priorly: (➣ morticia)
Prior Walter ([personal profile] priorly) wrote in [community profile] elnysa2018-03-28 05:29 pm

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[After a cluster of days spent surfing park benches, with sleep only a brief and unwelcome interruption, Prior has finally made it to the space station. He comes onto the screen, a black shadow in a gleaming hallway: if he looks like death on a mission to avenge itself, that is the intended effect. It may be more Norma Desmond descending a staircase, but that's not far off, either. He's still clutching a cane just to hold himself upright. His voice is raspy but loud, and just a few notes higher pitched than it should be.]

Is everyone back from the dead now? Good. Wouldn't want our new arrivals seeing the aftereffects of that little mess, would we. How good that our merciful overseers can let us go through days of torture, days of agony, let our skin slough off and our eyes burn out, let us choke on gas until we suffocate from it, then kindly bring us back so we can all do it again next time someone in this sadistic little shithole gets a fresh bee in their bonnet.

You know - on earth - I always had trouble with the idea of a non-interventionist God. But non-interventionist omnipotent aliens? Well goddamn. Fuck that. Fuck them.

Oh, they can play with the native's minds so a talking racoon looks like business as usual, but they can't stop them wanting to kidnap us?

They can see everything we do and they can't tell our fucking friends where we are?

What is the point of them, then? What's the point of any of this? They haven't rescued us from any storm, they've just left us stranded on a tiny, hostile island, wondering whether our little bit of sand is going to wash away before or after the natives get around to eating us.

Well I am tired and I am sick and I am through with this bullshit. Was anyone else told they'd look after our loved ones for us? Because I have loved ones down there now, and they were not looked after well. Maybe I should let a few of the next-to-wake know exactly how reassuring all those promises look now.

I don't know what to do, but it seems to me that we're being hung out to dry down there, and someone needs to do something. So I'm going to start by finding one of these assholes and seeing what happens.
shashka: (be strong for mother)

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[personal profile] shashka 2018-03-28 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, this is exactly why the Soviet Union doesn't believe in gods.

[ a pause ]

Where are you right now?

[ because he has... thoughts on this, but he sure as hell doesn't want any of them recorded for posterity's sake. ]
enarms: (pic#10160274)

audio, u.n: j.watson

[personal profile] enarms 2018-03-28 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ jesus Christ, he wasn't kidding on any score. ]

Prior, don't be a fucking idiot.
vorrutyer: (hmmmmm not bad)

text, post-dated to March 30th

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-03-28 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
God moves in mysterious ways, they say.
enarms: (something in the dark began to squeeze m)

[personal profile] enarms 2018-03-28 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't disagree with you, but I've told you that it doesn't matter. You've just spent five minutes repeating that they're not going to do anything. All you're going to get by storming up there is more pissed off than you already are.

[ or worse. ]
vorrutyer: (smirk)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-03-28 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Do we? I haven't met any Martians. Which is a pity; they're delightful people. They've got a certain frontiersiness and fresh-faced charm that Terrans tend to lack. Much less cynicism.
Edited 2018-03-28 17:21 (UTC)
shashka: (gdi eli)

(cw discussion of war crimes in general...)

[personal profile] shashka 2018-03-28 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You know us. Had to try and outdo the Americans after Vietnam.

[ after years serving in Afghanistan himself, and being in charge of the Soviet interrogation units, he really has no illusions about any of it. not that he ever did in the first place.

but ]


I meant the general area on the Station. The whole thing's the size of a small moon.

[ after all, you could get lost in the stasis chambers for hours. ]
vorrutyer: (hmmmmm not bad)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-03-28 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
But I want you to be impressed with my scriptural knowledge. Not bad for a godless lad from a godless land, eh?
vorrutyer: (confused)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-03-28 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
How is it not? There's the word God, right in there.
shashka: (you're all worthless)

[personal profile] shashka 2018-03-28 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd have to tell our leaders that. Soldiers are only tools of their governments, after all.

[ not to get too philosophical. ]

I'll see you in a few minutes, then.

[ hope you enjoy a lesson on revolution, Prior. ]
flashystyle: (he did some of his best work)

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[personal profile] flashystyle 2018-03-28 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[When Dorian's feed pops up, his lips are a thin line, and his brows are knitted. He's not particularly happy.]

So, what? Are we to stage a coup against our mysterious sponsors? I think you need to calm down before making these decisions for yourself, Prior.
hedonistic: (pic#10783882)

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[personal profile] hedonistic 2018-03-28 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
they never promised they'd take care of anyone after they woke up

what do you think you're gonna do if you find them, anyway? they'll probably just put you back to sleep if you make too much of a nuisance for them
vorrutyer: (fleas are burning)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-03-28 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it not? I seem to distinctly remember Jesus saying that to Baba Yaga at some point.
flashystyle: (don't care for that shit at all)

[personal profile] flashystyle 2018-03-28 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Does that mean you must risk spilling it? No. There are more orderly ways to go about this.

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