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[trouvaille]

Whatever idiot it was that just stole a fucking shuttle from the bay should be aware that I'm pretty sure you've just officially defined justifiable homicide and I wouldn't want to be you when Carolyn sees this.

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[ex_heightens219]

Must have been someone new. No one who's been here longer than a month would risk Carolyn's wrath like that.

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[trouvaille]

I thought it'd sound a bit rich if I said new arrival, but I can't imagine you're wrong.

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[ex_heightens219]

I feel bad for them, honestly. They're probably going to be airlocked before the next jump. Goodbye, shuttle thief, we hardly knew ye.

[trouvaille]

Well, no great loss if they can't pull together, isn't that right?

( did someone piss in y'alls cereal or what. )

[ex_heightens219]

You could say it's natural selection at work. Whoever's dumb enough to go after the shuttles is too dumb to live.

[ elena's dealing with a hell of a lot of depression and also some stress echoes, ilde, what's your excuse? ]

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[cargojet]

Their funeral. There's nowhere out there for anyone to go. Shuttle runs out of fuel and they wait in space for the air to runs out--it's worse than anything Carolyn could do to them, but only just.

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[trouvaille]

( ilde switches; the slightly severe-looking young woman in braids and a jumpsuit is not quite the same as the dippy thing who spent two months floating around the ship in her pajamas. )

The cold vacuum of space or of Carolyn Fry's mercy. I think it would be unprofessional of me to run a book on that, but I'm sure someone else will.

[trouvaille]

Survival of the fittest never made quite as much sense to me as survival of the tactically minded.

( ......... not unfamiliar. )

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[ex_heightens219]

You say tomato, I say tomatoe.

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[ex_heightens219]

Okay, no, this is all very mean, I shouldn't be laughing about this. Someone is going to die and it is sad and unfortunate and I feel terrible.

[ so, so terrible. just the worst, really. ]

[trouvaille]

Really?

[ex_heightens219]

Yes. Mostly. I just... Really? A shuttle? Whose bright idea was that?

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[cargojet]

Not sure which one I'd prefer myself, so I'd rather plumb for caution and avoid pissing off either.

What gets me the most is this could probably have been avoided if we'd just had more people pulling their weight. Whoever it was sure chose the perfect moment; couldn't have planned it better myself.

[trouvaille]

As far as I can tell, nobody saw them.

( but they are short-staffed down here. )

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[trouvaille]

Competence seems to do for the latter, but I don't think competently fucking off with a shuttle is going to endear anybody to her. I'm not going to disagree with you about being rather shorthanded, you know-- it must be bad when somebody thinks I'd be useful.

( self-aware, self-skewering, and not actually as incompetent as her background and plummy accent imply. )

[ex_heightens219]

Of course no one did. There's more of us than are in departments and I don't get why. This is our home now, why are so many people happy not to help?

[ apparently she has Feelings about this, ilde. don't get her started. ]

[trouvaille]

Passively suicidal. In denial and/or deluded. Too misanthropic to survive outside of a world and lifestyle that isn't perpetually working to keep them invisibly propped up. Lazy?

[ex_heightens219]

All of the above. I'm pulling doubletime with SEC and Gunnery, I can't do shuttles and agriculture and medical too. Eventually people will have to start joining departments or we're all going to be completely screwed.

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[cargojet]

Well Napoleon was a power hungry douchebag, but even Wellsley was still able to appreciate his skill on the battlefield. But you shouldn't bash yourself. You possess a quality that other people lack, some might say the most important one of all: you're prepared to commit.

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[dino_zarf]

Taikong suoyou de xingqiu saijin wo de pigu! Are they ever in for a world of hurt.

[kutte]

Well, shit. Bets on how long till Carolyn strings them up by their toes.

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[somerville]

They might already be out of range if they've commandeered a shuttle. Someone clearly has a death wish, and they have numerous avenues at their disposal, clearly.

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[busdriver]

no obvious evidence.
bad idea, good thief.

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[suddenlycaptain]

[ and now, the moment you've all been waiting for ]

WHAT?!

[trouvaille]

I need to talk to medical about improving my first aid, that reminds me. But yes; I'm sure the refusal to assimilate will be terribly satisfying when we all die.