For lastvoyages : Seventeenth Hex [voice + spam]

[scarlet_discord]

I can't believe this. Not a single mention of what is being done about Rex stranding and zombifying us all. No apology from his Warden for letting this all go on under his nose. No nothing. We're just expected to clean ourselves off and go back to pretending that nothing happened

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[sixthanimorph]

You're acting like this is something new. Rex tried taking over the Barge right before I got here and turned half of the inmates into his slaves with nanomites.

Guess who did something about it? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't a warden.

[scarlet_discord]

Everyone I talked to claimed that this fucking douche was "reformed a lot" since then and "wouldn't do anything like that again". Apparently he lied well enough that the idiots in charge took no precautions to prevent him from doing it again. And we all paid. Especially those that worm lied to and called "friend".

As for doing something about it--welp. If he comes anywhere near me I'll give him one hell of an education. And if someone else decides to do it first, I'll cheer them on.

[get_thebook]

If I may interject. I understand you're angry, and you have reason to be. However, can you claim you have never made progress and then taken two steps back due to circumstances out of your control?

I am not saying this is the case with Rex. I am no longer his Warden; I cannot be certain his motivations, but I know him well enough to know what occurred in the end was likely not his intention. If you ever called him friend, or if you have ever seen what I proposed to you occur for other people, if not to yourself, then I would suggest that you take a walk and think on that a while.

You're angry. It feels safer to be angry because anger can make us feel stronger than simply hurting. But many of life's most regretful missteps come of anger. And you never know whether the next step you take will have solid ground beneath it, no matter how certain you are. Not when you're angry.

Not when you're still raw.

It may be that his Warden is raw right now, too -- all of us are recovering from the port.

[scarlet_discord]

I've made nothing but negative progress in this nightmare place.

When I first came here I was nice, I was optimistic, I tried to help people. I cooperated. I even thought about becoming a Warden once I graduated.

Then Franklin Mott got away with hurting me. Was basically rewarded for it.

Now Rex hurts everyone, and nobody says anything about it, and every day that goes by where it looks like people are going to let this slide I have to wonder: is it happening again? Is everyone going to be expected to just take it like I did?

Of course I'm angry! Nobody deserves to go through that kind of disappointment and sense of powerlessness. If I have to be the one to speak up about this--and get yelled at for speaking up--then I damn well will. Someone had to say something.

Anyway, better saying than acting.

[get_thebook]

Franklin Mott will get what's coming to him. If you've any faith then you must have faith in that, and now he's in a place where there are no second chances.

[scarlet_discord]

If I was truly capable of believing that...I'd give up revenge as unnecessary.

[get_thebook]

Every action returned threefold. Do what thou wilt but harm none.

[scarlet_discord]

I've never seen it happen. This place has pretty handily robbed me of any faith I did have as well. Now I need proof.

[get_thebook]

You will see it reflect back upon you if you are not careful.

[scarlet_discord]

And here we go back to a witch-tinted version of the usual "behave yourself and never ever defend or avenge yourself" speech.

But this conversation, all these people yelling and lecturing at me, have made it even more clear that I can't depend on Wardens for justice, protection or anything. You're not heroes. You all just want to bully me into silence, inaction--victimhood.

[get_thebook]

No, this conversation, and all these people attempting to explain matters to you and assure that things are being handled, while you continue to stamp your feet? Shows you as a wronged brat? But a brat just the same.

But since you seem to enjoy playing the martyr I will leave you to it.

[She ends the transmission.]

[sixthanimorph]

Hey, I've got a question, since we're being all interjecty and stuff: where were you when Rex flooded the Barge with nanomites last time? Or hell, this time? If you couldn't as a warden stop him from pulling shit like this, what good are you to anyone?

At least I know why you're not his warden anymore.

Self-help talk isn't gonna stop Rex the next time he does something like this. If anyone oughta be his warden, it's Perry. He's the only one who knows the right way to handle him.

[get_thebook]

I wasn't his Warden then. Seamus Harper was.

Congratulations. I've never before seen a person so quickly prove their own ignorance.

[sixthanimorph]

And all I hear from you is a lot of talk and no action.

Typical warden.

[get_thebook]

Every action is returned with an equal or opposite reaction. That's physics. That's life. That's magic.

Which is probably why you passed on with business unfinished.

[sixthanimorph]

I didn't 'pass on'. I was murdered. There's a fucking difference.

And what does how I died have to do with anything?