snowblindrpg | [log] The Council of Norfinbury [day 67, semi-closed]

[log] The Council of Norfinbury [day 67, semi-closed]

Characters: Everyone who attends the town hall meeting on Day 67 at Building 28, as well as people who phone in. This is a lot of people.
Location Building 28
Date: Day 67, all day for mingle, around midday for meeting
Summary: Snowbos meet up to talk snowplans.
Warnings: Snowplans may result in swearing. House and Jack are present, with all that implies.

[This is your general mingle log for the day! Start toplevels at your pleasure. Below there will be a toplevel for the actual Council of Snowhell.]

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Awesome. How's it feel to be the one getting manipulated for a change? Because it feels pretty great on this end!

I guess I'm proud you're not totally turning your back to everything I taught you.

[Do you really think you can outdo him on this front Angel

really]

I'm - that - it's not the same, asshole.

[ URGE TO DO ALL THE DRUGS INTENSIFIES ]

Right, manipulating people is totally different when it's your dad instead of some random bandits.

Right, because you deserve it. And you know I'm doing it, so it doesn't even count!

And as we all know, doing bad things to people is absolutely fine when they deserve it and know you're doing it.

Wait, no, that accounts for like ninety percent of the things I've done so it can't possibly be true.

I--

[ He's wrong he's wrong he's wrong he's an asSHOLE ]

-- only ninety percent? Wow, that's conservative.

[ If in doubt, sarcasm it up. ]

Dicklord.

[ AND SWEAR. ]

Don't get me wrong, I don't have any regrets.

[That's a lie. He has some regrets.]

But I'm not above admitting that some things were a bit on the iffy side.

Wow, dad! That's a heck of a breakthrough.

[ She's. Not even sure if that's sarcasm or not. ]

Are we including trying to wake the Warrior in that, oooor...?

Ugh, waking up the Warrior was a huge mistake. That thing was nowhere near as awesome as advertised.

[Which is kind of a shame because that means all the effort that went into waking it was completely pointless. Including pumping Angel full of Eridium.

Wow that is an incredibly depressing thought.]

A...gain, that wasn't really what I... Even wanting to wake it in the first place was a mistake, right? Even if it had been even more awesome than expected.

I wanted to fix Pandora, Angel. That was never gonna be possible without burning everything down first.

[No matter how much he might be starting to doubt himself, that's one thing that remains absolutely certain in his mind.]

If you have to kill everybody on a planet to fix it, you aren't fixing it at all! How - I don't understand how you don't get something that simple. Geez!

Then how would you fix it? That's- it's weird, right, everyone's all "oh nooo Jack don't kill all those skags and bandits they're so important" but I've never actually heard anyone come up with any better ideas.

Edited 2015-12-19 01:45 (UTC)

The - the Vault Hunters and their friends seemed to be doing okay. Or. Or, you know, at least they weren't murdering unarmed kids and stuff?

Sanctuary seemed... nice.

You are kidding me, right?

[He rolls his eyes. Hard. It seriously looks like the bad one might fall out.]

Hey, why don't we ask Rhys about it? He's been down to Pandora after I died. He can tell us about how much the good folks in frickin' Sanctuary are doing.

Things don't have to be all... corporate to be nice. I thought - you know, that it was kinda cool how they all worked together and stuff. Even if it wasn't perfect.

I'd have liked to have visited.

[ It seemed nicer than Helios, okay. With everybody clawing at each other to get to the top. LAME. ]

Yeah, bandits are all about working together and being best friends. You know they had garbage lying around in the streets, right?

[LITTERING: THE WORST CRIME.]

[ don't remind jack that he's garbage don't remind jack that he's garbage ]

If litter is the worst thing you can level at them, I'm even more confident in saying that they're pretty okay people. For the record.

Nah, that's just the only thing they have in common. Didn't think you'd actually forgotten the kind of crap that they've actually done.

Everybody does bad things! Especially you! You don't get to get all judgey about them when you've done things many, many times worse. Rrgh!!

I had a good reason for everything I did. I was trying to make things better.

[Well, some things he did for shits and giggles. Or to get off. Or because he is a fuCKING UNSTABLE ASSHOLE. But that's nitpicking.]

For who?

We both know who you're going to say, and we both know that's - it's bullshit.

[He wants to argue and say that of course it was for her, how can she be so ungrateful she doesn't see - but he can't honestly make that claim any more. It's too late to pretend he's not aware of it now.

So he just stays silent, no matter how infuriating it is to have no retort. He can't even remember the last time words have failed him like this.]

I should leave you alone, if you've got nothing to say.

[ There's no affection in the words at all, but after a second's hesitation she touches his arm in a vaguely reassuring gesture. His silence is basically as close as she'll get to him acknowledging her point, right? So just stalking off would be pretty douchey of her. ]

You need anything? Before I go mingle?

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youarethebandits - 2015-12-21 23:19 (UTC) - Expand

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