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[gotgreenmagic]

Could I possibly get a reality check over here?

So Cute-Perky-and-Russian has gotten her crazy face on. Big freaking deal. Nobody's actually died, right?  I was wrong, apparently somebody did. I'd say my face was red, but, y'know.

Best case scenario, we all get a few bruises, tomorrow or next week or whenever she realizes what a total drama queen she's being and cools off. Normal service resumes. Worst case scenario, a few other people have to take a week off work for whatever reason. It sucks, then you get over it, then in a month there's some other disaster and nobody cares that this ever happened.

Other worst case scenario, the Barge crash-lands. Yeah, like we've never seen that before. Last time that happened it set back our schedule by, what, a week? Less? Like we're even in a hurry to get anywhere.

Also, you guys do know that the Admiral caps off powers that could accidentally wreck the Barge, right? Including Wardens? [She's mostly thinking about Bruce Banner here.] We're never gonna end up....I dunno, floating through interdimensional space, clinging to whatever scorched furniture we can keep hold of. We have way better insurance against Acts Of Blonde than Moscow.

Nothing unique or special is happening here. Just try to avoid sharp edges for the next few days and it'll blow over. Eesh.

Comments

[tis_disapproval]

Yes, we should assume the Admiral hasn't already been affected, that the ship won't spontaneously incinerate, that we won't be sucked into the Fade, that the air won't turn poisonous or a myriad of other rather unsightly possibilities... Including one such as myself accidentally causing something even more horrific due to these events.

With no end in sight, I prefer not to take such chances.

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Whatever, newbie. Also, whatever the Fade is, it's probably native to whatever non-shirt-wearing world you come from.

[tis_disapproval]

I assure you, it knows no worldly borders - and there are places worser, still.

Hexes of this nature can be exceedingly dangerous. Especially those of enough magnitude to affect the entire ship. We are no safer allowing this to continue than any other manner of plague.

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Okay. Go try and kill her if it gives you some sense of control over this situation. No skin off my back.

[tis_disapproval]

I have no particular desire to end her life. Without willingness on her part for alternatives, however, we are left in a most troubling rut, are we not?

Were this a disease of the body, what would you have us do to the one who spreads it? 'Tis no different.

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

You think? A disease isn't sentient, the possibility doesn't exist of convincing it to stop making you sick, and what we have in the Admiral is an immune system that will never, ever let you die.

[tis_disapproval]

And I have patiently waited for those who claim to hold sway to do as they claim.

So far, they have failed and the Admiral speaks nothing of their own fate. A fleeting death is not my concern. Other things are.

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

And I still don't care, complete stranger. What do you want me to say?

[tis_disapproval]

Excellent! Then we are of like mind!

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, way to demonstrate your apathy by showing up and presenting a conflicting opinion. You sure showed me.

[tis_disapproval]

I show nothing but a concern for my survival and annoyance at interrupted duties. What you take from that is yours to decide.