SECOND ENTRY - [text]

[keepsthemsafe]

[Shane, it's safe to say...has been absent. There's not enough soap in the world, and of course he's not going to go get help. This isn't the CDC, nobody wants to kill him but Oh dear god this place might be worse then the CDC.

And what's worse is Lori. He knew she was there, he felt her. He felt her. And how that ended...]

So much for safety am I right? Is this a regular thing? A driver that takes people up to hotels that like to fuck with your head?

I understand that in order for one of the inmates to make demands they require a warden to ask for items. Am I right about that?

I want to speak with one of them.

[Via text. Nobody is getting video. There's a reason for this.]

[INMATE SHOWER SPAM]

[It's a safe bet to say that Shane hasn't moved from the shower since that happened. There's not enough soap or hot water. He alternates between sitting underneath the scalding hot water, drying off, standing outside and then...heading back in and drowning himself in steaming hot water and soap.

Nothing to be done, or so he figures. It's almost out of his system, he hopes. He's almost forgotten it. You can catch him either in the shower trying to drown himself or outside trying to resist the urge to walk back in with a grim and haggard expression on himself.]

Comments

[timesbureaucrat]

It's not always hotels. Sometimes it's alien worlds, or alternate histories, or the land of the dead.

I am a warden. I take it you have a request?

[keepsthemsafe]

[Land of the dead]

I want a weapon, and I want a fucking private shower

[timesbureaucrat]

[Well that's easy to answer.]

No.

[keepsthemsafe]

It's not right if you're going to have a man drive a bunch of people to a place where they're going to get themselves killed, Putting weapons in the hands of dangerous criminals is bad yes, but what about people who need to defend themselves?

[timesbureaucrat]

And if people need to defend themselves against you? Should we start a ship-wide arms race? Arming criminals and civilians does not make the ship any safer.

[keepsthemsafe]

I can handle myself. I was a police officer.

[Except this does feel pointless it's like arguing with Rick. again.]

[timesbureaucrat]

The point isn't whether you can handle yourself or not, the point is that I have no reason to believe that you won't be a danger to other people.

[keepsthemsafe]

What gives you that right or that qualification?

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[buildindreemz]

It's always different. Like I told you.

What do you want?

Re: text;

[keepsthemsafe]

...You didn't tell me it'd be like that.

The things I saw. The things that I did.

I want a weapon and I want a private shower but some other dick up here says no. Why not?

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[buildindreemz]

Because it's *always different*, we don't know what it's going to be like until it happens.

I'm sorry for what happened to you. Stuff happened to everyone.

You don't get a weapon because you're an inmate, and inmates don't just get weapons. What would stop you from using it against anyone on the Barge? You already beat a guy up for no reason.

Besides, even those who do have weapons don't always get to bring them along for ports. What would you have shot at that hotel? One of the hallucinations? Or another denizen of the Barge because you thought they were someone you knew and that place made you paranoid?

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[keepsthemsafe]

How the fuck can you call yourselves wardens if you're not capable of protecting people because that seems to be what's fucking called for.

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[buildindreemz]

No one can completely protect others, that's absurd. A lot of shit happens in this place; but you won't be killed. The rest will come when you get a warden assignment. The rehab, I mean.

A lot of this place sucks, and we can't control it. All we can control is how we deal with it.

Re: text;

[keepsthemsafe]

...Well at least you're honest about it.

How about publicizing that fact to everyone so you don't give people false hope.

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[buildindreemz]

I've never seen anyone here given 'false hope'. No one has ever said this place is full of sunshine and unicorns and rainbows. You don't die here, and sometimes you get messed with or turned into something else for a few days. That's about as honest as it gets.

[voice]

[silvestris]

The wardens can really get us anything useful?

Re: [voice]

[keepsthemsafe]

...I was hoping they could. Hoping they would.

It's a futile fucking hope.

[voice]

[silvestris]

They turned you down already? Were you asking for a grenade?

Re: [voice]

[keepsthemsafe]

...I was asking for a means of defending myself and a private shower.

[The latter he should have known was pointless but he's sick and tired of hanging around the inmate showers...however it's...honestly the only way he feels like he can fix this]

[voice]

[silvestris]

Let me know if you get either one. No one here is big on taking responsibility for their personal safety.

Re: [voice]

[keepsthemsafe]

If I have to protect myself I will. [His eyes narrow]

This is why groups are a problem.

[voice]

[silvestris]

No, this is why prisons are a problem. Groups are just herds of idiots. Prisons are where people try to stop you from protecting yourself.

audio

[darknessb4me]

Yes.

Re: audio

[keepsthemsafe]

...that wasn't.

That wasn't Lori.

audio

[darknessb4me]

Alright. [You can almost hear the shrug in his voice. Makes no difference to him.]