snowblindrpg | [log] The Pit [open]

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[log] The Pit [open]

Characters: Anyone participating in the Pit event.
Location: A room.
Date: Day 330
Summary: You wake up in a room.
Warnings: general warnings; potential for morbid/suicidal thoughts; note specific warnings in subject line, please!

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[That's... bad, if true. Maybe to be expected after that utter and complete obituary disaster. Flynn remembers his own feelings of pain and rage, but... still. He isn't a violent man. He knows how to fight but likes to prevent it if possible.

And yes, Beckett had been a complete and utter jerk but Flynn really doesn't see proportionality between insensitivity and physical violence. Especially not if...]

... So it was three against two?

Three against one - Brian was on another floor. But one of the three was a cat.

[It'd be funny in retrospect if the cat had not at the time been a whirlwind of angry pain. Painful anger? Bad things, anyway.]

Another one of the three was a professional, though. I can see how that Gamora got her charming nickname.

[There is the teeniest bit of resentful admiration there.]

Three against one?

[He sounds a little incredulous. That he definitely has a problem with. That's not a fight or punching someone in the face for being a jerk, that's an ambush.]

And Peter was with them?

Are you really that surprised? [Beckett sounds... incredulous of the incredulity. They are talking about the same Peter, right?]

Whatever else you think about him, I thought it's been established that Quill has poor impulse control.

Well, yes, but-- that's not the same as...

[There has to be another side to the story. He's sure of it.]

Yes, I'm surprised. How about we leave it at that? I'm really not in the mood to hear more judgment of his character from you.

[He may not condone physical violence but that doesn't mean he has forgotten about Obituarygate, Beckett.]

And by 'judgments of character' you mean 'things he's done but didn't bother telling you?

[He's not even trying at this point. It sounds like Flynn and Peter are going to manage an argument all by themselves, without his generous help.

Abruptly, he grins, just a bit.] You're taking this harder than I did.

Exactly that.

[There's a rather sour expression on his face now.]

I'm not even sure I'm taking this at face value.

[Beckett shrugs, looking a little tired despite the grin.] I know my kind have a reputation as great manipulators, but even if that were true for me, I don't see a reason to bother. Whatever you and Quill have is your own business. I have better things to mess with.

[This, with a meaningful glance at the pit. Remember the whole snowed in death maze? A bit bigger than their interpersonal drama.]

I just like it when people are honest with themselves.

[And you're just a shining example of that, aren't you, Beckett.]

And I like it when people aren't raging jerks about the pain of others but we can't always get what we want in this place.

[Glancing over at the pit as well. Right.]

But I'm serious. Don't go down there.

I'm not planning to. I told you, I hate compulsions.

[And Norfinbury hasn't exactly made them more endearing, either.]

Though I suppose I should watch out for getting pushed. Or tripped.

You really don't have a lot of fans in this place, huh?

Shocking, I know. [The sidest of eyes.] Though it's mostly your friends I'm worried about.

You want me to hold your hand?

Maybe I want to know whether you'll do something if Quill or Gamora come around with ideas.

I'm not just going to let them kick you into the pit if that's what you're asking.

[That better not be what you're asking.]

Really? You're going to fight your friend - not to mention his green amazon - to protect me?

[Alas, that is totally what he's asking.]

I'm really not sure how feasible an attempt that would even be.

I would try to reason with them. Why does everything always have to immediately resort to fighting? It's like half the town got steroid poisoning.

Edited 2018-03-11 12:37 (UTC)

MN poisoning. [He's pretty sure it's relevant.] Plus the usual high tensions of deprivation and close quarters. But in this case I suspect it's just Quill being Quill.

[Oh no, you didn't.]

Really?

[For a moment he just gapes, his hands moving left and right in a frantic gesture of disbelief.]

After everything we just-- really?

[Sorry dude, it's, kind of what he does.]

What? I'm not allowed to note that the man who ran out into the snow to rescue his music player, who beat me bloody and cheered his friends on when they joined in, may have a problem thinking before he acts? It's not insulting to state the facts.

[does flynn carsen have to stake a vampire]

It kind of is when you have publicly ridiculed his death on his obituary and made a lackadaisical attempt at apologizing just now.

Lackadaisical implies I did it off-hand. Believe me, it took effort.

[Flynn Carsen might just have to, sob.]

I would apologize for going overboard - I admit that was petty - but I am not going to start respecting the man just because you wave your arms at me.

There is a wide gap between respect and badmouthing. And I'm not waving anything.

[Yet.]

I told you I'm not in the mood to hear more judgment of his character.

I'm more than happy to move on to your character. Where do you draw the line with acceptable behaviour from people you call friends?

[Shut up Beckett you don't draw the line at all.]

Oh, you do not want to go there.

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