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[This is a tentative post, and Loki's voice has the faltering quality of a man who suspects he may be talking to himself:]

Admiral? There are questions I have which I do not believe anyone else here is qualified to answer.

First among which may be the most futile of them:

Are you listening?

[EDITED IN LATER: Public]

[Hey Barge, Loki is just going to make this conversation with the Admiral, fully public.]

I must indeed be becoming tiresome with my questioning today, because I have one more. This one for the wardens, for those of you serving this man willingly:

Why?

Yes, I have asked before, and yes I've heard answers. For your deal, for your inmate, for the sake of doing some good in the universe, but I wonder how you justify it to yourselves. To serve an entity who not only is little known, but actively refuses to surrender his intentions, the masters which he serves, or even the reward which he will reap for his work in controlling all of us.

I have been told by many among you that he is not a God, but what other beings deal in secrecy and souls?

Why are you content with this?

Prey tell me, that I might lay to rest my fears about what more this place is, than just a prison.

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Not really.

Do go on, though.

A quick reply from so inattentive an overseer.

Do you own this ship?

I'm sorry, did you ask something?

Ah, the poor listening rears it's head! I shall repeat:

Do you own this ship?

Ownership is a rather trivial point to get hung up on, isn't it?

Is that a no? And is it trivial? If you did own this ship, is it's current purpose the one which you would use it for?

[Yawn.]

I'm boring you, forgive me, but I have more questions. I can see by now that expecting you to answer then all is ambitious on my part, but please do your best to find just one amongst them which would not exhaust you too terribly:

Do you bring us here under your own authority?

If not, what force or organization do you obey in doing this?

What payment do you receive for your services?

Of what benefit to the force you obey, or to you, is our redemption?

Do you ever plan to stop, or will this ship sail under your hand indefinitely?

What control, if any, do you actually have over the floods and ports with which we are beset?

[Your answer: 30 magazines across a breadth of demographics and interests from approximately the time of your 'death'.

And a boot.]

[There is a very, very, very long pause, then video clicks on, and HEY IT'S THAT BOOT YOU SENT HIM.]

Should I take this as your answer when I ask you of your purpose? I understand what you are alluding to, so should I take it that your purpose to us, your intent to our redemption, and your... unspoken agenda, is to us as a boot is to an ant?

[There has been a significant shift in tone since the last message. He sounds... extremely tense. You kind of just made him think that the barge is some kind of processing machine for some god-like being to consume the freshly reformed souls from.]

Oh, I wouldn't take anything as anything if I were you.

Enjoy your stay, Mr. Laufreyson.

Edited 2012-06-24 21:21 (UTC)

[Erm. You did not just blow off Loki son of Laufey!]

One more question.

What exactly is it that makes you so adverse to those here who are obedient to you, or subservient to you even against their will, knowing the design of the great machine through which we're being worked?

[He actually totally did. Although you may now find an ant crawling around your room somewhere.]

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