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[puppydogeyes]

[Taylor looks slightly restless as well as the usual annoyed as the feed clicks on. This isn't an announcement she wanted to be making, but then, when were they ever? Better to get it over and done with. Which also means she doesn't bother with any real introduction before she just starts talking.]

Most of you know about the shooting we had last month. Guy was called Tate Langdon, zero-zero-three zero-ninety-four. He was held in the brig for a short period before taking advantage of a miscalculation in our security in order to escape. [She's definitely annoyed about that, showing through in her tone for a moment before she returns to the same clipped solder-speak she's been using.] Prior to this, he confessed to the murder of Hayden McClaine, zero-twelve zero-twenty.

We increased patrols in the time before the jump, but he didn't enter or leave a gravcouch and his comms are non-responsive. I'm taking that to mean the fucker's a puddle somewhere.

[But she's fully expecting people to argue with her about it. There's a pause, like she's considering ending it there, but decides to continue anyway.]

Newer waves, I'm Tyke, I'm head of security. It's been a week so I'll save you any welcome spiel. [Like she's great at that anyway.] Basics are we run patrols on the populated areas of the ship, and you can contact us if you have any problems. If you've got any armed forces or policing background or relevant skills, we always need more numbers. You can talk to me about recruitment.

Don't go out in the dark. Don't kill each other.

[Cause that's a good note to cut the feed on, right.]

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[ex_question191]

Yo. What's your stance on non-violent vigilante justice?

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[puppydogeyes]

[The face he gets for that is a mix between incredulous and suspicious.]

Unnecessary and stupid. We have the security team for a reason. People trying any kind of 'justice' on their own is a clusterfuck that could drag everyone down with it.

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[ex_question191]

Okay. No, I get that. What iiiiif, hypothetically, someone who was gonna be potentially dangerous, just because they can't really control themselves, not because they're a bad person or whatever, and they needed to be temporarily locked up. Non...violently.

That's not gonna get anyone in trouble, is it?



Hypothetically.

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[puppydogeyes]

Do you wanna carry this on like you think I'm an idiot, or do you wanna tell me what's going on?

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[ex_question191]

The former?

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[idkmybffbloodwing]

Little asshole had what was comin' to him.

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[puppydogeyes]

Not gonna argue with that.

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[51stcentury]

Nice parting words, there, Tyke. [Jack certainly thinks it is.]

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[puppydogeyes]

I wasn't gonna go through the whole thing.

[The reasons not to go out in the dark and the other rules they enforce, she means.]

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[altercate]

No casualties other than the shooter?

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[puppydogeyes]

Yes.
Several.

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[altercate]

Who?

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[puppydogeyes]

You missing someone?

[She might be stalling, slightly.]

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[altercate]

No

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[unsoldiered]

Good riddance. Last thing we need on this ship is someone blasting more holes than the actual outside threats do.

[Alex spoke to the kid once, and it's too bad he was crazy, but he's not about to pity someone who'd shoot up his 'home' because one of his friends went home. Boo hoo, welcome to life here, we all lose people. Via death, often enough in Alex's case.]

Don't think he'll sprout back to life again somehow, do you?

[Because apparently the kid sprouted right back to life a while after everyone gunned him down. Or however he went down; Alex didn't care for specifics.]

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[puppydogeyes]

Was trying not to think about that.

[Her mouth twists slightly, but the complaint's more a general grumpiness than directed at him. She takes a breath, clearly considering it now even if she hadn't wanted to.]

He had an intact body, last time. [Just shot up, laying in the morgue.] If he can sprout back from a load of gravity-crushed mush, then he's either gonna be useless and a fucking horrorshow to look at, or I don't know what the fuck we can do about him.

[Except the airlock. Discreetly.]

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[unsoldiered]

Could always keep him in separate jars, see how that works out for him.

[I AM A MASSIVE ASSHOLE ABOUT THIS screw being a nice guy]

What was he, exactly? Zombie?

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[puppydogeyes]

[Well that gets her to huff a laugh, but she's never particularly nice about this stuff. Then she shakes her head.]

Zombies usually lack higher cognitive function, as well as degradation in motor functions. He shouldn't have been able to use a gun.

[Unless the rules were different wherever he was from, like all the vampires and werewolves on board. But there was still the rest to weigh against it too.]

The temporary death and disappearing act don't add up, either.

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[unsoldiered]

Usually. But this place is fifty shades of weird, and all...

[Still, he lets the zombie thing go pretty much after she thinks otherwise. He has no reason to believe she'd disagree there unless she knew. Tyke was just that kinda' person.]

Maybe he was some kind of undead, though... Not really alive, not really deceased. If that makes any kind of sense...

[A ghost.]

Apparently, he loved killing a little too much, though.

He confessed to that murder a while back? Was starting to think it'd go cold.

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[cons]

No shit.

[ not sarcasm, it's just pure "holy shit I can't believe he really was a killer". after her time in his world in the fog, she hadn't been sure. it could have been just a shadow, a nightmare of his acting out against her since she was in his world, but- no. it was Tate. Tate fucking killed her. but she's not about to tell Tyke that, not when it'll probably just result in a shit storm of "why didn't you tell anyone". too confusing. ]

Guess it's good he's gone, then.

[ said like a true goon that considered the kid an actual friend, up until the whole ..possible killing thing. after that it was less 'friend' and more 'it's probably dangerous to be this close to a possible killer but i can't really ask now can i?' ]

How'd he get out of the brig?

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[puppydogeyes]

[Taylor nods at the good he's gone, even if she maybe shouldn't express such sentiments so openly. She doesn't think anyone's really going to get on her for being okay with a mass shooter no longer being a problem. But she looks annoyed at the last question, even if she'd been expecting someone to ask eventually.]

He wasn't regular human. [She still isn't sure what he was.] We didn't know the extent of his abilities and didn't compensate for all of them.

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[faderbroderson]

Can we be sure the jump will have killed him permanently?

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[puppydogeyes]

You really think someone's gonna come back from that?

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[faderbroderson]

I didn't think he would come back from a broken neck, but stranger things do happen.

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[puppydogeyes]

Broken neck isn't the same as a pile of crushed gore.