Slippery Slopes

[tachikhromatic]

What's it like in the brig?

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;A; I wanted an excuse to thread, but I have to go sort of soon

[royalguarantee]

The, ah. Brig?

[Naveen is not familiar with that word. He's got a pretty heavy, unplaceable accent.]

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[tachikhromatic]

'Brig' is a nautical term used to indicate the ship's jail or holding cells. It's usually used to incarcerate people who commit homicide, whether premeditated or otherwise.

[royalguarantee]

[He gives a quiet 'oh' of understanding. He gets the gist of that sentence. 'Homicide' and 'incarcerate' are barely words in his Maldonian vocabulary. Ah, to live a comfortable life...]

It is for criminals, then, yes? Just... homicide-committing criminals?

[tachikhromatic]

That's ri~ight! If you kill someone you have to go to the brig for three days, that's the rule! Sometimes the Captain puts more punishment on top of that, of course.

I was just wondering what it's like there.

[shipshapeshipco]

Cold, I'd say. And dark, as a hole hidden in the bowels of Hades' steam-room. Ah, but the screams you hear, piercing the silence of the still walls, is so intense in your ears that it seems a white light that blinds; and a blinding light that has no power to cut the darkness is not a light man was meant to know.

Also, it bears heeding that they never serve a proper fish dish. Humanity is lost in the hole, Touchy. I do suggest you never commit a crime worthy of brigidity!

Such as hat-theft, say.

[tachikhromatic]

Are you still talking about that?

Besides, I'm pretty sure they only put you in the brig for killing a passenger. Are you sure this information is factual? You're pretty unreliable, Samuel.

[shipshapeshipco]

A scathing criticism? Now, after taking my hats in your pocket, you take my pride in your handbag.

Tch! Would you look at that? You've gone and made me miss an easy alliteration!

[Samuel shakes the rage out of his head.]

[tachikhromatic]

See, now that's exactly what I meant! Unreliable! What's worse, you blame your own shortcomings on innocent Tachikoma. The nerve!

You better be nicer to me Samuel, or I might have to so something drastic!

[electroniccrane]

Interesting line of inquiry.

[Musashi certainly wasn't thinking about disobeying the explicitly-phrased order to stay out of the brig, right?]

[tachikhromatic]

Curiosity is the mother of scientific progress!

[What? A Tachikoma disobey orders?! PERISH THE THOUGHT.]

[electroniccrane]

Is it.

[Yeah, that never happens upwards of once or twice a week.]

[tachikhromatic]

Yes! I think...

Isn't it?

[meantthecar]

Unpleasant, so I've heard.

[tachikhromatic]

Do you have any more precise Data?