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00.2 resumption [text]
[Text-only. Par for the course with Rinzler.]
Query: Barge status?
[A later edit adds:]
JA307020 once more present on Barge system.Apologies to those who remained; anticipated earlier return.
Standard introduction: Security Program JA307020, designation "Rinzler," Class:Warden. Unassigned at present. Remit: Barge security.
[text // private]
[Actual status: functional morphine addict, horrible pit of depression, unsuccessfully wardening Magneto. IT'S BEEN FUN.]
I came back just over six months ago. How long were you gone?
[text // private]
Guess which one Toshiko gets.]
Understood.
Is
assistance required?
[Pause.]
Approximately 9.25 User months.
[text // private]
Can I ask how things were when you returned? What happened?
[text // private]
If assistance is required in the future,
JAI will render it.[Pause.]
JRiI do not have a place on Tron's Grid.There is no value judgment attached to this statement. I do not belong.
[text // private]
I came back for the same reason.
[Going home, it didn't feel like she was filling a Tosh-shaped hole in the world, more like she was making a Tosh-shaped lump in it.]
[text // private]
It is not good to have no purpose.
[text // private]
[Not that it's something she'd recommend as a long-term solution.]
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[Or anyone, to be honest. Enough so that Rinzler is actually, wonder of wonders, willing to voice some kind of concern:]
You are certain you are
functioning optwell?[text // private]
A few things have changed since you were last here. There's a new area above decks, the Closed Training Simulator. It's an intuitive room that creates holographic training scenarios. Largely for people with superhuman abilities or are extremely highly trained.
There's now also a new filter on our communicators that permits use of scanning tech and the like into individual cabins; otherwise, they're as good as impenetrable if the door is shut and locked.
[Though it's still as possible as it always was to just tear the door off, depending on the strength of the door.]
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[...Oh. OH. These are very good additions. Rinzler approves of these changes.]
Considerable improvements. These will make things easier.
[Loooong pause. If text can be hesitant, this next text is so:]
Query: Changes with User Toshiko Sato? Beyond already stated.
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[But you've been sort of pushy about this in your toaster-y way, so.]
Do I seem different?
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Good User, best friend.]This is good.
[...Putting into words his suspicions, though, is harder.]
You did not thrive here. I am [what's the word he's looking for] concerned. For your sake.
Even if home is no longer home, you could be anywhere.
So I worry.
This may however be inappropriate sentiment from JA307020.
[text // private]
brb going away to have emotions.]
It isn't. I'm happy that you would ask.
I won't lie to you, living on the Barge hasn't gotten easier. But the longer I'm here, the easier it is to cope.
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Understood. [It isn't exactly the reassurance he's looking for but it's good enough for Rinzler, for now.]
It is good you are here. I am glad to see you again.
Even if the circumstances are not optimal.
[text // private]
Let me know if you need anything. I'd be more than happy to make our Grid available for your use, as well.
[Although she's going to have to roll it back to an earlier version because right now it looks like, well, like it's been reshaped by the will of a depressed insomniac drug addict.]