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[demon_knight]

[Public | Audio]

Okay. I was just up on the deck? That's fucked up.

Why make a starship look like a boat? A regular old boat? How is that supposed to make people more comfortable. This is about the ponciest of white collar prisons I've ever seen, and that's a hell of a way to prevent escapes? But this is a goddamn boat in space. If there was any level of "at ease" that was supposed to happen with that, I think it missed the mark.

The view is pretty, though, even if it doesn't make any sense.

[She clears her throat after that introduction.]

My name is Jeryline. [No last name added.] Your Admiral, in a miracle of cosmic intelligence, has seen fit to make me a warden. [Something in her tone says this is really funny to her. The stuff she's gotten roped into lately has been a little bit beyond even her wildest expectations.] I would kind of like to get a rundown of how things work here. [Because last time she got a "stab them in the eyes" and "they can't get past the blood" and whatever she saw. She has a lot of memories that aren't hers, but she would have liked some more explanations, thank you.]

From what I gathered, someone fucked up, he or she does not know that there was a fuck up, I'll have to point out to them how they fucked up until they realize they fucked up and won't fuck up again, and then I can go back home, right?

Comments

[secretasshole]

Unfortunately, comfort doesn't seem to be the top priority of the Admiral's in a number of instances.

[demon_knight]

It's a lot better than anything I'm used to. But you're right, you never know when shit might crawl out of the woodwork when you let your guard down.

He wasn't real keen on being informative.

[Which speaks for her desperation on having her deal.]

[secretasshole]

He isn't, no. [And apparently neither is David right now. Sorry, Jeryline. :c]

[Audio only]

[grailsphere]

Hello, I'm Kevin. As far as I was aware, wardens are here by choice..? It's kind of odd that you'd want to leave right after arriving if you chose to be here. Um. Everything you know about prisons, is basically useless here. The only cells at all, are waayyy belowdecks, and don't seem to get used much.

Some people are here because they're actually genuine by-the-book evil, some are here because of personality issues, some folks are criminals, and some people are here by mistake. The best way to make someone want to change and thus actually change is not repeatedly pointing out their failures, that usually just makes people mad and unwilling to cooperate. You've, uh, never done this sort of thing before have you?

[Audio only]

[demon_knight]

I don't like to sit in one spot for too long. Even if that spot is moving.

How evil are we talkin'? [Because uh... she has concerns.] Criminals I can do this job with. [Other people she might decide the universe is better off without. She doesn't think she could warden someone like that.]

[Audio only]

[grailsphere]

World-destroying megalomaniac level evil. I've heard there's even some vampires and other undead around, but thank the Goddess I've not run into them. Or any demons. This ship really takes all kinds.

[ Video : Warden Filter ]

[surfaceshine]

[Just to check.]

The view's pretty? Of all the things you find fucked up on the deck, the view isn't one of 'em?

[He sounds like he's teasing. Probably. Maybe not. In any case, one eyebrow is raised anyway.] It gets a bit fiddly here and there, and then there's the loops and shit that get thrown in, but yeah. You got the gist of it.

I'm Dean.

[ Video : Warden Filter ]

[demon_knight]

The view is pretty- [In that way that it makes the twelve year old in her happy, but she's too adult to admit anything like that because, obviously-] -but it's also fucked up.

Loops?

[ Video : Warden Filter ]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean snorts, but they'll have to agree to disagree on the view, because he's not about to go into how his own fear of flying is playing into this.

Instead:]

Yeah, loops. Breaches, floods, ports, the usual jailhouse shenanigans amped up to eleven, "fictional" characters not being so fictional, things that go bump in the night for neighbors, and uh, oh yeah. People disappear a lot. Usually without any kinda warning, but that's the fun of it.

[He shrugs at the end, like none of it is any big deal.]

[deadliestviper]

Sure, if you get that far. A lot of people don't.

[demon_knight]

How far do they usually get?

[deadliestviper]

For most of them? Not very.

[with_my_teacup]

You just missed a flood. Let me tell you, this place is gonna feel a lot less white-collar and a whole more triple-max the next time a bad one rolls through.

[But that's said pleasantly enough, because look, someone who speaks his language.]

Don't often get straight-up wardens outta slam. Mostly they have to come up through the ranks. What were you in for? If it ain't personal.

[demon_knight]

Theft. [She usually expects people to think the worse of her for it, not that she cares much, but she's on guard to defend herself. Here? Not so much.] But bein' put in for theft doesn't mean you don't get stuck in there with people put in for worse.

How bad are the "bad" ones?

[with_my_teacup]

[He lifts his chin in acknowledgement; she probably has him pegged for 'put in for worse' and she's right.]

The bad ones... take your body. Then you got breaches, they'll take your brain. Give you fake memories, make you live somebody else's life. Not good times.

[audio]

[terminates]

[ Dryly: ]

You sound like a winner.

[audio]

[demon_knight]

[What, are you two, sir?] And you sound like a loser. If you're going to start throwin' insults you can do better than that.

[audio]

[terminates]

[ No, he's just seen a lot of bullshit on this hellboat. Don't mind him, he'll be an ass all week. ]

Dead, actually.

[ Dry as dry can be. ]

If you're going to agree to a transdimensional holiday on a prison ship full of dead people, you might do better to sound less surprised.

[audio]

[je_suis_avec_toi]

I think it looks like a boat because the Admiral likes it that way. He isn't universally wise. [Would Jeryline know a French accent? Though it isn't strong through training, and the alto voice is possibly a little hard to tell gender.]

[audio]

[demon_knight]

[She doesn't judge, because she's met plenty of ladies with some bass in their voice.] So I figured. I'm guessin' middle management?

[audio]

[je_suis_avec_toi]

[A chuckle.] Wardens are. I'm not one of those, though.

[bloodyamericans]

Well, that all sounds very simple. [ Too simple. Nope. Doesn't sound good ] Seems like you don't need the run down.

[demon_knight]

I thought there would be somethin' more to it. But it doesn't seem that way. At least it's not the first time someone's went, "Here, have an important job. Good luck with that!"

[strangehistorian]

Hello, Jeryline! Welcome to the Barge.

[demon_knight]

And hello to you, too.

You mind me asking how old you are? [Because that's kind of a high voice.]