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[We can assume that Firo probably got this text sometime after all of this went down:]

Hey.

Probably going to have to take a rain check for poker night to a later date...

Sorry.

Edited 2013-01-15 08:13 (UTC)

Don't be. It's not that important.

[By now he's heard about the deaths and the monsters, so he can take a guess about why Murphy can't come. He's not completely sure what's happening, but weird monsters and a dead kid are the worst he's seen thrown at the ship so far.]

Sorry if you're involved up in all that crap that just happened.

It's not the first time I've dealt with it...

[Not sure if that's supposed to mean it's easier or harder. Nothing easy about death, let alone when it's a child.]

[Ouch. How do you respond to that? His first impulse would be to ask for elaboration, but fortunately the difficulty of texting allows him to have something of a filter.]

Then I'm really sorry. Kids shouldn't be in places like this.

[Not that certain places back home are much safer, it just seems that if a kid is to get snatched up by a spaceship it should take them somewhere that's actually nice.]

They shouldn't. Can't help but wonder what kind of sick bastard ever thought that was a good idea. Would like to kick his ass.

[Not all of those kids are excess baggage, Murphy.

Shh, they're still just kids to him.]

I'm with you there. Anybody who'll put a kid in harm's way should get back what they give and then some.

Edited 2013-01-18 02:20 (UTC)

Yeah. The Chicago way's exactly what I'd do if I ever find the son of a bitch out.

[Chicago's considered lawless even by the standards of New York's various crime families, so Firo can assume basically what Murphy means.]

I think usually I'd say those guys out in Chicago are a little too brutal, but for things like this it's just right. People have gotten killed for less.

Too bad it doesn't seem like whatever bastard's responsible for all this'll own up soon.

[Not having someone he can confront for this--the murder, the ship, everything--is an unusual frustration for Firo.]

Yeah, this kind of thing has been going on for awhile. I figured we were always going to be in danger, but all of this...

I'm starting to think that brutal is the way to go.

Yeah. If he doesn't want to play nice, then neither should we.

Just gotta find him first. He has to be somewhere around here.

["Here" is still a very big area.]

Easier said than done. I've looked.

Can't say the so-called captain of this boat is going to be much help, either - and even if he DID know...
Doubt he'd be telling US.

Damn.

Seems like whoever it was that put all this together did a really good job of making sure we wouldn't be able to do anything.

But not impossible.

I don't plan on sticking around to see if we're just going to go the way of the last crew... whatever the hell happened to them.

Doesn't seem like a whole crew could get picked off one by one.

Even if you do find a way out of here, how would you get home?

From what I can tell this ship is big enough to hold an entire city. I don't even want to know what could take THAT MANY people at the same time.

At this point going back home isn't a big deal to me anyway. If we can get to someplace safe, then that's good enough for me.

Edited 2013-01-23 03:52 (UTC)

Even if I wanted to know, I don't think I could figure it out. There's nothing back home that could do it.

I don't see a point in going anywhere but home. Anyway, is there even any safe place out there?

I don't know. This ship sometimes makes stops for supplies, but...

Some of us went to this outpost called Strela awhile back. That place wasn't much better than HERE - some people almost didn't even make it back.

Really? What happened?

[It's silly, but he'd imagined leaving the ship for the closest thing to ground would guarantee some measure of safety.]

It was a mess. People who didn't fit into their little hivemind were being arrested and then brainwashed or something. It's like you lost all sense of who you were and just literally became part of their system.

Anyone would be better off dead than to stay there.

What the hell? Who could do something like that?

[It sounds disturbingly similar to how Szilard's homonculi started out life.]

I don't know. Didn't care to stick around long enough to figure it out.

Glad you at least got out okay. I feel bad for whoever's still stuck there. Even if they don't know what's being done to them is sick, it's still awful.

There was a guy back home who tried to run people's minds and whenever they started thinking for themselves he'd just kill them.

[Ennis had the choice to rebel and die or stay under his control. Maybe she was more fortunate than those people.]

Doubt there was much that could be done for any of those people. Whatever happened to them, it's been going on for some time. Doesn't make it any easier though.

Christ. The fact that there are more people out there who'd go and do the same thing like that is messed up.

Sorry.

Yeah, I used to think he was a pretty damn special brand of evil, but I guess not. Seems like as long as people can screw with someone else's head, they will.

It's fine. He got what he deserved in the end.

I hope that what he got was just as unpleasant as the shit he was dishing out to other people. Eye for an eye, you know.

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