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[ As soon as the transporter is back up, Feferi comes back from her mission and after getting caught up on things, is not very happy. She's been given the run down, she's skimmed all the posts and comments. Even her fins are all puffed out, it's that serious. Even though most of the known mutineers have been captured now, she still feels the need to say her own piece.

Sollux is somewhere in the background making faces and being generally disgruntled. ]

So, the next time anyone wants to try and take over, maybe they should stop and think it through a little more! Maybe don't strand people on missions, or try to think about those of us do not have anywhere to go back to except being dead, or worse! Try to think about everyone else's worlds that need protecting!

If you really want change, you should try helping us! The Department of Initiative-Transport Relations exists for a reason, and when we opened, I asked everyone for their thoughts, and barely got any. Why didn't you come to us?

[ So this is nothing that hasn't been said before, but... hey, she was stranded and she's mad. ]

I really hope you're happy now, because we are right back where we started! And I am going to go right back to what I was doing, except now we have even more work to do and I do not even know who I can trust to not want to ruin the one good thing some people have here.

[ She looks like she wants to say something witty or cutting to end her commentary, but she comes up with nothing and ends the feed with a little huff, before hitting the off button. ]

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It's easy for you to get indignant, but some of us have homes and lives we want to get back to. Even if the Mutineers did it the wrong way, they just want to get things on an even footing.

All this outrage is stupid and the Initiative is stupid and this place is stupid.

Edited 2013-11-20 15:30 (UTC)

If we don't work toget)(er )(ere and now t)(en you might NOT )(ave )(omes and lives to get back to!
T)(at's t)(e W)(OL-E POINT of w)(y we are )(ere!

Edited 2013-11-20 15:33 (UTC)

Yeah? I never asked to be here! I didn't sign up for their stupid war or to save the world, I already helped save my own once!

Why should I risk my neck for people who kidnapped me?

If t)(e U-E decided t)(ey wanted yours next, do you R-EALLY t)(ink you would be able to save it again?
T)(is isn't just about t)(em, it is about you and everyone you love back )(ome!
T)(ey need OUR )(elp to save OUR worlds as well as t)(eir own, )(ow is t)(at unfair?

I'm willing to take my chances with what we've got back home.

Maybe they should have asked for volunteers instead of just grabbing me out my life. How is it fair to pull me away from my family? How is it fair to take me away from the work I have to do at home to help my people rebuild?

And maybe they shouldn't be so bad at this. I mean, the whole time I've been here it's been nothing but the Initiative getting kicked around and us suffering for it. We're on the moon now because the Initiative can't even fight off the UE.

Why am I supposed to believe they can save my world if they can't even save their own, huh? Maybe you should stop drinking the cactus juice and take a look at how things are going before defending them.

)(ow could t)(ey t)(oug)(?
T)(e last time t)(ey tried to go t)(e ot)(er way, I mean go to someone's world
T)(ey led t)(e U-E rig)(t to t)(em! )(ow could t)(ey ask?
And it is not like you're not going to go rig)(t back to t)(e exact same time w)(en you go )(ome.
You are not actually missing out on anyt)(ing!

T)(ey can't save our worlds alone, t)(oug)(, or t)(eirs! T)(at's t)(e w)(ole point!
But we can )(elp t)(em and t)(ey can )(elp us.
T)(e least you can do is not get in t)(e way of t)(ose of us w)(o are trying to do a good t)(ing!

And I will keep defending t)(em because I was D-EAD before I came )(ere, and so were )(alf my friends.
-Even if t)(ey weren't, our world was gone and t)(ere was not)(ing left for us.
And now we )(ave a c)(ance to live again! Maybe once t)(is war is over, a c)(ance to rebuild our species.
So t)(at trolls don't just disappear forever.
Wouldn't you want to keep living too?

Edited (I'm a sad failure ) 2013-11-20 15:53 (UTC)

I'm not missing anything? Let me just explain why I'm suddenly a year older when I get home. Or two years. Or three. Or ten. How long are they going to keep us here? This war might not be over until we're all long gone and I'm not going to get myself killed for them. War sucks and I'm freaking tired of it.

If they can't save my world, why am I even here? They need my help, but I'm just a guy. I can make plans, sure. I'm smart. I have a sword, that's it. Why me? Why my help? They don't want me, they want more of those super powered jerks.

I'm sorry about your world. And being dead. And stuff. Of course I'd want to live. So they've given you a shot, that's great of them. But that doesn't change the way I feel about this whole thing.

You're not going to be a year older t)(oug)(.
If t)(ey did t)(at it would mess wit)( time too muc)( and w)(at would be t)(e point t)(en!

And you can't say t)(at t)(ey don't need you! It takes all kinds to accomplis)( somet)(ing!
I am not some "super powered jerk" eit)(er, but I'm still )(ere!
Because it's not about super powers, it's about us working toget)(er.
You can )(ave all t)(e super powers you want, but wit)(out teamwork, you are going now)(ere fast!

How are they planning on keeping me seventeen forever?

Yeah, and what if I don't want to be on this team?

coop up enough individuals in one space and place them under enough stress and that sort of thing is bound to happen sooner or later regardless of what is done

particularly with events behind them such as what apparently brought us here

it finds an outlet one way or another

You won't STAY seventeen, I don't know )(ow it works, but it will work!

And if t)(at's t)(e case t)(en you are not a team player!
But eit)(er way, w)(et)(er you like it or not, you are stuck )(ere for now.
So you can eit)(er be useful and )(elp out, or sit around and be not-useful.
If you want to be not-useful t)(en I will not even try to stop you.
But fig)(ting among ourselves doesn't do ANYON-E any good, people just get )(urt.
And it won't c)(ange t)(e fact t)(at we're )(ere and we are still in danger even if we go )(ome.

Edited 2013-11-20 16:47 (UTC)

Yea)(, I guess so.
I mean I am not totally surprised.
But it still makes me mad!

[...give him a second he's figuring out that H. Typing is a new skill okay.]

you and a large number of people here evidently

i havent been here long myself so i cannot speak to how it was before , but has there always been this amount of tension ?

[ That is exactly why she does video these days... ]

Sort of, but not like t)(is.
I t)(ink because we're all so packed in )(ere, and all t)(eir leaders are dead.
Nobody really knows w)(at we're doing.

T)(is is w)(y I don't like being stuck on space rocks!
Not)(ing good ever )(appens.

the only other ' space rock ' i have ever personally set foot on was decidedly miserable , there may indeed be a pattern there

from what i understand there was at least some amount of preparation for this, did they send no one to take charge ? a disorganized force is a very poor one

Is there anything that can be done to negotiate with the Initiative, or are we worse off?

I guess not. Nobody w)(o calls t)(e real s)(ots is )(ere as far as I know.
If t)(ey are, I )(ave not seen t)(em around.
T)(ere wasn't a lot of room or time to get everyone up )(ere so t)(ey probably did not )(ave muc)( time to t)(ink it t)(roug)(.
Or maybe t)(ey were counting on us fixing t)(ings faster!

I don't know yet. I just got back, I haven't talked to my boss, but I think we will try! It might be hard to get them to trust us again, though.

There'th going to be no convincing them. They're all stupid, shellfish whiny wigglers. Every thingle one of them.

Shellfish!

[ You can't expect her to not be instantly brightened by fish puns, Sollux. She puts down the tablet on a nearby shelf and moves closer to him, draping her arms around his shoulders. ]

Maybe not all of them. But if just one will listen to me, then I have done some good!

The mutineers were brought into custody, at least.

But now they'll probably be reluctant to give us information unless the argument's presented very carefully.

They won't. They all have this extremely awful disease that affects the brain and makes them all really stupid all the time. It's called having The Dumb. It's fatal.

[ She just kind of laughs. His pessimism is too familiar by now for her to take it seriously. ]

Really? You're sure there isn't a cure?

Maybe... but maybe we should wait on the information stuff. I think it would be best if we focused on getting everyone working together again, instead of against each other. Information won't do us any good if we can't agree on how to use it!

That's probably for the best.

Maybe we need a reminder of our common ground?

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