28th metal . voice

[godsays]

The Admiral makes you a warden before you finish learning. Finding out what's right and what's wrong.

Is that because you never stop learning?

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[darknessb4me]

Don't kill anyone unless you can justify it. Don't refuse to participate in the system. Don't ever try to change anything here permanently. Petition if you must, but never affect it yourself. Give up on people that vanish. Don't question where they go. Don't try to find him. Don't let anyone go to the Bridge. Trust his intentions. Trust him with the lives of your loved ones. Accept his categorization of morality. Work with the warden or inmate you are assigned to. Assume all wardens are trustworthy until proven otherwise. Assume all inmates need to change. Never worry that the Death Toll won't bring you back, or that a flood won't end. Accept floods as a way of life, even the ones that hurt people. Don't ask where the food and supplies come from.

[godsays]

Those don't seem like rules to me.

You don't have to accept any of it. Morality, maybe, but giving up on people? And there are those who refuse to participate. You can worry all you want. And you don't have to believe what he means you to believe.

[darknessb4me]

What warden has ever refused to try to change their inmate?

[godsays]

The wardens that don't want to change an inmate don't take any deals. Why would they even come here?

[darknessb4me]

They agree before they even know who they're changing or why. What if they read the file they're given and their inmate was right?

[godsays]

They can leave whenever they want.

[darknessb4me]

And leave the inmate to someone who doesn't care as much. I see.

[godsays]

Then if they stay it's not because they're obeying the Admiral's rules. They could just care, instead of thinking their inmate did anything wrong.

[darknessb4me]

And do what? Try to get them out? Change them anyway?

[godsays]

Just take care of them.

[darknessb4me]

Until they go back to being dead, as the vast majority of inmates do.

[godsays]

Then they didn't leave them any worse off than they already were.

The Admiral offers one way to save someone. It's not every way.

[darknessb4me]

He also chooses the people to bring here.

[godsays]

People who mostly would have just died anyway.

[darknessb4me]

Am I supposed to be grateful? It's not what I want. It's not what I would have chosen. The choice has been taken from me.

[godsays]

It wasn't what I would have chosen either.

But it gave me more than what I would have chosen.

[darknessb4me]

I suppose that's what makes the difference, then. You'd trust him to know what's best.

[godsays]

No. I think that what he did in this case gave me a chance. It doesn't mean I think he's always right. It doesn't mean I trust him.

[darknessb4me]

You're helping him! We don't even know what his motives are!

[godsays]

What am I doing to help him?

[darknessb4me]

You're working inside the system.

[godsays]

I have nowhere else to go.

[darknessb4me]

You're dead. Just die.

[godsays]

No.

[darknessb4me]

Then escape.