6.0 There's the rub
Oct. 9th, 2011 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no_fastolfeIt was certainly not a medical coma in any way. It was like sleep-- a long, untroubled sleep, with elements of physiological stasis to prevent muscular decay and other unwanted bodily functions.
I nearly wish I hadn't woken up. This ship looks like a dead world and the archives are full of fear and missing people. I can be no help, could have been no help. I would rather have gone on sleeping.
[Private to Sherlock after some backreading]
I am not redeemed and continue to have no idea-- or urgency to find out-- what the terms of my redemption are.
[Filtered to inmate-buddies-- Rinzler, Rhade, Dracula, Rassilon, Rex]
You are well, then?
[Infirmary filter and Sherlock]
I am going to need the services of a mentologist. I would like to discuss options for medications. It became extremely apparent during the involuntary honesty flood that my mental state is not what it was at home, and that I have had little success controlling my reactions to stress.
[Here's where pride intersects awkwardly with some kind of vestigial empathy] However I am hardly in dire need, the situation is still largely under my control: I realize that the infirmary is short staffed and there was a concern of injury resultant from the barge phenomena.
I nearly wish I hadn't woken up. This ship looks like a dead world and the archives are full of fear and missing people. I can be no help, could have been no help. I would rather have gone on sleeping.
[Private to Sherlock after some backreading]
I am not redeemed and continue to have no idea-- or urgency to find out-- what the terms of my redemption are.
[Filtered to inmate-buddies-- Rinzler, Rhade, Dracula, Rassilon, Rex]
You are well, then?
[Infirmary filter and Sherlock]
I am going to need the services of a mentologist. I would like to discuss options for medications. It became extremely apparent during the involuntary honesty flood that my mental state is not what it was at home, and that I have had little success controlling my reactions to stress.
[Here's where pride intersects awkwardly with some kind of vestigial empathy] However I am hardly in dire need, the situation is still largely under my control: I realize that the infirmary is short staffed and there was a concern of injury resultant from the barge phenomena.
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[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 07:37 pm (UTC)I am. I have a made a brief report regarding the current situation, I can include you on the filter, if you wish to see it.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 07:49 pm (UTC)Please. I have seen no contact for some time from several of my acquaintances and any information would be appreciated.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 07:55 pm (UTC)I shall do so, then. I find it all rather concerning.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 07:59 pm (UTC)How unpleasant. How arbitrary and unbearable! I fail to understand how anyone can continue to argue that this place might be rehabilitative.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:02 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:04 pm (UTC)The only argument seems to be that it has worked before. Why it has worked before, I really don't know.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:06 pm (UTC)But how, pray tell, do you desire me to involve myself? I have a few potential projects among my acquaintances but they are not intended to be for the good of anyone but ourselves.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:08 pm (UTC)The mental fortitude of some individuals here cannot be denied-- but I think that this place hinders rather than helps any advance they might make toward their own benefit. The admiral a faceless psychopath, the wardens an inconsistent and largely intolerable group, the dangers overwhelming and never-ending.
This is not how a rehabilitation facility should be run.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:10 pm (UTC)Ah. How can you involve yourself. [Claps hands together]. I'm so glad you asked. It has come to my attention that inmates are required to help out in some capacity on the barge. So... any preferences as to your new job?
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:13 pm (UTC)Nothing involving food or treating people. Are there positions in the laboratory? Even the engine room, while my concentration of studies has been largely logic based I have a rudimentary understanding of mechanical and mechatronic principle.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:17 pm (UTC)Certainly. There seems to be little reason in the Admirals actions, though I somehow doubt this is his doing. It doesn't fit the pattern. Still, his behaviour is most loathsome and many of his employees are the same. And the few exceptions can do little to change anything.
Re: [Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:20 pm (UTC)Those exceptions keep this place from being entirely untenable, I think. But no, they cannot change the policy.
But do you really suspect that this phenomenon is beyond the Admiral's control, and not more of his caprice?
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:24 pm (UTC)Quite. Well, it shows that it could always be worse.
And as I said, it doesn't fit his pattern, no announcement, no warning, simply things happening without any apparent reason. It's also gone on for far longer than any other flood I've seen, having started in August. He might, of course, still be the culprit, but I think it shouldn't be assumed quite yet.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:27 pm (UTC)How.. heartening. [SARCASM]
He cannot even control his own ship. And we are defenseless against this-- are we not?
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:31 pm (UTC)Isn't it just.
We may be able to fight if we are prepared, which is why I'm trying to get the wardens to investigate this.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:33 pm (UTC)I prefer defensive tactics when possible-- if there is a way to hold off or contain the phenomenon, I would prefer that approach.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:38 pm (UTC)I would, too, [less dangerous] but considering this is the Barge, I fear that may not be an option.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:41 pm (UTC)If only there were some energy associated with the disturbances, we could contain it, create some sort of counter-polarized field.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:46 pm (UTC)Engineering work is also a possibility., Preferences? I can get you names, I assume you would appreciate the liberty to schedule the details yourself.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:47 pm (UTC)Nothing has been found yet -- but not much to explain all of this has been found, anyway. Perhaps there is, after all.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:48 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:49 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:55 pm (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 08:57 pm (UTC)My warden is... a very eager young Earther. An Earth Detective. [Pronounced 'scum']
I believe he intends reformation by irritating me to the breaking point.
[Private]
Date: 2011-10-09 09:01 pm (UTC)And I plan on keeping my current post updated,so you should find all new information I gain there.