003 ▶ Voice ▶ i've been working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce...

[killarevolution]

[Haymitch is drunk, which is not really that surprising, but normally he keeps that shit private and doesn't really bother getting on the network much- drunk or sober. He doesn't trust it.

But he's hit that point where he's stopped caring.]

Thing about the Games [he says this like this isn't a Game- whatever, most people know he thinks that and the rest can draw their own conclusions] is they have to keep it interesting. It's not enough to just kill each other. Most won't- they'll try to stick it out as long as they can. To try and cheat the system or because they fight better in packs. [he sniffs] So the Capitol created the mutts. Sent these genetically engineered beasts to start ripping people apart to make sure the audience was entertained.

We've got mutts here. [obviously.] Those things in the labs. And elsewhere now.

[Haymitch doesn't normally talk to this much and he's just drunk enough to be babbling like a crazy person, but when he speaks next, it's with near perfect clarity.] One of the last games, we thought they were using the dead tributes to make mutts. Got me thinking about how there are a lot of unaccounted for people who used to be on this ship. Probably killed, but then there's those prisoners in the cell blocks we just found.

[There's a pause as he recalls some of the phrases he's heard bandied about from the stuff they found down there.] Scientists were taking numbers- that's what they were calling them. Makes you wonder what they were doing with them.

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[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[Levelly:]

Sir, are you all right?

[voice]

[killarevolution]

Perfectly fine.

[Just casually alcoholic.]

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[cargojet]

You should shut your mouth.

[ Nathan is rarely angry, but he has his moments. This is one of them. Cuts a little close to home, is the problem. ]

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[killarevolution]

Oh, should I? [Haymitch laughs- it's not cruel or mean. It just shows he can't take Nathan seriously, which is... arguably worse. He's had his moment of being shoved under the boot of fancy politicians. He's done with that.] And if I don't, you'll do what, exactly?

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[suddenlycaptain]

We won't get an answer either way.

[ Pause. ] Where are you?

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[killarevolution]

Gives them something to think about. [Which is what he needs- a spark.]

My room. Petrelli sounds like he's a few seconds from encouraging security to start flogging dissenters.

voice;

[chaineddog]

[There's something hard in Heine's voice when he speaks. It's the subject matter that rubs him the wrong way, not the obvious drunkenness or the rambling.]

That won't be happening.

voice;

[killarevolution]

Of course it won't. All the scientists are dead. In theory. [laaaaugh] But it did happen.

audio.

[wolfchild]

[ with him obviously in his cups, she opts for audio over her usual preference of writing. ]

What games?

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[killarevolution]

[bless you, child. it's only because he's this soused that he doesn't even bother hiding it- WHY BOTHER. THEY HEAR EVERYTHING ANYWAY. THEY KNOW WHAT THEIR DAMN GAMES ARE.]

The Hunger Games. Children killing each other for sport to keep the districts in line. Something that used to happen where I'm from- where Kazama's from too. Probably happening here.

audio

[supfirehawk]

They weren't doing anything good, I can tell you that much. What games are you talking about?

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[killarevolution]

So they don't have the Hunger Games where you're from either? Lucky you.

[On the plus side, he is now finding out exactly how many people don't know wtf the hunger games are.]

voice, auggielocked.

[altercate]

You'd be more convincing if you weren't so drunk.

voice, auggielocked.

[killarevolution]

You're not the first person to tell me that.

[...Scary how fast he pulled it together, isn't it? He still sounds soused, but he sounds clearheaded enough to carry on a conversation, at least. He's had experience.]

[ video ]

[thoughts]

"Numbers go out, numbers come back."

[ she pauses and tilts her head because he's drunk and that makes him curious. a curiosity. ]

"Or they don't."

[ video ]

[killarevolution]

Or they come back wrong. [Shrug, like it suits him fine either way.]

not here.

[wigs]

[Nothing pleasant is going to come out of engaging Haymitch when he's this drunk, but she can't help but follow the conversations anyway, even if it's in silence.]

voice;

[humanistic]

[It's like half of the point of this is lost in drunkenness, and Mitchell would almost brush it off as a waste of time, except-- well, games and mutts tearing people to pieces for entertainment--yeah, there's some vague and unfortunate feelings of familiarity there.]

What numbers are you talkin' about?

voice;

[killarevolution]

The prisoners in the cell block. Designated numbers back when they were still alive and the ship wasn't a death trap. If it ever wasn't.

audio;

[chromosomes]

[ Slowly, as if he's not sure he should be saying anything: ]

Playing God, because they could. Maybe to make better soldiers, maybe just because they didn't know enough to leave it alone.

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[killarevolution]

Something like that.

video

[emerges]

You all of this is like a sick game?

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[killarevolution]

Played in sick games like it before.

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[toomuchtenacity]

Games?

voice;

[killarevolution]

We're playing in one.

visual » stark locked

[unparental]

[ drunk-o say what. ]

You think the prisoners are... those things.

[ flaaaaaaaaaaat tone every flat tone

guess who knows what that room smelled like and is Not Happy ]

visual » stark locked

[killarevolution]

So someone does have a brain on this ship.

[IT'S WHAT HE WAS SAYING. GOD. DOES NO ONE SPEAK DRUNK BASTARD.]