056 - Pretending Truth or Dare never happened...

[major_west]

I thought that hangover would never go away...

I feel as though I've exhausted the possibilities for recreation here. I almost wish there were another port, flood, anything to break the tedium. I can't believe I'm asking this... Does anybody have a board game?

Nevermind that. I'm not that desperate yet.

I just need... to get away something to do here before I go completely mad. Something more to strive for than 'don't try to kill anybody for X amount of days'.



What's the point of this?

Comments

[gimmethemap]

This might sound a little silly, but if you're agreeable to it, we might look to actual work to fill your time. I know it doesn't sound the most entertaining, but it's one thing you did have in your normal day to day life once upon a time, is it not?

It's not something that is usually done, I don't think, but I don't see why it can't be if it's necessary.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

What sort of work is there to do here?

[gimmethemap]

Anything you can think to do.

Y'know it's not like you'd be putting the faceless ones off; they're not real people, just shadows of people. They don't work here because they need the work; the work just needs to be done.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly suited for that sort of work.

[gimmethemap]

What sort of work do you feel you are suited for?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I haven't worked as a waiter since I was a teenager, Morgan. I have a degree.

[gimmethemap]

A degree?

There's also the library, the infirmary and such.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

From university, yes. I know universities existed in your time.

Menial labour.

[gimmethemap]

What, like schools? I've never been to one, and there aren't many where I come from, not close by.

I never much liked the idea of them. Learning -- fine, I like learning. But I always had the impression that those places were for people who had fairly every minute of every day planned ahead of time.

And who wants that?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

They're more of a necessity in my time.

...I do, clearly.

[gimmethemap]

So it's not just rich people where you come from?

I like that things aren't so exclusive, then.

What trade did you learn in school, then?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

No, not just the wealthy.

Art History.

[gimmethemap]

So...you were going to write books about history before you joined the military? Or teach?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

No. I was just getting a degree so that I could go into Sandhurst.

[gimmethemap]

What's Sandhurst?

What sort of trade does the degree get you, then? Is that what Sandhurst is?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

It's the Royal Military Academy, where one receives officer training.

[gimmethemap]

Ohh, I see now.

So how does studying History prepare a person for a military career, Major?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Consider the fact that human history is built on war.

[gimmethemap]

I don't disagree with you there. So the whole point was to learn where people have succeeded and failed in the past, I suppose. Try to emulate the successes and avoid the failures?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Something like that.

[gimmethemap]

So what was it like?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

What, university? Lots of parties classes.

[gimmethemap]

Have you thought of maybe teaching then?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Ah...

No, never.

[gimmethemap]

You'd be good at it, I think. I mean, I'm not sure there's much of a demand for it, but there's got to be people on board who'd be willing to learn.