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

[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. ]

[papalobo]

What'd be worse? Letting the old guy stay in their hands, or torturing a guy who was part of it? What's the best thing the best person could do in this situation, huh?

[jadedlynx]

What would you do?

[ Eiji probably could have connected and understood him enough to get the guy to talk without violence. ]

[papalobo]

Tried punching him in the face and breaking his toes 'n fingers.

[jadedlynx]

Somebody better with people would've had a chance to convince him to flip. His family was obviously using him. His guys left him, wouldn't even trade him for Shawn.

[papalobo]

[Somebody better. It's not hard to know who that is.

That somebody better is now somebody better than him, specifically, too.

Well, not that he has an argument to it.]

Guess you found that, too.

[jadedlynx]

Found what?

[papalobo]

[Then, no? His surprise fades back to annoyance.]

When'd he ever do that, talk anyone to your side? Actually give you a better answer, huh?