[network] @jwatson; text; Bite the Bullet [Night 250]

[jumpthegun]

[This is an incredibly embarrassing post to have to make, especially after the one he'd put out a few days earlier. Reading through those replies makes him want to curl up and hide from the world for people seeing what he'd been like straight out of the Army. The messages to his friends are a particular humiliation. But it is what it is and he has to deal with this now. Man up, Watson.]

I'd like to apologize to everyone for my attitude and behavior the last several days. My death price has ended and my memories have returned. I can't take back the things I said to any of you, but I'm really very sorry. I was in a bit of a bad place where I was set at.

For anyone who was asking me, I'm in the Entrance area with America, England, and Ginger.

I'm also sorry to report that the cause for Clint Barton's death was the Joker. He mortally wounded Clint, but I'm pretty sure Clint was able to escape the situation along with Harley Quinn. Clint was able to mortally wound the Joker, as well. I'm not sure where the Joker is right now, but please be on your absolute guard. He is well-armed and he'll have been healed up after his revival, even if he might still have severe MN Poisoning.


Action for Team Blonde
[Prior to sending out the message, John is rummaging around the new building they'd made it to for the night. He thinks he's getting the hang of this and he's relaxed a little more around his companions since they've not attacked him suddenly or stolen from him for several consecutive days.

He opens a cabinet in the kitchen and discovers a bottle of white wine, which is surprising, but not unwelcome when everything returns to him in a flash. It's like someone turning on the lights, full power when he's been completely in dark. It hurts.

John squeezes his eyes shut as the swirl of memories pours in, mixing, jumbling, resorting into the proper order and finally stopping when everything is settled. He's clutching his head, breathing hard. One memory in particular sticks out, though, the last one he'd had before dying...]

Fuck!

[Hope the rest of the house doesn't mind swearing.]

Comments

@mewatson, voice, private

[agravating]

[Wisely, Mary chooses to respond in private. Her tone is equally dispassionate and relatively deadpan:] This certainly discourages me from planning to hurt the man who murdered my husband just for the sake of it, should I come across him.

voice, private

[bookofnope]

Oh, I'm not about to start pleading with you not to risk your life. I'm simply tired of watching history repeat itself.

[agravating]

I am not afraid for my life. That's of little consequence here. [She can take the Joker. She's sure of it.]

With little other justice system here, what other punishment is there if not townsfolk retaliating?

[bookofnope]

A better question is what's the point of a punishment that clearly achieves nothing. Unless you're in this for the pure fun of retaliation itself. [Which he supposes he can respect. It's an honest motivation.]

[agravating]

To choose not to punish a criminal states that we as a community approve of their behavior. [Considering her prior profession, it's a bit of a stretch that she chooses the moral high-road as her direction.]

[bookofnope]

Or it states that we have better things to do than waste our time on useless exercises of ineffective justice. [He sounds very dispassionate about this. It's not his problem, seriously, he really is just here because he is A Historian now.] The Joker wants attention, anyway.

[agravating]

[She exhales quietly, closing her eyes. She disagrees, wholeheartedly. But she also has a much shorter temper.]

It's difficult to decide which is best. Provide him the attention he wants and punish him for his behavior, knowing it will ultimately prove a pointless exercise--or allow him to continue on as if nothing has happened. Neither is particularly palatable.

[bookofnope]

I'm sorry, were you looking for palatable? Try the next town over. [Humans are always so bad with this.] Let me put it another way: if you catch him and he escapes once again in the midst of murder and mayhem, he'll think it's funny.