Vicious Lies: Changing of the Guard: From Karalyne to Mirandha
Author: Anon, April 2008
The crowds rejoiced. A vast surge of human spirit, united in celebration at the death of the hated symbol of tyrannical rule. It was like watching the crowds of East Germans breaking through the Berlin Wall. History itself was being created before your eyes and you couldn’t help but get a shiver down your spine as you viewed the spontaneous displays of joy.
Such was the forced removal of Karalyne from the position of Assistant Editor of the TVT, or whatever her new, self indulgent title was. A lazy, capricious dictator who cared nothing for the welfare of those she ruled over with an iron fist, her face was the very symbol of oppression throughout the world. The staff of the TVT cowered before her, those few brave enough to speak out against her reign of terror were brutally silenced and their families sent to the gulags. Her sins caught up with her though, and a month ago she was viciously cast down from high office, thrown out into the streets where mobs bayed for her blood and fought each other for the chance to end her life. Her pampered existence did not prepare her for the sudden agony of her ending, at the hands of the very people she had mistreated. Her head, attached to a pitchfork, was paraded through the city and from the windows above families cheered the spectacle of her disembodied visage, the look of pain and terror with which she met her fate still written across her face.
Even as the crowds rejoiced though, the mechanisms of the government sprung into action. Fearful of their position without a strong leader in the face of such popular spirit, they hastily arranged Karalyne’s replacement with someone who could match, if not exceed, her wildest abuses of power. Mirandha, only just having taken on the mantle of First Reporter and already famed for her lack of human compassion and decency, was given the top office. Immediately, the crowds of celebrators were scattered by overwhelming force and in their moment of deliverance the promise of liberty was snatched away. Mirandha, new in her job but old in the ways of violence and repression, promises to be even more of a callous autocrat than her predecessor.
