exsilium | ten; video + poll

ten; video + poll

[ Roslyn is behind the camera again, face stern, Vennett & Lowell seated just behind her. She’s looking as calm and professional as she can, though traces of exhaustion are seeping through regardless of her best efforts. ]

I’m going to make this as brief as possible. We do not have laws governing the actions undertaken recently by people currently in custody. While hopefully there will shortly be a fuller code of conduct, we cannot apply it retroactively. I do not have the resources to keep anyone locked up indefinitely, nor can I provide a fair trial, and it would be morally suspect to do either in the current environment.

I believe there is a solution to this, one that several others agree with, including Lowell Orwin and Vennett here with me, both of whom were held hostage by these people and have a fair amount of insight into their mindset. However, given that you will all have to live with it as well, I’m going to bring this solution to general consensus.

Under this arrangement, as a first part all current prisoners will be released into the custody of someone who will agree to monitor their actions and ensure that they are not able to plan anything further. These parole officers will either be volunteers from the general population or police officers if necessary, and all will be very carefully vetted. If it is necessary we will ask them to submit to a brief telepathic scan.

The second part of this arrangement would be undertaking a set amount of missions under the supervision of Orwin and Vennett with the goal of putting forth effort into our return to Earth. I am assured that they will be doing real work that will benefit us all.

This is the solution that I and others hope will work best for everyone involved, as well as free up resources to continue working towards getting off of this base and setting up an actual system of leadership.

While Jesse Pinkman was not a member of this, as he has given back all powers taken he would be released under the same conditions.

This is being presented to you all as, essentially, a poll. That is the first option. The second option is ‘other’, and if that is your answer I must insist you provide a fully thought through and careful plan that does not simply consist of ‘strand them somewhere’ or ‘airlock them’. Should enough support be shown for a provided 'other' plan over parole, it will be considered as an option.

Thank you all for your time. I hope this will be resolved very shortly.

[ And cut. ]

Poll #14659 solving the jail problem

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Pick a solution:

View Answers

Parole as outlined above
36 (90.0%)

Other (must provide clear plan below)
4 (10.0%)

[ ooc: this is an ic poll of the population! you may vote once with each character you have in game. roslyn and others are available for question answering and so forth. ]

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[some day

he will find you in person koltria.

and you won't be able to escape.

the trollening will happen.]

[SOMEDAY <3]

No. I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of strength, to the end of becoming the strongest in the world. At any rate, the world's strongest person has to always be aware of their power and not use it to damage others.

Understood. To my knowledge, nothing in my missing years would be a problem.

What do you want to know, then?

If officers are still needed I can handle Pinkman. Doubt he can do much against cyborgs.

Otherwise, yeah, I can substitute if needed.

you wanna know a secret? i can feel what they did to that planet down there. the whole universe has a frequency, and i feel it in my gut. all the time. you have to fuck everything hard and long and purposeful to end up with that down there. hundreds of years of brutal fucking and everyone took a turn. that's what they want us to erase. that and billions of lives, probably. that's already started. and the people who are supposed to finish it can't decide to do anything about a couple of idiots who walked themselves into jail. yeah, i care. and don't think i don't see the flippant assholes who think i should be dismembered for saying a stupid situation is stupid. that's who's representing the 'right thing'. but apology accepted. it's been a shitty couple of weeks.

I still don't see why these guys are the ones that have to jump through eighty hoops when the real threat is still running free.

they havent been before. the problem is that people are talking about enforcing them now. just because something's never happened in the past doesnt mean that people wont try to do them in the future

yeah im enlightened to that now. but this is sort of shaky ground to walk on if you ask me

Even Then Its A Different Kind Of Enforcement From The Usual Object Of Specious Ire
And Arent Missions Intended For The Net Benefit Of The Transport Community
And By Extension The Late Exile Community
And By Even Further Extension The Multiverse As A Whole

'even then'? Even in the event that were starting to throw around words like 'required missions' its still for the good of everyone?

do you know what missions do? they change stuff. not just 'for the benefit of the transport community'. they erase people from existence. innocent people. i think that anyone should be able to choose whether or not they want to do something like that

Hold up, who said things about dismembering?

attachment.

Well, no wonder I overlooked it. I think reading that shit actually caused me physical pain. That sort of threat is bullshit, and nothing like that would ever, ever fly. That right there is a psycho, not someone representative of any reasonable thought. You want him to be talked to?

Oh, don't worry. If someone jumps me, I'm not going to keep it quiet.

[There's a slight lag - notable as thus far Kanaya's messages have suggested she's as practiced a typist as any modern teenager - before this filtered message, though sent in such a way that Roslyn would still be able to read it as the creator of the post.]

There Are A Lot Of Things I Am Willing To Pretend To Be On The Internet
Up To And Including A Human Being
An Expert On Time Travel Is Not One Of Those Things
That Said Your Proposed Model Is Not The One Under Which I Have Been Operating
And I Do Mean Proactively Operating Unlike The Vast Majority Of The Community Complaining About Our Moonbound And Generally Hopeless State

There Are Two Primary Models That Have Been Proposed
The First Is The Most Publicly Palatable Model
Where We Consider The History Of Exsilium And The Earth That Produced It As An Open Book
In Which We Add Or Remove Lines As We Please And The End Product Is All That Really Matters
Its All Very Abstract And Clean

The Second Is The Splinter Model
In Which Every Action You Take Splits The Timeline
Which Would Mean There Is A Timeline In Which I Decided To Never Reply To Your Text Message
Or At Least One Where The Warugawa Conglomerate Never Experienced My Initiative-Sanctioned Interference

Were Obviously In A Timeline Where Certain People Have Not Existed
That Is Indisputable
And It Is Possible The Existence Of Those People Is A Non-Negligible Factual Past Phenomenon
My Question Is
Where Is Your Proof Those People No Longer Exist In Any Timeline
Because Not Existing In The Same Timeline As Us Is Not In Any Way Whatsoever The Same Thing As Not Existing At All

Consider For Example The People In All The Other Worlds Just Waiting To Become The Conquests Of The United Earth
They Arent Here And They Exist
At Least They Do For Now

Edited (all I did was correct a single spelling error) 2013-12-07 19:22 (UTC)

yeah it took me a minute and i know it's bullshit. i've had a real lynch mob after me before, he's just an asshole. but we disagreed in public, and the next thing that happened was a threat. the mutineers disagreed and now they need bodyguards.

[ He'd honestly expected capital punishment, and hadn't the "disappearance" of a fellow jailed Assassin corroborated that? There are many things Altaïr wishes to know, but also many things he wishes to keep secret. Like his involvement in the mutiny. He's sure he covered his tracks, so sure, and yet... an uneasiness pervades his mind, like that of an important memory lost. He suspects he has overlooked something, but cannot figure out what.

So, he queries after the only part of this post he doesn't understand. ]

What is a "telepathic scan"?

You think these are bodyguards?

bodyguards, babysitters. both of the above.

...So that'd go for me too?

Both. It is a city-state.

Okay, okay! I can never be too sure, I know a guy who didn't sleep for like. A whole month once!

[ That's a bit of an exaggeration, but it was definitely several days, at least. ]

[She's pretty sure that "understood" is only for the first part, as much as she wishes it was for both, but she won't push it. She doesn't know Ros well enough.]

you should try it sometime after all this settles down

Are you suggesting there's no attractive women around here? How very offensive.

I imagine you'd be a rather good choice. What are you doing for the rest of your time here?

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