ataraxion | ( 04 ) text ♧ go ask alice i think she'll know

[ solitude is an easy leap for a guy who likes to throw around dostoyevsky quotes like it ain't no thing, and men who go looking for secrets often find them. as such: have the very first non-video caffrey post, tranquility. fuck smiling, this shit ain't right. ]

"Try not to die".

This ship really is the most user friendly around, isn't it? And helpful.

Anyone who isn't used to computers, ask Tony Stark what I mean.

[ he'd say he's sorry, tony... but he isn't. ]

L O C K E D ( listmates )

Normally I'd make an English lesson out of this one, but forget it. "Solitude" is the password you want, if you like feeling special, not to mention uncomfortably singled out.

I don't know about the rest of you, but this is a list I could stand not to be on-- and I don't feel particularly giving, especially not towards our smiling friend.

Any thoughts from the other esteemed honorees?

/ L O C K E D ( listmates )

L O C K E D ( wardnik )

I need a word. And you two need better PR, so let's help each other out here.

/ L O C K E D ( wardnik )

L O C K E D ( our smiling friend)

I'm flattered, but I like to exchange names before I commit to anything. How about a quick sitdown? Strictly off the record.

/ L O C K E D ( our smiling friend )

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...You wouldn't happen to be about six foot and built like a brick wall, would you?

Might be.

So that was you. How was the bridge?

Locked or broken. And too big for a two man crew.

[Or one man looking to hijack it.]

...Huh.

And how big a crew would you need to bust through the lock? You know, hypothetically speaking, in your estimation, all those buzzwords.

Bridge was built for at least ten. Any interfaces that weren't fucked had locks on them. [A pause where something like a shrug could go.] I'd need another look to tell you more.

[Ward had crashed his party before he'd really focussed on the idea of trying to get past any of the security, and he's written the bridge off since then.]

What if I could pull ten together? Along with a locksmith.

[ that bridge is now neal's new favorite thing. if they tossed muscles in the brig just for trying to sneak a peek, that's... well. important seems right on the money. ]

Your locksmith would need to be hackers.

[The interfaces were locked. Passlocked. Riddick might have managed something on one of them, if he'd had more time, but it was only guessing that told him which interface was related to which system. He'd preferred to do a sweep of the entire place, rather than focussing on one console and finding out it wasn't piloting or navigation like he wanted.]

And that'd be your play. I don't work with others.

I was being euphemistic.

[ leave him alone, half the fun of a job is talking like a raymond chandler novel. ]

...Really, that's your play? We're all trapped here and I'm offering to help us both do something you couldn't do on your own, and we're still at John Wayne?

[Might've worked if he knew what a locksmith was.]

I tried the bridge. Found a dead end.

[So he found something else.]

All right, no hypotheticals. If I can liven up that end, do you want another crack at it?

No.

[Not unless his next option fails. But he isn't going to tell anyone about that.]

Suit yourself, Mr. Wayne.

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