niepokonany | Third Uprising [Video and Action]

[Video]

[Poland is dangling from one of the structures on the playground in a position that's far more comfortable than it looks, the urge to try and talk to people having struck him during his morning walk.]

Okay, but no, like, here's what I totally don't get. Did they like, just kidnap us to hang out and play house or whatever? 'Cause for all I've heard about some war, I'm only sure this isn't some weirdo Russian plot to bore me to death 'cause he'd never be able to get Fryderyk in on something like that. And I guess 'cause Siberia is way more boring than here, not to mention there's a ton less food.

So I was thinking, like, I'd check out the rest of the enclosure. Has anyone found anything awesome out there? Like, how far can we go? Is there anywhere nobody's been to yet? 'Cause I so wanna see it if there is!

Also, I was thinking and stuff... Like, if dead people can show up here, pretty much anyone can, right? So... Like... I mean, the other nations could, too. Which would be hella rad if it was like Hungary or Italy or someone, but, um...

I guess what I'm saying is, I'm super bored anyway, so I wanna start training again!

[Also that he doesn't want to get his ass kicked if Russia or Prussia turns up.]

[Action, open]

[In the morning, he's wandering around the village, looking for anything to keep him amused, when he spots a small structure he'd overlooked before, probably because it's between two residential buildings he rarely has any need to go to. Once he gets closer, though, he recognizes it--and just stops in his tracks for a moment, staring at it with intensity. There are stables. Which means in all likelihood there are horses, which means he will goddamn well get one somehow. A Pole without a horse is like a body without a soul, right? Maybe if he asks someone inside, they can help him figure out how to get one...

After the stables, he goes about his errands in town, dropping by the grocery store for vegetables and cheese, the bakery for some hearty, grainy bread, and then the clothing store to see if there's anything he likes. Maybe today will be the day he tries out some of those future-clothes! ]

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[Well then.]

And how has he gotten away with all that and not been thrown in jail? [Anywhere else he'd of been thrown in prison-!]

I don't think we really have those?

Jails. For nations, you know?

Unless you count getting caught by stronger nations, but that's less about what you did before and more about, like, losing.

[And kind of the root of their whole issue in any case.]

Isn't that what NATO is for though? [Because you can't just...kill off other nations. Or pull crap like that without some kind of retribution.]

Like, what's a NATO?

[He's from nearly a century before the League of Nations, to say nothing of the UN or NATO. The only attempts at justice he gets are his own uprisings, which sometimes seem to just serve as a reminder that he's still alive, and are met with harsh crackdowns.]

[Uh, how does she explain this.]

It's an organization where essentially nations sort of watch each other's backs so stuff like that doesn't happen. [She's not really a huge political gal, isn't that what it does?]

You mean like a political union?

'Cause I had one of those, until Russia kidnapped my partner.

[He really doesn't feel he can overemphasize that point right now.]

Yeah, only this one has military power too, and more than one nation. Then they could get your partner back from Russia, and you wouldn't have to kick his ass yourself because it wouldn't be okay with everyone else.

[Sounds like Russia is a huge jerk from that point of view.]

Oh, so like, a mutual defense treaty?

Yeah, I think if anyone was gonna honor one of those, they would have done it a couple decades ago.