My fuck rations are depleted [October catch-all]

[neverleave]

Who: Natsuno and you
What: Monthly catch-all
When: October
Where: All around
Warnings: Discussion of murder, violence and suicide, will add as needed

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[ring_for_giles]

Ah no, I certainly wasn't.

My first interdimensional prison came later. [ He grins, and only manages to cover it a little by taking a sip of his drink ] It didn't make me responsible in the slightest though.

[neverleave]

[That statement gets Natsuno's attention and he quirks an eyebrow.]

What, you were thrown from one interdimensional prison to another? Talk about unlucky. [Not that he sounds particularly sympathetic.] So what was it the first time? Don't tell me it was another cruise ship.

[ring_for_giles]

Not quite thrown from one to the other, I had about two years of freedom in-between.

For all the good that did me.

[ Giles laughs bitterly, and stirs his drink. Watches the combination of ice and alcohol swirl and clink against the glass with far away eyes ]

The first was... Well it certainly wasn't a cruise ship. It was a static place, a mockery of a- [ he stops, frowns, starts again ] of a great house. With lords and ladies above stairs and servants below. And woebetide any who dared step out of their place.

[neverleave]

[He hums thoughtfully.]

Like this place is a mockery of a pleasure cruise.

[And summer camp, and a 50s diner and whatever Earth media the captain tries to recreate this time.]

Stay too long, and you become a "servant" yourself. [Pause.] Except this place is no longer static, I guess.

[What's with the ghost strike and all.]

[ring_for_giles]

Exactly. Stay too long and you become part of the furniture. A servant, or a prop, or a ghost in the machine.

[ He makes a face somewhere between a grimace and a twisted smile, draining his drink in one large gulp before continuing ]

But things are starting to change around here, and it's largely for the best I think.

[neverleave]

[He raises an eyebrow.]

You think the fact that maintenance stopped and Friday's MIA is for the best?