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13: Spam: Man got to live what he know.
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[Omar is a roamer. As long as he's not forced to stay in his cabin -- in his cell, comfortable as it may be -- he spends very little time there. He's just as likely to sleep in an empty cabin, or even once or twice in the Enclosure. He keeps bizarre hours, and he keeps them largely to himself.
None of this is new. This is how he's been since he got here the first time. Since his last death toll, though, he's become even more erratic in his efforts to stay unpredictable, and the recent spate of unwarranted brutality has him feeling especially restless. He can be chanced upon at all kinds of odd times and places: at the library early in the morning, in the showers and the laundry room around noon, eating in the dining hall in the late afternoon. In the evening, smoking up on the deck with so many of his fellow passengers, because it's not actually that he's antisocial -- just very, very careful.
Careful enough that he takes data, and so some of the newer passengers may or may not be surprised to glimpse him out of the corner of their eyes every now and again. Maybe even writing something down.]
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[But there's a predictability even in unpredictability, and he does from time to time spend the night in his cabin, if only to keep up the illusion that he does so much more often. It might take a more careful observer a while to figure out when he's likely to return, but the time comes around eventually.
It's late in the evening, but he's been up for the last 36 hours, and he's tired -- and therefore both baffled and a little annoyed to hear a knock on the door right when he's about to lay his head down.]
Man, who is it?
[Edit: Voice to Ricki, post-Tiffany spam]
You know what? I remember a time this place didn't feel like a cross between a day care and a circus.
[Edit: Spam for Luna, post-pairings announcement]
[Omar's been playing the warden shuffle for a while now. At best, it's been ineffective -- the closest thing he's gotten to a decent temporary warden, in Horatio, got ripped away from him halfway through the month. At worst, it's been disastrous. So he's not inclined to pay much mind to the announcement, not anymore. He goes about his day. Let Luna Lovegood come to him, if she likes.]
[Omar is a roamer. As long as he's not forced to stay in his cabin -- in his cell, comfortable as it may be -- he spends very little time there. He's just as likely to sleep in an empty cabin, or even once or twice in the Enclosure. He keeps bizarre hours, and he keeps them largely to himself.
None of this is new. This is how he's been since he got here the first time. Since his last death toll, though, he's become even more erratic in his efforts to stay unpredictable, and the recent spate of unwarranted brutality has him feeling especially restless. He can be chanced upon at all kinds of odd times and places: at the library early in the morning, in the showers and the laundry room around noon, eating in the dining hall in the late afternoon. In the evening, smoking up on the deck with so many of his fellow passengers, because it's not actually that he's antisocial -- just very, very careful.
Careful enough that he takes data, and so some of the newer passengers may or may not be surprised to glimpse him out of the corner of their eyes every now and again. Maybe even writing something down.]
[Spam for Cold and Dark]
[But there's a predictability even in unpredictability, and he does from time to time spend the night in his cabin, if only to keep up the illusion that he does so much more often. It might take a more careful observer a while to figure out when he's likely to return, but the time comes around eventually.
It's late in the evening, but he's been up for the last 36 hours, and he's tired -- and therefore both baffled and a little annoyed to hear a knock on the door right when he's about to lay his head down.]
Man, who is it?
[Edit: Voice to Ricki, post-Tiffany spam]
You know what? I remember a time this place didn't feel like a cross between a day care and a circus.
[Edit: Spam for Luna, post-pairings announcement]
[Omar's been playing the warden shuffle for a while now. At best, it's been ineffective -- the closest thing he's gotten to a decent temporary warden, in Horatio, got ripped away from him halfway through the month. At worst, it's been disastrous. So he's not inclined to pay much mind to the announcement, not anymore. He goes about his day. Let Luna Lovegood come to him, if she likes.]
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Real civic-minded of you, Warden.
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It means you gonna have to eat a little crow, I think.
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[Not even for the sake of her future, hypothetical inmate - and she's pretty sure that makes her a bad future, hypothetical warden.]
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[This isn't said unkindly. It's a nice thing for her to have done. It's the kind of thing Leslie would have done. But Leslie had been painfully short-sighted and downright naive at times, and so is this.]
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[Not after seeing how much better it had made Lourdes feel.]
But I feel bad 'cause I think I probably should regret it, maybe.
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[It is, in fact, inevitable.]
Unless you prepared to go into the business for yourself, anyway.
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Then what you gonna do when somebody else come to you with something big and you used up all your favors and all your good will? When somebody else need they powers back, or something fixed up for 'em in they cabins.
No, you know what -- forget big. What you gonna do when your inmate ask you for a pack of cigarettes to start things off between y'all and you can't do so much as that for 'em? You expect that to end well? You can't be proud and stupid, baby girl. It don't work out.
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[Her voice is small, because he isn't wrong, and he knows it.]
And I'm not proud.
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[He growls low and turns away again, glaring out into the stars. It's been a while since he blew up like that, and maybe she's not the one that really deserves it, but even his calm has its limits.]
Heart don't mean nothing if you can't back it up.
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Leaving it, and taking it away - they're both bad choices.
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That means maybe now you got some unpleasantness coming your way, a'ight. But don't tell me you afraid of burning one of us and then tell me you ain't taking no step to put out the fire you already started.
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[Because she obviously doesn't want any answers from him. He does actually start walking then, bristling with irritation.]
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