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{Eighteen ~ Rather Huffy} {Audio//Translated to English}

Dec 08, 2008 00:08

[Transmission begins with an oddly annoyed and sarcastic Christine.]

Well, those of you who are in the league with Batou... I hope you're happy. You must be so proud of yourselves.

I feel I must congratulate you, though. You act your parts excellently. I doubt anyone would guess.

[The sound of mocking applause, and then the transmission times out.]

event, huffy are we, sarcasm go, i haet joo all

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[Off-comm] psychoticracer December 8 2008, 00:27:44 UTC

[He looks up from checking messages. Something seemed to be going around the ship, and if he wasn't mistaken, he may be catching it as well. He was also feeling quite down - blamed the lack of physical activity. If he could get out and about, maybe train a little, but no, he was injured and sick as well, damned low energy for all he was eating properly...]

That was quite - spirited.

[She's quite stunning when she's angry, really. Her energy helps drag him out of his own self-absorbed misery. Something to do, something to interact with.]

[Commentlog <3] chorusangel December 8 2008, 00:40:01 UTC

[She shrugs, playing with several strands of her hair.]

I want say that for while now. They so... so...

[She gestures as she tries to think of the right word, her English becoming more fractured in her huffiness.]

They pretend! People believe it! It not right.

[Commentlog <3] Depressed!Erol has no energy to be angry psychoticracer December 8 2008, 00:57:18 UTC

[Tilts his head, considering this.]

What should they do, though. Come out and say what they did? Disadvantageous, what's in that for them? Secrecy is your friend in situations like this.

[Pauses]

Likely few people even know the names of everyone involved, even those who care.

[Glances up at her]

There were five. Do you know the entire group? Might useful, if...

[Mar damn, it had better not happen again. He'll snap. Batou can break him. He knows it.]

[Commentlog <3] Christine will make up for this chorusangel December 8 2008, 01:06:58 UTC

[She shakes her head slowly, glad to be on the verge of acquiring this information.]

No. I had idea, but not know.

[If she knows who the rest of them are, if they don't have Batou's immunity... she might be able to do something. She can keep her promise.]

Re: [Commentlog <3] Christine will make up for this psychoticracer December 8 2008, 01:14:44 UTC

[Nods solemnly, ticks each one off on his fingers]

Jak, Daxter - he was taken by the pirates, I believe - Batou, Remy, Capris.

[He'd not been formally introduced to the latter two, but he wasn't stupid. He picked things up over the comms]

Capris lured me in. Remy planned and coordinated, I believe. Jak and Daxter made the initial attack and Batou took me out.

[Commentlog] chorusangel December 8 2008, 01:23:27 UTC

[She commits each name to memory, bitterly disappointed to hear Daxter's. To think she had believed him to be a hero...]

They pay. Somehow.

[As she looks around the room, something catches her eye. Was that... ah, it was! Christine smirked to herself. Contrary to what she had led Jak to believe, she had not burnt the picture she had received a while ago, but saved it with the vague intention of questioning Erol about it at some point. Something that had provoked such a strong reaction in Jak had to be important.

Standing, she goes over to retrieve the drawing.]

[Commentlog] psychoticracer December 8 2008, 01:25:21 UTC

[Follows her with his eyes. His side is still sore, and he's feeling crappy enough so he doesn't want to get up]

What do you have there?

[Commentlog] chorusangel December 8 2008, 01:32:32 UTC

Just this.

[She's considerate enough to bring the picture over to Erol, and even hold it up for him to look at. Wow, Christine's being kind today!]

It appear a while ago.

[Commentlog] psychoticracer December 8 2008, 01:36:10 UTC

[His eyebrows go up. He reaches out to take it, studies the details]

Hmm. What an... accurate rendition. Though DE is more purple than pink in that form.

[Okay now he's curious]

Where did this come from? The only person who would know about in this detail it is the boy, and it's not something he likes to spread around, I believe.

[Commentlog] chorusangel December 8 2008, 01:39:46 UTC

[She ignores Erol's questions and pushes ahead with her own.]

What is it? Why you there?

[Why no, Erol, you're not getting out of answering this.]

[Commentlog] psychoticracer December 8 2008, 01:53:26 UTC

[That's okay, he's not interested in getting out of this. Erol was many things, but ashamed of his past or who he was? Never.]

That's the DWP - ah, Dark Warrior Project. Haven City was...

[Sigh. How does he sum this up in ways an 18th-Earth-century round-ear will understand?]

... At war. Under attack. We needed weapons, better ones.

This was part of an attempt by the Baron to create one by force-channeling Dark Eco through a live person. Dark Eco is - poisonous, corrosive, volatile. But extremely powerful. If someone survives channeling it they generally go insane, but - to save Haven? Tens of thousands of people?

[He shrugs.]

Baron Praxis put me in charge because I could handle it. I don't flinch at torture and I'm good at handling prisoners. So.

[He taps the paper.]

That would be Jak. Our only survivor.

[Commentlog] chorusangel December 8 2008, 02:05:26 UTC

[Blinks. No, this isn't right. She's misunderstanding, losing something in translation... but no, she triple-checks every word, and it's still the same.]

Y-you t--

[She has to say it.]

You torture him?

[Well. That certainly cleared up why Jak hated Erol...]

[Commentlog] psychoticracer December 8 2008, 02:19:46 UTC

[Looks at her, golden eyes calm and flat]

Yes. It would have been torture, I'm certain.

To save the city I'd have done that as much as it took, and more. Haven's one of the few places left on the globe that's safe from Metal Heads, Christine. If our city fell - ...

[Of course, that wasn't to say he didn't enjoy it. But that didn't mean that he didn't think it was justifiable as well. Torture to create a weapon that would save Haven City - not a damn thing wrong with this that he could see.]

[Commentlog] chorusangel December 8 2008, 02:28:56 UTC

But...

[Torture is wrong. She knows this - by God, it's the reason she's been ranting at various people! Yet she can see Erol's point too. A few people for the sake of thousands...

No. That's the reasoning those so-called 'heroes' used to justify locking Erol up. It's not right... is it?]

They say that. That why they took you. That fair? That right?

[Commentlog] psychoticracer December 8 2008, 02:53:29 UTC

Hnn.

[Contemplates the picture for a minute. Jak is screaming. He was a good screamer...]

Jak was tortured to create something. There was a concrete purpose to it, and an end.

Me? I was held on an indefinite basis because they couldn't deal with me. It wasn't punishment or consequences for what I'd done. It was surety against what I MIGHT do. Because I am who I am, something that will never change.

They can punish me for what I do, that's fair and I don't complain. But not for what I am.

[Commentlog] chorusangel December 8 2008, 18:21:46 UTC

[Much as she hates to admit it, this makes sense. Both acts were despicable, but what Erol did was the lesser of two evils, albeit barely. Plus, Jak must have done something bad to be put in prison in the first place... right?

Still, it's not as if this is the only issue she's determined to get to the bottom of.]

And Father Glaukir?

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