March 9: you know what they say about drinking and texting

[neveroutwrenched]

i have some questions. for you guys, the crew. us.

mostly about the ingress because i think its bullshit that no one has any idea how to fix it. or how it works. lots of worlds have technology like the ingress. on the greater cosmic scale, in the MULTIVERSE, it's not even all that rare

so

nowait

i mean, anyway. this is a different question. does anyone know why we haven't utilized
a) any of the ingresses (ingress...i?) on any of the planets weve landed on to get home
b) any of the people on those planet because you HAVE to assume someone knows how to work/repair/etcetc

why havent we scrutinized or been given an actual answer for anything that's happened on this ship? creepy skeleton monster? that KILLED PEOPLE. lying to us about caducus-primary. stealing from caducus-primary. dont get me started on the lack of actual consequence to that.

i know its different in everyone's worlds, but where I'm from, being in charge doesnt make you except from responsibility for your actions. or at least it's not supposed to. unless you have

a lot of money or are a celebrity or something

Comments

[neveroutwrenched]

youre not allowed to ask questions unless you personally have all the answers?

thats stupid, how do you get anything done with that methodology? sit around and wait for the right person with the right solution? don't you ever talk about things?

[whatdidisay]

Sure, there's talking. Only it's done by people with ideas. Not people just venting their frustrations into thin air, looking for like minds. Because do you know what happens then, once you've made enough people irreversibly unhappy?

People start getting hurt. On purpose, not accidentally like Caducus-Primary.

( him. people he cares for. because he knows people who'll get caught up on either side of this fight, and he doesn't that just because someone couldn't keep their mouth shut and their head down. paranoid, worst end situation? absolutely, but that's what ivan goes for when it comes to things like this. )

[neveroutwrenched]

not much of a risk taker, are you?

[Ivan's not the first person who's ever debated this point with him; in fact the echoes of the argument he'd had with Falcon were so eerily similar he has to look at the name on the MID twice to make sure he'd having the conversation he thinks he's having. The underpinnings are different of course; the stakes very different. And yes, there's some logic there. But Ratchet's tired of people telling him to sit and wait.]

i cant help it if people are unhappy. and ignoring it and pretending theyre not isnt going to make it go away

[whatdidisay]

I prefer 'innocent bystander'. ( and guess what's REALLY HARD TO BE HERE, RATCHET. ) No, but this isn't going to make it go away either. It's going to make it worse.

[neveroutwrenched]

youre not an 'innocent bystander' if you're purposefully standing by! you dont know that what im doing will make it worse! youre just assuming that, and acting like keeping out of the way isnt taking an action when it is

its just a shitty, STUPID action

[For not the first time tonite, he realises with a pang of regret that this is not a conversation he should be attempting to have while drinking.]

[whatdidisay]

( ivan has never had someone yell at him about this before, let along an angry cat with eyebrows. and he doesn't have to put up with it from ratchet. who doesn't understand shit about ivan or where he's coming from. )

Fine. But when this blows up, you can live with the knowledge of knowing you helped it along.

( he's not going to answer any reply, no matter what ratchet gives. he knows better than to engage. )