itstopped | Re-Entry 07: Video/Spam

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[Felix's video is on, but he's not actually very visible; just the edge of his shoulder at the corner of the screen, moving as he does... something with his communicator. It's stationary on the table in his room, but it jostles very slightly every few seconds as he fiddles with it. Most of the view is of his extremely generic-looking if surprisingly rumpled bed.]

I'm sure I'm just repeating some of the chatter that's already gone out over the warden filter, but... has anyone else noticed that our communicators are starting to pick up radio waves? Has anyone gotten a signal? [He pauses, with another slight twitch of the screen.] And I don't suppose anyone has a spare I could borrow?

[Whatever he's doing, he's too absorbed to switch filters, and this isn't secret enough to make private, so he just continues from there:] Narvin, I'm going to try this out in the CES. I might be able to club together a rudimentary DRADIS, maybe even a motion detector... [He pulls back a little bit now, just enough to get one eye on the screen. He's not smiling any more than usual, but he looks oddly excited.] Dean? I'll see you up there at the usual time. Uh, bring the Colt.

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[It's a while before he makes it to the pub. He really does go to work for a bit, but mostly that's because he needs the time to pull himself together. He's feeling manic and angry at the same time, disjointed, at loose ends with himself in a way he hasn't been in a long time. In the end, he pays a visit to Dean to settle himself and has a cigarette on the deck first, and then makes his way to the pub, knocking on the door.]

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They're fine. [He's thinking of Narvin when he says it, tempering his praise because he's more all right with working for the Time Lord than he used to be, but still not overly fond of the man. On the other hand, there's Barbara, and again: hmm.]

Well-- so I've got three jobs right now. The research lab with a Time Lord named Narvin; um, Maintenance with Dean... [Oops?] and the engine room in the afternoons. The other warden down there is a frakking nightmare, but Barbara, she's one of the better ones. You'd like her. She's one of the few wardens around here that doesn't make me think of Adama and Roslin more often than not.

Yeah?

[ Note to self: make friends with Barbara. ]

So why's the other one a nightmare?

[ Their friendship was originally based on bitching about things, right? They should get back to the basics. ]

[That's a fair point, Racetrack. Still, he raises a brow.] Are you sure you want to hear me disparage your fellow wardens? So soon?

I didn't get a personality transplant with the warden badge, you know.

[Also a fair point. He hesitates only for another second, then leans in, dropping his voice a little bit.] Frankly, he reminds me a little of Baltar, if he'd been some giant-headed blue alien instead of... what he was. [If he's honest with himself, he has to admit that some of the things that drew him to Gaius are a lot less attractive in a body that is, itself, much less attractive.] Grandiose, selfish, self-aggrandizing, completely incapable of understanding things like consequences or basic frakking causality. His girlfriend took over the ship and he spent most of the aftermath berating the rest of us for wanting justice and not wanting him to be the one to take over her job. He's clueless, not to mention dangerous.

[He laughs suddenly.] Well, really, all I need to tell you is that he calls himself Megamind. Even Gaius never went that far.

...and he's a warden?

[ Wow she's actually a little bit appalled. ]

He's a graduate. Something happened during the takeover, gods know what.

[ Guess who looks like she took a full-on bite into a lemon.

Which she's done, more than once, usually on a dare. ]

I guess frakking someone can make people do weird things.

It's not just him that's like that. He's just the most... visible. There's not much unity among the inmates, but there's even less among the wardens.

That...

[ kind of surprises her, but ]

...actually makes sense. People who've been kidnapped have more of a common cause.

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