[Voice]

[voiceshall_echo]

I've heard that when someone falls over the rail, that person dies. He doesn't come back. Is this true?

[Yeah, Shinzon's loitering on the deck. He's very tempted to do a swan dive off the barge, but facts are good things to have. So, loitering. Which involves a lot of pacing. Spam at will, someone might want to stop him. :\]

Comments

Rusty's a jerk sometimes.

[thedetailsman]

Hey, if you find out, let me know?

Shinzon invites jerkiness.

[voiceshall_echo]

Perhaps you'd like to try it first.

[thedetailsman]

Awfully inconvenient. I mean, that's a good three floors.

Not worth the walk, in my opinion.

[voiceshall_echo]

Then be silent.

[rayney_day]

What happens is, the ship swings around and forces the rest of us to go play rescue brigade, therefore pissing everybody else off in the process.

I hate it when that happens...

[voiceshall_echo]

[GOD DAMN IT HE WAS AFRAID OF THAT. He's fuming. Silently.]

Who's done it?

[rayney_day]

Happens by accident, every now and then... Can't remember names, but it does happen.

[voiceshall_echo]

Am I to take your word alone?

[Voice]

[empirical_data]

Why do you ask, Shinzon?

[He's not verifying if it's true or not, he's cutting right to the question.]

[Voice]

[voiceshall_echo]

It's not your concern. [And he's just about snarling that.]

[Voice]

[empirical_data]

Yes, it is. [Less even spoken than usual, more demanding.]

[Voice]

[voiceshall_echo]

[If he gets Data angry, he will consider his work complete. Sort of. Okay, not really, but he'll be perversely glad.] How is that, Commander?

[gimmethemap]

What Rayne said. You don't die. The Barge doesn't let you go until it decides it's ready to.

[voiceshall_echo]

Who tried it?

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[darknessb4me]

[A shot from across a cell in Zero, Arthas looking up balefully from his seat on a cot.]

It's black down there, you little fool. It's no sight, no sound, not even your own voice. You move and push against nothing, you can't even feel other bits of yourself. After awhile, you realize you don't have any limbs at all. You have your own mind, but your thoughts start to spin in circles and fade - there's nothing to hold them in any more. You forget what you love and what life you lived, then you forget why you're there at all and you panic, the fear kicks in, the same one that makes the little fish swim away from the shark and men on the gallows to sob and repent and promise anything - anything - an eternity of pain just for one more second of being able to be. To be at all

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[voiceshall_echo]

[He isn't entirely sure how to respond to Arthas, and is silent for a moment.] That is not death. Death was a relief.

Private, video

[darknessb4me]

But do you know what would have happened if you had stayed dead instead of being taken up by the Barge?

[His eyes are amused.]

Do it. And take your communicator, I want to watch.

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[voiceshall_echo]

As you said, it would have been preferable to this

[Glower glower glower! But Arthas has managed to pique his interest, even if it's tinged with annoyance.] You're the one who tried to claim responsibility for my attack on the mess hall.