video;

[paradoxlol]

I have to say, I'm glad the kitchen's back in business. Although there's food in my cabin, I prefer having somebody else do the cooking for me. Plus, it was good to get out of my room, since Narvin's completely accurate accusations last night are making it really difficult for me and Ariadne to have sex. It ruined the mood almost as badly as the time I killed her.

I'm going to head to the library now, even though I'm not really a librarian and only said I was one so that people wouldn't know I'm a career criminal who violates people's minds for money. I'd rather be in the shooting range, where I can pretend the targets are whoever set the hallucinogen off in the dining hall-- not because I care about what happens to about 90% of you, but because it hit Ariadne.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a bad person.

Anyway, be sure to bring any overdue books in, so that I can organize them while quietly judging your taste in reading material.

Comments

[everymansdevil]

I enjoyed that way too much.

[paradoxlol]

The only thing that's stopping me from shooting you is the fact that I might get demoted if I do. Then I can't get my deal and leave this place behind as soon as Perry graduates.

[everymansdevil]

And you realize that don't scare me in the least, don't ya poindexter?

[useofaswhat]

Your version of violating doesn't involve cutting into their brains, does it?

[paradoxlol]

No. It involves going into their dreams and stealing crucial information from the subconscious, which I then sell to whoever's paying me. Usually. Once, I helped plant an idea in a man's head, even though it's really dangerous and could have potentially driven him insane. I don't know how it turned out, but I hope it was successful, if only so my friend could get his deal to see his family again.

[useofaswhat]

Probably did. The government went into one of my crew's brains and fiddled around till they scrambled it up like an egg. The girl's crazier than a cow in a tree.

That's why I'm here.

[mistconduct]

...Holy shit, dude.

I mean. I don't even know you, but that was fucking hilarious. Oh my god what the shit is going on.

[paradoxlol]

I don't see what's so funny about this.

We're probably experiencing a flood right now, judging by the Admiral's announcement. The effects are usually random and inconvenient, although in this case, I'm not sure what they actually are. [Because he has nooo idea he's affected.]

[mistconduct]

Holy fuck. So this is what a flood looks like up close.



Oh my god. So, uh. So what kind of noises does Ariadne make in bed?

[Sudden unexpected revenge is the best revenge]

[buildindreemz]

I don't think you're a bad person. I wouldn't be in love with you if I thought you were really bad. I mean, I know I sort of go for the bad-boy type but you're pretty low on the scale of evilness, especially here. You don't actually kill or hurt people, usually. I figure what you do is essentially karma-neutral. You're stealing from people who can more than afford it.

Besides, I can pretty much count on one hand the number of people here besides you and Rex who I actually care about. Jesse. Dean. Kay. Mozenrath. A few others who left.

Mostly I just want to go home, I miss Paris. I know we can always dream it, but I want to have sex with you in my actual, real Parisian apartment.

[paradoxlol]

I certainly don't feel bad for the marks. Except for Fischer, sometimes, and only then because he has Capa's face and I regret incepting him.

I'm confident we'll get home. I just don't know when.

[buildindreemz]

Fischer seems like a sad puppy to me, but that may be because the only real interaction I had with him was when he was tied up and gagged in limbo.

If I'd known how dangerous inception was, I might've given it more than second thoughts, but I didn't find out about Mal until I was already in limbo.

I think Rex will graduate soon. I really hope you can get Perry graduated.

[routemistress]

An' now you admit it, after makin' two people I care about look like liars yesterday. I'm not impressed with you, sunshine. You plannin' to go back to messin' in people's 'eads after you leave, are you?

[paradoxlol]

I've been lying about what I do for so long, it wouldn't make sense to roll over the second somebody found out the truth.

And yeah, I probably will. Sometimes I think that I should find a new career, but I enjoy what I do too much to really stop.

[routemistress]

To answer your question, aye, I think you probably are a bad person.

[nakesnakecobracobra]

You're bad, but not awful. Given a little work you might even be likeable. I can't stand saps. They tend to be stupid, and I hate stupid people more than anything else.

[paradoxlol]

You get some saps in my line of work, too. I wouldn't say I hate them, but I definitely don't feel bad for them, and I don't regret stealing information from their subconscious.

[nakesnakecobracobra]

If they're good for information then you can't be blamed for taking it from them. They're easy game. They deserve everything that comes to them.

[Private]

[most_feared]

What bothers me isn't that you guys are thieves. It isn't even that you put an idea in someone's heads- ideas are somethin' you can still decide against. It's that you called Narvin a liar for it instead of just bein' outright honest with him.

Yeah, he pulled a stupid move, but other people here hate him enough for things he did do.

[Private]

[paradoxlol]

In my line of work, admitting what you do can get you killed. Or at least put a giant target on you. I don't regret lying to Narvin, even though I like him well enough. And technically, I called his source a liar, not him.

[Private]

[most_feared]

But you're not gonna die here. And you just made Narvin's target bigger, even if he dealt with it wrong.

Also the guy you're vicariously accusin' of lying is probably not someone you wanna accuse of that kinda thing. He tends to get real pissed off about it and make the whole Barge pay for it.

[ Video ]

[surfaceshine]

Wow, you really are a lying sonnuva hobag, aren'tcha? [This deceptively cheerfully.] That's cool, I was working on it anyway, but this is much easier.

[ Video ]

[paradoxlol]

I don't think my mother's a hobag. But as to the lying, yes, I lie a lot. Not to everyone, just to people not involved in my line of work, which just happens to be nearly everyone on the Barge.

[timesbureaucrat]

I was right! I knew I was right and nearly everyone dismissed me. That happens all the time back on Gallifrey, everyone just assuming that I'm lying or poking my nose in where it's not needed, and it's given me a bit of a persecution complex about nobody trusting me.

And you did it to an inmate here. So everyone who said that it was only relevant if you did it on the Barge can chew on that.

I'm going to be smug about this for days.

[paradoxlol]

I've been told I should apologize to you for lying and making you look bad, but I still don't feel sorry for doing that, especially now that you're gloating.