Post Dated to After the Mission "Light, Stars, Spirit and Snow"

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Who: Ayame Jin, Josh Radcliffe, Werter Wolf, the two captured Cultists
What: Interrogation and medical stuff
When: Immediately following the mission "Light, Stars, Spirit and Snow"
Warnings: Suicide.

Ayame had done what she could for the unconscious man. The boy had remained silent as he was taken to the medical bay with his unconscious ally where he was locked up under guard. It had required some... technological additions to keep the man alive, but he was alive and waking up, which meant the interrogation could commence.

Rather than moving the injured man, Ayame had the guards bring the boy into the room. She was certain she could keep control of things, especially with Josh's aid. Still, discretion was the better part of valor and Ayame was far from valorous so she had the boy strapped to a bed before she sent the guards away. She didn't particularly like this sort of thing, but someone had to do it.

She had one more thing to do before she started, "Werter, we are about to interrogate the prisoners. If you would like to be present, report to the medical bay, room M07 please."

Comments

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

And he's younger, so it's unlikely he'll know as much as the man.

[With Werter inside the room, Josh then shuts the door and quickly keys in an access code into the nearby terminal.]

Alright, that should take care of things on the security end of things.

[saikyocivrobo]

I have to agree with Josh. That guy was controlling a huge Elemental on his own, the kid was one of the several who were sitting on that tree. It's obvious the former is higher in their hierarchy, if they have one.

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Then we are agreed. I am going to wake him up now.

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[The man groans as he begins to stir.]

I don wanna wake...

[He then seems to realize what's going on.]

Wha? Oh man.

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

"Oh man" is right.

[Josh's eyes narrow as he looks at the man.]

You're onboard the White Chalice currently as prisoner, along with the other member of your cult we picked up.

How you'll be treated'll depend on how well you cooperate.

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[Ayame remains silent. Josh seems to be doing well. She was always a better bad cop anyway.]

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[The man sighs.]

Cooperate? Okay, what do you wanna know?

[Strangely... he doesn't seem to have a problem talking.]

[saikyocivrobo]

Your name could be a good start.

[srwuga_mods]

Doomed Disciple.

Really, why do you want to know my name?

Wouldn't mean anything, not like I have records or anything.

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

Basic ethics regarding the treatment of prisoners, for one.

Besides, you're only as doomed as you make yourself. I'm sure if everything goes along the way we'd like there'd be no harm in tying you to some rock in a desert with some hemp rope and leaving you there with a distress beacon.

[saikyocivrobo]

Conor had no trouble sharing his name. Why not follow the footsteps of your boss? Referring to you as "disciple" just sounds weird and impersonal.

[srwuga_mods]

Shearer, Grant Shearer.

And no one would come for that beacon, at least no one I would want to find me.

See? A beacon is tech, and we don't do tech. It's kind of our MO.

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as we've been told.

Which essentially makes you supervillain versions of those disgruntled laborers in the 1800s who responded to the Industrial Revolution with rioting, vandalism, and murder.

Still have to wonder if you have a cutoff, though. Those clothes you and the others were wearing... how archaic did you get in making them?

[saikyocivrobo]

Technically, all manufactured things are technology. And you are wearing clothes and using stuff like jars at least... So pretty much what he said.

And why are you so staunchly anti-technology? You do know it can be used to preserve nature too, right?

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Woven by hand of course, using thread that we collected and hewed ourselves.

Everything we use is found or made by hand using nothing more complicated than a knife!

[He is definitely proud of this.]

Oh right, the claims that technology can be used to preserve nature. You mean like the arboretum on this ship?

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

And a knife's as much a piece of technology as any other kind of machine.

And you'd be right about the arboretum too. [That was probably nothing more than a lucky guess, but just to air on the safe side Josh glanced over at Ayame before going for some medical papers and x-rays.]

[saikyocivrobo]

You're well-informed, huh... But no, I mean more than just that. Saving the still-existing natural habitats from destruction, or planting forests in areas that turned barren during the Second Impact... Such things are possible thanks to technology. You can't do them by hand.

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One, we would even have to do that if it weren't for technology and two, of course we can do it by hand. It would just take longer. The earth is stronger than you give it credit for. If we stop being idiots and actually let it be, it will do us good.

[saikyocivrobo]

And what counts as being idiots for Baphomet? Living peacefully in small towns and not hurting anyone? Assuming he even is a real thing, and not just something Conor made up after reading too many occult books.

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I think that should be obvious. Cutting down excess forests for the purpose of poisoning ourselves with sub par meat. Dumping oil and other toxins into our water supply. Covering the entire world with incredible amounts of needless radiation resulting from technology even existing. Destroying our own ozone layer causing the world to be flooded with even more radiation on top of this.

Then doing it all even more just to counteract what we shouldn't have been doing in the first place! That is what Baphomet considers idiocy, and frankly, I'd think it was idiotic whether I was told by a primal force or not!

[saikyocivrobo]

We can use technology while keeping environmental damage to minimum. Shit hit the fan during Second Impact, but organization that seek to restore the environment and prevent further damage work and make progress even now! I know that well, seeing that my college is associated with one of them.

Do you want people to live in forests, or something? How many do you think would suffer horrible conditions or die?

[azure-savior.livejournal.com]

And more importantly...

[At that Josh holds up a number of x-rays of someone's chest, displaying an object inside of it.]

We took these while you were out cold. I'm not sure if you can understand just by looking at these so I'll keep things simple:

You have a heart defect. By all rights you should have been dead years ago... except someone put a pacemaker inside of you. Maybe it was related to how much of a calamity Second Impact was, maybe not.

Werter's talk of technological advancement, of saving lives, is plenty evident. You're proof of it.

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[The man blanches.]

You mean... all this time? I've... been dead!?

[saikyocivrobo]

On the contrary. Technology saved your life, Grant. It's not such a bad thing after all, huh?

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[According to the medical papers, the man was entirely unconscious when Ayame worked on him. Technically, it's possible he was partially conscious for part of the trip, but that seems highly unlikely.]