➢ 027 [VIDEO]

[theantiaya]

A query for my fellow residents of the Barge:

[Aya is straight to the point today, even moreso than usual.  Her eyes are distant, but focused on something beyond the camera as she speaks in her usually cool, calculated tone.  Words chosen for a reason.]

How many of you have lost Wardens before your promised Graduation?  How many of these separations occurred without warning?

Or, perhaps, more relevantly...how many Wardens here have left unfulfilled promises to those you have sworn to assist?



((ooc: Translation: Aya just lost the closest thing she could ever consider to a competent Warden, and is decidedly not pleased with this turn of events.))

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[theantiaya]

Then it is a promise. One bestowed upon any inmate who has done nothing to hinder his or her progress.

[...granted, Aya hasn't done anything to help her progress, but that was an argument for another time.]

Yet it appears the Barge itself has seen fit to punish my obedience, regardless of the fact that I have committed no crimes since my re-arrival.

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[warisart]

No. It is a possibility, no more, no less. An inmate can linger in their current state indefinitely, or worsen their position, unless or until they begin making progress.

The Barge has punished nothing. There are variables that are outside of our control. Your lack of disobedience has proven this is true of nothing else.

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[theantiaya]

[Well, it's certainly not giving her an incentive to keep on being good, that's for sure. :|]

Too many variables.

It is a broken system. One that should not exist at all.

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[warisart]

[Then she'll need to find the incentive elsewhere. In people who are attempting to be consistent and helpful, perhaps.]

It is an imperfect system. Because we cannot abandon it or discontinue it, our only options are to improve upon it or continue to operate within it.