004 - Audio. PORT.

[devils_bargain]

[Inmate filter, no static.]

[Dorian has listened to the spiel, but he thinks this is bullshit.]

This is bordering on ridiculous. I mean... honestly? As if it is not bad enough that I have died and been assigned to that insufferable plebeian, now I am expected to rescue him? Why? So that he can go back to restricting my pleasures and assigning me work

Comments

Spam.

[triggered_it]

[Adrian arrives into the sitting room from downstairs. He looks unperturbed, as clean and composed as usual. None of this particularly bothers him. He figures that the Admiral will whisk everyone back to the Barge, eventually, and no one will be hurt, aside from the usual mental stress and PTSD, the same as the zombie port. However, he has to play like he actually gives a shit.]

Sebastian. [A pause.]

Alexander Verlaine. [That's his alias.] I got your message.

Spam.

[devils_bargain]

[Dorian stands from the chair he had been sitting in and looks Adrian over intently. He appears unphased, but little details give him away. The quick dart of his eye, the speed with which he stood. He does not want to go and find Armand, but he is not happy here.]

Alexander... [A pause, and an odd look.]

Were you looking for your warden? [Dorian is judging him.]

Spam.

[triggered_it]

[He notices. It's understandable. This is a new setting, and Dorian's first port. Even veterans of ports were always uneasy at each new one, it seemed.]

Yes. I was looking for her, as well as making sure that people were safe. [Thoughtful pause] Ports are dangerous, Dorian.

Spam.

[devils_bargain]

[Dorian frowns at Adrian.]

Why would you bother? You said to me that you are not striving for redemption. You are not guilty. Then why find your warden? Why not refuse to play this game, too?

[Confused by Adrian's actions, he feels as though Adrian must have been lying to him about redemption.]

inmate filter - and he's kinda serious.

[pleasesmirk]

Would you like me to oblige you?

OOC: Oblige him with... death?

[devils_bargain]

Excuse me? [Perfectly cordial, yet clearly confused.]

[pleasesmirk]

You said you didn't care if you ended up dying here.

I can make that the case, if you want.

((ooc: YUP, that's exactly what he meant. But he won't kill him, as he's only gonna kill one guy this port; but he means his threat. He sorta expects him to get up and do what he's supposed to. At gunpoint, if necessary.))

[devils_bargain]

We are already dead. If you feel you must kill me again, be my guest.

[Dorian has been, so far, dealing with the strange newness of the barge, the fact that he is dead, there is a book written about his life, pictures are trapped in communication gadgets and boxes called the television. He had tried to accept these things, one by one, as they were thrown at him, but at some point in these last two short weeks, he reached overload and now he is certain of just a few things. One being that he is already dead, and two being that none of this really matters.]

Inmate Filter

[victimofnoone]

You do get that you might die or get lost in this place forever if you don't find your warden? I know that might be too big a concept for you to comprehend, but I figured it was worth a shot. Now you can't say I didn't try.

Don't be a jerk, Dorian. Go find your warden.

Inmate Filter

[devils_bargain]

It is likely I would get lost if I tried to find him, and as we are already dead, I don't see the point in playing along.

Private - strikes readable if trying

[victimofnoone]

First of all, there's different kinds of dead. The left-behind-at-port kind is the kind you don't want to be stuck in. It's worse than anything you'll face on the Barge. Second? Get over yourself. Just ask Adrian, since he's probably the only one that can stand you, and go find him together.

Private.

[devils_bargain]

And I suppose you have been abandoned at some one of these ports, and this is why you are here now warning me about how terrible and inescapable that was?

[my_freeze_ray]

Well, right now you're dead on the barge, where your biggest concern is shower poop, but if you die here then you might get stuck in this house until the end of time.

And I don't know if you've noticed? But this house is kinda creepy.

[devils_bargain]

Or perhaps I shall pass on to some more terrible hell than this. Or perhaps none of this is real.

Regardless, I have heard that to go downstairs and look for Armand would be more dangerous than to stay here, so why should I go looking for him at inconvenience to myself? He is hardly worth all this trouble.

[my_freeze_ray]

Well, the way I see it it goes like this:

If not saving him sends you to a more terrible hell than this, then you presumably want to avoid that. If none of this is real and not saving him doesn't have any negative impact, then you have no reason to avoid it.

Right now though, you don't know which of those things are true, the only known quantity that you have is that going to save him is the way back to the barge, which I guess is the reliable middle ground between going to hell and getting to walk out of here in the morning. So it's fifty fifty.

That is, until you factor in the following: If none of this is real, then you can't lose anything by going down after your warden to help him, because even if you fail, none of it was ever really dangerous. However, if it is real? And this house is trying to kill us all like the crazy dude in the glasses says? Then staying upstairs just delays the inevitable, and loses you your ticket out of here.

I don't even really like your warden, but I think you should go.

[devils_bargain]

[Dorian is feeling excessively put out by all of this, as though it has been done to inconvenience him. He speaks tersely.]

I thank you for your input.

[Dorian has no intention of going for Armand, regardless of all of this. The bottom line, for Dorian? It would mean effort on his part, and he owed nothing to Armand.]

[rass_bestie]

I can so see why humanity is the Doctor's favourite species.

OOC: No response.

[devils_bargain]

[Confused by this message, Dorian disregards it.]