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[weartearrust]

"This is Angeal. You know what to do."

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[weartearrust]

Did the supervisors say WHY they think this is a good idea?

Is it being planned as a punishment for dangerous inmates?

[coffinturk]

Supervisor. Aerith was fine, just a bit enthusiastic.

And... still working on that. I think she's reacting like most would for a normal animal. Not a fiend or monster.

[ It's text. How is the frustration bleeding through twelve point Courier New? Also... that's a new thing to worry about. He was concerned about the inmates that would mess with it. ]

I'd put a stop to it immediately if I found out that was the case.

[weartearrust]

Who are the other supervisors who want this?

It's not your place to put a stop to it, but it would be your place to present the problem to the Admiral as an active and rather pointless hazard. I don't see any benefits to having something like that onboard without having its unusual traits harshly curbed. I know we can't die here but I'm not sure becoming a zombie counts as dying.

[coffinturk]

[ Well, he would have been circumspect. And probably used the right channels. ]

Only speaking to Misty Quigley right now. Can't say for sure without seeing it, though I got the impression it's more like the offshoot of the plant reanimates the dead corpse.

[ Pedantic sounding, but may be relevant given returning to life when there's a corpse around seems to involve the corpse of the individual in question. So it might need to be freed of the parasite. ]

Right now doing damage control. Hoping she doesn't realize she could probably request this thing regardless of whether I want it for the alchemy or not. Still needs to be run by the Admiral.

I'll be sending my concerns to him and saying I'd prefer to stick with requesting the petals as a precaution though.

[weartearrust]

I suppose that's a good lesson for me, then. I assumed wardens were picked for their sensibleness.

Understand if I see something like that appear in the gardens it's going to go conspicuously missing.

[coffinturk]

[ Wanna hear something funny Angeal? ]

If she has her way, it won't be seen in the garden. She wants to keep it in her cabin. [ You know. Next to other cabins. ] So it will be more secure.

[ That plant is going to probably go missing one way or the other if it appears in an accessible place. Probably. ]

[weartearrust]

In that case who do I speak to about getting my hands on a restore materia and a fire materia? I want to be prepared when it's time to purge the infection.

[coffinturk]

Your current warden fills requests like that at their discretion.

At the same time I'd hate for this to get out of hand with rumors. Better less people know about this than more.

[ For at least three good reasons Vincent can think off offhand. One of them being that they don't need a lot of people panicking or getting paranoid about whether this plant is going to be on board when it hasn't even been decided if it will. ]

[weartearrust]

I am reasonably certain I would not need to explain why to my current Warden, having the ability to heal a little or burn a little can only be to something's benefit.

If you need some measure of backup from another warden however, if someone's foolish enough to insist on having a zombie plant onboard, Archer is very no-nonsense.

[coffinturk]

All right. And I'll keep that in mind. I'll let you know how the rest of my conversation with Misty turns out as well.

Better to be prepared one way or another.

[weartearrust]

PLEASE do. Really. I want to know if I'm risking being turned into plant food just by strolling the hallways casually. Meanwhile there's plenty of salt and vinegar to be had in the kitchens and it's an amazing herbicide.

I'll stock up.

[coffinturk]

Noted. Though I wonder if that would work on an undead plant. Or just kill the competition.

[chaos_drifter]

“I think you trust the people here more than I do.” They tend to let those they know into their cabin without much hesitation, but they would rather it not be open to everyone. That, and the fact that it would be irresponsible to let just anyone into their cabin now that they have weapons of their own. “In any case, if I visit, I would likely do it while you were there.”

[weartearrust]

"What would they do? What could they take that has any meaning to me? What can they do to me that will matter?" Although it's a very serious topic, he is .. gently amused. Not so much at Avalon, but the idea itself.

Death had no meaning. He had no objects of value here. What could anyone really do? "I'm sure there's people here with quite a collection of important things, or reasons for concern, but ... I can trust, because there's nothing anyone can do."

[weartearrust]

If it's alive, salt and vinegar will work. Even on animals. It's not a great way to go but it is effective.

Backwoods science classes have a use even now.

[coffinturk]

Interesting classes.

[ Sir that phrasing suggested that the science included some poor animal. But yeah, that was probably extrapolated on in words and not test. Well, maybe some poor slugs suffered a cruel fate. Still. ]

Fairly sure it said undead. But can't hurt to try.

[ Can vinegar be blessed by a priest? Salts could in theory. ]

[chaos_drifter]

“I lock my cabin because I keep weapons here, and I would not be doing my job if someone took them and used them to cause harm. Also, some people need to be denied access to things like that in order to learn.” Avalon had. The Barge had needed to strip their options away one by one before they considered a different path. “I was thinking that you might want to protect something that was important to you, but if not, then it makes sense to trust.”

[weartearrust]

"Our situations differ." A warden would, reasonably, have a very good reason to lock a door. They likely had access to all KINDS of things that inmates generally did not; weapons, magic items, the possibilities were endless.

For a warden, not using a lock was probably the height of irresponsibility. "I... can't say I have anything important to me here, besides people. And I can't very well lock them up in my room." His tone turns that last part into a joke, he's certainly not even THINKING about it. "I suppose it's for the best. But I'll endeavor to be there when you turn up, either way."

extremely backdated to pairing day

[anti_altruisms]

Archer and Angeal are, coincidentally, both in the kitchen when the announcement goes up. Archer considers it with all due seriousness but waits until the work is done to mention it.

"It seems we've been paired for the month."

Yes, good, getting right to the point.

"Is there anything I should know, or that you'd like to know about me?"

[weartearrust]

It's heard, but in the meantime there's food to be made and then dishes to be washed, and while chatting while doing that is possible, it's also a good way to have a knife slip. Not Avalon a third time - that's fine, he was still going to keep tabs on them and how they're doing. "Yup."

Of all the Wardens to be paired with, Archer's not bad. He's used to the man's directions by now, and at least it wasn't guessing what a stranger was going to be like. "... Not really sure what you need to know. At this point I'm pretty certain I'm here because of forcing my protege to kill me, if that helps." That's only one part of it. There's so much else. "I admit I'm curious about you, but I'm not going to pry and damage a perfectly good working relationship over a temporary pairing."

[weartearrust]

Hundreds of miles from bigger towns, you learn to make do really fast.

Even undead can be pickled!

[anti_altruisms]

Archer’s raises an eyebrow at that first comment, but otherwise doesn’t react much. It makes him very curious about the circumstances that would have led to such a choice. There’s usually quite a lot beneath the surface that leads that that kind of self-destructive behavior, after all.

“I can imagine you had reasons for that.”

Archer also had reasons for wanting to reach an end, but he’s not going to pick at that right now.

“I won’t ask about that unless you want to talk about it. I’m not going to be offended by your questions, though, if there’s something you’ve been wanting to ask.”

[weartearrust]

"At the time they seemed like very good ones." Now? The jury was still out, save that he's certain had his mind been clear he'd have handled it himself. "In the short term.. is that something temporary pairings are meant to get into? Avalon and I got along well, but we didn't really get into personal matters much."

The impression he'd been left with was that temp Wardens were more or less tehre to keep someone out of trouble, not actually work on improvements. Angeal did not cause trouble most times. "...What's your background? Before this place. You run things like I'd expect someone of my line of work to, not a civilian."

[anti_altruisms]

“As far as I can tell, temporary pairings exist for two reasons - to make sure each Inmate has someone responsible for them and for the Admiral to see if two people mesh well enough to pair them permanently. I don’t have very much personal experience with the temp circuit, to be quite honest with you, for the simple fact that I was paired with my first Inmate early in my tenure here, and my second was assigned to me almost immediately after the first had graduated. They’re usually hit or miss from what I can tell, and it’s impossible to predict how they’ll go until they actually happen.”

He was never paired with Florian temporarily, ironically, but they had gotten along very well beforehand. So he’s sure that factored into the Admiral’s decision there. Among other things.

“As for my background…that’s somewhat complicated. But you’re right - I’m not a civilian. I spent most of my youth in battles or war zones. Fighting, yes, but not under any one specific banner. If there was somewhere I thought could benefit from my skills, such as they were, that’s where I would go.”

[weartearrust]

He snorts, amused. "I suppose since I'm already working in the kitchen then you'd already had the responsibility part, in a way."

So far, two-zero on whether or not he'd been assigned someone he felt was reasonably acceptable to be around. Avalon was distant but ultimately seemed like a perfectly decent person, no clashes to really be had. None with Archer as yet either, Angeal knew better than to challenge a king in his kingdom. Especially over food. "What led you to choosing one side or another in such freelance work? Or were you more oriented to the populace?" Almost mercenary ... almost, except nothing had been said about a highest bidder. There might not be one.