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 Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:46 pm
At the mention of the hunter murders, Cass flexed her scarred hand, keeping it clamped tightly as a fist. "Depends on which way you're looking at what you do, but you're right. I should have just assumed." There was tension in her voice as she said this, barely wrangled back in line as she leaned back in her seat.
"Well, if you feel like you have a problem with being liked by other people, what is there that you can do about it?" Her tone wasn't a 'well what can you do' but more emphasized in a 'well you clearly have some mental energy, what ARE you going to do?'. "I have no reason to dislike you, but it also stands that I don't know you. We aren't friends, we've talked maybe once before this and we butted heads - but maybe that was my fault." she shrugged lightly, "But my point I'm trying to get to is were the people who killed you people you knew or strangers? Emotional attachment weighs heavily in making decisions like that and by unintentionally - or intentionally I don't know - distancing yourself, that is something people will use to justify themselves. Just like serial killers do."
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 10:57 pm
"If I knew how to make people like me more, don't you think I would have already done that?" He said, feel frustrated. It was why he brought it up after all. He had a problem and didn't know what to do. If he could solve them on his own, he wouldn't have decided to talk to someone.
"And I don't think that me getting to know everyone should decide if they kill me or not. They should be - they shouldn't do it int he first place! They should have some sort of control and not jump at the chance to kill anyone that is on their side. I don't go stabbing any hunters right off the bat, let alone slicing their throats. I haven't killed a single hunter here!"
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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:13 pm
"Your response to the opportunity to kill someone says a lot about who you are as a person, as well as who the other individuals are as people. But say you were in a situation where you had to pick one person to die to save the others - there was no way out of that situation at all and hesitating would kill everybody. You have 2 minutes before everybody just dies an awful death. Who would your choice be?" Cass didn't miss the irony of the scenario she was posing - given in that instance the weakest link, herself, had been the one to be thrown to the proverbial wolves. "You are justified in your anger, however, no level of logic aside for a why someone would choose what they did. It is just another thought."
As for the first situation he had brought up, "How often do you talk to anybody who isn't in your immediate group of friends for more than a few minutes? Say an extended conversation after a chance meeting...well..wherever this meeting could take place."
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Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:40 am
He was getting upset in justifications in his almost death, and just listened to Cass explain the logic in why his throat was slit. He didn't want to hear it, and it wasn't helping.
The turn in conversation to his own social handicaps had him less upset and more uncomfortable. "I spend a lot of time in the labs..." It was a valid excuse. He worked a lot. It didn't make for a great way to mingle with other people. "I also don't work well in parties. I tend to upset people." He decided that sounded a bit too vague. "Sensitive people." Because those who got upset where just sensitive to simple questions. He never forced them to answer after all.
"There isn't much to do on the island, and I don't really share any hobbies with anyone. I don't even know what people do other than spar all day." He looked at some of the objects on her desk.
This was starting to feel like a personal conversation again. "What happened to your hand?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:59 am
She didn't touch on the murder-need that people had again, as he didn't say anything else about it and she knew well enough to not press her luck.
"I'd say start with the labs, then, if you're spending most of your time there. It'll keep you around people you know, anyways." she suggested - it was another of her 'no duh' suggestions, but she was only suggesting it because it seemed to her he actually wasn't doing that.
"Well, what kind of hobbies do you think you have that you'd be willing to find someone to partake in with you? There is never any harm in trying to get someone else sharing your interests." There were a lot of things she'd been interested in but never actually had a chance to try out so she didn't see why there wouldn't be more like that.
Cass glanced at her hand when he asked about it. "Scars from being electrocuted. Twice. After the second time I don't know if I drowned or was crushed to death, but......" she didn't smile, but she did flex her hand.
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Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:15 am
He thought about hobbies. "I've only bee researching artifacts. A lot of lifers work in separate divisions. I don't think we see each other much." The life labs were a rather large place. Maybe he could organize a meeting of lifers to talk about their work just to see what everyone was doing?
"I used to swim. I can't really do that here. The beaches are too dangerous, the full hunters have their own pool, and the rest of us don't have anything aside from a broken pool no one can use." The work on that would have been overwhelming. "I used to watch movies a lot too, but that sort of died where on the island unless I get leave and time to go to a theater." He managed to borrow a few movies from others to catch up on all that he missed when he was in the pod and then on the island.
As for those two things....." That's about it, I guess." He shrugged. His life had been spent studying for college and in college, and organizing his life around his weird habits and mental anxieties. "I used to skate too, but it's too warm here for ice during the winter."
He looked back at her hand. "How were you electrocuted? A mission?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:24 am
"Movies are a good start - I have a rather nice collection of movies if you ever want to borrow any," Cass offered, "Then just use a runic adapter on one of the TVs in the dorms and see if you can't tempt anybody to come watch with you," she suggested. He'd likely be able to access a runic adapter more easily being in the life labs anyways.
"You could also poll to see if anybody wanted to help set up the pool for trainees, just to see. I'll lend a hand if that's something you're interested in, even." She personally could use the full hunter's pool so it was no skin off her nose, but oh if Melvin hadn't known he'd just said two things Cass really loved to do in one fell swoop.
She'd never been ice skating, but it didn't seem like an appropriate time for her to pry into that - this wasn't a 'Cass is interested in everything you do' visit, anyways.
Another glance at her hand. "I wouldn't really call it a mission, but I guess it kind of was one, yeah." She'd call it her own stupidity and some betrayal by other parties if she was to use her own terms.
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Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:52 pm
"Were you even there when I organized a Thanksgiving dinner for everyone? Everyone got in a big fight over nothing, I was insulted and kicked out of a kitchen for no reason, and then everything went to hell. I can't imagine anyone working together for a good cause if it doesn't involve destruction. I try to have faith that people will work together, but no one seems able to function unless under the fear and threat of their division lead. That or being thrown without warning into a situation that forces them to survive as best they can until help arrives. Probably why we keep being thrown in terrible missions that way. No one has proven they can work together in even the simplest of tasks." He sighed, leaning back in the chair and thinking it over.
"It's why I keep working alone I guess. No one here acts like a damn family. Everyone comes from some messed-up background that no one knows how to function normally."
He paused, looking up and thinking his options over. "I guess movies would be the easiest option. Two hours with the distraction of flashing lights and colors on a screen might get half of them to actually behave themselves." He didn't know how well getting them to work on the swimming pool would go though. "If I had to get a group to work on the swimming pool, they would ask how much I would pay them since it would be actual work." Free time spent doing manual labor? That would be hard to sell.
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Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:26 pm
Cass shook her head slowly. "No, I didn't go to Thanksgiving, unfortunately. My hus..." she glanced at the fried ring on her finger than quickly continued her sentence, "cooked dinner so we stayed in. Though you do have a point at how little we can get done when everybody acts like a headless chicken around here." she seemed to be making a mental note of something and if a ghost impression could be left by thoughts, it involved 'Ask Lance or H'.
Not a good idea.
"I think a lot of people like to pretend having a messed up family gives them a free pass here, when really..this is the last place where an excuse like that should fly." She nodded at his willingness to try the movies, though. "Well, when you want to give that a try, let me know and I'll let you pick something out of my collection. I've got a lot of horror," she shrugged lightly, "My vice, but some pretty standard stuff in there too that you could use for it," she smiled. "As for group labor - new recruits. I could put in the request for you if you'd prefer it in my name," she suggested, "But new recruits are gonna be your best bet if you ask a higher up. Then you can pay them in either food, runestones, or whatever easy currency to pass around trade wise is by then."
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:29 pm
He sighed. "Currency. That's something I don't have. I need to start making a hoard of my own on this island if I want to get anything done. Should have done that ages ago." All he had on stock was a lot of shampoo, soap, conditioner, detergent, and bleach. Not to mention a bounty of hand wipes, toothpaste, floss, and other misc things of the same nature.
He should stock up on cheap booze, candies, foods, and a few other things. He'd have to take a note out of Rep's book on this and maybe even ask the hoarder master himself.
As he was never one to let a thing pass, he looked up at her. "Why did you stop at husband?" It wasn't hard to see her hesitation when she stopped to look at her ring.
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