44 - I happen to think this is a VERY FINE Wardening techique.

[deusexmechanic]

[Harper switches on the video feed, and he's kinda got that twitchy, 'I'm furious, but I'm reigning it in' look about him. He smiles, and claps his hands together.]

So hey! Who's mad at right now? Everyone, yeah? I mean, I'm talking myself included here, because hey, getting controlled into hurting your friends and destroying the things you love? Yeah, that freakin' bites, especially when the guy who does it to you is someone you like, someone you trust, even. So believe me...

[He gives the Barge a pretty serious, direct look now.]

...I get it.

I could not get it more. And I get why people are out to hurt him now, and I get how hard it must be not to act on the desire to take revenge, when you know that the only downside to it is that you'll get a week in Zero and a disappointed shake of your warden's head.

[And then he brightens up once again, and now it's a little bit manic.]

So I figure, I'm gonna make it a whole lot easier. For anyone who's not feeling a whole lot better since seeing that lovely broadcast? Or for anyone who got any ideas from it? I'm gonna make this clear, just to dissuade any monkey see monkey do crap:

From now on? Anyone who deliberately hurts my inmate for any reason? I will personally track down and kill. Painfully.

See, I don't really get involved in how the wardens mete out punishment on each other for crap like this, but so far? I've not seen any of them get worse than a week in zero either. So I figure, I'm giving you all advance warning, right? You know the consequences now, and if your wardens have a problem with it? Well, then they can throw me in zero after I've pounded two energy blasts into your face.

Try not to think of this as a vendetta, or as vigilantism. Think of it as the death penalty distributed a la Seamus Harper.

[Piece said, Harper reaches forward, and flicks off the video.]

Comments

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Harper. Hold on.

How is this any better than what he did to Rex?

And how is you saying 'it's just a week in zero' helping the rest of us at all?

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

1) Next asshole to try it has fair warning.

2) Rex has already been beat up, locked up, lost his snakes, his filters, and all his tech for what he did. The next person to try something will be killing him again for one crime. I'll only murder each perpetrator once.

3) I'll make it quick.

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Sorry, Harper, not good enough in my book.

Part of the problem with vengeance is that it perpetuates a cycle of violence. Which is what you're doing. And I refuse to call it anything but that, sorry, because it's not punitive at all. Nothing like punitive.

And let me tell you right now that if my inmate kills Rex (which she won't do, because I happen to believe that using murder like you are - and like Dawsey and Crane did is wrong, and am convincing her of the same. Which you are undermining on a massive scale right now, by the way) - but if she does? You'll have to kill me before you kill her. Nobody 'punishes' her but me, and nobody kills her for anything she's done. I will stand in your way.

[Private]

Harper, I like you, and I don't mean anything personal by this, but you cannot do this. You can't.

[darknessb4me]

2) Is that a promise?

Private

[last-kodiak.livejournal.com]

Harper.

Don't do this.

Private

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Gimmie one good reason why I shouldn't?

[most_feared]

[Kay is of the opinion fffft. Harper's not a professional? If it's his friend getting hurt and the time in Zero is worth it, have at it.] Do you want me to hang around the infirmary until he's out to provide some extra security or do you think that's gonna be it?

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

[Pause... because, way to be extremely classy, Kay. Harper loves you a bit.]

I... I'm hoping that'll be it, but if you had some free time and nothing better to do, then I guess it couldn't hurt.

[whattheytellyou.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Good to hear it.

[bigbad]

Well, you're a bloody idiot.

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Correction, I'm a bloody idiot with a lot of guns and a nasty streak.

Private

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

So does this mean I can't turn him into a mongoose?

Private

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

No. No turning him into a mongoose. But hey, wait long enough and I'm sure the Barge'll do it for you.

Spam

[hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com]

[Juuust going to leave the engine room and head over to Harper's room, because judging by the view over his shoulders, that's where he is. She taps on the door.]

Harper? It's me. Let me in?

Re: Spam

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

[Annnnnnd, Harper answers the door. He kinda looks like... he's expecting a telling off. Yes, he knew this proclamation wasn't going to be popular.]

Hey. Come in.

private; voice;

[everylittlegirl]

[awkwardawkward]

If you need help getting to someone who hurts Rex, let me know.

private; voice;

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

[Pause]

You know Hayley, if I actually thought this was how you worked? Then we might actually be friends.

I can do my own dirty work though.

Private;

[puzzleprince.livejournal.com]

Duly noted. 

Are Crane and Dawsey exempt from this 'penalty'?

Re: Private;

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

They committed their murder before the announcement was made, so yeah, they're good.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

[Pause.] So this is a new rule? Not one that's currently in operation?

[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Keep it moving, Crane. I'm not gunning for you yet.

[strangehistorian]

Is- is that necessary?

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[deusexmechanic.livejournal.com]

Signs hazy, ask again later.

[no_exaggeration]

Great precedent you're setting. I hope this is only in regards to your inmate. It's not going to come up if I slip into engineering and piss you off, is it?