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Tweak says, "Why am I always Kate Winslet?"

Seyn Ayliffe [Lady Red Fang] (pawimprinting) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2015-07-13 15:58:00

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aidan reilly, artemis crock, damon salvatore, nico di angelo, pavel chekov (au), seyn ayliffe

[Day 332][Video|Action|Open]
[Video]
[Seyn is staring down the video screen, not that unfamiliar with the technology, even if this form of it is different from what she’s used to. There’s an awkward, tense smile on her face, as if she’s trying to think of the most polite way to say what’s on her mind. Bright orange really clashes with her hair and eyes in a way that she immediately thinks would make her a rather gaudy Knight, but that's not important, is it? Not when she's just been sent to a virtual prison.]

All right now. I can believe that I’m in prison, considering what I’ve been up to the last few months. But some of these crimes are really just too much. How can they blame you for crimes that weren’t crimes when you were doing 'em? [Or at least not viewed as crimes towards the people she was fighting when it happened. She doesn't sound as angry as she really is, managing to keep most of her tone this side of frustration, the smile more obviously sarcastic by the end than genuine.]

I guess I should be thankful I wasn't sent straight to solitary, but it's hard to feel grateful right this nano.

[Action]
[There's only so much that being on video can tell her, so Seyn starts wandering, using the map to familiarize herself with the locations, especially where the food stores are and the lodgings. She feels like she sticks out like an accident cone in these clothes. It makes her feel too visible, and she's used to wearing white.

So the first place she heads towards is Bull's Eye. She can't get that ankle monitor off, but she's not staying in this jumpsuit. She'll be digging through the clothes and when she finds something she likes well enough--black jogging pants and a dark red shirt--she'll be stripping down to her underwear right there and putting it on. Speed is more important to her than privacy--not that she's really used to privacy in the first place--so sorry to anyone who happens to walk by the women's athletic section right then. She's a bit too tall for the racks themselves to cover her up. After the change, she'll be wandering from sector to sector, trying to memorize everything that she can. Knowing the playing field is always rule number one.]

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	nico_di_angelo 2015-07-20 12:49 am UTC (link)
	[He shrugs.] About seventy days, I think. More than. Feels like longer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-07-21 03:50 am UTC (link)
	[He looks pretty young for them to be charging him as an adult, but maybe he's just younger than he looks... Or the wardens are even more twisted than they've sounded so far.] That's plenty long enough, I'd say. The wardens could use a talking to about all of this, but I doubt some newbie on the scene will change their minds. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-07-22 12:56 am UTC (link)
	[She's right all counts!] You can talk to them, but you won't get anywhere. It's not even worth the bother, if you ask me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-07-22 01:03 am UTC (link)
	Not that friendly, are they? [Now that wouldn't surprise her since she expects wardens to be hard and stern, but they aren't...real wardens. They're artificial intelligence. Programs.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-07-22 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Well, not not friendly. Just ... frustrating. Sometimes you can get what you want. [Though he can only seem to get what he wants when his friends get involved.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-07-22 01:23 am UTC (link)
	Do you have to give them something in return? [Not that she knows what the prisoners could have that the wardens would want, but prison. She expects corruption everywhere.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-07-22 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Rehabilitation points, usually. A lot of them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-07-22 02:49 am UTC (link)
	...Points? Is that the credit they use here for buying things? [She's very much thinking of it in terms of money.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nico_di_angelo
2015-07-24 12:37 am UTC (link)

No? Everything here is free. Clothes and food and stuff. If you want something special from the Wardens, though - like, something from your home, you need points for that. Um... [He holds up his hand to show a silver skull-faced ring.] Like this. I needed rehab points to get this because it's from my world. [Not really. It's just an illusion, like the rest of this place. But he doesn't want to get into that.]

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	pawimprinting 2015-07-25 03:41 am UTC (link)
	So it is like buying thing just...only things from outside the prison. [That does make some sense, but she's not sure she likes the idea of these "rehabilitation points."] How do we get these points? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-07-26 03:21 am UTC (link)
	You have to do stuff. Like, go to classes and join activities and things like that. You're thingy should have a run-down of all that information for you. [He means the communication device.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-07-28 04:02 am UTC (link)
	Thingy... [She's a bit confused but gets it after a moment.] Oh, you mean the communicator. I must have missed that part when I was reading the welcome speech. ...What kind of classes are they trying to make us go to? [That does concern her a bit since she remembers well what the special academy she went to taught her. It taught her how to not think.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-07-28 06:13 pm UTC (link)
	They don't really make us ... It's voluntary. The classes are run by inmates. Things like life skills, and driver's ed, and cooking, and sewing... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-07-28 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	[She's genuinely confused by the names of those classes.] They want us to take classes that we wouldn't ever need to use, huh? Kinda strange there, but if it's a way to pass the time, I'll look 'em over. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-07-29 04:57 am UTC (link)
	It doesn't hurt. Some of them are entertaining, at least. [Even if he has a hell of a time sitting still through some of the longer lectures.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-07-30 03:43 am UTC (link)
	I do get what you're saying, but you have to admit it's out there to take classes if we won't be using any of the lessons. Do they have any that deal with what we do here in the prison? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nico_di_angelo
2015-07-30 05:16 pm UTC (link)

Well ... No? I don't ... I don't think so? [He made a motion for the communicator again. That was pretty much the whole instruction manual right there.] What we do in the prison is live. I run a store and take classes sometimes, and share an apartment, and there's a place I like to get coffee. I go to the athletic center to train. I'm also on the Defense Force, so I go on patrols.

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	pawimprinting 2015-07-31 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	Patrols? [Now he's got her attention.] What's this Defense Force? Are they the guards? I had thought that was the little robots keeping an eye on us wherever we go. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-08-02 03:57 am UTC (link)
	Not guards, no. The Defense Force tries to protect the people here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-08-04 03:54 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure I understand. This is inmate gang? [She has such a media-pushed view of prison that this isn't matching up with.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-08-04 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	No, it's not... [He sighs and rubs his forehead, increasing frustrated, more with himself than anything.] I'm not good at explaining. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-08-04 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	It's okay. I'm sorry, I'm asking so many questions when I should just be looking it up myself. Thanks for humoring me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-08-05 12:48 am UTC (link)
	No... I'm sorry. I'm just... They have a headquarters in Sector 2. I'm sure someone there can give you a better explanation than I could. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pawimprinting 2015-08-05 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	I'll look 'em up. You helped a lot more than ya think. I'm learning as much as I can. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2015-08-05 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I'm glad I could help then. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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