Comments | deepdowndark: 51. return to the fall out.

deepdowndark

51. return to the fall out.

May 22, 2011 17:00

Well, I can't quite object to who I was for that. I'd have much preferred not to be human, and to have woken up with my pockets full of gold, but I'll live.

Your human, Roundworld bias is showing again, Admiral, but I didn't need to tell you that. You hardly hide it.

[Private to Elric]Next time, you will not be so lucky as to have an exceptional ( Read more... )

warden permission? what's that?, epic library worker right here, the dark talks to me, cubes that lie, a plot d-evice, sveta is far too bright, holy dark in the midst of light, not just a song by spandau ballet

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Private greatlightother May 22 2011, 16:13:58 UTC

Of course! To both of them.

Re: Private deepdowndark May 22 2011, 16:18:23 UTC

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Some of these are in Dwarfish, but if you match the runes up, it shouldn't be too hard.

Re: Private greatlightother May 22 2011, 16:32:27 UTC

...what are they for?

Re: Private deepdowndark May 22 2011, 16:46:00 UTC

They're a copy of the Laws and a few texts about the Laws. [the truth. but surely he owns them anyway?]

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shortsghtedlove May 22 2011, 18:40:56 UTC

What you prefer is of no interest. You should be glad you're even alive. [And that's only because he was distracted from horribly murdering you until Narvin was better, which helped with restraining himself quite a lot.]

[Private]

And don't you dare hurt Narvin again.

deepdowndark May 22 2011, 22:39:25 UTC

[someone's feeling ballsier today.]

You don't scare me, Time Lord. [said with the sort of tone he generally reserves for humans.]

[Private] shortsghtedlove May 22 2011, 22:56:06 UTC

[His own tone suggests he's thinking of Ardent as nothing but a particularly disgusting insect.] You should be. I'm quite... adept at causing pain. [His tone drops even lower.] Should you lay hand on him again, what you did to Narvin will seem positively pleasant. [He's tortured people for less.]

Re: [Private] deepdowndark May 22 2011, 23:00:26 UTC

As I said before, you don't scare me, Time Lord.

I'm sure you understand the value of silencing someone, if you're so free at threatening retribution. It wasn't personal against him.

I'm still not scared.

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counturfingers May 22 2011, 19:42:42 UTC

Of course, he's biased.

deepdowndark May 22 2011, 22:38:51 UTC

It's an inherently flawed part of the system.

counturfingers May 23 2011, 12:26:17 UTC

Yeah that. I don't think we can change it though, since from all I've heard, it's his system.

deepdowndark May 23 2011, 14:54:02 UTC

Except the wardens are complicit in it.

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[Private] timesbureaucrat May 22 2011, 20:35:01 UTC

Should it?

Re: [Private] deepdowndark May 22 2011, 22:45:44 UTC

I don't know, Narvin, does the general sense of being eaten alive by a demon for a good three days, and subsequent inability to ground myself, only compounded by a damn bloody breach, not count as some sort of retribution, or is that just incidental to you?

Re: [Private] timesbureaucrat May 22 2011, 23:04:00 UTC

Those days you spent soulless, I spent mutilated. I experienced the same breach, the same forced humanity, and I dare say had a worse time of it than you did. You'll need to give me a better reason than that.

[There's a hint in there that is he willing to listen and might relent. (Zero isn't the real punishment he has in mind anyway.) But he wants Ardent to work for it.]

Re: [Private] deepdowndark May 22 2011, 23:11:21 UTC

Mutilated is hardly being without a sense of self, hardly being with just a body of flesh and bone and nothing more. You could still write, you could still feel, you could still see the people you cared about.

I have spent days and hours sat in the darkness, trying to find myself as a result of what he did, and that is punishment enough. More brutal than anything zero can deliver, and anything I delivered unto you.

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