1 - Have I made you desperate?
Jun. 11th, 2012 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lacksconviction[He takes his time before introducing himself, establishing the purpose of this place, the fact that his magic definitely was depleted and not coming back by any means known to him, and weighing up the odds of his escaping by the usual means, before deigning to make his first journal entry. He has taken off his ridiculous supervillain hat, for effect:]
My my, is this not an ambitious effort? Certainly, a more elaborate one than the last chamber in which I was imprisoned. To whose hospitality do I owe my gratitude, may I ask? Which one-eyed wolf has clamped these strange jaws around my throat?
[He smiles, but it's unconvincing. His eyes look strangely pained.]
Or perhaps I expect too much in assuming this a prison, rather than an arsenal of purloined weapons, or a vault to hold the spoils of war?
[A slight pause, before he decides he's giving away far too much, and clicks the communicator off.]
My my, is this not an ambitious effort? Certainly, a more elaborate one than the last chamber in which I was imprisoned. To whose hospitality do I owe my gratitude, may I ask? Which one-eyed wolf has clamped these strange jaws around my throat?
[He smiles, but it's unconvincing. His eyes look strangely pained.]
Or perhaps I expect too much in assuming this a prison, rather than an arsenal of purloined weapons, or a vault to hold the spoils of war?
[A slight pause, before he decides he's giving away far too much, and clicks the communicator off.]
no subject
Date: 2012-06-11 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-11 05:29 pm (UTC)I've long accepted that his notion of order doesn't match Jurisdiction Fleet, so what he means the rank to be I couldn't say.
Chief Stildyne, by the by, which isn't any kind of real rank aboard. Warden, rehabilitative duties, unassigned.
no subject
Date: 2012-06-11 05:52 pm (UTC)[He's quiet for a moment, processing this.]
So, you are one of our keepers here? Then you can tell me by what authority I am imprisoned.
no subject
Date: 2012-06-11 06:05 pm (UTC)I'm not your keeper. Unless I'm assigned you particularly, my authority extends as far as my safety or the barge's at large.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-11 06:17 pm (UTC)It is a strange kind of devotion you've chosen to subject yourself to, friend.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-11 06:26 pm (UTC)Some are here because the Admiral offers them the chance to do a form of good they'd never do otherwise. Some of us are here because we're offered payment nobody else can supply-- myself in that mercenary bunch. And the rest stand in the middle between body-for-hire and philanthropy.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-11 06:44 pm (UTC)I don't believe that good people choose to become jailers to repay society.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-11 06:53 pm (UTC)[Sometimes they fail. He's never quite forgotten that.]
There's quite a few inmates come back to warden. You'll have to sort out for yourself whether they think it's worth the doing or they just want to pass on the misery. [He's audibly, if cynically joking.]
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-11 07:26 pm (UTC)...It has, in the past, been proved a questionable motive.
But let us talk no more of that. You are here for payment, are you not? And what have you been offered for your services?
Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-06-11 07:30 pm (UTC)If another inmate indulges me it'll be a woman's life saved.
And that's as much detail as I give, mister-?
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-12 11:17 am (UTC)Loki, Son of Laufrey.
So you trade the minds of strangers for the lives of your friends, Chief Stildyne?
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-12 03:59 pm (UTC)'Ragnarok' mean anything to you? But, nevermind about that, once you've settled.
Mister Braxiatel was a damn sight brighter than me. He paid me attention, but I couldn't change that man's mind with any amount of tools. I counseled-- yelled at him from time to time-- but I wasn't here to break him. Lucky on my part because I'd never have done it.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-12 05:35 pm (UTC)[His head turns slightly, at the mention of Ragnarok, and he frowns.]
"Twilight of the Gods?" I do know the language, yes.
[He doesn't know nothin' about no prophesy though.]
Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-06-12 05:39 pm (UTC)[A shrug. Sorry.]
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-12 06:17 pm (UTC)[But why would anyone on Asgard name their kid after him now unless...
...They were trying to replace him entirely.]
Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-06-12 06:32 pm (UTC)I want nothing to do with that, as I normally live in the universe and like it standing. But it was my introduction to the massive variance in the individuals aboard the barge.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-13 10:46 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-06-14 12:39 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-06-14 09:43 pm (UTC)Re: [Private]
Date: 2012-06-14 09:52 pm (UTC)