FRACTAL 2014/04/19(Sat)19:28 No. 571625 ID: 55bec4
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I'm trying to decide between ignoring Zjaha and psychoanalyzing her when the cabin door opens again.

"You guyyyyyyyys." Oh, here's another one. She's better than Zjaha, personality-wise, and pretty cute up top, but other than that she doesn't have much going for her. "We're due on deck, like, yesterdayyy."

FRACTAL 2014/04/19(Sat)19:28 No. 571626 ID: 55bec4
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"We aren't going!" Zhaja snaps, before I can even say anything. "I refuse to participate any further in a system that has unjustly thrust me into these hellish conditions!"

I wave my skin mag at her. "I'm busy today."

"Uhm, that's great for you guyyyys, but if you don't go, me and the other two will have to work like, wayyyy harder. And I'm not gonna skip with you guys and leave it on the others, you knowww?"

Before you ask, yeah, she always talks like that. I've kind of gotten used to it by now.

"But if we ALL skip, there's no problem," I point out.

"I guess, but are we gonna be able to convince them? I don't know if they're gonna come looking or if they'll just wait on deck, and if they do that then our supervisors will come looking for us."

"and? what will they do? demand we go?"

>>571626
Alright let's go track them down then.

Is that a helmet? What are you actually supposed to be doing?

>but if you don't go, me and the other two will have to work like, wayyyy harder. And I'm not gonna skip with you guys and leave it on the others, you knowww?
Then it sounds like it's in your best interest to talk them into joining our lazing off rebellion.

>>571626
Well, we're within our right to refuse the supervisors. They can't do anything legally. And I'm sure the other two will not do work rather than all of the work split between the two. That's near impossible.

So we'll just find them, let them that there's currently a work boycott going around and that they best not do work, because the current system is bullshit. And to spread this to others groups as well. BAM.

>>571626
Let them come, I say. Anyone who steps into this room will be pulled into the gravity of our logic, soda and porn until the whole facility becomes one huge chillout house!

FRACTAL 2014/04/20(Sun)23:43 No. 571796 ID: 55bec4
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>>571633

Yeah. Most of our service revolves around cleaning up abandoned planets, or ones that are only populated during tourist seasons. We don't ALWAYS need the helmets, since most of the places we clean have breatheable atmospheres for most species, but regulations require us to wear them any time we're out in the field anyway just in case.

"Looks like we better go find 'em, then." I reluctantly get to my feet, nudging the magazine under my bed with the rest of my contraband. Neither of them protest.

Should I grab or do anything before leaving the room?

>>571796
Um... grab your comlink? I dunno what else you could grab aside from pants and I feel like pantsless is the way to go.

>>571796

Put on some pants.

>>571796
Put pants on.
Unless you have a REASON to want pants off. You lewd.

>>571799
fashion pants into a makeshift rucksack for storage, wearing them like normal is just a hassle

Pants are for people who care. You're good.

Get your survival kit.

Don't forget your soda. If you leave it, it might get warm.

The porn mag can wait, though.

FRACTAL 2014/06/18(Wed)19:19 No. 579226 ID: c3ad33
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Fiiiiine, pants it is. I squeeze myself into a pair and trot after my squadmates into the hallway.

"So, uh, Skerz." I sidle up next to the youngest member of our team, pausing every now and then to take a nice big swig of a my Galaxy Gulp. "Since we're gonna be hangin' around here instead of goin' on duty, I was thinkin' -"

"Ohhhhhh my god, you're like, five billiiiiiiioooooon years ooooooold," she interrupted, rolling all five of her eyes. "No thaaaaanks!"

"Uh, I'm 25, and also that's not what I was gonna say." We check around the corner at the end of the hall for guards, then continue once the coast is confirmed clear. "I was thinkin', like, we should start thinking about how we can get more people to skip. How cool would it be if all of us just ended up, like, chilling all the time?"

"25 is reeeeeeaaaally old," she replies, barely stifling a giggle. "And uhm, I'm only gonna be here for like two more months soooooo? I don't really caaaaaare? But I guess I'll help out if you come up with a plan, like, by yourseeeeelf."

FRACTAL 2014/06/18(Wed)19:20 No. 579227 ID: c3ad33
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Fuckin' hell. I don't know why I even try. I'm about to drop back by Zjaha to run the idea by her instead when Skerz holds her arm out and makes a shooshing noise.

"There's a couple CO's up there," she stage whispers.

FRACTAL 2014/06/18(Wed)19:20 No. 579228 ID: c3ad33
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Well, this is what the hallway looks like. Orange doors require a staff beeper to open, blue doors can be opened by anyone. To the left is the mess area and general inmate recreation areas; to the right are more official things like administrative offices, equiptment rooms, and the hanger. The CO's coming down the hall are moving fast; I've marked our position on the map but I don't know if anyone else is around. Any bright ideas, brainiac disembodied voices?

>>579228
Duck into the Loser Dorm and try to recruit more slackers!

>>579228
That dumbfuck Skerz's stage whisper probably alerted them. Push her at the loser dorms; you two backtrack and go into the boring dorms.

Go in the loser dorm, you can probably boss them around easy.

FRACTAL 2014/06/19(Thu)04:43 No. 579319 ID: c3ad33
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We dart into the loser dorms to avoid the COs, and wouldn't you know it, it's full of fucking losers. Only three of the ten people who live in the dorm are there, but we've gotten arguably the best bunch. And by best I mean the ones who most clearly exhibit why I have named this section the loser dorms.

Njhirari, the snotty-looking djihihi on the left, is in here because of some kind of civil disobedience crap. I dunno, she like, laid down on the hood of some politician's starskimmer and refused to move because she wants to save the super-endangered T-sector blooming night foxbird or something. Not what I would call cool. Picchi, the everesk next to her, has looked like that since day one. Nobody knows what she's thinking about. Nobody knows what's she's in for. All I know is that she's completely fucking useless. And the big ol' gorgana standing there is Tootsie. She's kinda like me - she's been here for way longer than what her original sentence was, but in her case it's because of outright poor behavior. The way the rules around here work, though, you can't get thrown in an actual prison unless you commit and actual prison offense. She must like how cushy it is here compared to real jail enough that she remains mindful of that line.

They're all just standing there, staring as us. Because they're losers. Come on, guys, it's not like I didn't give you fair warning.

everyone kiss

>>579319
Okay, one: Njhirari is in the same boat as Zjaha. Believing she was doing the right thing, and didn't commit a crime, yeah? And Tootsie's in the same boat as you--Maybe a little more malicious about it, but she's definitely enjoying how cozy the place is.
These two can maybe be swayed by saying something like, "Too much energy using separate dorms" and just sitting there.

Picchi? She's too much effort, clearly. Unless she starts talking to you, don't bother with her.

Get Zjaha to sell the plan to Njhirari doing nothing as being civil disobedience. If you get the whole dorm to join in on this you get to do a whole lot of nothing while Zjaha and Njhirari get their idealogical rocks off. Everybody clearly wins.

> tell 'em you wanna hijack this bad boy of a space ship, ask tootsie to knock out the COs. grab their little ID cards, run to the control room and take over. start running this fuckin' joint. take a vacation.
Or, maybe, greet them and make small talk, maybe tell them of your plan to just not work. Revolutions start small.

>>579413
Maaaaan, that green text's just too much work. And how would we get our porn and soda if we successfully take over?

The sharing of slack philosophy sounds good, though. ...but let someone else do all the explaining. Maybe just... kinda mention it. That way, Zjaha the uptight one can inevitably spew words at them or something, unless she's still trying to wrap her mind around it.

FRACTAL 2014/06/22(Sun)16:30 No. 580078 ID: c3ad33
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Tootsie is the first to speak. "What are you clowns doing here? Isn't your unit supposed to be off-station by now?"

I shrug broadly. "Well, yeah, but we had other plans." I stop there - to be honest, even explaining things is a little too much work for me, and right on cue, Zjaha jumps in instead.

"We are on strike!" She stomps forward, slamming her little hooves down hard enough for her spindly legs to wobble. "We have had enough of the completely immoral treatment we all suffer at the hands of these government buffoons! The fact that I am even IN here is an act of injustice!"

Njhirari perks up a little at that.. "Ah, I feel the same," she mumbles in that dreamy, breezy way of hers. "Fight the power."

"Aaaand, uhmmm, GG kinda liiiiiiike? Pointed out that reeeeeaaaaally there's not much they can dooooooo if we all, just, liiike ... stop doooooing stuff, you know?" Skerz throws up all four arms in a noncommital gesture. "I don't really caaaare, I just don't feel like going on patroooool..."

FRACTAL 2014/06/22(Sun)16:31 No. 580079 ID: c3ad33
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By now Zjaha and Njhirari have dissolved into a heated, hushed volley of their native language, Zjaha alternating between twisting her sensory dangles and gesticulating wildly while Njihirari occasionally shows her agreement with slow, languid blinks. Picchi has started drifting towards the far corner of the room whispering "I know" - Tootsie grabs one of her tentacles and yanks her gently back to a more reasonable height, clicking her tongue softly in disapproval. When she turns her attention back to me it's clear she's unconvinced.

"You're causing trouble. Don't act like you aren't the little ringleader."

"You cause trouble all the TIME!" I protest. She immediately takes a lumbering step forward, flexing her knuckles slightly.

"I can do whatever I want. I don't like little twerps like you causing trouble when I wasn't planning on it, though."

"So, why don't you plan on it now? You're the same race AS me, you know we don't like doing anything that isn't properly entertaining. Come on, let's see what happens. They can't keep this place funded if no one does any work, and we'll all get early releases since nonviolent protest doesn't get anyone sent to real prison, just here at most. And if we just get sent to another place like this again, the philosophy spreads, and they all break down. No more bullshit half measures. Shit, no full measures. They'll have no place to send people like us, our crimes will be pardoned because they aren't worth real prison. You get to go home. I get to go home. No more bullshit. No more bitches. No more of this work. Just ourselves and whatever we want."

>>580090
not much to add to this, this is a pretty well-built response.

>>580090
That seems excessively long for an explanation. Just tell her, "Why don't you take over, then? I'm already tired of this," and finish off with a lengthy slurp of your Galaxy Gulp.

soooo... exactly! she's exactly right! we can all do whatever we want- that's the goal here. try to win her over on your side. maybe someone like her could even intimidate other people into joining in.
i mean, i'm not sure how much intimidation you need to make people NOT do work, but the more people you have the better.

Convince her it's what she wants, plain and simple. Hell, imply she inspired your rebellion through her badassery. And yeah, tell her she can lead if that's what she wants. You don't care. You're along for the ride.

FRACTAL 2014/06/28(Sat)16:59 No. 581788 ID: 6b7ea4
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I step back and make a sweeping motion with my free arm. "Then, by all means, this shindig's now yours." She gives me an incredulous look, and I expand. "You said you don't like when shit's going down without you in charge? Now you're in charge. Hell, I was kinda hoping you would be - the whole reason I got those two started on this in the first place is because I was thinking about the ways you've been raising hell around here."

Okay, maybe that was laying it on a little thick, but it seems to have worked. She's rubbing her chin with that hand that isn't tethering Picchi ("I know, I KNOW" the everesk is insisting quietly) and glancing over at the conspiring djihihi every so often.

FRACTAL 2014/06/28(Sat)16:59 No. 581789 ID: 6b7ea4
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"HEY," she suddenly booms. Skerz jumps, and Zjaha and Njihirari look up languidly. "So are we gonna do something or not?"

"Uuuuuhm, I kiiiiinda thought the whole poiiiiint of this was liiike, NOT doing anything," Skerz says, rolling her eyes.

"Passive resistance is both the most ethical and the most effective," Njihirari intones. Zjaha just scowls.

FRACTAL 2014/06/28(Sat)16:59 No. 581790 ID: 6b7ea4
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"Well, I say we go kickstart this little revolution," Tootsie grunts. Revolution? What revolution? I didn't sign up for a fuckin' revolution. Suddenly she lets go of Picchi, knocks over the side table next to her, and breaks off one of the legs over her knee, creating a jagged, splintery club. Picchi hits the ceiling with a squeaky noise.

"I say we go take out some CO's and get ourselves a keycard."

WHAT no no nono this is NOT what I wanted to do today

...right. Okay, how about you pretend to go along with it, but when she starts the violence, ditch her.

Well, is there any role you want to backup? Like, staying behind and giving them all the alibi "We were all hanging out here."? I mean, you can just sit around to do that.

Is getting a keycard the best kinda way to do this? We were hoping to bankrupt the institution.
I mean, maybe getting some blackmail material would be a fun time if that's the plan.

What's the plan toots, why get a keycard? What's the keycard for?

I think toots might be smarter than what we take her for. She might be setting us up for a huge fall here. So... we might have to get HER to fall first.

wait until they go around a corner, then ditch them and go back to your cell. either they get the shit kicked out of them, and you don't get blamed because they all blame Tootsie there, If they don't happen to get the shit kicked out of them then still who cares, just lie around while they escape.

I bet they have more galaxy gulps past the secured areaaaassss
Okay but really, why not. you could get a whole lot more nothing done with no one to fucking lecture you.
maybe just lie down on the floor and tell tootsie you'll be here, holding down the fort, in case she needs backup. Tell her to have fun and all.

Let her. Go return to your porn in the meantime.

Either that or ask the others what Picchi knows. Alternatively, ask Picchi herself.

Maybe remind that such a thing might get her shipped off somewhere less cushy. (Or don't if you'd rather be rid of her.)

On another note... did we ever catch your name?

>>581790
Even having that club might be enough to land her, and the rest of you, in real jail. Being sneaky would be way easier, and safer. Who knows what they're permitted to do if things turn ugly out there, after all?

FRACTAL 2014/08/06(Wed)15:19 No. 588403 ID: 88625f
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"Man, you do what you want." I lay flat on the floor, right in front of her. "I dunno what you want a keycard for, but I'm not really that interested in stomping around knocking CO's out."

"I knew you'd be a little priss about it." Tootsie sniffs. She starts towards the door, but casts a glance behind her. "Well?"

"I am morally opposed to violence and, therefore, will be remaining in the dorm," replies Njihirari.

"You can't tell me what to do!" Zjaha shrieks.

"Uuuuuuuhhhhhhmmm, I'm good heeeeere, I thiiiink," Skerz says with an apologetic shrug.

Tootsie exhales loudly before glaring at Picchi. "What about you?"

"Nope," the everesk squeaks. She starts to float back towards the left corner of the room, bouncing lightly off the ceiling.

Tootsie makes a throaty, irritated noise and stomps off, illegal club in hand. Silence settles over the room.

Welp.

Eeeeeh, we're gonna need more people than this for passive resistance to work.
Tootsie's not going to do anything dumb like knock a CO out, that would get her sent to someplace more intense...
If anything I bet she was going to try and trick the others to get into trouble. Less focus on her.
...Which means Tootsie's taking your idea and is going to run it by other girls... shit, this really might wreck things.

>>588412
no wait, no FUCK, that club. Make sure your rooms locked. She might frame you.

>>588413
seconded, better make sure you can actually relax instead of getting busted.

>>588403
Take bets on how long she'll last before the CO's subdue her.. hell, bet on HOW they'll take her down. There has to be something in place to deal with crazies.