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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[uberwaldian]

You're right. We should have noticed.

It's Wanda, isn't it?

[scarlet_discord]

Yeah.

I would be satisfied with knowing that something meaningful will be done.

[Private]

[uberwaldian]

I can't tell you what's going to happen, this time. I'm sorry, but I can't. But you're right that our system needs some changes to keep this from happening again.

I heard about... what happened to you. About the vampire. [She tries to keep the loathing out of that word, but it's difficult.]

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[scarlet_discord]

I hate being a gadfly about it, but someone had to. These jackasses who keep trying to shout me down should be thanking me for going to them for justice instead of taking it into my own hands. But all they see is that "Wanda's being uppity again".

The fact that he was a vampire only figured in in that he was more powerful than me. Something which shouldn't be, but my currently absent Warden is an absolute miser with my abilities. The problem was that Franklin Mott was possessive, scheming and completely crazy. The problem was also that he did not get punished; he got rewarded. He got to go home.

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[uberwaldian]

[Angua manages to refrain from saying, "So he was a vampire, then?" and, with some difficulty, bites her tongue.]

I'm sorry. Really, I am. If I'd been here, I can promise you, I wouldn't have let that go. I know there are other wardens who didn't. But it's far from a perfect system we have, here.

[She mulls it over for a moment, chewing her lip.]

Look, what would you want to happen, if you could have it your way, right now? Short of time travel.

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[scarlet_discord]

If we're talking on the Barge, then...Rex needs a permanent punishment. And he needs to be forcibly kept away from any kind of scientific equipment so he can't screw us again.

If we're talking in general...

I just want to go home before I completely lose my mind. I'm not a murderer or a rapist. I never tried to take over the world. I've just got powers and a bad temper. I don't deserve being trapped with people like Rex and Richie.

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[uberwaldian]

[She's quiet for a moment, but when she speaks again, she sounds like she's taken the time to think quite hard about all this.]

Has anyone ever talked to you about why you're here?

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[scarlet_discord]

Tony let me see my file. I am here to "deal with my anger issues". Except that they have only gotten worse thanks to this place's bullshit and there's no end in sight. Nor has he done one single thing to help me with them.

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[uberwaldian]

Right. And do you do anything on the ship? I'm just asking. What do you do with yourself all day?

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[scarlet_discord]

I cook the dinner shift, I train under three people, I hit the gym twice a day and I train my puppy. I have magical training four times a week and meditation two.

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[uberwaldian]

...Oh. [Well, that wasn't the answer she was expecting to hear.] And none of that's helped? At all?

[Private]

[scarlet_discord]

It helped me deal with Mott and with finding out what my family did to me. But pile on what Rex did, and the ration of shit I just got from various Wardens and I'm pretty much done.

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[uberwaldian]

Hm.

[And again, she goes quiet for a moment. She really wants to help the girl, quite badly, but she's honestly not sure what to do when so much has failed...

...Still, work with what you've got, right?]

How would you feel about fighting lessons? Physical combat.