.005 - here's some advice from uncle jefferson

[makeitwork]

You know what the real problem here is? It isn't the big bad aliens, or the bad driving or even the fact that you Wardens haven't a clue of what you're doing and yet you think you know better than us about our lives.

It's that you don't belong here. It's the boat. It's not a place of redemption, it's a floating psych experiment and all of you are just playing along. Like sheep. But at least sheep don't make play that they're something they're not.

Comments

[trenchcoatedly]

Why not play long with something that has goals you respect?

[makeitwork]

And who are you, to decide that you know best?

[trenchcoatedly]

I don't. I respect his goals, so I go along with them. I speak for no one but myself.

[makeitwork]

You're a Warden. You're looking to change people. Why?

[trenchcoatedly]

So they are kind to others.

[looksfine]

Tell me, what is it about our qualifications that you question?

[makeitwork]

And tell me, what makes you think you know best?

[looksfine]

I do not.

[makeitwork]

Then why are you here? What are you getting out of it?

[looksfine]

I am here because helping people is what a Green Lantern does.

[doctor_j_crane]

I don't deny that this might be some large psychological experiment on the Admiral's part.

Have you been assigned a warden yet?

[makeitwork]

Whoever takes the longest to crack gets the prize.

Yes.

[doctor_j_crane]

People crack in a lot of different ways here.

Who?

Text;

[sharpsuitfluffytail]

Incorrect. Difference between "playing along" and "not having choice".

Text;

[makeitwork]

Warden or Inmate?

Text;

[sharpsuitfluffytail]

What do you think?

Re: Text;

[makeitwork]

Inmate.

Text;

[sharpsuitfluffytail]

Correct.

[buywithme]

Then what should you do, Comrade, as an inmate? If you're brought onto this ship and told that the only way off is to redeem yourself, even if you don't believe it's anything more than an experiment, what else can you do?

[makeitwork]

Redeem myself from what? Loving my daughter? Wanting to save her from a curse? This prison is no different than the one waiting for me there.

[Private]

[youwillgotohell]

[Jeez, Jefferson, why are you bugnuts.]

Where were you? [She doesn't think she has to explain more than that.]

Re: [Private]

[makeitwork]

[Because fuck you, that's why]

Some village.

[Private]

[youwillgotohell]

Is that what brought this on?

[Private]

[makeitwork]

[Sort of. That Jefferson was a ball of crazy because his space!wife and space!daughter had been taken by the Vanquish. But he was crazy before that.]

It wasn't the aliens. It's living in this place. It makes you lose your mind. And no one sees it.

[Private]

[youwillgotohell]

I see it.

[But bro you were always a little off. Not that she has room to talk.]

There are books I want to read. Then we'll find a way to make the hat work.