[locked to Meluly]

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

How could you? Not just anyone but Rear Admiral Spaurh! Her family's hated mine since before the Empire and she's my CO! She'll never let me live that down!

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[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

So that just means we need somebody to destroy the visual evidence. That shouldn't be too hard, there are crazy-super-geniuses onboard this ship.

Envy? Come here, open up your skull so I can implant this dangerous experimental hardware into your brain.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

By now she has hard copies. And multiple backups. And a trigger that sends it to everyone on the network if one of those copies is deleted.

You get it from the crazy-organ, I get it from the constant pressure. Six of one a half dozen of the other.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Would there be any way for her to prove you actually wore it?

Yes, but you're not guaranteed to go insane eventually.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

I don't think she has those kind of skills...

Still mad at you.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

What about more counter-blackmail?

How can I make this up to you?

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

That would work. Catch her doing/in something more embarrassing and i'll forgive you.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

I'll do my best.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

And maybe find something for my hair.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Have you tried washing it in the Sensoriums?

Don't tell anyone I've been using the place for a virtual washing machine every couple days.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

But the water there is illusory?

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

As far as I've been able to tell, if you wash in there, you stay washed when you come out. That's how I've been keeping my wrap from stinking horribly.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

...My head hurts.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's actual water and it just removes it when you leave so you don't drip on everything?

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

The level of molecular control that would imply is ridiculous.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

It might be sorcery. I haven't seen a ward that does that kind of thing but it wouldn't surprise me...

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

What is "sorcery"?

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Ah, arcanophysics, magic?

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

...Magic. Right. I'm not a child, you can't expect me to believe that.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

Do you really think I believe in such silly superstitions?

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

Lafiel, the med-sorcerer who regrew me a replacement arm in academy would probably disagree with you.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

Different dimensions, different physical laws...I have to remember that. Where i'm from, magic and the afterlife are just silly things landers believe in.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

I don't know about any afterlives (that's mostly a philosophical thing), but the soul (if you call it that) definitely does a dimensional hop-skip-jump out of here when somebody dies. Where it actually goes is the question.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

How did you lose the arm?

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

A mechanic configured a training armor wrong and it splinched my arm off. One of my classmates was smart enough to cauterize it before I could bleed out. I blacked out a couple seconds in and woke up in the ICU pumped up to the gills with stuff, though.

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I should not have asked that.

[aworldnevermade.livejournal.com]

It wasn't as bad as it sounds. Well, for me, anyway. I was actually back up and running pretty quickly once they got the new one grown.

Though the spot where the replacement tattoo hits the old stuff has always bothered me.