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ataraxion2015-05-08 05:24 am
circumitus) wrote in ataraxion2015-05-08 05:24 am
012✖; (video)
"Recently, you've all been told that there is a traitor.
"So you should probably know what it was I did."
[She pauses, searching for the words while she lets that sink in for a heavy moment. One might note that her tones are different; she doesn't sound like her usual robotic self when she speaks. Quite the opposite, actually. Rey sounds almost like-human. In her own way, you could say that this her one big "fuck you" to Smiley. You think she wouldn't tell everyone? Well, now she is. Full disclosure. So there.]
"I entered the dark corridors shortly after the DUPRR crew had docked the ship. Before long it became apparent that the things infesting the hallways weren't approaching me with any hostility. Because they weren't attacking, I was able to reach the secondary shuttle bay more or less without much incident. During that trek I made an effort to avoid others, not knowing the extent of the compulsion and whether it would also drive me to harm anyone who stood in the way." [Well, it's mostly the truth she speaks. You're welcome, William.]
"All that remained was the DUPRR pilot, Neson. Needing his trust, I tricked him into coming with me by pretending to be a person who was trustworthy. It's something I've become rather good at, actually -- pretending to be someone else, much like how I am right now. Despite the fact that something wanted me to kill this man, I decided to will against it.
"It didn't work as intended.
"Instead, I took him to the White Room. I opened the door. And I led him through.
"He's likely still in there right now, where it's kept him."
[She stops, still dizzied from the jump. The more she speaks, the more hoarse her voice gets. She hasn't been using it that much lately, and it's clear from her shadowed eyes and worn features that she's been neglecting more than just sharing this information.]
"Apparently, doing this has-- 'stopped the clock', whatever that means.
"For what it's worth, I'm sorry."
"So you should probably know what it was I did."
[She pauses, searching for the words while she lets that sink in for a heavy moment. One might note that her tones are different; she doesn't sound like her usual robotic self when she speaks. Quite the opposite, actually. Rey sounds almost like-human. In her own way, you could say that this her one big "fuck you" to Smiley. You think she wouldn't tell everyone? Well, now she is. Full disclosure. So there.]
"I entered the dark corridors shortly after the DUPRR crew had docked the ship. Before long it became apparent that the things infesting the hallways weren't approaching me with any hostility. Because they weren't attacking, I was able to reach the secondary shuttle bay more or less without much incident. During that trek I made an effort to avoid others, not knowing the extent of the compulsion and whether it would also drive me to harm anyone who stood in the way." [Well, it's mostly the truth she speaks. You're welcome, William.]
"All that remained was the DUPRR pilot, Neson. Needing his trust, I tricked him into coming with me by pretending to be a person who was trustworthy. It's something I've become rather good at, actually -- pretending to be someone else, much like how I am right now. Despite the fact that something wanted me to kill this man, I decided to will against it.
"It didn't work as intended.
"Instead, I took him to the White Room. I opened the door. And I led him through.
"He's likely still in there right now, where it's kept him."
[She stops, still dizzied from the jump. The more she speaks, the more hoarse her voice gets. She hasn't been using it that much lately, and it's clear from her shadowed eyes and worn features that she's been neglecting more than just sharing this information.]
"Apparently, doing this has-- 'stopped the clock', whatever that means.
"For what it's worth, I'm sorry."
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[Bless your face, Rhys.]
don't know whether to see it as good or bad that it makes sense.
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I mean that I get what's going on now. The red guy being all traitor!!! and you being really weird and the monsters not attacking you and everyone going up in smoke.
Not that happy about you apparently fate-worse-than-death-ing a dude, but... idk you win some, you lose some.
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to be perfectly honest, not that happy about it either.
not that anything can be done about it now.
except perhaps whatever one presumes can be done to traitors.
[no big d or nothin]
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Well then... lawyer up, I guess?
I mean I've only seen a few procedural shows but I'm pretty sure that admitting to the crime on the ECHOnet is kind of a dumb move. You need someone with experience to get you off the hook.
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fairly certain that isn't how it works around here.
also no lawyers.
in any case, getting off the hook was hardly the biggest concern right now.
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I'll be your lawyer.
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excuse me?
[Congrats, Rhys. You got her to drop the "am robot" act again for two seconds to properly wtf because dude do you even know how to actually lawyer?]
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is there something wrong with your device?
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See, I'm already getting good at it.
Oh did I- crap, it did. Been having some glitches with the way my arm hooks up with the phone. Nothing major.
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are you sure you should be using it, then?
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?? it's just some jarbled code that pops up, probably electrical interference from the ship. It's not gonna eat someone.
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don't you need some sort of law degree to be a lawyer?
"probably electrical interference" from a ship that also has a mind of its own.
[No, she's not worried SHUT UP.]
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Wait, you think that the ship could be trying to communicate with me? Awesome.
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not necessarily saying that. just [fuck] concerned about what relaying that thing in your head to this network may do.
could be nothing, but
[ugh ugh ugh]
forget about it.
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Okay? And for the record I'm using my communicator as a proxy. It's like hooking up a new monitor to a computer, you know? I'm the monitor. Communicator is the actual tower. Monitors don't get viruses.
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thanks? if it even comes to that.
think you're good.
to be perfectly honest, people seemed more upset with :) than anything else.
and no one's called for imprisonment or execution either.
well
a few of them sort of did at first but that latter option seems to be off the table right now.
ok fine, can see your point- monitors can't get viruses.
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suppose there's nothing in the law of the land stating thou shalt not cast gullible souls into the ominous white void.
more likely to be more in trouble for going AWOL for a month.
perhaps longer than that.
lost track of time. it definitely felt longer.
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it's what we say when a soldier has gone missing and/or abandoned their post without permission.
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i dont think you were gone for a month though?
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holed up after the last jump.
since coming back from the corridors actually. had to go to the grav couches at least so not to get flapjacked.
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You know in the form of text messages or something.
Also no pancakes.
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can thank the persistence of a friend for that.
moving in with sophie might've helped too.
not planning to do the hermit thing again anytime soon. bad for health.
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