010 - Blackberry

[deadly_ned]

[Filtered to First Floor - Red Team, affected and unaffected alike]


Come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes.


[Filtered to Thomas MacLaine]

Stay right there. I'm coming to rescue you. Don't. Panic.

We're going to go kick some ass.

Comments

[deadly_ned]

More than none at all.

[darknessb4me]

That tells me nothing.

[deadly_ned]

I had some, uh. Brief...tutoring at school. With fencing.

Not with guns. I don't like guns, as a rule. Except for the kind that don't kill anyone.

Those I like.

[darknessb4me]

But no tactics.

[Arthas voice has already picked up a brusque and dismissive tone; clearly someone else is going to have to lead this team.]

[deadly_ned]

I don't think they could have fit that in just before math. No.

[darknessb4me]

[Sigh.]

You and Riddick have the cafeteria?

[deadly_ned]

He does.

I have my room.

[darknessb4me]

No one gives a damn about your room, it has no strategic value.

Take one or two more people and take the infirmary. Shoot the patients and hold the doctors hostage. No one gets in or out that isn't on our team.

[deadly_ned]

It has...sentimental value.


What.

No.

No, we're not taking the infirmary.

[darknessb4me]

Why? It's the obvious step after securing the only source of food.

[deadly_ned]

It's also cruel and unnecessary and we're better than that.

[darknessb4me]

It's advantageous and effective. That's the measure of whether or not we're "better."

[deadly_ned]

I think we can win without taking people hostage.

[darknessb4me]

It's not as if we're actually going to hurt anyone. It's paint.

[deadly_ned]

It's fear.

[darknessb4me]

What's wrong with fear?

[deadly_ned]

It isn't how I like to win.

[darknessb4me]

I enjoy fear.

[deadly_ned]

You wouldn't enjoy it if it happened to you.

[darknessb4me]

I'm not afraid of paint.

[deadly_ned]

Would you be afraid of being a hostage?

[darknessb4me]

I'd like to see someone try to take me hostage.

[deadly_ned]

If they could.

Would you be afraid?

[darknessb4me]

Of course not. I would be angry.

[deadly_ned]

Can't you empathize with people who are scared? Being scared is one of the worst feelings imaginable. You're so...out of your own control, you're not in charge and nothing seems right..