audio | interview with probably not a vampire

[omniavincit]

[ William jumps right in—unless they're brand new, most inmates should know his voice. It belongs to the guy who stays with them in the dorms and is usually out of bed before six in the morning. Maybe you recently heard it raised at Travis outside the commissary! ]

I spoke to the Navarch, and while it's almost unheard of for her to correspond with inmates, she's agreed to take questions on your behalf. I'll be sitting down with her and broadcasting the interview to the network.

For privacy and ease of organization [ and to minimize network arguments ] please message me directly with whatever you'd like asked. It can be anything, but I'd prefer it be interesting. If I have a problem with it I'll let you know.

[ This is not a threat, but it is wry. ]


[ WARDEN FILTER ]

We should pool our tickets.



[ ooc: TO AVOID A MILLION INBOX THREADS, just reply here with "private" in the subject line if you're sending William a question! Or ignore him and discuss shit publicly, I'm not the police. ]

Comments

grace.g |Warden Filter

[expectaspectre]

what's your plan for them ?

1/2

[omniavincit]

40 tattoos

2/2

[omniavincit]

I mean as a general practice, there's nothing I need that bad.

the sleep gun could come in handy.

j.barnes > wardens only

[counterstep]

what's the plan?

[omniavincit]

Nothing exciting.

Keep a list of what we need, spring for anything useful that comes up.

not private too bad

[sanctus_dei]

Yeah do you think she has the bullet that killed me on hand?

j.barnes

[counterstep]

the people at the top don't do the dirty work

but you already knew that, i'm sure

[omniavincit]

Why?

l.morningstar | wardens

[dealwiththe]

You should pool the most ridiculous questions you get. Give out a free ticket for the best one.

l.morningstar | wardens

[dealwiththe]

[ Sent a few minutes later. ]

How many foam spouses could we come up with if we pooled them?

[omniavincit]

They've all been very thoughtful thus far. [ 🖕 ]

l.odinson | Warden Filter

[shiftedshape]

I'm currently impoverished so I'm afraid I cannot do much to assist in any purchase efforts this month.
Apparently I didn't pull my weight enough in port.

[That's his guess, anyway. Not that he could help it. It's preferable to the alternative, which is he's being mildly punished for the incident with Malekith.]

Also, the Navarch is most likely aware of this, but providing Theo with the bullet he's asking for sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea.

[dealwiththe]

I have to agree, wrt Theo. I doubt the Navarch would give it to him regardless, but he's in a very fragile place right now.

[expectaspectre]

as someone else who is kind of poor i also can't do much but would like to hang on to what i have

i don't think that makes us selfish

[omniavincit]

All the more reason to contribute now.

Did you get to see the village?

j.barnes > private

[counterstep]

yeah i pulled your weight onto the atv literally

btw did you know you were lighter as a fish person than as
well
you

thankfully you don't flail around as much when you're your usual physical form

[rank1]

I thought I'd have a whole list of shit to ask, but now that the opportunity's here, it's just fucking gone. Brain blanked. This must be why you're supposed to write shit down before you go see the specialist.

[grindset]

It's OK. There is still time to think.
Have you ever kept a notebook?

text | jvolkhov | 1/2 | sent privately then ALSO posted publically

[saklas]

By definition, it's not private if it's going through you. For organization, you have a copy; for transparency, I'm CCing this to the larger network.

1. How are inmates and wardens chosen as people to be approached or taken, out of the literally infinite amount of the living and dead?
-A. If it's the case that this is only one of many ships, is it the case that everyone that ever dies comes to one of these?
--i. If it is the case that everyone that ever dies comes to these, why?
--ii. If it isn't the case that everyone that ever dies comes to these, how is it decided who does or does not qualify?
-B. If your jurisdiction and reach can only be said to cover this single ship, how is it decided who comes here as opposed to elsewhere?

2. Who decides what is a good or bad person, when deciding whether someone should be an inmate?
-A. What is the process, and who makes the final call?
-B. Is the judgment made primarily on the person's character? On the effects of their actions? The intent behind their actions? Is there room for cultural relativism, or does the person making the call simply go by the rules of their dominant culture and impose them broadly regardless of the inmate's environment?
-C. What is your take on the idea that moral rules are vehicles of established cultural power in order to ensure their own dominance is maintained?
-D. Has this person or group of people ever made a mistake?
-E. Why aren't there more impactful people in this system? Leaders of countries, Princes, that kind of thing?

3. What are your overall statistics of success versus failure in this system?

4. What kind of failure in an inmate do you consider a failure of the redemption system rather than a personal failing on their part?

5. What benefit does it confer to this system to not give inmates an opportunity to refuse "reformation"? Has this option ever been considered?

6. What benefit does it confer to this system to have inmates not be told what they're being charged with? Why do they have to go through a file?

7. Why are there no actual, trained psychologists onboard?

8. Why aren't wardens paid a salary?

9. Are you paid a salary?

10. Is the repair crew paid a salary?

11. What benefit does it confer to this system to be able to request blankets and foam cats but not what kind of food we eat?

12. Why don't inmates get attorneys?

13. Why is it that when some inmates graduate, they still have no choice but to return here and work as wardens?

14. Why is there such a lack of transparency between you and the wardens, and between you and the inmates, and between the inmates and understanding what they're supposed to be doing?

15. Passengers from other ships have reported cultures of abuse that develop and seem to become entrenched through the rules. What are your plans to prevent this?

16. In what way does an individual inmate owe the greater universe a complete sacrifice of their identity, values, and personal law? Why can you obligate some people to suffer for the good of the universe without their consent, and how much suffering do you consider an acceptable amount?

17. Has there been a warden promised a payment that couldn't be made for them? Here or historically.

18. If a warden's payment is impossible, are they told this immediately, or after they finish their work?

19. Why isn't the autodoc technology sold or available on worlds where surgery is risky and sometimes fatal?

20. What are the expected arrangements for inmates or wardens who need medical help that the autodoc cannot provide, in the event that there is no warden to be a doctor? Dentistry, severe disease, glasses prescriptions, deadly allergic reaction, stroke, chemical dependencies, or mental illnesses, for example?

21. Why aren't inmates provided with the things they are currently using to treat ongoing chronic problems at home?

22. How and why can you disable Court gifts in people? Is the effect permanent?

23. Why weren't we told about the additional staff on board?

24. Why are inmates allowed to come in dependent on substances that they then have to withdraw from all at once, when most medical advisement says that this is extremely dangerous?

25. How long do inmates take to graduate, on average?

26. If it takes an inmate months or years to graduate, how can they possibly resume their lives?

27. If it is frequent that people come to vessels like this and return home, why isn't the knowledge of places like this widespread?

28. Can people petition to be wardens, or do they have to be approached?

29. If someone qualifies as both a warden and an inmate, which is chosen for them and how?

30. Who founded the Admiralty's Transformative and Penal Reparation Fleet? When? Why? Who currently leads it?

31. Where is the Reparation Fleet headquartered?

32. How many ships like this are there?

33. Why can't inmates access more than a third of the ship?

34. How much of the ship can wardens access in total?

35. How does the SIRE work?

36. If the SIRE can see people's memories, how is that ethical? No permission was given to retrieve those.

37. What do you think about the general culture of ignoring boundaries and autonomy inherent to this system?

38. Are you aware of the deleterious effects of solitary confinement that have been well-documented among prisoners?

39. If an inmate's clothes can be personalized and the SIRE can easily read memories, why can't their introductory video also be personalized?

40. Why can't inmates write home or contact their families?

text | jvolkhov | 2/2 | sent privately then ALSO posted publically

[saklas]

41. Can I speak to your manager? I would love that. Thanks so much.

c.fraser | warden filter

[nineteenfortyfive]

I have no interest in foam husbands and I scratched an itch by getting random items this month. I don't mind submitting my tickets to a pool.

[omniavincit]

Thank fuck.

Does the infirmary need anything? [ In terms of...clothes. Food. Maybe some lollipops? ]

Rhy$.$trongfork

[smugreport]

[ Rhys has many things to ask!! Too many perhaps...which is why he's kinda blanking here. ]

1. Why don't I get my own, personalized room? Privacy is an essential part of uh

I mean, have you seen what a lack of it does to people? Historically? I need my sanctuary space.

2. placeholder

1/2

[omniavincit]

Probably because you could knock someone unconscious and drag them there.

text; hayakawa | warden filter

[spanning]

As long as whatever we're buying has some practical use, I don't mind pooling tickets. I was planning to use mine for my temp anyway, if they had any interest in the commissary.

[omniavincit]

[ It's heartening—stupidly heartening—to hear a warden offering up a limited resource for an inmate. Sure, on the Barge people did favors, but rarely at a cost to themselves. ] What do you think of inducements? [ The word choice may betray his feelings on the matter. ] Tickets to get something from home, snacks?

[lessandmorethanhuman]

I get that it's probably for privacy, but I'd like to know why WE don't get access to our own files?

I know why I'm here, what I did--I'd still like to know what's in the official file though.

filtered;

[helenite]

i wasnt reading but u can hav mine

[ as william, at least, has probably noticed by the past few days' barren refusal to do more than the bare minimum of staring out a bunk ]

if u also take som special gear it gave me.

r u keeping trak of reject q's ?

private;

[kaijuice]

Describe the ideal inmate.

[omniavincit]

You want to be a model prisoner?