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[experimentality]

[ Oh look, it's Prism again--still stuck in the body of one of Liege Maximo's Acolytes. He doesn't appear any worse for wear otherwise, and he's currently seated on the berth that occupies one corner of his quarters. ]

Hello!

[ Still as perky as ever, if his bright tone is any indication. ]

How are you all? Well, I hope. Personally I'm rather bored. Incarceration is a dull affair, although I fail to see how this qualifies as any sort of punishment.

That said, I have a simple proposition.

Either Hal Nine-Thousand is brought to me immediately, or I will begin systematically detonating the devices currently implanted within several members of the population.

Comments

[Video]

[lifepersists]

That's not the point. We haven't exhausted all our options yet. You don't have to throw your life away. It's not... it's not right!

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

What's not right is someone holding this sort of threat over our heads. Not just those of us he's touched, but everyone connected to us.

[Video]

[lifepersists]

This isn't heroic at all. It's just stupid. I know--

[ He vents. ]

I know sometimes people just die. I know that. But I'm not gonna let a friend just run off to kill himself.

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[Ouch.]

I'm not trying to be a hero, First Aid. I'm trying to help. I have to do something. I can't just lie here and...do nothing, let someone else die for me.

_{that's...already happened. twice}

[Video]

[lifepersists]

What are you going to do? Just wander off and wait to explode?

Were you even going to say bye?

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[Wow. You know, Drift would almost rather blow up than be crushed under all this guilt everyone's laying on him. ]

It's safer for everyone, isn't it?

[Seriously? Can someone at least give him credit for logic here?]

First Aid....I.... [...have no idea what to say.] _{I don't know what else to do though}

[Video]

[lifepersists]

[ Sorry, Drift. They do it because they care. ]

It's safer. I know all about statistics. Sometimes in a packed medbay you have to make assessments on probability of survival.

[ He folds his arms and sighs. ]

It's very noble. But nobody is dying yet.

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[He sighs.]

Look. There's no way this doesn't hurt someone. The choice I have is to leave and they hurt emotionally, or I stay and...maybe they die. I have a right to choose to save them.

They could. At any time. He at least gave warning. We have to use that to our advantage somehow.

[Video]

[lifepersists]

[ He hates it when you're right. ]

...It's your choice.

[ He's conceding then. ]

Drift? If you have to go, then make sure he regrets doing this.

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[So does Drift.]

It's not a choice I want to make, First Aid. I want...[to live, to be friends, to do something other than fight. But that's all too late, isn't it?]

I'll do my best. And you, please, try to save the others.