Sounds like they've only been at this for a few months, in general. And if the overrides they have already aren't working on something like a lockdown... think we're gonna have new problems if issues like this hit the more essential systems.
[are they going to wake up one day to no light. no gravity. girl, help.]
...that's just borrowing trouble when we've already got enough after last night, though.
I'd find it more remarkable if anyone was left surprised after all this. It's been a disaster from the start.
Now, two crew members have had to pay the price.
[and this is where the anger once again hits that boiling point, where it might be overwhelming, where it clogs your throat and makes it hard to breathe—only to disappear half a second later.]
[that feeling is-- it's a lot. he hasn't really hit that point from anger before, but the sensation of losing one's breath with the strength of an emotion isn't unfamiliar. there's a couple moments where it becomes an ugly little feedback loop (can't breathe, heart pounding hard) before it settles, and he exhales a long, slow breath.]
It wouldn't be immediate. Civilians and the uninvolved would be granted permission to evacuate. Neither Dahut nor I would care to trade away innocent lives for some misguided sense of justice and self-satisfaction.
Probably depends on this process of yours. He mentioned something about your original bodies dying-- if you didn't miss a window of some kind when he died this time, then I'd figure you might have some way to fix it. Unless you have some kinda backup where you're from already, anyway.
[for all he knows this is literally just an inconvenience and scien is mostly mad it happened here? that it happened early??]
Same thing I've always done. Keep going. Get to work once we figure out just what we're gonna need to do to make sure we don't have any repeats of last night.
[the thought leak helpfully adds: 'gotta check on yuri. should've been...']
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Of course.
Because they can't have even a single moment of competence despite their rank.
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[are they going to wake up one day to no light. no gravity. girl, help.]
...that's just borrowing trouble when we've already got enough after last night, though.
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Now, two crew members have had to pay the price.
[and this is where the anger once again hits that boiling point, where it might be overwhelming, where it clogs your throat and makes it hard to breathe—only to disappear half a second later.]
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-and we can't even get in there ourselves.
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[said with the absolute confidence of a man once revered as a god]
So it'd be best for them to assist.
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[a little flicker of irritation. come on, man. he might be used to dying for his coworkers' actions but he'd really rather not.]
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But they owe me a debt. They ought to pay it.
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[evacuate where... well, it's at least not revenge mass murder, the bar is frankly on the ground.]
What kind of repayment are you gonna be satisfied with?
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[he's genuinely curious what gregor expects from him at this point]
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[hm. give him a minute.]
Probably depends on this process of yours. He mentioned something about your original bodies dying-- if you didn't miss a window of some kind when he died this time, then I'd figure you might have some way to fix it. Unless you have some kinda backup where you're from already, anyway.
[for all he knows this is literally just an inconvenience and scien is mostly mad it happened here? that it happened early??]
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[a gesture for gregor to go on
knowing that, what does he think?]
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the vibe is deeply unimpressed, even though it doesn't linger]
You're wrong.
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[that's just how things would go in capitalism hellscape man he doesn't know what to tell you]
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[oh to be a self-aware asshole
but scien pauses and then feels the need to correct, if only because he doesn't like the implication on dahut's behalf:]
He was his own person outside of myself. I am inconvenienced, yes, but his life clearly had meaning outside of me. He shouldn't have been harmed.
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['but that never counts for anything when it comes to death.']
You'd be an anomaly in the City in your line of work, seeing things that way.
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[no scien you are just an asshohle]
But I'm not someone with a perverse interest in seeing them harmed, or a belief they exist to serve me.
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...well, he doesn't feel like he's lying, really, even if gregor's not entirely sure what those emotions of his actually do feel like.]
Wring that repayment of yours out of 'em, then.
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I will.
And you? What will you do from here?
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[the thought leak helpfully adds: 'gotta check on yuri. should've been...']
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She wasn't doing well. You should check on her, yes. Do you consider yourself her guardian?
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[there's a little wash of guilt that goes along with that.]
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[but that does feel relevant to share,,]
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[...]
I've got no say in what she does. If she accepts, then she accepts. But she can't go back, so you'd better mean that offer of yours.
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