I woke up to find Sully and Sally have retired.  Do you know what really strikes me as sad?  That you, CommissarKuku, refer to people in our community as being part of "rival writing communities" as opposed to seeing everyone who writes here as a part of the same creative community. 

Instead of reaching out to these people who spend their time filling our streets with content and inviting them into what you see as "normal" activities - you choose to belittle what they do without seemingly any concern to how it affects our population or city hall's bottom line.  To be honest it reminds me more of high school bullying than it does to true mafia tactics.

Chasing people off these shores isn't the way to improve this place - it's the way to eventually damn it.  It's a very simple concept and it's a shame that it eludes you.

This is a truly sad occasion for this society. As much as I myself am not a fan of these types of speeches, I defend whole heartedly their right to create them. To see two people hounded from this world for simply enjoying life, is truly heart breaking, and a sad indictment of what this society has become.

Isadora, Goldust

I regret, sincerely regret, their deaths.  It was never my intention. 

A situation got out of hand.  May they rest in peace.

My legacy will be making the fantasists fantasise elsewhere.

CommissarKuku, I find your lamentations hollow sir.  It seems you got your wish.  Chasing people off from these shores is now your legacy.

Isadora, I don't accept that, and I'll urge you to take caution in your tone.  

Just calling it like I see it Commissar.  Can't take the heat maybe you should step the hell out of the kitchen.

I'm perfectly content to stay right here and defend myself, Isadora.  Now, I stand by my beliefs.  I can do that and still mourn the retirement of two members of our community.

I have given my heart and soul to this thing of ours, day in, day out.  

You have spent two weeks unabashedly insulting and bullying two people, in particular and by name on several occasions.  As a result they are gone this morning, ironically just as you openly stated you wished they would be.  How the hell do you expect anyone to feel anything but disgust over your blatant and unrelenting asshattery in these streets?

You claim you care about this community but all you've done this whole week is attack its members and remind us constantly that your forefathers were part of a money-laundering scam that resulted in our ancestors' deaths.  

Sorry, but I'm not letting up.  Every time you show up somewhere spewing hate in the future you will find me and my journal there to expose it.  This is your legacy and I'm going to make it my mission to make sure no one forgets it.  

Kuku: If he can't beat you legitly in this thing of ours, he'll cheat, and if he can't do that he'll just talk so much smack that eventually you'd rather eat your gun and never return than to continue listening to it.

Isadora - why are you taking issue with me, rather than with  Chalk?

To quote you:

My legacy will be making the fantasists fantasise elsewhere.

Isadora - my bloodline cheated once - the entire ancestral line should not be damned for this.

I can't be blamed for every retirement of suicide.  I wanted them to fantasies in their own business district.  I wanted people not to endlessly talk to themselves on the Streets.  

There is a difference between prosecution and persecution.  You are persecuting me, I prosecuted the fantasists. 

You want to see me dead.  I didn't want to see Sally and Sully dead. 

Was I guilty of hyperbole?  Yes, undoubtedly.  But nothing compared to that which has been visited on me.  Do I complain?  No.

I get on with it.  

My legacy will be making the fantasists fantasise elsewhere.

None of my words are so damning to you as your own.  

Isadora - you think you have a gotcha, but what you actually have is my stated desire of fantasists fantasising somewhere other than the Streets. 

Now, in your fevered imagination, you might think that that means I want them to retire from this life, but, unless you're a raving fucking idiot (or a relative of BelleCorsica) it doesn't mean that.

Stick to facts, young lady.

My legacy will be making the fantasists fantasise elsewhere.

I think you doth protest too much.  IF your words were so innocent, why must you go on and on and on like this.  Or in the words of some of the younger kids on the streets:  "you mad bro?"

Isadora, I once thought you had the potential to be a good journalist.  A reporter.  Heck, you could have written something to rival the Chicago Tribune.  But no, you have resorted to dirty dog tactics.

This is where you and I part company.  

Please, have the last word.   I know you want to.

Nah, wouldn't want to take that honor from you.  You can have the last word in your own thread:

My legacy will be making the fantasists fantasise elsewhere.

I don't see how the retirement of two would-be Wise Guys from a container crew in Vegas is the concern of any Chicago mobster and certainly not something he owes anyone an apology over. Bullying? Insulting? Creative community? This is the Mafia, not an office building. They weren't cut out for a life of crime it seems. Too bad, enjoy civilian life.

If you want to take this discussion somewhere else, then maybe you'll get a different response. However, out here, in the Streets, if they retired because of a little shine from a Kuku spotlight? Weak. 

Kuku notices his boss talking on the Streets, and decides to respond...

"You know, the more I think about this, Grin-07, the more I think that I just helped a couple of fantasists realise that they just aren't people of honour.

Retiring?  From this thing of ours?  Were they actually really part of it to start with?  I mean, I risk my life every day, every hour of every day.  My father, despite being the richest man to ever walk these cities, did the same: risked his life for the Streets.  Sally and Sully?  Meh.  I hope their civilian life is good, but their mafia life was...  pointless."