✈ day eighty three, video

[diealone]

[Jack clicks on the video feed and then hesitates, pressing his lips together in a thin line of frustration, like he's trying to decide if saying any of this is a good idea or not.

Apparently it is, because he does eventually start talking.]

About a week after our plane crashed, [Which is still sort of weird to talk about here, where no one had known about it besides Scott and apparently Nathan, but that flood had made him blab about way more than being in a plane crash, so. Here we are.] One of the other survivors got their hands on the flight manifest. We crossed off the names of the people who'd died in the crash, and used it as kind of a baseline to figure out who everyone else was, and why they were on the plane in the first place.

Obviously we don't have something like that, but if there is something big coming - and I guess it sounds like it is - I feel like we should make one to keep track of who's who, what cabin you've been assigned and at least a baseline of where you're from and why you're here. You can include other stuff if you want.

And before someone says it, this isn't some Patriot Act invasion of privacy stunt. You don't have to answer if you don't want, but considering how often people disappear or wind up a completely different person for a couple days, it might be good to have some kind of record of who's where.

So if you could get that information to me over the comms or in person - you can tack a note to my door, if you want - I can keep an updated list in one of the common rooms or the dining hall or something. Wherever's convenient for people.

Comments

[diealone]

Which is great and everything, but the point of this is to post a list people can see and refer back to when people start vanishing. If you're trying to make a point about how much better you are at gathering information without telling anyone, congratulations, but I'm pretty sure you're ignoring why I'm asking about this in the first place.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

You're asking because your lack of foresight is causing unnecessary trouble in the short amount of time we have leading up to the inevitable fall-out.

Ask.

[diealone]

I'm asking because none of the rest of you bothered stepping up to the plate. So consider this me asking.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Ask me, specifically.

[diealone]

Give me what you've got on all of us. Please.

[This is probably the most insincere please ever uttered in the history of spoken language.]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

[It's not satisfactory, but Jack did hold up his end of the bargain. Silence on the other end of the line, before a compressed file finds its way over to him.

It's not everything Scorpius has on Barge residents. He's excluded his personal notes about strengths, weaknesses, pressure points, how often they lie, what they can be trusted to do or not do. But he leaves in names, warden or inmate statuses, ages, and species (if known)]

[diealone]

[It's a good start though, and it's more than he's been asking people.]

Thanks.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Ever in the service of the wardens.

[diealone]

I'm not a warden.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

One day, you very well could be.

[diealone]

With the way things work on this ship, apparently you could, too. What's your point?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

My point is only my willingness to work together to achieve a common goal.

[You scratch his back, he'll scratch yours. Or will expect favors if you make it to wardening before he does]

[diealone]

Then I'm glad you're here.

[Not that he trusts you, or fully trusts what you're saying, but. You'd have trust issues too, if you'd been in his shoes.]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

[It's all good, Jack. Scorpius has his own concerns with trust, and is definitely not the trustworthy sort of person. Kind of.]


Happy to be of service.