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[morsmordrecerta]

I'd like to take stock of the situation. Seems like it's a theme for the week, anyway. Shouldn't surprise anyone. One of the inmates - who is held here without the benefit of a fair trial, I presume - took it upon himself to seek justice and escape. In a big way. People were hurt, people died, the ship fell to ruin

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[impure_tale]

You're dead.

[morsmordrecerta]

Prove it.

[impure_tale]

...You're on the Barge as an Inmate.

You only come here if you die or were about to. No trial necessary because this is what comes after the judge and the executioner. This is how it has always functioned. Denying it does not make you clever or above the system. It makes you one of those pathetic ghosts you see in stories that doesn't realize it's passed and may in fact never pass because of it.

It makes you unintelligent on intellectual, physical, and metaphysical levels.

[morsmordrecerta]

Sounds like a lot of speculation to me. You say I'm dead because everyone on the Barge is dead.

I don't remember dying. I have a pulse. I'm not going to believe I'm dead just because everyone else is buying in to the delusion.

[expectremorse]

[all of this discord and lack of stability is just not helping Hoffman at all]

...You don't get it. They do good things.

[morsmordrecerta]

That wasn't you I saw drinking away his woes over the communications network, then?

If they do good things, what call have you got to deal with it all by drinking?

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[expectremorse]

...I like to drink

[morsmordrecerta]

I give you my word: it's not just the Muggles.

[der_umgekehrte]

Alternate view, if I might. Speaking facetiously because I don't care if you want to hear it.

We aren't a prison barge or a system of any sort. Each warden is their own prison, each inmate the only occupant in it. We just happen to share space. Speaking to the wardens as a group is like addressing a bunch of recalcitrant air molecules. I'm used to a unified crew and I don't like it better than you. But we play the hand we've got.

There's one warden's competence you need to worry about: yours. There's one warden to discipline Mister Lewis: his. If you're looking for political change, you'd better equip for a good long wait.

[NOT HERE]

[impure_tale]

[Talking about there not being a system of Wardens here? Huge turnon :|]

[morsmordrecerta]

If that's the view, someone ought to shut down the warden who let this happen.

[der_umgekehrte]

And I haven't got the authority to do that, things being as they are. I could ask him nicely if he's doing anything. Which he likely is and hasn't said. Being that he doesn't answer to me, that he should tell me.

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[strangehstorian]

His warden will take care of his punishment. Whether it is comprised of people you don't like or not, no system is perfect.

Did you ask the Admiral about receiving a new warden?

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[morsmordrecerta]

I'll ask him when I'm good and ready.

Return my wand.

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[strangehstorian]

Then you're not ready for a new warden?

No. You will earn it back.