24 - Couldn't You've Put On a Proper Uniform?

[thinkb4ublink]

[Here's Slater in his usual long coat and 'you're all a pain in my backside' expression.] Listen, I don't know where you new lot are coming from, but stay out of the way unless you know what you're doin'. Unless you do know what you're doin'... in which case just don't get in my way, all right? Enough trouble...

Just here. [He sends the latest intelligence of what's going on.] Don't leave a mess.

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[technophilic]

Define 'mess' in this context. [ This is a serious question and no she won't say please. :| ]

[thinkb4ublink]

[Serious question gets a serious, if contemptuous, answer.] Bodies.

[technophilic]

If I am attacked, I will fight back with necessary force. [ That's her way of saying no. ]

[thinkb4ublink]

And murder isn't necessary. I've got enough dumbasses who think they're big willin' to kill, you start adding to that number I'm going to have my boys shoot on sight. Stay out of the way and you won't get hurt.

[lastmanstanding]

[Detective Hoffman of the GCPD has perhaps heard speeches like this before? He's just gonna sit here and glare.]

Influx of new people might mean something. I just wish they weren't all fucking-civilians.

[technophilic]

If you attempt to kill me, I will not hesitate to do the same to you. I desire only to be left alone.

[thinkb4ublink]

Then make sure of that by keeping out of the way. It's called 'retreat'.

[thinkb4ublink]

[Lieutenant Slater gives him a highly sceptical look.] Mean what? Mayor's taken to using our criminal element as a tourist attraction? 'Gotham: Welcome to the Gangster's Paradise'? [Pause as he considers.] Mind you, wouldn't be surprised.

[lastmanstanding]

Some way to generate capitol to help the rest of the civilians still here? Anything to rebuild the infastructure?

Throw me a bone here I have something like twenty people near the stadium who're excited about all of this.

[thinkb4ublink]

[Slater shakes his head.] You don't blow up something before you rebuild, that's villain thinking. When did we ever get so much as bone, Hoffman?

Yeah, this is a laugh-riot. I'm havin' loads of fun, aren't you?

[lastmanstanding]

Can't think when chief. What's important is we're still here and still doing what we can for the people who're left. [Even if it's a struggle day-by-day-by-]

Not the day to day activities. I'm talking about all this extra network chatter. You might want to say something to people so they don't get excited.

[He looks amused] ...I feel like a detective again, actually doing some sleuthing.

[thinkb4ublink]

[Slater says nothing about the little speech. He's too tired to care. He does this job just to do the job. It's not like other jobs are all that safer any more. Problem is they all need gimicks and eventually that's going to be accounting or paperboys.] Already have.

[He doesn't look terribly amused.]

[lastmanstanding]

[He snorts] How'd they take it? Such violence is par for the course normally right, so this must be turning some heads.

[There's some shifting behind Hoffman and a small child climbs up over his shoulder. He gently moves her back down. Tilting the viewfinder there's about ten people who look like they've been living the hard life behind him including someone in the remains of hospital scrubs.]

I went out looking for survivors and found these guys. Are we prepped and ready for about ten-fifteen more?

[thinkb4ublink]

Some woman is on her high horse with 'what's necessary'. Usual bullshit schtick.

[Quick assessment.] Yeah, we've room for about fifty.

[technophilic]

It is not my fault if these men come seeking death.

[thinkb4ublink]

It's your fault if you kill them. That's kinda how 'fault' works.

[technophilic]

I will kill them if they attempt to kill me.

[lastmanstanding]

It's getting harder and harder to tell who escaped from Arkham and who was living in the city as a normal citizen.

...I think these new people might do us some good.

[thinkb4ublink]

If you can kill them, you can knock them out.

[thinkb4ublink]

They're unknowns in an already tense situation. They're makin' our lives more difficult.

[technophilic]

I see no reason to waste such time.

[lastmanstanding]

Does it really matter if they've come to help us? [There's an edge of desperation in his voice]

It's Dick Grayson. Bruce Wayne's ward. He's back, if he's back maybe they're not gone or dead. Maybe they're alive, maybe the world hasn't forgotten about us!

[thinkb4ublink]

Exactly how is a bang to the head more time than killing someone? At most it takes the same time!

[technophilic]

It is simpler to hit hard.

[thinkb4ublink]

I'm sorry but when did 'I'm going to kill people' become 'helping us', Detective? Relyin' on civilians to do our jobs for us, when they can just as easily stick on a uniform, is wrong! You know why they hide behind masks? So that when they screw up, when they hurt people, they can just walk away, scott free!

You remember what it was like! When every other beat had someone taking money from whatever mobster with the readies! How are they any different, Hoffman? Who's gonna stop these guys when they go off on a power trip?

Yeah. Well, good on him. Just means he escaped somehow, don't get carried away.

The world hasn't forgotten about us, Hoffman, they're just too scared to help. [Which may not be better, but hey. More accurate.]