1.1.01.01.38: green sector east.

[needshumility]

So we all know each other's... well buried secrets.

Except, I imagine that they're still quite well buried. They all came at once - and unless you put the effort in to go back and read everyone's... it's hard to remember who said what, except the people you were really paying attention to. Especially if you were trying to control the damage someone else was doing, or making huge confessions of our own.

[Warden filter, minus Jane]

Two questions, everyone:

Does anyone have any... technology I could borrow have? Nothing dangerous or lethal. It doesn't even have to be useful. Just anything that post-dates either Victor, or tractors. Some are for him, some are for other purposes.

Secondly, does anyone have... children? Just as a query.


[Filtered to Prefect, Narvin, any other painfully bureaucratic wardens]

Um.

Is there something you need to do or fill in when an inmate graduates? Like... something official?

I'd hate to miss any formalities and you seem the sort of gentlemen who would know.

[Private to the Admiral]

I'd like to change my deal. I'd like, specifically, the following Univisual paints:

[INSERT LONG LIST OF hue-brightness-saturation NUMBERS HERE]

Many thanks in advance.

[Private to Jane]

Victor's going to graduate.

I... I think I might go home. mostly to punch dad.

Stop me, if you want. I'm not sure why, I just feel like... the longer I stay here, the more complacent I get.

I... asked for my deal to be changed back to the original. I supposed that was the less selfish option.

Do what you like with yours, but I'd... please think of Dorien.

Come to my room tonight.

[Private to Victor]

Did you have that conversation with Rex?

And... I hope you don't think I'm too much of a bad man. For... everything with Violet.

[Private to George]

I'm sorry if I was... short with you. I didn't realise that...

Things work differently at home, I think.

Comments

Private

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Why would I stop you? You have your deal. This is why we're here. Because of that. Because of the Grand Plan. And your part in the Plan is to go back home, become Prefect, and wiggle your way into National Colour.

We can choose when we return, Eddie. I won't be long behind you.

But no. I don't think I'll be there tonight.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Because... part of me wants to stay. Doesn't want to leave you, and feels guilty for it.

I guess 'please' won't make a great deal of difference, will it?

Re: Private

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

You should go. You have things to take care of. A wife. A child. Becoming a Colourman.

No, it won't. Drop it. I can't do this.

Warden Filter

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

I have an electric kettle and a gravitational anomaly detector. Which would you like to borrow?

And I have a granddaughter. Does that count?

Re: Warden Filter

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

What exactly is the second one?

Sorry, it's not really what I'm looking for, I don't think.

Re: Warden Filter

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

It detects anomalies in gravity, of course.

Really? Hrm, that's a pity. I'd love to talk to you about Susan.

[Private]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

It's alright, and: perhaps they are, it's just something I take slightly personally.

Re: [Private]

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

No, no, I understand.

I should have been more careful in what I said, it was quite impolite.

Re: [Private]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

It was a flood. These things happen.

Private

[grand-lotus.livejournal.com]

I am afraid I cannot help you with the technology. As for children, I had a son, though he passed on a few years ago. Why the curiosity?

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

I...

It's a little complicated.

Can I ask if you think you were a good father?

Private

[grand-lotus.livejournal.com]

[Oh look it's one of the few things Iroh considers a tricky subject.]

...

Truthfully? I think it is hard for me to know, even now. I loved him very deeply, and at the time, I believed sincerely that I was a good father. It was in another role that I failed him.

Warden Filter

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

Sure, anything more specific?

And no, not that I can recall.

Re: Warden Filter

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Not really, just... not harmful.

That... you can recall?

Re: Warden Filter

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have an spare Ipod he'd enjoy.

I have severe amnesia, I can't remember my life after the Academy.

[what_ho_jeeves]

I think you're quite right about that, Eddie. There were so many things being said at once mostly about...things one ought not mention in polite company that my head veritably started to spin and I couldn't keep up. It's times like this that I miss Jeeves more than ever. He could have waded through it all with ease and condensed the important bits into a digest for yours truly.

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's a shame he can't.

Did you... notice any of mine in the head spinning?

Warden Filter - because this is TOTALLY the guy you wanna talk about kids with

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

I've had six children with three partners. What do you want to know about?

Re: Warden Filter - because this is TOTALLY the guy you wanna talk about kids with

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Well, a few things.

But three partners? Did you love any of them?

[Private]

[with_discipline]

I have a spare PADD or two you could use.

And I had children, once. [And will again, damn it. ;;]

Re: [Private]

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

What do they do?

On... Oh.

[Private]

[failedcreator.livejournal.com]

I did. He accepted my apology.

And I do not blame you. It is a horrific thing and perhaps your path could have been different, but I cannot heap blame upon your shoulders for this.

Re: [Private]

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Did he believe it to be sincere?

Thank you, Victor. I appreciate it.

Bureaucrat filter

[timesbureaucrat]

The Admiral doesn't have the leadership or organizational skills to arrange an orderly transition when an inmate graduates. [If this weren't text, there would be disgust in Narvin's voice at the lack of paperwork.]

As best I can tell, the inmate simply drops off your warden item with no warning and no message and no indication whether the inmate has graduated or simply vanished from the Barge until you track your inmate, or ex-inmate down to see for yourself.

Re: Bureaucrat filter

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Oh.

I would have expected it to be more official than that.