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[systmadmin]

[Public Filter]
I don't [This is quickly backspaced, then replaced with:]

Request:

Define:Inmate status parameters.

What typical characteristics cause one to be chosen for Inmate status? How is the choice differentiated for those selected to be Wardens?

[Inmate Filter]
Those that are aware of the perceived deficiency or failure that led to your placement

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[_fredless]

[She's quiet for a while, trying o think of the best way to go about this. Finally --]

If you had to answer your own question, what would you say?

Locked -- Sorry for the edits, apparently I super fail at typing this right lol

[systmadmin]

[Just the User he wants to talk to.]

There doesn't seem to be any logic to it.

There are Inmates that have no idea why they are here, and there are some whose 'fault'--what has supposedly put them here as Inmates--is that they were merely associated with someone.

And there are Wardens that are violent, and murder others.

:D

[_fredless]

I --

[If he's looking for clear, defined answers? She's probably not the nest person to come to for advice. Not after everything she's seen. And done]

If don't think it's just a matter of who we are, but when we are. And this place, everything that's involved in keeping us all here. It seems to go haywire sometimes. But people are always capable of being better and worse than they are. That's sort of the point, isn't it?

[systmadmin]

[Clear, defined answers are exactly what he's searching for--and has so far failed to find.]

Status assignment in this place is all but arbitrary, as far as I can tell, which is not a logical way to run a system. [Especially since it means CLU gets the short end of the deal.] It is a system prone to error because of it.

I was fine how I was, I don't need to change.

[_fredless]

[She doesn't expect this is an argument that's going o go away anytime soon. But Fred can respect his confusion. There's very little about all this that wasn't confusing]

What about want? Do you ever want to change?

[systmadmin]

No. Why would I want to change?

[_fredless]

Why would you always want to stay the same?

[systmadmin]

There is no part of who I am or what I've done that needs to be altered, and thus there is no need, or want, for me to change.

Change, in itself, brings uncertainty. Staying the same, on the other hand, promotes stability, certainty. [There's a tiny hint, in these last two sentences, that he's not strictly talking about himself anymore.]

Do you want to change yourself in some way?

[_fredless]

I don't want to be stagnant, or stuck.

[And there's an edge there? Enough to know she's talking about more of herself Fred is willing to reveal in that moment]

But what you're describing? That's exactly what that sounds like. Don't you want to move?

[systmadmin]

I maintain my stance [And there's a deep-set confidence behind that.] What would be the point of 'moving', if there is no foreseeable need, at all, for it?

[Then there's an abrupt switch in topic from him, mostly because he's been waiting this whole conversation to ask this and can't wait any longer:] I have a question for you.

[_fredless]

[Fred starts to counter him again, but the question brings her up short. And more than anything, she's curious]

I guess I'll do my best to answer it, then.

Private

[systmadmin]

[There is some delay from his end.]

I don't [more delay] understand why I'm here, as an Inmate.

What is the reason? I'm told you would know.

Re: Private

[_fredless]

[There's a bit of a pause on her own end. Clearly she's not immune to them]

You really don't know?

Re: Private

[systmadmin]

[He doesn't exactly answer that question.]

I want to know what you were told. You know the reason, what is it.