this is the part where prison is more or less dave and busters

[saklas]

Passengers: Everyone who wants to come see what the weird vending machine is about for the first time it is open to them! This is an open mingle/party style log.
Location: "a corner," the location of the Commissary
Date: February 1 - 7 on year one of our cool and sexy journey
Summary: 14 space idiots squint at the ATM that can supposedly make elk meat and clown shoes for them
Warnings: Will add as needed! I'm 90% sure someone's going to ask for drugs or blades, just as a weather forecast

Comments

[saklas]

"I don't know."

It's frustrating. It's the big donut hole in the center of this argument.

"Honestly, if the story they're telling is completely true? This is more expensive than it needs to be. Why are we in space? There is no reason to be in space."

[rank1]

Space is cool, Travis thinks, for what must be the hundredth time. It just is. No wonder so many incredible stories are set out here.

What he says is: "If you think about it, prison is fucking expensive no matter what. But if you're gonna have a prison like this, it'd make more sense for it to be Escape from New York rather than Lockout. Have you seen those?"

Fucking alternate universes are gonna make this so complicated.

[saklas]

"Haven't, but I get the idea. But, why not like, an island. It's cheaper and it comes with oxygen."

[rank1]

"I guess because if people on an island riot, there are easier ways to get away."

Space get more and more complicated the more he thinks about it.

addiction discussion

[saklas]

"So is the objective for us to kill the wardens, in that event, or -?"

Volk's brain is so good at thinking of things that could go wrong that he's currently on medication to try to make it be less prone to doing so. It is doing that thing right now. He's staring at a blank piece of wall over Travis' shoulder.

"Like, we are SO far from actual police, or spaceship engine maintenance, I guess, or a hospital. What if we need a medical thing that's more complicated than the stupid tube can handle? What if someone has a stroke, you can't fix a stroke with surgery. I had to go cold turkey and it sucked sharp rusty robot asshole, and there's just nothing they can do. Imagine if someone comes in here addicted to something stronger than salted caramel vape.

The cost of shipping food and soap and toilet paper alone has got to be gong show, right? Like, the overhead of this place. Who the fuck is up there looking at their books every quarter and going 'yeah, this seems like a good use of resources'?"

Re: addiction discussion

[rank1]

"But there's what, a dozen of us in this place? And the storage complex is huge, it probably has enough stuff to feed us for a lifetime. Did you see the whole fucking cow in there?"

There's gotta be a lot of cows in there.

"Guess it's so lax because they figure we can't do shit about it anyway."

[saklas]

"I don't think that's real."

The cow. Volk toes at the floor.

"I mean, obviously. A lot of this is just way easier to fake."