About this story
You play Basilio, a medical student carrying a petition for a school the men upstairs keep reviewing rather than refusing. When the talk turns to a canal, a jeweller in blue-tinted glasses proposes removing the villages in its way, then comes down one step to ask you, quietly, how you tell a cause from a symptom.
Who you’ll meet
Simoun, a mysterious jeweller with the colonial government's ear, on a river steamer's upper deck beside the official Don Custodio, with the student Isagani challenging them from the deck below.
How it opens
The steamer Tabo pushed laboriously up the Pasig, broad, white, and slower than its own smoke.
Officials and friars occupied the shaded upper deck while students and workers crowded below.
IsaganiBasilio, the river reaches the lake sooner than this floating government will.
IsaganiAbove us they are certainly improving the country between glasses of lemonade.
Padre CamorraStudents below should admire authority instead of measuring its speed.
Choose
Authority moving this slowly invites careful measurement.
We discussed the engine, Father, not the passengers.