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Tweak says, "...dead things, extra teeth."

Watanuki Kimihiro [四月一日君尋] (AKA Buttercup) (ghostduster) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2010-07-12 20:49:00

Entry tags:

!days 140-149, albert de morcerf, allen walker, apollo justice, ashikawa mitsuru, edward elric, howard link, kudo shinichi, sumeragi kururu, watanuki kimihiro, {howell jenkins}, {kurogane}, {{{james t. kirk}}}, {{{miranda lotto}}}

Who: Watanuki + anyone
Where: Baths!
When: Day 148, early morning
What: Morning bath! And moontime mingly post.

[after the mess that was yesterday, there's a noodle trying vainly to bathe himself. getting soap and ... actually getting into the bath without running into things is proving to be stupid hard without his glasses.]

-- ow! S-since when has that been there?

(( Sleep! I'll be back to pick stuff up later. ))

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	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 11:37 am UTC (link)
	And hilarious. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 11:39 am UTC (link)
	[Grumble grumble] ... I suppose I wasn't using that dignity anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 11:41 am UTC (link)
	Trust me, dignity is the least of your worries here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 11:44 am UTC (link)
	Yeah but as far as I can tell, there's absolutely nothing I can do about the bigger stuff. So I may as well worry about the small stuff while I still can. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 11:44 am UTC (link)
	... in the grand scheme of things? There's not a lot of things you can do, no. The trick is coping. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 11:46 am UTC (link)
	... I seem to recall having this conversation last time, too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 11:52 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, sorry. It comes up a lot. And it's the veterans' job to keep bringing it up, just like it's your job to keep us from going over the edge. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 11:57 am UTC (link)
	... Keep you from going over the edge, huh. ... I hadn't thought about it that way before. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 11:59 am UTC (link)
	Betcha a lot of people don't. Think about it, I mean. For me ... Faith pulling me back from that nasty decision isn't the first time I've needed someone to remind me how to be human, and it won't be the last. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 12:05 pm UTC (link)
	But-- that's also the reason that... game... happened to Lacerta, though, isn't it? That wasn't a competition. Nobody was competing, it was just... a slaughter. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:07 pm UTC (link)
	That's ... yeah okay, that's harsh even for the Judges. Usually it takes a huge sacrifice to get them to come down on you like this. Not being the first to give up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	[Grits teeth] So then they just used them as a-- a demonstration? Is that what you're trying to say? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:13 pm UTC (link)
	It's possible. Could be that Gambler's just a dick and just wanted to pick on Lacerta. Or he just snagged the team who'd been loudest about self-sacrifice most recently. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	What happens if we refuse? If everyone refuses to kill other people? Do they just kill us all, then? Is that it? We all die? No revivals? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:18 pm UTC (link)
	That happened once, actually. We defused one of Trickster's games and everyone got memories. ... and then Trickster went crazy, probably died, and got replaced by Flowers. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 12:20 pm UTC (link)
	So then-- why only once?! Why hasn't it happened again since then? If everyone knows now that it can be done, then...! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	Because most of the time managing something like that causes godawful backlash. Maybe they can't afford to kill all of us, but that doesn't mean they can't make things hell. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	Right, because they haven't managed that one already. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:30 pm UTC (link)
	Shit can always get worse. Trust me on that one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

assumedposition
2010-07-13 12:32 pm UTC (link)

Why doesn't everyone just refuse to play, then?! No matter how you justify it, murder is still murder! What's so important to you that you'd be willing to kill people for it? I'd rather-- I'd rather stay in this cave without any memories for the rest of my life than watch another person get killed, or maimed, or turn into some monster who'll even be a party to it!

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	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	... there's a lotta different answers for that. But we're here for some damn good reason, one way or another. At one point we thought it was worth the murder and the crazy and the pain. I don't trust the Judges, but I do trust the guy I saw in my memory tube. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	... If something happened in my past life that was worth killing people over, I'm not sure I want to know about it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:42 pm UTC (link)
	Also possible. Carly ... my teammate, she was pretty sure she'd done something awful. But Sabra made her into a better person, even with all the murder and shit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	assumedposition 2010-07-13 12:46 pm UTC (link)
	... How? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_chair 2010-07-13 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	It wasn't easy. But she stuck with it. And now she's an engineer on my ship. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)