[network] @frfujimoto; evening 94 [video]

[lionson]

[He was originally going to post this in the morning, but he decided to give everyone a full day to cool off from the argument before saying anything. It also gave him more time to think about what needed to be said.

So that evening, not long after the doors close for the night, a video from Shiro goes up.]

Did everyone have time to cool their heels a bit? I hope so, because we need clear minds to discuss something important.

That whole mess, with the drugs and the stealing and the dying? That's exactly the kind of thing we do NOT need to waste time on. I'm not even going to go into the details of just how much time and effort we lost because half-a-dozen of you decided that getting back at one-another was more important than finding a way out of here. Just know that I am using my 'disappointed voice' just for you, because of it.

[Which he is. He so is. He's a father in many ways, he has perfected that guilt trip.]

But we're going to put that in the past now, and move forward from here. And in moving forward, I think we need to all agree on a few baseline rules, to keep this kind of thing from happening again. We don't need a whole constitution and laws and shit, but just a few guidelines to keep things running smoothly.

I, personally, am a fan of 'no stealing', 'no killing', and 'don't be an asshole with the limited resources'. Any thoughts?

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@JPHawkins, text

[rattlingthestars]

Okay, say everybody agrees to rules –what happens when someone breaks them? ‘Cause if someone wants to steal or kill or throw a tantrum or whatever, they’re going to do it even if there’s a rule against it. Especially if there’s no punishment, and there’s not because we can’t even agree to hang the one guy who’s actually killed someone, much less what to do with the guy who beat the crap out of the other guy that everybody hates.

text, @frfujimoto

[lionson]

This is why I'm posing the question to everyone, so we can come up with some guidelines and what to do if someone goes against them.
Just because it's hard to deal with someone here doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

[rattlingthestars]

Been here too long to be that optimistic, I guess. The Queen herself could end up here and somebody'd be plotting a mutiny in ten seconds or less.

Anyway, got something that might interest you if you're still doing the ghost thing.

[lionson]

Oh? What did you find?

[Might as well focus on the things they can actually do right now.]

[rattlingthestars]

[ Jim sends over a link to the first video of Samantha Stevens found in building 30. ]

Decided to try to recreate that when I was in the school and stuck my tablet in that desk.. Got a name - Samantha Stevens - before it told me there was an error and the whole room got a lot colder.

Since you were looking into ghost stuff at the school, I thought you might want to know.

@Mnemosyne; text; sorry for the threadjack THE NEED TO SASS IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE

[bookofnope]

Can we simply say that me beating the crap out of him was the justly meted punishment? Everything could be so much easier.

text, @frfujimoto ; THREADJACK BACK

[lionson]

Might doesn't make right.

NO U

[bookofnope]

Of course, I forgot. When I try to stop someone from doing harm to my friend, in a way even he agrees is fair enough, it's very bad and wrong. But when a committee of you make up some rules to tell uninvolved people what to do, and send someone else to do the dirty work of enforcing them, that's what we call justice.

NO U

[lionson]

One, I never sent someone else to do enforcing. I wouldn't bring up the subject if I wasn't willing to be part of the solution.

Two, you locked a child in a bathroom and he had to listen while you beat the shit out of a man that he adored.

Twice.

Collateral damage is a real thing and that is what I am trying to avoid here.

Such mature. Very adults.

[bookofnope]

Have you considered not allowing those children you're so concerned about to get into the company of people who are likely to get the shit beaten out of them? Collateral damage tends to happens in a specific radius.

wow such grownup

[lionson]

He isn't there NOW so that won't be a problem in the future.
Doesn't make it any less of a problem.

[bookofnope]

On the contrary, to me it sounds like the only logical solution. Get better at looking after your own. You can't do much about the rest of us anyway.

[lionson]

I haven't lost faith in everyone here yet.
If someone puts out a call for help, I'm going to answer it.
So sorry, I'm not going to stick to 'looking after my own'.

[bookofnope]

You don't need rules to do that. You only need them as an excuse to claim to help where you weren't called.

not here

[swatsflies]

[OMG HE CALLED RHYS A FRIEND LOOK AT THIS]

[rattlingthestars]

Not sure beating the crap out of someone for saying something you don't like is just, but whatever, it's over.

What's your punishment for what you did to Quark?

[bookofnope]

Having to listen to all of you complain about it.

[rattlingthestars]

Your sense of proportion is kind of messed up, anybody ever tell you that?

[bookofnope]

Either that, or you underestimate the amount of suffering these inanities are actually causing me.

in no way here

[rattlingthestars]

yeah well

your mother was a space hamster

and your adopted sire smelled of elderberries

now go away or i will taunt you a second time you silly english vampire

[rattlingthestars]

Yeah, you're obviously bereft.

[bookofnope]

Oh, please. Do you think this kind of back and forth moral banter is what I do for a hobby? The one thing I want is to be left alone to do my work in peace, and yet somehow that is the one thing that never happens. So stop assuming this whole fiasco was somehow a highlight of my week. And if you have to entertain any delusions about keeping the children here innocent, start by considering whether this end is served by letting them come to trust and respect Greg House, of all people.

[Crap, got him talking.]

[rattlingthestars]

I'm sorry, was someone holding a pistol to your head and making you talk to the little annoying humans?

Nobody here's innocent, and doing what you did to an adult would be just as crappy.

[bookofnope]

I see at least one little annoying human proving my point to me as we speak. Have you slipped Zell's leash today? He was making such good progress with balancing out some poor first impressions.

[rattlingthestars]

Don't bring Zell into this.

[ Actually, Jim's squinting at the tablet and trying to figure out what Zell's told Beckett, from that comment. Zell, why. ]

You're the one who started talking to me, anyway, Bitey.