paradoxlol | Entries tagged with .arthur is dishonest

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.

[There's some tension in Arthur's body-- he's not happy, but he's pretending everything is A-OKAY. If your character would pick up on that, they're welcome to.]

I guess I should do the usual round of apologies. If "Dr. Dreamer" took any of you hostage, I'm sorry. Luckily, it doesn't look like he was a very successful supervillain.

Moving on, I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm reclaiming my position as co-supervisor of the library. If you need anything and Chromie isn't around, you can give me a call. [He smiles. It's tense, but trying to look pleasant.] I was a research librarian back home, [Hahaaaa such a lie.] so I should be able to help you out if you need it.

[Warden Filter]
Just so everyone knows, I'll be keeping an eye on Perry Dawsey until he's assigned. He would be that big guy who made the post about tearing people apart.

Perry's not the type to go out attacking people unprovoked, but if you have an inmate who particularly enjoys poking at people, I'd advise them to leave him alone. And, as you can probably see, it's not a good idea to give him unrestricted access to alcohol.

[Private to Perry]
You're stuck with me until you get a new warden. Deal with it.

[Private to Ariadne]
You, me and the PASIV. Let's have a date the Barge can't interrupt.

[Private to Capa]
I think it's time we caught up with a few drinks.

[OOC: Yup, that's Arthur, just your friendly neighborhood librarian. If you wanna say he took your character hostage during his failed "MAKE GOTHAM SLEEEEP!" plot, go ahead!]

There's something to be said for the truth setting you free. In my case, I think I can safely say that I'm never going to feel embarrassed again. I'm just glad to have my brain-to-mouth filter back.

[Private to Perry]
[LINEFACE.] Enjoy yourself?

[Private to Alice]
You weren't affected, were you.

[Infirmary Filter]
I know some of you work with unconventional medicine from time to time-- any of you know how to heal bones quick? [lol before Arthur resets himself :C] I'm just working out my options here.

[Private to Buffy]
Your inmate quizzed me about some personal details during the last flood. Am I going to have any problems with him?

[OOC: Arthur's flood-affected post and all comments therein? YOU BETTER BELIEVE HE PURGED THEM FROM THE NETWORK AS BEST HE COULD. Specifically because he publicly admitted to Achilles that he's a criminal.

ALSO, NAOMI: If it's not cool for Arthur to have picked up on Alice not being affected, I can change it! I just figured he could tell, in retrospect, that she wasn't blurting every little thing out like most people.]

[SEE BEARDLESS ARTHUR. With a black eye and possibly other bruises. Thanks, Perry!]

So, that's the person I would've been if I didn't actually grow up in the last fourteen years. [Douche Arthur was disturbingly similar to teen Arthur. He pauses, like he wants to say something, then clears his throat and says instead:]

I think I'll be putting my plans to grow a mustache on hold after that.

[Individual Messages to Mirror!Arthur's Graduates (Parker, Snape, Loki)]
I'm drawing up a blank on some of my counterpart's memories before the flood. [He's not.] Do you remember anything about your time together?

[Private to Perry]
We need to talk. [Because he knows the dreamsharing jig is up.]

[Private to Arthas]
What did you see when you did-- whatever you did.

[OOC: Some notes on the PASIV! Mirror!Arthur would've been very careful about it, so few people, if any, should really know what it does. He let Mirror!Perry know about dreamsharing, because he thought Perry had a lot of "potential" and could've been a great asset to his team upon graduation, and because he wanted a more "personal" touch in teaching him his life lessons. The inmates he graduated would've been sedated and incepted without their knowledge; HOWEVER. Feel free to have them suspect something, to have a vague memory of a Very Important Dream co-starring Arthur, to be aware of Arthur having a strange machine, etc. ALSO, I imagine that there were probably rumors among wardens and inmates about Mirror!Arthur having some kind of machine that changes inmates, even though only a handful should know what it does. So if you want your character to remember the rumors, they totally can.

ALSO, SARA. If you wanna spam Awkward Times up in here, GO FOR IT.]

Is it too late to get the Admiral enrolled in a driver's ed class? There, I did my requisite bitching for the day. I really feel like a part of the community now.

[Pause.]

Who's up for sparring?

[Filtered to ~ARTHUR'S BBs~ (aka his graduates)]
And how are we doing today, kids? You know I love to check up on you.

[Private to Perry]
Stop playing house with my twin and come to my cabin. We've got a therapy session tonight.

Have you known such a savoury grief as I? Do people say "Strange fellow!," whom you meet? — My amorous soul, when I was due to die, Felt longing mixed with horror; pain seemed sweet. Anguish and ardent hope (no factious whim) Were mixed: and as the sands of life ran low My torture grew delicious yet more grim, And of this dear old world would not let go.|

[There's a long pause in the text, then he switches to voice.]

It's Baudelaire. I can't remember the rest. I just wanted to share, because... because I woke up, and it was like when you get a song stuck in your head. An idea that replays over and over again, and you try to get it out, but you can't. [He lets out a soft snort at the thought. NOT THAT ANYBODY WOULD KNOW, but Arthur's tone sounds more like his normal, pre-Invasion self.]

The thing about an idea is... If it isn't yours, you can always trace it back to its genesis. Your mind-- your mind is-- it's this incredible tool; it retains so much more than you can even comprehend. Some speculate that you never really forget anything-- you may not recall something, but it's still there, locked inside your head. You can't, you can't make a person believe in a lie forever, not if you don't go deep enough. [He laughs hollowly] Any memory can be retrieved.

Anything...

[Murmuring:] It's on the tip of my tongue.

[He lets out a soft sigh and begins to recite, his voice going flat:]

J'étais comme l'enfant avide du spectacle,
Haïssant le rideau comme on hait un obstacle...
Enfin la vérité froide se révéla:

J'étais mort sans surprise, et la terrible aurore
M'enveloppait. — Eh quoi! n'est-ce donc que cela?
La toile était levée et j'attendais encore.

That's it. That's what I was forgetting.

[OOC: CUE ARTHUR GOING CRAZY. Or beginning to. He knows something's wrong; he knows that he should be able to check that this is reality, but the whole concept of a totem is basically gone, so he's left in a daze. IF I'M FEELING INTELLIGENT ENOUGH, his comments will become more and more surreal, but if I'm not, he'll just be in a weird malaise. By tonight/tomorrow, he'll start trying to "kick" his canonmates and himself. With a gun. The poem is "The Dream of a Curious Man", and I'm using the second translation here. OH AND: Arthur's on the deck right now, staring down at the "sea" of stars, so that's where you can find him.]

( OPEN SPAM )

[VOICE; later]
[Arthur's words are a little slurred. It's unusual for him to do any Dear Diary entries on the network, share what he's feeling, any of that, but tonight's a special occasion. His perception's been unexpectedly turned on its head, and he's lost control just long enough for this.]

You think... you think you know someone. In and out. Like... you've been inside them. Seen them at their most vulnerable. But you can crawl into a person and never know... what they're capable...

[There's a long silence, then he continues.]

How do we construct our realities? They're... they're memories. Experiences. We take them... and we build our worlds. None of us really inhabit the same one. I mean... What I see, when I look at my family, my friends, colleagues, strangers I pass on the street... it's not what anybody else would see. People carry these complex... internal lives, but to us, the... the "main characters" of our perception, they're just... [PROJECTIONS.] roles to be filled, that we put them in based on what we know-- our memories, the images they project, the reality they put together to share with us...

You see, it's all very precarious. Reality. And a fundamental omission, once uncovered, it... [He chokes, then lets out a frustrated snarl after a beat.] Knocks the whole fucking house of cards down.

[CLICK.]

[OOC: Backdated to this post and the Very Bad Things with Mal. He now knows that Cobb incepted Mal and never told him, and he's torn between his loyalty to Cobb and his feelings of friendship with Mal.

FOR THE SPAM, consider it like a mini-day in the life thing. I don't mind multiple threads, but would prefer nothing like, VIOLENT OR EARTH SHATTERING, as he has to go and get drunk alone like a sad man afterwards.

As for the content of the voice post, if you're one of the SMALL HANDFUL OF PEOPLE who knows about dream sharing/extraction, you can read the double meaning in Arthur's post. Otherwise, uh, please don't suddenly "catch on" to that stuff, because there's no reason to.]

~~wARdennnnn f~~

~~ffffffffffffffffhjjjjpoa;;]~~

Excuse me. I dropped my communicator.

[Warden Filter]
~~indisposed/ pls watch mindee~~

Sorry, something came up. I'm not going to be around for a few days, so if my inmate steps out of line, please contact me ASAP.

You'll know her because she's the only twelve year old here.

[Private to Mindy]
BEHAVE. pool cues OFF LIMIST

I'm going to be busy for the next few days. Try not to celebrate too hard in my absence.

[OOC: SHOCKINGLY, even though AT&T said it'd take a while before they got the phone line installed, they uh, did it all in one afternoon. SO I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN! But since I'm still going out of town in a few days, I'm still on hiatus. You can have Arthur; the rest are off-Barge/coma'd.

PS Arthur still has the flu. He hasn't told anybody. STRIKES ARE DELETIONS. He basically wrote a post while HIGH ON NYQUIL, then edited it a few hours later.]