[021] barge, I love you, but you're bringing me down

[notafuckingnut]

Hey, Admiral Fucktard. Your system sucks. It's broken.

But thanks, I guess. Makes my life easier.


[PRIVATE to Lua]

...Hey, you still around alright over there around?


[A/N: his Warden's gone, and Lua's MIA as far as he can tell (he's out of the loop -- big surprise); SOMEONE is having a bad week.]

Comments

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

Not if you don't know the right people.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Like who?

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

...you make friends, right? [ She really doesn't have any names to drop; not that she trusts him with, anyway. ]

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Yeah... [...No. You're...pretty much it, Lua.] Why? We don't exactly hang.

[private]

[surrenders]

It's how you get anything here worth getting.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Bullshit. That's...No. Contacts are different than friends; you don't make friends with your contacts, that's just bad business.

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

You know how there was a whole world around us before? So few people here they're the same thing.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Except...they aren't though.

Contacts are disposable. [...And friends aren't as far as you're concerned, Richie? Be serious.]

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

Can't really dispose of anyone here, though, Richie.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Maybe if you dumped 'em overboard?

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

...not what I'm saying.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Yeah, I know. You can't afford to lose anybody you got here 'cause you don't know when you'll need 'em. I'm just saying.

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

Got what you're saying.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Okay.

Good.

[Except it doesn't really feel like he made his point.]