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lacksconviction[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.
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.
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 08:27 pm (UTC)Do go on, though.
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 08:29 pm (UTC)Do you own this ship?
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 08:41 pm (UTC)Re: Private
Date: 2012-06-24 08:43 pm (UTC)Do you own this ship?
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 08:47 pm (UTC)Private
Date: 2012-06-24 08:50 pm (UTC)Private
Date: 2012-06-24 08:53 pm (UTC)Private
Date: 2012-06-24 09:01 pm (UTC)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?
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 09:02 pm (UTC)And a boot.]
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 09:18 pm (UTC)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.]
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 09:21 pm (UTC)Enjoy your stay, Mr. Laufreyson.
Private
Date: 2012-06-24 09:34 pm (UTC)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?
Re: Private
Date: 2012-06-24 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 10:20 pm (UTC)How would you justify it?
no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 10:25 pm (UTC)I wouldn't.
We are expected to fixate on the floods and the ports and the petty deaths, while not questioning the fact that we are blind to the workings and purpose of this place. The only conclusion I can draw is that we are marked for a sinister design, and if I were a warden I would leave!
no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 10:28 pm (UTC)[Private]
Did you expect him to give a real answer?
After threadstalking
Date: 2012-06-24 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 10:34 pm (UTC)How unchanging are your values, Ms. Romanov.
[Private]
Forget what I expected from him, now I ask for one from you. Why is it enough? Are you honestly so content to be used by whatever soulless force should put it's hand to you?
Audio:
Date: 2012-06-24 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 10:39 pm (UTC)But is your only answer to paw at your skull and mutter about how your collective incompetence would doubtless be a hindrance to a cause which you will never know?
If you are too thick to care then say so and be gone with you!
Audio:
Date: 2012-06-24 10:43 pm (UTC)I can not fault the desire to survive, at least.
no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 10:43 pm (UTC)And I'm a thick, ignorant Fleetman. But it gives me a kind of pleasure to see you no better off than I am.
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Date: 2012-06-24 10:47 pm (UTC)Re: Audio:
Date: 2012-06-24 10:49 pm (UTC)In answer to your initial question, there are a number of mythological entities who are alleged to take great interest in secrecy and souls, who are not presently categorised as gods.
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Date: 2012-06-24 10:51 pm (UTC)If your only answer to why you accept this, is that you are petty, cruel and stupid? Then I need no more of you, but know that it illuminates you to me, Chief.