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[voice] it had been strange, even in a dream

Jun 07, 2011 10:42

[While over the past few days the draft has been threatening the lives of cast-mates and strangers and acquaintances alike Admiral Norrington has been fighting a battle of his own. He chose the evening of the fourth to investigate the purpose of that odd little bump on his wall. Flick ( Read more... )

staring into microwave windows, why is it making my arm cold, god whatisit

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[voice] lists_to_port June 7 2011, 14:30:36 UTC

It's called the "sun", mate. Large shiny thing in the sky, what appears during what is known as "day".

[video] abidinglaw June 7 2011, 15:48:47 UTC

[Flick. Flick. Flick.]

If that is the sun, then I am a sorcerer.

[voice] lists_to_port June 7 2011, 15:58:17 UTC

James, how the devil are you? We missed you in the war. Could've used your stern command, likely.

[voice] abidinglaw June 7 2011, 16:16:51 UTC

Likely.

Believe me, if I had but known where to sign my name then my sword would have been beside yours.

[voice] lists_to_port June 7 2011, 17:41:23 UTC

Doubtful; seems your place would've been beside Kennedy, with his cannon. I was merely defending McCoy's hospital. And now you have kitchen woes?

[voice] abidinglaw June 7 2011, 17:46:30 UTC

[That Archie boy was out there too? Further evidence that he isn't the childish coward that he appears.]

While you have been fighting I have been experimenting with bulbs of light. Now I am being introduced to electricity-boxes.

Honestly. I believe I shall stick with my candles.

[voice] lists_to_port June 7 2011, 18:00:41 UTC

If you want my advice, James? Adapt. I know it's always been your weakness, this inability or cussed pig-headedness against change, but in this place it might save your life.

All it requires is the flipping of a switch, after all.

[voice] abidinglaw June 7 2011, 20:51:42 UTC

[In fact he had been developing his own view on the idea of change for some time. The first change was the hardest and he'd fought it tooth and nail; the idea that honor existed outside of the trappings of the royal navy. That grand concepts such as 'right' and 'good' were not always defined by the law, or even enabled by it. Coming to terms with that change had cost him his life. Now the changes were coming thick and fast.

So the interior is changing, but the exterior? Not just yet. Flatly, sarcastically, he replies.]

Flipping this switch will save my life.

[voice] lists_to_port June 7 2011, 21:04:09 UTC

No, mate: adapting. Adapting will save your life.

[And Jack is not exactly aware of these changes and is just going to go with the whole "alliance" thing for as long as he needs to.]

[voice] abidinglaw June 7 2011, 21:20:29 UTC

[Just wait 'til he starts walking around in jeans and a t-shirt, Jack. Then you'll see.]

And you suggest that I begin by adapting to this bulb. I see. Very well, Jack. I shall practice at flipping switches until I have quite mastered the skill.

[Is he joking? No-one knows.]

[voice] lists_to_port June 7 2011, 21:42:23 UTC

[That will be awesome.]

It's a start; I expect you to flip it twenty times per day. Bit of practice, that.

Re: [voice] abidinglaw June 7 2011, 21:46:21 UTC

[Steve icons will be made. World will collapse.]

Before I absorb myself utterly in that task, however, I would request that you instruct me on signing up for the next draft. I will not be caught outside of the fight the next time.

[voice] lists_to_port June 7 2011, 22:38:20 UTC

[:D]

Oh, there's no sign-up, Admiral; nothing you could put pen to. Nah, they choose us through some unknown criteria and send us off. Fighters, medics, noncombatants, children---no one is spared.

[voice] abidinglaw June 8 2011, 22:23:30 UTC

Do you know of any means that I might employ to make myself a more likely candidate? There is little honour in sitting idly by while other men and women [And, he doesn't say, children] fight on my behalf. Perhaps if I were on the battlefield I might take the place of one more deserving of the peace.

[And maybe, if Jack has a heart, this consideration will persuade him to reveal whatever secret got him sent into the fight this time around.]

[voice] lists_to_port June 8 2011, 22:42:04 UTC

Their criteria is that there is no criteria at all, seemingly. But I'll tell you this, Admiral: we got a sound thrashing out there in the jungle. Your best gamble would be to train hard and be ready, for no man knows when his name will be called up by the Malnosso to fight their war.

[voice] abidinglaw June 8 2011, 23:06:49 UTC

[Sound advice. It would be foolhardy to strive to reach the battlefield only to be bested once he got there. Jack is one of the best swordsmen he knows. If they could go so far as to thrash him... After some seconds' consideration the admiral draws an audible breath.]

Very well, but my options are limited. Given the circumstances I suppose that yours would be an adequate stone on which to whet my blade. Presuming, of course, that you were game for a second thrashing.

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