FLOOD!

[buywithme]

[Video clicks on, and it's... Barron? Probably? He's standing in one of the corridors in the Barge and looking sort of bemused.]

Comrades, I realise this probably seems like a strange thing to need help with, but I'm just...

[He turns around, staring off down the corridor, with an expression of increasingly dismayed puzzlement on his face.]

All of these corridors look the same, and I don't... I don't remember which direction I was coming from. Or where... any of the things that I know are here are...

[Prefect and Barron had a FULL BODYSWAP, which means Prefect gets Barron's body, and his tragically swiss cheesed version of a memory. He doesn't actually remember that he's not supposed to look like this.]

Comments

[darknessb4me]

You're in your inmate's body. It's probably his fault somehow.

[buywithme]

How could it possibly be his fault, Comrade? What do you have against Barron, anyway? He's not done anything even remotely evil in months.

[darknessb4me]

In months.

[Arthas has never forgiven anyone in his life.]

[buywithme]

You did some pretty evil things yourself, months ago, Comrade. You seem to have mostly stopped.

[darknessb4me]

It doesn't matter. You can't take back what's already been done.

[buywithme]

No, you can't. But you have the whole rest of your un-life to do something different with.

The things you do later don't undo the things you did first, but the things you did first don't undo the things you do later either.

[darknessb4me]

...What?

[He takes a few seconds to puzzle out this sentence.]

No, I have the whole rest of my life to rot on this boat.

[buywithme]

Until you graduate.

And, what I mean is, even until then there are people here who you could do good things for. Having done evil things in the past doesn't mean that you can only do evil things or nothing at all.

[darknessb4me]

I think on the whole that no one would care.

[buywithme]

It wouldn't be about what people thought, on the whole. I think there are individuals who would be very grateful for your help.

[darknessb4me]

Being a leader is everything about what people think.

[buywithme]

Is that your only option, Comrade? Being a leader?

Why couldn't you be a lone warrior who prowls the corridors of the barge and occasionally breaks up fights?

[darknessb4me]

I don't want to keep peace for the Admiral.

[buywithme]

Comrade, The Admiral clearly doesn't care if the peace is kept or not. You'd be doing it for those on board who... on a not infrequent basis, could really use someone to step in and prevent them from being beaten to death in a stairwell.

Or something.

[darknessb4me]

You realize I've beaten four people to death in a stairwell and have been killed myself twice.

[buywithme]

I didn't know the exact numbers, Comrade, but--

Well, but equally, I'm not sure I see why that would change me thinking that you might be prepared to try doing this?

[darknessb4me]

Justice has to be served for those, and for the rest of the dead.

[buywithme]

Comrade, saying ominous but vague things doesn't really answer my question? We're talking about what you can do as alternatives to rotting in a pool of misery for the entire rest of the time you're on the Barge, and... why does a lack of the administration of justice mean that you can't try to prevent people from being killed?

[darknessb4me]

Because I should be dead.

[Not angry. The flood took most of that. Just calm.]