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[broughtwhiskey]

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[Disoriented is a word for what Philip feels upon waking on the Barge. There's a dull throb of pain in his chest and his head, things he know he should be dead from, and his shirt is still slick with blood. He also recognizes the room he wakes up in with everything where it should be, but he knows it should burned out. The view outside the windows, however, aren't looking out into the streets of Woodbury, but an infinite void. He isn't sure if this is what death is supposed to be like, but he has a feeling it's not because it feels very much alive.]

[He's willing to stay as long as it takes to change and clean the blood off his face, but no longer than that. He doesn't feel particularly keen on lingering in a room with this many reminders right now. Already he's trying hard to not think of what just happened, the large amount of nothing he just left behind once more. He looks for any of his weapons before leaving to find them gone. So perhaps not everything is in its place. But no matter. He can improvise if the situation calls for it.]

[Stepping outside into the hall, he still doesn't know what to make of any of this. but if there's one thing he knows, it's that he needs to get his bearings and so he sets off to learn the layout of wherever the hell he's ended up.]

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[Later, after he's had the chance to explore and numerous explanations and perspectives on what this place is, he only has one question:]

How many of you are here?

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[16thstar]

What exactly do you mean? Inmates? Wardens? All together?

[broughtwhiskey]

All together. But if you happen to know the numbers for each, I'd appreciate that, too.

[16thstar]

I know that's there's usually a lot of people left unpaired. We have more wardens than inmates, I think. Captain Rogers is probably right about the total, so probably... 35 inmates and 45 wardens? δ(´д｀; ) sorry

[broughtwhiskey]

[What is that thing toward the end of her message. Did she drop the communicator or have a seizure?]

Any idea why there's such an imbalance?

[16thstar]

No... maybe for security reasons? It wouldn't be good if the inmates took over.

[broughtwhiskey]

Is there actually a danger of that?

[16thstar]

Knowing some of the inmates, definitely. Even without special powers some of them are pretty scary. (｡ŏ﹏ŏ)

[broughtwhiskey]

[Oh. It's one of those things again. Must be one of those things kids these days do. Or rather used to do.]

[The more important thing is Philip is getting a pretty strong sense that the inmates are not being really as well contained as things might seem on the surface. Placated, perhaps, but not necessarily contained.]

Is that right?

[16thstar]

It's true. The vampire Jerry has killed a lot of people since he got here, and it hasn't even been that long.

[broughtwhiskey]

You have a vampire and haven't done anything about it?

[16thstar]

I heard the wardens talking about doing something, but I don't know what they decided on. Ceres and I try to avoid him as much as we can.

[broughtwhiskey]

There shouldn't be anything to decide. The solution should be obvious.

[16thstar]

δ(゜-゜)? What's that?

[ She's forgotten that he's new, and so he won't know that killing him won't work. ]

[broughtwhiskey]

You don't let something like that live. You sure as hell don't let it live comfortably.

[16thstar]

Oh! He's not alive. None of us inmates are.

[broughtwhiskey]

I'm well aware of that. You still don't let a thing like that walk around, putting people's lives in danger.

[16thstar]

No... but I don't think putting him in Zero every week would be very fair. And killing him over and over again would be terrible. It's not so easy...

[broughtwhiskey]

It'd be more than he'd deserve.

[Does he mean that as in that's too harsh of a punishment or that's not harsh enough? He doesn't say anything further to specify.]

[16thstar]

That doesn't make it okay.

[broughtwhiskey]

You care more about his well-being than the well-being of others on-board?

[Sister, your priorities are screwed up.]

[16thstar]

I just don't think that murder is a valid solution.

[broughtwhiskey]

It's not murder. It's eliminating a threat.

Besides, you can't exactly kill something that wasn't alive to begin with, now can you?

[16thstar]

It IS murder, and it's wrong, even if it isn't permanent.

[broughtwhiskey]

Then what exactly would you propose?

[16thstar]

I told you it wasn't such an easy thing. But you can't just go around killing people whenever you like.