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Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

"He called us cockroaches," he laughs, a bitter edge to it.

"But he's not wrong."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

"Mm. I suspect I might not have the same definition of a cult as you or Mr. Lester might. I understand it as a small religious sect? Ah, I believe there can be... intense elements, but I don't know if that's what you're part of."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

He shrugs.

"'Intense' is - putting it mildly. I don't have an illusions about what we are. I'm not the recruiter. I don't have to sell it."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

"I'm not someone anything like that could be sold to." He's not about to join a different god's religion.

"What god do you follow?"

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

"My brother," he says with a small amount of amusement. He's not serious, but also - he's never followed any other. Not since he was a kid.

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

He nods, not seeing anything strange in that. "So he's ascended?"

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

"Not yet. He's a prophet. Hears the Voice. Might be God, might not."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

"Oh, I see." That makes sense, and he's not surprised that Jacob would say he follows his brother rather than whatever god his brother might have dedicated himself to. "Why do you say Mr. Lester was... not wrong in his accusations?"

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

"Cockroaches survive," he says with a hint of intensity.

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

"I believe they're known for it. So, your group is about... survival?" He supposes it's not so different than most cults he's heard of, if more direct.

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

"Yes," comes the laughing reply. "The Collapse is coming. By fire. The world will end and we will be ready for it."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

"I see." He doesn't know Jacob's world, so there's no reason to assume 'the Collapse' isn't real, whatever it might mean to be ready for that. "All that, and now you find yourself here. It must be an adjustment, but I believe that's true for everyone."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

"No. I was always going to end up dead," he says, finishing the whiskey in his flask.

"I was to be my brother's sacrifice. I didn't want to come here."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

"Mm. There are others who would have preferred to be left to their death in peace. But he doesn't take requests of that nature, so here everyone lives."

Xie Lian wouldn't chose to bring someone on the Barge who wanted to be dead, but he's working for the Admiral and so doesn't believe in acting as if he isn't complicit in that.

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

Jacob hadn't wanted to live in the first place. Jacob hadn't wanted to live since he came back from the War.

But he did. He survived, if one could call it that. And he'll do the same here.

"He gave my youngest brother his life back. I suppose he wants the set."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[riseunparalleled]

"Oh, was your brother here?" The name had sounded slightly familiar, but that doesn't mean anything. A lot of people share names. "I'm afraid I didn't know him. Not more than the way you end up knowing someone from simply living in the same place."

Re: after the fight with Arthur

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

"Not sure what tye Admural did to him, but he's apparently doing well."

Which he has mixed feelings on and has no intention of exploring.

[pharadyne]

Yoo-hoo! Me again. Seems I'm your warden for the next while. Meet me at my cabin, level three cabin nine.

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

[A very sarcastic:] Yes, sir.

[But he does show up a few minutes later, knocking at the door.]

[pharadyne]

[Norton opens the door and gestures for Jacob to come in.]

Make yourself at home. I've got tea ready by the sofa.

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

[He walks in, hands in his pockets.]

Not much of a tea drinker. [He flops down in one of the chairs, crossing his legs.]

So what's the protocol here?

[pharadyne]

Beer then? Whiskey?

A 1932 Chateau Latour Pauillac?

[Norton flutters around the sitting area, not sitting quite yet.]

There's no particular protocol. I just like to check in with any inmate I'm assigned. Make sure you've everything you need.

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

Whiskey's fine. [He's doesn't often drink to excess, wanting more to keep a clear head, but that seems less than necessary here, in this place.]

Well, can't say I need anything in particular, unless you can conjure up an actual outdoors.

[pharadyne]

Not an actual outdoors, but I could conjure up assorted fake-but-very-convincing outdoors.

[He prances over to his liquor cabinet, pours a finger of Japanese whiskey into a glass, and offers it to Jacob.]

[weaponwithoutpurpose]

[He takes the glass and raises it up, taking a quick swallow.]

I don't mean the Enclosure. Been there already, but if you want to offer more access...