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[Private to West]

Back to business, Major, because I want this all out between us before moving on:

If you still want to talk -- if you want me to talk about my problems the way I make you talk about yours out of some need for fairness, that's one thing. I am fine with that. But if all you were doing was throwing your toys around because I'm making you work, then we've got a problem. If you want to pretend the circumstances of your birth in terms of time, education, and money make you somehow better than anyone here, that's fine -- have your delusions, but don't throw a tantrum with your next breath when I hold you to higher standards.

Regardless of whatever has me in a bad mood, I may treat certain situations a little more harshly because, as I said, you should know better. You don't incite other Inmates, and certainly not impressionable ones, to attempts at violence, and you're a damn fool for doing it in the open like that anyway -- no matter what your intent for the game. (And I want you to bear in mind that if he DOES play, and he does serious harm to anyone, I am holding you partially responsible.)

And that is the LAST time I see or hear you openly bash how things are being handled by the Wardens around here. Your opinion on the matter would hold a lot more weight if you spent a little less time jerking off all by your lonesome and more time doing your part to help. You might also begin to notice that we do handle a lot more than you typically see.

And don't just say it's just the menial labor you've got a problem with when it comes to work. I suggested more 'suitable' occupations for you in the past and all you did was moan impotently. I captained a ship, but that doesn't mean I wasn't out working ondeck when I was needed.

You spent so much time talking about how necessary it was to imprison and eventually kill one of your soldiers for asking the wrong questions, stirring shit up, causing unrest, and you are very much in danger of doing the same damn thing.

So you're still on double shifts. And how well you get on there determines whether or not you go back to one in the next few weeks.

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[Locked to Wardens]

I am doing a horrible job.

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[Private to Ralphie Cifaretto]

I'd like a word with you.

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Comments

[major-west.livejournal.com]

If you think I'm upset because you're making me work, you're even more simplistic than I thought you were. I never shied away from working in my life.

[gimmethemap]

Then why did you stop going to your shift?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I wonder why a man would stop working after an extremely traumatic incident...

Hm. Well, I, for one, am baffled. It's a mystery.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

And don't pretend that you're treating me more harshly just because I 'should know better.' Don't pretend it's anything other than your maudlin emotions affecting your judgement and behaviour, which has always been the case between the two of us.

[gimmethemap]

I hate to bring it up, Major, but sympathetic as I am to what that whole ordeal did to you, there is almost no one on this ship that did not have it just as bad as you did -- wardens included, and we all had to go back to work the next day.

And your emotions have never affected your behavior before? Or invalidated any point that you had to make?

He's pretty much done with the convo now.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Can't you put two and two together, you bloody imbecilic woman, and see SOME SORT OF FUCKING CONNECTION TO THE WORLD I LEFT BEHIND--

This is a waste of time. Throw me in Level 0. I don't care.

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[fathersbludgeon.livejournal.com]

Go ahead.

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[gimmethemap]

I would appreciate your assurance that my Inmate will not be given any trouble by you or any of your acquaintances.

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[fathersbludgeon.livejournal.com]

My acquaintances?

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[gimmethemap]

There are some new arrivals that I've noticed you're familiar with. I don't know if they're friends, family, whatever. But I'm guessing they come from wherever you come from.

It was also not beneath my notice that at least one person aside from you did not react so favorably when I talked about upping the Major's presence in the kitchen.

I don't know him, and I therefore can make no assumptions as to where the issue begins or ends with him, so I am talking to you. Is there going to be trouble?

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[fathersbludgeon.livejournal.com]

The fuck should I know?

Warden Filter - Have some Ecclesface trolling

[thevanishingman.livejournal.com]

Well, that sounds like the kinda talk of someone who's been listening to their inmate too much.

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[gimmethemap]

That may well be the case, but the opposite doesn't tend to get much done, either.

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[thevanishingman.livejournal.com]

Sure it does. You learn to filter the noise out, and everything's a lot more peaceful!

Warden Filter

[gimmethemap]

I don't believe we've ever spoken before. Remind me what your name is?

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[thevanishingman.livejournal.com]

It's not important.

But eventually, somebody'll probably tell you it's "Claude."

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[decemvirate.livejournal.com]

Seems like loads of people are having that sort of trouble lately. You've probably just hit a rough patch, that's all.

Anything I might be able to help with?

[Warden Filter]

[gimmethemap]

The last nine months have rough patches scattered all about, I'm afraid.

You're one of the Doctors, right?

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[decemvirate.livejournal.com]

I am, yeah. The oldest one here, actually, if you can believe that.

What makes you think you're doing such an awful job of it?

[Warden Filter]

[gimmethemap]

Everything I try to do makes things worse, and it gets worse even when I'm not trying to do anything at all.

[Warden Filter]

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

No you're not. I mean, everyone hits rough patches, and since your rough patches don't end in trails of dead bodies on the Barge, I'd say you're doing pretty decent.

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[thatlibbychick.livejournal.com]

I was trying to get West to forgive you, you know. I kept telling him that you were distraught over Rube disappearing, and that you didn't really mean any of the things you were saying. I tried to make him understand that there are some things you just don't use against people, and to apologize for what he wrote in his journal about Rube being gone.

Then, someone else clued me in about your "Jim" comment.

To be completely honest with you, I'm disappointed and a little disgusted by the way you reacted. As I told him, there are some things you just don't mess with...and you mocked him with something far worse. You're his warden. You're supposed to react maturely and help him get over his traumas, not rub them in his face.

...I'm sorry if I sound like I'm attacking you. I'm not trying to.

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[gimmethemap]

Seeing as how it's in public view, you should already be aware that particular subject has already been discussed and closed.

Is there a reason why you're repeating something I already said in plain sight?

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[thatlibbychick.livejournal.com]

If you post something like you just did, for people to comment on, then expect comments about it.

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[gimmethemap]

I don't need for you to repeat something I already said myself.