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Marsh || Steel Inquisitor ([personal profile] myironeyes) wrote2014-10-06 06:11 pm

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[Public Video]

The kitchen is, as usual, understaffed. We were understaffed before this latest shake-up and now we are more understaffed. We require at least one temporary warden supervisor for the lunch shift and four or five new inmates.

Those interested should speak to Riddick or myself.


[Open spam, backdated throughout the last few days]

[Marsh can be found in odd times at odd places - late and night on the deck or early morning in the greenhouse, hunched over, making soft, choking noises, his little cockatiel crooning worriedly and attempting to preen his short hair. Folded in a corner of the ice-damaged stairwell, a hand splayed over his spikes, breathing hitched, shoulders shaking, looking like nothing so much as a man desperately trying to sob and unable to manage it.

The crying from Iris's room - it's psychic, he doesn't just hear it. It gets in when he is too tired to fend it off from ripped-open places, and then it becomes him, the loneliness and fear and grief, the confusion of the very young. He remembers himself - it is not overwhelming, not like Ruin at its worst, nothing like that - but he cannot stop feeling it. And the feeling is not entirely unfamiliar.]



[Private spam for Bianca]

[He decides, eventually, that it cannot be a trick, that something is real, must be suffering. Or perhaps he doesn't care anymore, as long as it stops. He arrives at her door with his jaw clenched from the effort of holding the lost, abandoned feeling back, and it still drips through his cracks, stings like salt in his punctures. He knocks.]


[Private spam for C'Rizz the Dalek Emperor, backdated to shortly after the arena]

[It's not a pleasant return, but he falls to the necessary housekeeping with a grim sort of gratitude. He asks the admiral for a resurrection, then swallows a truly foul amount of powdered pewter and a small sliver of feruchemy-laced gold. Then cooks until he stops seeing Iris on every blank nonmetallic surface, and brings the egg soup to C'Rizz's room. He knocks, then lets himself in.]

It's me.
walkingmeltdown: (suffer all alone in your misery☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-07 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Do you ever plan on sleeping again? Stretch yourself more thin, why don't you.
sickjoke: Scared :: ANXIOUS ([JN] Starting to giggle... nervously)

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[personal profile] sickjoke 2014-10-07 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Should I tell you about the wild microsleep meditations I do to enable me to go without sleep for days, or should you just come hit me now?
walkingmeltdown: (i'mma be that nail in your coffin☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-07 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Where are you? Stay there. And hold still for me.

[Deadpan, gravelly-voiced humorless quip.]
sickjoke: Mad :: Hostile :: SARCASTIC ([JN] Sarcasm Is A Careful Art)

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[personal profile] sickjoke 2014-10-07 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Only if I get to to wear my helmet.
walkingmeltdown: (you disrespect me so clearly☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-07 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ha ha. [Okay, now he can't help but sound mildly queasy. It is okay for them to joke about this, now? After what happened?]
sickjoke: Scared :: ANXIOUS ([JN] Starting to giggle... nervously)

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[personal profile] sickjoke 2014-10-07 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Too soon? Too soon.

[ Jack can find humor in anything when he need to. ]
walkingmeltdown: (talk slick to me no☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-07 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
And you give me guff for the remarks I make sometimes, honestly.
sickjoke: Mad :: Hostile :: SARCASTIC, Mad :: Hostile :: IRRITATED ([JN] That joke's too complicated)

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[personal profile] sickjoke 2014-10-07 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I know, I know.

I get all-- sharp-edged when the pressure is on. [ He has to lay aside some of his kindness, to get certain jobs done. But the jobs? They get done. ] And the pressure's on.

But you're right, I'm going too thin, and Marsh is probably going to tell me no anyway. He knows it, you know it.

[ Jack knows it. ]
walkingmeltdown: (you disrespect me so clearly☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-08 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Exasperated sound.] Honestly, Jack. Why did all the most useful people right now end up trapped on the other side?
sickjoke: Scared :: ANXIOUS ([JN] Starting to giggle... nervously)

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[personal profile] sickjoke 2014-10-08 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, I'm not chopped liver. [ another joke ] As for why: no idea.
walkingmeltdown: (suffer all alone in your misery☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-09 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't discounting you. Obviously.

If even you were gone, by this point I would've graduated up to flinging myself over the side.
sickjoke: Mad :: Hostile :: SARCASTIC ([JN] Wry Humor)

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[personal profile] sickjoke 2014-10-09 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Please be not jumping off the boat. We'll get through this together, okay?
walkingmeltdown: (i'mma be that nail in your coffin☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-09 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Together.

[His voice is a hard neutral. Doing his best to conceal true melancholy lingering behind you.]

Just you and me.
sickjoke: ([JN] Focused on the laughs)

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[personal profile] sickjoke 2014-10-09 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Partners, till they get home.

[ It's temporary, he has to stress that. ]
walkingmeltdown: (you disrespect me so clearly☠)

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[personal profile] walkingmeltdown 2014-10-09 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[He wants to almost ask, what if it isn't temporary? This has been going on far longer than such things usually do...but no. He won't even let the question surface, when he's been so adamant in his resolve everywhere else.

Instead he simply nods tightly, and then disconnects.
]