mercurialize | Eighteenth

[Public Voice]

I've talked to a few of you about this, but all right. Question. People come here because they have to fix themselves, right? That's rhetorical. My real question is, do they actually deserve it or is it just because they can be changed?

We don't actually have that answer, do we?

[Inmate Filter]

Then, for you guys, is that change even helpful or would you call it harmful to your way of life? Whatever it was before. People make enemies, I know how it is.

[Open Action Spam: Gym]

[Kylar's around every early morning that the Barge isn't on fire or trying to rhyme and sing with itself. With the ka'kari back at his disposal he has a ton of practicing to do. Today's stunt, he tries to coat a training dummy with the ka'kari. Giving it a thick black metalic armor. He knows better than to attack it with Retribution, actually, the ka'kari warned him of that. There will be questions of Why later.

So he tears at it with a dagger attempting every move he can think of. But the dagger is taking far more damage than the ka'kari, in fact, the metal hasn't even dented. When he's done, he wills the ka'kari back into his skin. There's just one problem.]

You ate the dummy!

~Devourer.~

Stop it! I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on this stuff from people destroying it. Not destroying it myself.

~You never learn, do you? First, you complain when I don't obey, now you complain when I do. Which will it be next time?~

You weren't supposed to eat-

[Wait. Is someone else in here?]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Just wondering how this place works, I guess. I still don't understand it.

Bottom line is it's packing a lot of life experience into a relatively short time, without anyone 'aving to stay dead from the mistakes and bad choices. That's a chance you rarely get outside this boat: to know that no matter 'ow bad it gets you can always keep learning from it.

Not just inmates, either. I don't think those of us that volunteered are necessarily better or wiser'n those that 'aven't. Sometimes we've just been luckier.

So, what you're saying is, because some of us didn't have a choice to begin with we're getting a second chance? And, somehow, that second chance is supposed to help us, what? Face those choices again later and make different ones?

Or engineer the events that led up to them choices to give you a wider range of options. Or start over in a completely new world. The sky's the limit 'ere, Kyle.