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Oct 15, 2011 03:01

Do you know I never fancied ships in my youth? I had in my delusions, as a prisoner given to an obsession with numbers, once predicted that the letters I was receiving included secret 'signals' that I would be exiled to Barbados the following fortnight. This sent me into such a passion that I wrote probably some of the most unkind letters to my ( Read more... )

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Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 13:10:56 UTC

I didn't come back for this. Dear God, Marquis, I wish to kill him.

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 13:16:07 UTC

I will not make light of your situation, Iago. The Admiral has indeed given you a most difficult task.

I must stress, however, that you must not kill your Inmate. It is your duty to protect him. Just remember that I am here to assist you in whatever way that I can.

Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 13:18:44 UTC

I said I wanted to- not that I will.

Is this some sort of...trial?

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 13:23:13 UTC

If it will help you to perceive it that way, my treasure, then I encourage it.

You and Doctor Crane have mutual reasons for not trusting one another, and unfortunately earning his trust must be your cross to bear, initially, before you can expect for him to earn yours. Study his file carefully and attempt to know more than the man with whom you have been at odds in the last year or two.

Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 13:27:13 UTC

His file...I can try, I suppose. He's going to hate me.

Marquis, what happened to mine?

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 17:02:56 UTC

Your file? It disappeared when you graduated, of course.

Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 17:30:23 UTC

Good.

I don't know how to do this, Marquis. Tell me how.

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 17:42:11 UTC

You must control the situation without burning any bridges, naturally. I trust one of your initial worries will be what will probably involve a desire by him to question your credentials. The man did what you're doing, for a living, among lunatics. It will not be easy.

If he seeks to derail discussions by bringing up your past indiscretions or your fitness to be a Warden, you must control the course of the conversation. Remind him once that this is not the topic under discussion at present and bring him back to the subject. For every attempt to change the subject after that, continue without comment. Do not open yourself up to have your past actions questioned and scrutinized, even in fair quid pro quo exchange, until you feel confident you can fully command the discussion. If by chance you discover the Admiral has gone and slipped him your file, you will do yourself no good by denying.

You MUST prove your resolve is stronger than his, because you are in the right here. He is not.

Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 19:06:24 UTC

Do you think me capable of this, Marquis? Did I make the right choice?

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 21:04:25 UTC

Of course, Iago. As I have often told you, the right choice is regrettably almost never the easy choice.

Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 21:05:37 UTC

Well, I wish it was in this situation.

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 21:06:48 UTC

Do you think I envisioned you an easy undertaking, when the Admiral first assigned us?

Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 21:09:29 UTC

I don't exactly know. I didn't care at the time and I didn't ask after.

What did you envision?

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 21:10:44 UTC

I thought of casting you as a tree in my play so that I could giggle myself to sleep over the irony.

Private inhumandog October 15 2011, 21:12:14 UTC

You are very a wicked man, Marquis.

Private impure_tale October 15 2011, 22:40:17 UTC

In the end I did not, as you well remember.

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