1. Until the petals fall

[tospeakcandidly]

What is this place? Let's start with the name. “The Barge?” Who calls a barge “The Barge?” How unoriginal is that? It's like the way people name fish. The lighting is terrible, the dining room looks like a school lunchroom, and the pub doesn't even have a trained bartender. I have to mix my own drinks to get something that doesn't taste like vodka

Comments

[doctor_j_crane]

You've already been to the CES?

[tospeakcandidly]

Yeah-- No, I was psychically interpreting the auras of the room. -- Yeah. Why? Have you not?

[doctor_j_crane]

I have, obviously. It's just that most wardens don't show that kind of initiative when they first arrive.

[tospeakcandidly]

Well I'm not most wardens, okay?

What's your name?

[needshumility]

At least it doesn't require further explanation?

[tospeakcandidly]

I say this from a kind place in my heart, but you're wrong about that. This place requires a lot of explanation. A lot. The name really doesn't do anything except say you're on a boat.

[needshumility]

That's a very fair point. But... what would you call it instead?

[tospeakcandidly]

I don't know. Why don't we call it the Titanic? Or the Love Boat? Or the Minnow? There has to be hundreds of thousands of names and you'd really rather call it The Barge?

[yeahscience]

Wow, boo fucking hoo, you got to mix your own.

1/2

[tospeakcandidly]

2/2

[tospeakcandidly]

Are you fifteen?

[yeahscience]

Some of us got shot in the head, dipshit. Forgive me if I don't feel much sympathy for your alcoholic ass.

[damesuccubus]

The jailers call this barge "The Barge". If you want to call it something different, then by all means, go on and invent something.

[tospeakcandidly]

Maybe we could invent something together.

[damesuccubus]

No, I don't think so. You're the one complaining about the name - you should be the one to come up with something.

[tospeakcandidly]

The Lotus? That has all kinds of implications of beauty and blossoming.

[tis_disapproval]

Why, of course... A name would make all the difference whilst undergoing public humiliation! Yes, that's just what we need!

[tospeakcandidly]

No, but it's a start. A name is the first thing a lot of people know about you. I suggested improvements for the looks too, but no one seems to be recognizing that as much.

[tis_disapproval]

I find names to be widely open to interpretation.

Aesthetic niceties are amongst the least useful improvements one could make here... Start or not.

[tospeakcandidly]

It would be premature to judge anything else.