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Good time to check in, I figure. I'm Cain.
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Arthas has good advice if you haven't seen it already. You need tools, I'll see what I can do to get 'em to you.
What else can we do so we're not caught on our asses for this thing?
Good time to check in, I figure. I'm Cain.
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Arthas has good advice if you haven't seen it already. You need tools, I'll see what I can do to get 'em to you.
What else can we do so we're not caught on our asses for this thing?
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Date: 2014-09-22 12:24 pm (UTC)[YOU MAY WANT TO CLARIFY.]
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Date: 2014-09-25 02:12 am (UTC)Hey 75% of what he said was useful. And the rest is useful about 50% of the time!
[He's maybe, a little, stressed. It's easy to default to assassin mode when stressed.]
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Date: 2014-09-25 02:24 am (UTC)True enough. I 'ad to shoot William Bush, last time. Horatio hesitated.
[Iris didn't hesitate, and she doesn't know how to feel about that.]
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Date: 2014-09-25 06:45 am (UTC)What would've happened if you'd followed Horatio's lead?
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Date: 2014-09-25 10:06 am (UTC)[She's doing her best to be resolute about it. To be certain she made the right choice.]
Derek asked me and Jack to knock 'im off if 'e's changed and all. I said I'd do it, 'cause I don't want Jack to 'ave to.
[She pinches the bridge of her nose tiredly, and then she looks up to meet Cain's eyes.]
'E said to aim for the heart. Derek's mirror's a lot more radioactive than 'e is, 'e's started destabilising around the top end. Headshot'd probably just piss 'im off.
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Date: 2014-09-30 01:43 am (UTC)You know, in a way, Jack's a mirror version for me. Probably why he always feels so- wrong to me.
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Date: 2014-10-05 12:00 am (UTC)[She tilts her head, remembering Joker and the way all her Gotham people go when he's mentioned.]
...I can see 'ow that'd be. But Jack's an absolute love. I reckon you could be friends. If you wanted.
[He's become like a brother to Iris. She'd really like that.]
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Date: 2014-10-05 10:16 pm (UTC)...Wouldn't count on it. I can be friendly but he's still got Joker in him, same as Joker's got Jack deep inside.
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Date: 2014-10-05 11:07 pm (UTC)[Said with a smirk, because that's pretty bloody dangerous.]
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Date: 2014-10-09 01:47 am (UTC)Difference is he wants to be that dangerous. And every crooked bastard's got his own reasoning; some of 'em you should just put a bullet in, cause you can't take 'em down if you don't understand why they roll out of bed.
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Date: 2014-10-10 04:53 pm (UTC)[private]
Date: 2014-10-10 10:04 pm (UTC)[And he has trouble convincing himself that this Jack isn't headed right for that.]
But that's why you're his friend. Maybe someday I'll be able to unlearn a thing or two and be his friend, too.
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Date: 2014-10-10 11:43 pm (UTC)I'd like that if you did.
Re: [private]
Date: 2014-10-10 11:54 pm (UTC)I won't make any promises.
[It's not practical to promise things like that. But he'll try.]
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Date: 2014-10-11 12:15 am (UTC)Re: [private]
Date: 2014-10-11 12:33 am (UTC)[He grins] I'll do my best. We've got a low-maintenance thing, I enjoy it, darlin'. In case I don't say it enough.
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Date: 2014-10-11 12:37 am (UTC)[Iris doesn't blush. She's probably not capable of it. But there is a certain girlish flusterment happening here.]
So do I. And you say it plenty.
[Not in words, the same like she almost never says she loves him in words.
But they say it plenty.]
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Date: 2014-10-11 12:53 am (UTC)[How much easier might his life have been if he'd known more people whose main requirement was just that he not shoot their friends unless he had to?
Of course he would have screwed those people over...assuming there was a right price involved. And in thinking that he wonders if he wouldn't still take a sum to go headhunting, even if it was someone Iris cared about--and he's not entirely sure. Probably not. He has little interest in cash anymore, but he's not the pacifist he wanted to be when he first came to the Barge.]
How long d'you think we'll be on this Barge?
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Date: 2014-10-11 01:06 am (UTC)[She can see there's something - some sort of undertow of - is it discontent? She can't tell.]
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Date: 2014-10-11 01:17 am (UTC)If we can't get back to the other ship, I think we should try to bail.
[She reads him right, and there are a handful of reasons.]
I miss the little guy. [The baby, the one wailing on the other Barge.] And I have to make sure Cass never has to try to graduate off of this boat.
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Date: 2014-10-14 10:51 pm (UTC)...Sweetheart. Back up a bit, there. What just 'appened?
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Date: 2014-10-14 11:07 pm (UTC)Must have been something in dinner tonight...
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Date: 2014-10-14 11:14 pm (UTC)You said you missed the little 'un. 'E's right 'ere, I can feel it.
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Date: 2014-10-22 04:21 am (UTC)Be there in five. If I'm not, assume I got lost.
[He makes it sound light, but since it could be possible now...]
Y'know humans go senile, right?
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Date: 2014-10-25 07:26 pm (UTC)[She says it too sharply and too fast; it's not that she knows it's something else, only that she refuses to believe it can be that.
And then, more calmly.]
...besides, the symptoms are wrong for that. Humans regress to the past when they go senile, not the future. You were on the mirror barge, weren't you? Cut off from our ships?
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Date: 2014-11-01 04:38 am (UTC)Well it's not a new idea, let's put it that way. I just didn't figure you'd be with me.
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Date: 2014-11-01 07:38 pm (UTC)Re: [private]
Date: 2014-11-01 07:41 pm (UTC)Bolt by bolt, eh?
[He sounds reassured. Happy, even; nothing makes him smile like knowing there are overwhelmingly dangerous odds to fight against, and that someone will fight beside him.]
What else do you know about the people there?
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Date: 2014-11-01 08:19 pm (UTC)[Her wolfish grin matches his; that's a place where they've always seen eye to eye, and it will never stop delighting her.]
Well, Joker, but in my book 'e's not the most dangerous by a long chalk. Too distractible, not focused enough. You let me 'andle 'im. Zane's the one to watch - even I can't push Zane around, plus allomancy's a bugger. Jean's alternate, Kara's alternate, Bruce's alternate, those are the other heavy hitters. I'll 'ave to talk to Jean and Kara, work out what to do with that. We might be able to inspire 'em to take each other out for us if we play it clever.
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Date: 2014-11-02 01:38 am (UTC)Go back to allomancy--what's that? [His first solution to most things is a well-placed bullet, but whatever Zane can do, it sounds trickier than something you pull a trigger on.]
Kara's a good kid, from what I've seen. She shouldn't be too hard.
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Date: 2014-09-23 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-25 02:54 am (UTC)You strike me as a blades person.
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Date: 2014-09-25 11:12 am (UTC)I can use a pistol or rifle if I don't have anything else.
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Date: 2014-09-24 04:52 pm (UTC)Private.
Date: 2014-09-25 06:32 am (UTC)If you wanted punctual you should've landed yourself in a military prison.
How's the place been treating you?
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Date: 2014-09-25 08:02 am (UTC)It's creeping me the fuck out. How long is this shit gonna go on for? It feels different from the floods.
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Date: 2014-09-30 01:27 am (UTC)Tell you the truth, I think it goes on until we stop it. This one's not like the floods, you're right.
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Date: 2014-09-30 01:47 am (UTC)So what the fuck do we do about it?
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Date: 2014-10-02 01:52 am (UTC)Private.
Date: 2014-10-03 04:19 pm (UTC)Private.
Date: 2014-10-05 10:13 pm (UTC)Private.
Date: 2014-10-05 11:43 pm (UTC)Private.
Date: 2014-10-09 01:48 am (UTC)Yeah. I've got your back. Just try not to shoot one of the sane wardens or they might hold a grudge.
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Date: 2014-10-11 02:24 pm (UTC)Don't worry, I don't want to shoot anyone.
[There is an unspoken 'again' lingering in the air.]
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Date: 2014-10-14 02:25 am (UTC)[His expression softens a fraction, then becomes all business again.]
As long as you don't let anyone take advantage of a nonviolent heart, all right?
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Date: 2014-10-14 04:04 pm (UTC)Trust me. No ones ever fucking taking advantage of me again.