096 - West is still an asshole

[major_west]

This is perhaps the first time I have been able to use these showers without having to bear witness to the aftermath of male shedding. Thank goodness for small favours and sudden departures.

[OOC: YEAH SO back when we had our hairy Italian guys, I was going to have West put up a big whiny post about the showers being gross with body hair. BUT NOW THEY'RE ALL GONE, BUT FOR RALPH, so you get the opposite post now. My characters love insulting each other]

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

For all the communal showers I've been saddled with, I've never gotten used to that detail.

I suppose it's a bit much to expect ideal conditions in a prison.

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

I suppose not, but...well, this prison seems to offer a lot than some I've been in seen, Mr...

I'm sorry. I don't know your name.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

My apologies. I haven't introduced myself to our new arrivals yet.

Major Henry West.

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

Major West. I'm Toshiko Sato. Sorry if I was a bit rude, I'm not...really used to being around so many new people at the same time.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

That's quite all right, Ms. Sato. This can be quite a disconcerting place.

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

Oh, apart from the social aspect and the likelihood that I'm technically dead? It's actually not so bad. It's reminiscent of my old job except that there are some people here who might...understand me a little better.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Oh? What did you do before arriving here?

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

I worked with alien technology. And...occasionally, aliens. They would show up together sometimes.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Oh.

We didn't have any of that, where I'm from.

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

You were probably better off without it. For everything that I've been told happens here, it at least seems...relatively safe.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it that.

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe not safe. But I haven't been shot again yet, and I've been talking to the only person I've ever met who understands what I'm talking about when I seriously discuss my work. So I'd like to at least try to keep my hopes up.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself lucky. I've experienced death several times here.

But you do meet some remarkable people here.

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[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

Yes. You're right.

...

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If you don't mind my saying so, you seem like you'd have a good handle on a lot of people here. Can I ask, do you know an Inmate called Billy?

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Billy? I-- Yes. I know him very well.

What would you like to know?

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[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

Well, we...share a speciality. I'm sure you must know about his 'freeze ray', and I had just built something conceptually similar when I came here.

He - Billy - suggested that we could do some work together. His Warden and the Admiral both approve, but...I don't know. I was hoping to have an opinion from someone he knows as a friend, about whether it would be good for him personally. The last thing I want is to stop him from improving himself.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Oh!

Yes, I think he would absolutely love that! I don't see how it would set him back any.

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[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's good. You two are friends, then? I meant to ask him who he knows here, but we got a bit hung up on discussing formulae and...well, I'm sort of terrible for that.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Something like that, yes.

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[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

I see. Thank you, Major.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.