Yes, Arziay will miss her naturally, though, since she was a big part of his life for a long time; Kyler, on the other hand, thinks meeting with her again sometime is in order, naturally, after some time.
§
Very good stuff.
Keep my training regimen going.
*Day 6, You are given some entertainment, the guards put on a play for you, Demolition Man, it is quite awful, you are given your three meals*
I thank them for the entertainment.
Training when I can.
*Day 7, the day of rest, a Priest is sent in to give you religion, he is not pushy, it's about an hour, you are given your three meals.*
*This repeats for a year, I will be generous that you get attribute increases 2x a year, so +2 to your physical attributes, should make them a 1@10, if not that's where they are now.*
*The plays are such movies as 48 hours, Another 48 hours, Yet Another 48 hours, and 48 hours till death, seems the film industry was lacking for material at a certain point, after seeing Lethal Weapon 7, Turner and Hooch 4, and K9 2 Squared, you are glad to have not lived to see them.*
Excellent. I am feeling much better about myself with my short hair and having worked on a martial arts style all my own; after all, that truly is the pinnacle of a master's life's work, to create their own style.
Oh, goody. Lame movies. At least they're performed by people.
*On your day of incarceration, there is a party, more of a security brings a cake, and you are shown to the rest of the station that prey for you to join them, without you seeing them on the Cameras, one of the guards gets a tear in his eye, but just one*
*Another year passes of the same*
Okay, they're really weird for that.
I will certainly let them know that under no circumstance will I wear a collar of servitude and leave it at that.
Now that things have gotten much easier for me, I'm doing vertical push-ups and one-handed push-ups and incline crunches by using the bed and wall pushups; more intense exercises, pushing myself harder and and longer to make myself better and faster. (Our work is never over)
*Another year passes of the above, same stuff, are increases the same amount of time for a 2@, just 2x the difficulty, too lazy to read the book right now, working on a lot of laptops at work.*
It works like this: to increase an attribute from 1@ to 2@ requires a doubled doubled training regimen; that is, it requires a regimen twice as difficult in two ways to raise a 1@10 attribute to a 2@1 attribute than it took to raise a 1@ attribute.
So, since I have gained 2 attribute increases a year and am 1@10, the next year should bring me to 2@1 since I believe I have made the regimen twice as difficult to perform, and I expect it will as well take twice as long to increase the attribute 1 point at 2@ than it took to raise it 1 point at 1@.
*Nods thanks*
*Another year passes, and another, consider yourself 2@2 in physical skills, Density being a 1@1, but is now a 1@3 with your 2@ Strength and Stamina. How often are you feeling for more versers? Your Martial arts style is at a 2@9.*
I will be feeling for them about... say... every year on my "anniversary."
I request to speak with the captain.
*The Captain walks up to you*
"It has been awhile since we spoke? Right Arejay?"
"It's Arziay. I thought you were going to drop me off somewhere; when are you going to release me? I have done no wrong, and you are violating my rights by keeping my here. If you are not going to grant me freedom, at least jettison me out an airlock."
*He nods and smiles*
"We get resupplied every 10 years, we are in year 6, only 4 more to go. We can't jettison you, that would be a breach of violence, and against the peace accords. This is the only humane option other than conforming."
"You find altering someone's brain and shocking them into obedience humane? I find it no different than using a cattleprod to make someone go where you want them to go. I will wait four more years. Thank you for telling me. Is it possible to get a larger cell? This is somewhat ridiculous, you know."
*He shrugs*
"We are sorry, but the peace accords are very strict, the first law, is that all shall wear the collar for their own as well as other's protection. As for a new bigger cell, we do not have the manpower to devote to making a bigger cell, nor the time. We are all alone out here, and keeping this place working, is hard. Would a conjucial visit by the Prostitute of Peace be a good compromise? We have both a man and a woman with that title.
Doublepost
Ahhh, whatever.
"Sure, send me the woman."
I don't intend sexual contact, just to see what she looks like and talk to her.
Haha. Talk to a prostitute. She'll probably tell me my life's a bore and that I'm bringing her down.
*She comes in strips down and once you start to talk, she sits down*
"So tell me your feelings, why don't you want to initiate sexual contact? I am a licenced psychologist, all prostitutes are. I am Dr. Ruth, *she is tall, red haired and good looking*"
I explain to her exactly why I don't want to touch her and when the feeling started.
(rofl)
*She pulls out a notebook*
"I see, interesting, go on, and it happened when, after you did what. How did that make you feel, and you feel now how, am I attractive to you, are males attractive to you, are females attracted to you, does any of this make you angry?"
*That fills up an hour*
*she sighs*
"You have a lot of issues we need to work through, I will be here everyday for an hour a day."
That's very nice of her. I'll continue my training when she's not around.
*This continues for a few weeks, then you get a feeling, like something isn't right, you see a flash of cloaked predator like movement on the other side of the room, coming from where the officers would sit, the prostitute seems none the wiser, whatever it is, it is quiet as a mouse.*
I will stand, face it, and style up; Untouchable.
*You see an appendage come across the naked psychologist's throat, and toss her into the corner, she is alive, you hear breathing, the appendage moves like lightning, you are still in your forcefield cell, once the prostitute knew there was no contact, there was no reason to get in there with you. She thought her being naked might entice you out of your sickness*
*It stands in front of you, it is really hard to see it as it stares you down, you feel it's eyes on you, and it is indeed a presence no man would want to be in front of if they knew what it was.*
I am watching it in my style, and I say to it, "I don't want to have to hurt you. The people here have no chance to defend themselves against you, so leave them be."
*In a modulated voice*
"You have some nerve, speaking to me in that manor, and with a naked woman, you really are a sonofab*tch."
I respond, "Do I look naked to you? I have no interest in using that woman for sexual purposes. In case you hadn't noticed, there's an active force field here."
I feel for a scriff sense, since this person seems to be talking to me like I know them.
*You do feel a scriff sense in front of you*
*The being stands up and the predator effect goes away, you see a set of jet black armor with gold facemask, very ninjalike, with a computer on their left arm, a chinese sword on their hip*
"I do guess I have to give you that, the being takes off her helmet and you see Cass before you."
*Cass grins*
"I will take the last statement back, with the stipulation I add, stubborn, reckless and cute to a fault."
*Cass hits the forcefield button and the forcefield turns off*
"So is that a shiv in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
I jump on her, hug her, and kiss her on the cheek, happy to see her, (take the shiv out of my pocket kidding,) then tell her, "Remember how they cryofroze me? Well, they seriously f---ed me up; I don't feel any kind of sexual attraction for anybody, and I like to cook, clean, and sew.
"But how about you! Cool gear. Must be quite a story. God, I missed you." Hug her again.
*She hugs and kisses you*
"Yeah, should have strung them along to just kill you or let us clear your name, we did, but the corruption was so deep, it didn't matter. They all paid for their crimes, and we can leave it at that. We stayed until the chinese invaded the country, that's where I got these suits, and a lot of other things from. I have had some adventures since we last met."
*She nods*
"They did explain how the cryofreeze works inbetween your parole hearings, but that makes no sense, you should have gotten one skill. You were neither proven violent, or a sexual predator, that doesn't make sense. What is done is done, either through talking through it, or a device somewhere, we'll get you fixed up. Speaking of seriously f***ed up, I spent a week here watching these happy people. This whole place is on earth, or an earth like planet, it's dead, wiped out, took me a month to find this place underground."
*She takes the Captain's keycard and opens the armory and raids it while talking to you*
"I guess they must have screwed something up big time, then. Maybe the system got glitchy; when I woke up, it was nuclear fallout.
"These people are insane; the collars they wear punish them for violent thoughts with electric shocks. They wanted to put one on me, and I've been locked in this tiny cell for the better part of ... 4 years, I think? Maybe longer.
"You've waited for me for all this time?" I'm kind of flattered yet a little suprised; for me, it was years, for her, at least centuries; she's a better girl than I could hope for, and could do a lot better than me in my opinion.
*She grins*
"Of course I did, you think I would settle for just any man, pssh as if. No your mine, I'm yours, I just wish you took more of an interest in what I was doing in that world."
*Cass pauses*
"I think this was an experiment gone bad, but that's just me."
*Cass comes back after loading her santa sack full of guns, and ammo and pets and kisses your head*
"I will get you fixed up, Cass will make it be alright."
She makes me smile genuinely for the first time in years. "It's good to have you back. I was starting to feel old.
"So, where do we go from here? You say there's nowhere to go other than this complex?"
*She nods*
"Nothing, it might not even be earth, I didn't see a moon, it might be a remote outpost. Either way, these people are nuts. I would try to blow those collars."
Hmm.
Is there a computer system here? I'd like to try to get into it to see information on these collars.
*Cass nods*
"I passed one on my way in."
*She reaches in her sack and tosses you a Chinese Stealth Suit, a Sword like hers and a pip boy 3000*
"Call it a reward for letting yourself get framed."
Bump
"Thanks," I say to her as I suit up. "There's a plasma rifle with my gear, if you want it; I need my hat."
Head for my stuff and cover my head.
*She smiles and shows you the Gauss Rifle*
"I'm fine dear, this weapon is all that and a bag of pretzels."
*The armor does have a faceshield and hood*