, battles are fought internally; against each other. Our battle currently has gone beyond being against each other and has become one against fear, indecisiveness, doubt, and hopelessness. Oddly enough, the turning point in the battle was a previously anticipated external crisis. Which is not unusual. An external crisis can force united action. There’s no time for internal conflict when external matters take precedence. This was true in our case even if it began with a period of hysterical amusement at our own expense. As was previously discussed in our post ‘ Insidious ’, depression had consumed and overtaken us, for no single specific reason. Nobody of our number was listening and nobody was in a position to follow my lead back into the light. Darkness had overwhelmed us. It happens and the only wa

Insidious By Soldier Sometimes The Black comes at us in a full-frontal assault, screaming in our face and gnashing her teeth and ready to drag us kicking and screaming into the abyss. In many ways, though this approach is more brutal and tends to leave a trail of destruction in its wake, it’s far easier to counter-strategize. It’s easier to recognize. It’s easier to manage. I prefer the direct approach from The Black . I’d much rather know what’s coming and deal with it straight up, all systems engaged and blood ready to spill than be blind-sided and find we’ve gone under without a hand raised in protest. Which is what happens when the Warlock gets involved. This is the second approach. The insidious guerilla warfare approach. The tunneling under the moat and laying explosives under the castle wall, the assassin in the dark, poison in the wine barrels approach. It creeps up so slowly and gradually, writhing around our ankles and coiling around our legs, that by the t