Brooks Messages 3: Seeing Through The Lies

## Seeing Through The Lies

### Description

In her third dead drop, Brooks explains how she gained influence amongst the True Sons and her conversion to the cause. She also encourages Division Agents to consider what exactly it is they're fighting for.

### Speaker(s)

Skyler Brooks

**Brooks:** So here we are, once again. Clearly, you're interested in what I have to say, aren't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't be listening to this,

**Brooks:** I heard a saying once. It was by Sun Tzu. "*Treat your men like you would your own beloved sons and they will follow you into the deepest valleys".* Pretty wise, huh? It's also true; I can attest to that.

**Brooks:** I won't lie. I don't like lying. I've done a lot of bad things but lying just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's almost worse for you than it is anyone else.

**Brooks:** You want the truth? When I first met the True Sons, I didn't care for them. I saw them as zealous lunatics and somewhat capable cannon fodder I could use to bludgeon my enemy until either they died, or I ran out of men. There. I admit it. You happy now?

**Brooks:** When I first rallied the True Sons, I lied. I knew about them, all about their ideology and their past, and I said exactly what I knew would get them behind me. But lying is worse for you than it is anyone else. I thought the True Sons were crazy. I thought the same things about them you do. That they were murderers and thieves with a rank. I didn't care. They were soldiers, at least to some degree, and they would serve my purposes more than the Hyenas or the Outcasts could.

**Brooks:** But I was wrong. I spoke to some officers, the same True Sons who are my closest confidants now. And they showed me that the True Sons were more than what others labeled. They had a purpose, a vision. They weren't zealots, they were dedicated to a cause. They weren't murderers, they were soldiers. They weren't brutal, they were firm, yet fair.

**Brooks:** Now this is the part where you say I was brainwashed. No. I'm the most strong-willed person you will ever meet. I'm not the kind of person who can be manipulated, period. I will never be ruled or controlled, because I am not someone's puppet. I'm not brainwashed, the fact that I'm telling you any of this is proof. The only person being indoctrinated are the Division agents mindless killing at the behest of their masters with little more than an AI to guide their moral choices.

**Brooks:** I've said that lying is more hurtful to you than anyone else. If you still believe the True Sons are simple Hollywood villains, you're doing the same thing I was. Lying, to others and to yourselves.

**Brooks:** I'm not saying it's easy. But sooner or later, you need to face reality. I'm not the monster. The True Sons are not monsters. Look at yourself. Think of all the blood on your hands. You probably kill more people every day than the world's worst serial killers did in their entire life. Between you and your fellow agents, countless people have killed, and that number grows every day. And for what? What's your purpose? What's your cause? Saving what remains? What does that even mean? Can you even tell me what you're saving? Ensuring the continuity of government? That hasn't happened. So why are you still pretending that you're fighting for anything?

**Brooks:** I'm not lying to myself anymore. When we will you do the same?