Issue #62 - Video

[mistconduct]

[In the mess hall is Chris, who's somehow procured a gigantic poster board stretching a good twelve feet across.

On the board is pinned a photo of everyone on the Barge. Marker in hand, Chris begins going through the photos one by one - every time he gets to someone he knows is changed, he scribbles a black goatee on their face. Yes, even the women. Especially the women.

He pauses when he hits Tig Traeger.

And then takes out a small bottle of White-Out and begins to carefully erase his goatee]






[OOC: A thousand thank-yous to Fire for the amazing art!]

Comments

[mistconduct]

Well, you figure that Riddick is gonna already be in here most of the time, Ben too.

And then I'm just going to take a picture and send it to everyone once this is done.

[sickjoke]

Pretty sure a may-day went out on Ben last night.

Who's the third shift helper? Marsh, right?

[mistconduct]

Oh, for real? Fuck. Add him on the goatee list, then.

I dunno. I've been eating in my room.

[sickjoke]

That's what I usually do, but--

It's just paying to patrol, get to see people, that kind of thing. First rule of superheroing: know your community.

[mistconduct]

I'm not superheroing on the Barge, man. There are way bigger dogs here.

[sickjoke]

[ Jack looks down at the younger man, and then tilted his head. ]

Hey, not so glum, eh? We all have our parts to play, and our own ways to save souls and lives.

Thought you were part of the set, huh? Costume and everything. You can still do some good even if you're not punching faces, you know. This, right here? Great idea. And you're well known and you reach a lot of ears.

[mistconduct]

[He gives a clumsy shrug, turning back to the board]

It's just something I thought would help. No big deal.

[sickjoke]

And it's a darn good idea.

[ Jack pauses, and reaches out -- no tentativeness in his touch once he decides to give it, and puts a hand on Chris's shoulder. ]

And every little bit does help. [ He stepped in, much quieter now, voice pitched for Chris alone ] We need to be aware of who is here and woh isn't. The wardens from over there have every reason to want to go back, but the inmates there will have every reason to want to sabotage our efforts to getting our ships untangled. And I can't blame them... but it could prove they may be more dangerous to us than the mirror-wardens are.

I have Derek monitoring he inmate channels, but we need to keep eyes out on our new 'wardens' on this side, too. Just in case they get ideas about making sure we can't fix things. Think you can give me an extra set of ears there?

[mistconduct]

[Chris gives a frown at the hand on his shoulder, glancing up]

...Didn't think of that one. But we can't keep the inmates here, we'll never get our people back.

Yeah. Yeah, sure, no problem.

[sickjoke]

It's what Owlman did in Batman's world, apparently. Took over his life and crapped all over it because it was a world he was figured was ripe for his type of crime.

[ Jack took his hand back, looking back at the list. ]

That's... the hard part, though. No matter what we do, we're condemning someone to suffering.

[mistconduct]

Yeah, tell me about it.

Maybe we could only switch some people. Keep the rest.

[sickjoke]

Wouldn't that be nice.

[ And Jack really does believe that it would be. Save double the souls, condemn the wardens to their hungry ship. ]

You maybe we should do some door-checks. See what rooms changed, that sort of thing? Go to door to door, ask if they've accepted the Good Ship Redemption or if they're Team Goatee, or something, for our unknowns. Have to ask Derek how bootcamp went, see who showed up, if anyone was weird...

[mistconduct]

Yeah, hit me after breakfast, I'll do that. There's way too many people I'm unsure on.

[sickjoke]

Yeah, me too. We can partner up. Like -- Jehovah's Witnesses. Or Mormons.

[ He doodled a fine goatee on Vergil, and then he added one to Iris... along with a dark bob to simulate Bianca's hair. ]

Bianca's not hard to miss, she's totally different from Iris.

[mistconduct]

I'm not carrying a bible with me when we go.

...Ah, shit. Iris? Really?

Fuck.

[sickjoke]

Yeah.

[ He draws a goatee on C'rizz next. ]

Pretty much all my friends except Derek, so far.

[mistconduct]

Oh, fucking wonderful. At least he's not changed, I need to turn my homework into him in two days.

[sickjoke]

Yeah, he needs some grounding, in routine.

[ And probably a new cuddle buddy. ]

[mistconduct]

Tell me about it. He loses his mind whenever a crisis hits. I think he actually gets worried about people.

[sickjoke]

He does. He cares a lot and it's scary and new and he doesn't know how to cope. But he's learning, so... try and be gentle with him, okay? He's a bit high strung and he panics easy. You take people out of their element, take their control away, that happens.

So... yeah.

[ Sometimes being Derek's friend is hard. ]

[mistconduct]

I'm always gentle with Powers. I'm a kitten to him.

[sickjoke]

[ Jack choked on a laugh ]

I wouldn't put it that way to him, though.

[mistconduct]

Oh, I would. I so would.

[sickjoke]

Seriously. Don't. We got into a fist fight because I'm 'too soft' on him.

[mistconduct]

He'd never hit me. We grew up on the Spice Girls together.