Day 265 - Friday, September 12th

[papalobo]

[A Chinese man who is definitely a mature adult and not a teenager checks in to the Hyatt, one of their more exclusive rooms, along with his half-white half brother who is also certainly not a teenager and most definitely not the notorious gang leader wanted on suspicion of a September 11th New York City bombing in retaliation for an angry rogue sect of anti-American zealots.

The entire suite floor has been rented out, and it requires a special key card in the elevator and on the stairs to enter that floor. But they can rent one of the still very luxe rooms directly beneath.

A familiar white limo is in the car garage, though the opportunity to gawk or investigate is slim, between the security cameras and live guards.

There's still no contact from Max, but the Department of Homeland Security has become involved, and has begun to enter Ash's territory with intent to arrest any known figures within his gang to bring in for questioning.]

Day 284, Wednesday, Oct 1st

Comments

[jadedlynx]

This isn't about you!

[papalobo]

Well, why the hell not?! How come only you get to be a bad guy, when you think it out, but if I'm goin' on heart and spite, I'm alright!

[jadedlynx]

You helped me before you had any reason to help me! I almost cut a guy's dick off!

[papalobo]

If you think that's so bad, why'd you do it?!

[jadedlynx]

Strategy!

[ He never denied that. ]

[papalobo]

Was it the best strategy you could think of?! Or'd you get a little fun out of it?! Were you mad and wanting to see someone else bleed, take a little power back?!

[jadedlynx]

Getting power back was getting my men back. I'm not stupid enough to think that hurting him gave me anymore power.

[papalobo]

Then why the hell are you acting like you're a bad guy over it! You can't think of a single better fucking move to make even with a cool head after the fact!

[jadedlynx]

If I get grabbed and tortured by somebody who wants his location, are you okay with that?

[papalobo]

I'll jam hot rusty needles up their dicks before ripping 'em off.

[jadedlynx]

And you'll think they're pretty bad people. It's no different just because I'm the guy doing it.

[papalobo]

Yeah, it is.

[jadedlynx]

Because you like me. That's not how good and bad work.

[papalobo]

It's different because you'd hurt as few people as you could to get it done. Usually even if it meant the one hurt's you.

[jadedlynx]

You can't know that's not true for the other guys.

[papalobo]

Maybe it is. But even if they're good guys with good reasons, I'll be a bad guy and do it just 'cause I'm mad. I ain't a saint like you.

[jadedlynx]

You have to get why it's so ridiculous to call me a saint when I'm telling you what I did.

[papalobo]

Tons of saints cut dicks, the whole circumcision thing kept going even after they stopped being Jews. ---Do Jews got saints? That's just the Catholics who got saints, right?

[jadedlynx]

I was torturing a guy, not trying to save his soul.

[papalobo]

You were going out your way not to kill him. If you got hurt again in all this, I'd storm your base, ask your boys where he was, and kill him myself.

[jadedlynx]

[ Max really would excuse everything he's done, wouldn't he?

He's not going to react well to the news. ]

[papalobo]

Listen. You feel bad about it. But you'd be a worse person if you were afraid to get your hands dirty to save someone, just 'cause you couldn't make those hard decisions.

[jadedlynx]

You can't really buy I'm a better person for being willing to torture somebody.

[papalobo]

Alternative is people die. Refusing to torture someone's just keeping your own hands clean so you can feel good about yourself.

You never feel good about yourself, so not a problem for you, small sacrifice, but.

[jadedlynx]

It's annoying that they took Wu.

[ Looking out the window, he leans further back into the seat. ]

They kept him alive because of how important he is to Chinatown, but taking him at all shows they planned to push their way through.

[ He wouldn't have had to torture if it'd just been Shawn. ]