You're the smart one.

((SO LOOKS LIKE KAY MANAGED TO KIND OF SABOTAGE THAT RIOT. Since once someone told Ray that Ardent might be involved in this, he started to ~investigate, and really, evidence wasn't hard to find. He feels kind of dumb for being so oblivious now. Sorry for possibly sabotaging this! I can't really figure out how else to have Ray react, though. Also, sorry for the spam. I felt that this should probably go in its own post.))

[Warden Filter]

[Ray's in his room, sitting at his rather untidy desk. He's got a notepad in one hand and is reading bulletpoints off of it. He seems pretty tense. This is because he just found out that his inmate is planning a riot, ffff.]

Right. So. That riot thing. Looks like Ardent's the ringleader. I just requested access to his private messages, and aside from a whole bunch of rants and speeches about the wardens--lots of crap about how we're the ones oppressing the inmates and how we're not a united front and could be taken down easily--I also found the following.

Ardent's primarily working with Saffron, Arthas and the Master. They want to incite the riot by having one of them kill Ardent and frame a warden for it. [He can't quite keep up the professional tone when he says this. Because WHAT THE FUCK, ARDENT.] Haven't found out yet which warden, but knowing Ardent, I'd say it'd probably be House. [That's wild speculation on Ray's part.] They want to use the dissent among the wardens that's to be expected after an accusation like this to unite the inmates in a search for the "culprit". [Those are airquotes he's doing, yes.]

Arthas was put in charge of leading and organizing the riot. Whoever Arthas' warden is, if you're not reading his private messages already, I suggest you start doing it now.

Doctor, that phone you were working on. Ardent broke it in order to cause more dissent and dissatisfaction. If there's been anything else that happened to anyone that they couldn't quite make sense of, might very well have been Ardent and his gang trying to cause more trouble.

That's what I found out so far. Oh, and they've been using the library to meet up and plan things. Doctor--other Doctor, the one in the beige suit--Ardent's banned from the library until further notice. And if you see any of the others skulking around, I suggest you kick them out as well.

Sorry for not catching this earlier. And thanks to Agent K for cluing me in. I'm gonna take Ardent down to the interrogation room on level zero and see what else I can get out of him. I suggest the wardens of the affected inmates do something similar.

[Private to Miss Rose. Voice.]

( Earlier in the day; just added into this post to avoid spamming the flist. )

[Warden Filter. Text.]

I put this out there a couple of days ago, and T'Pol, myself, and a couple of others worked out an idea how we might be able to deal with inmates having trouble they can't sort out with their wardens. Listen up everyone, because this concerns all of you.

The idea is for each warden to have a so-called back-up warden. That's simply one of the other wardens being the official go-to person for the inmate in question when they need to discuss an issue they feel they can't discuss with their warden, or when their warden was sent off-Barge unexpectedly. The back-up warden would not be a second warden option for the inmate; they would only be consulted in a situation where it's impossible for the inmate to talk to their actual warden.

Morgan suggested that inmates should choose who their warden's back-up warden should be. This way, we can prevent inmates feeling they can trust the back-up warden as little as they might be feeling they can trust their own warden. This means, of course, that each warden and back-up warden would have to meet up and talk, to make sure the inmate doesn't play them against one another, but I'm sure we could work that out.

So, to summarize:

- Each warden would be getting a back-up warden, who would be chosen by the warden's inmate.
- The back-up warden should only be addressed concerning issues that the inmate feels they can't sort with their own warden.
- The back-up warden would also function as a temporary substitute warden should the original warden be called off-Barge.
[Added later on.]
- No warden can be back-up warden for more than one inmate. Thanks to Sexby for pointing that out.

If you could all give me a yes or a no in a comment, that would be extremely helpful. If you don't care either way, you don't need to vote, but I think that if this is going to be implemented, it's going to be a Barge-wide thing. So if you've got an opinion, make sure to put your vote in now.

[Added even later on.]
Just to clarify. The back-up warden's not supposed to be getting all up in your warden business and undermine your authority. He's supposed to be a failsafe in case you're indisposed. As in, you died, you're sick, or you vanished off the face of the Barge. They're not supposed to undermine your warden authority or indulge your inmate's every complaint about you.

((Hah hah, watch me be on hiatus. Ray discussed this a couple of days ago, though, and I saw no IC reason for him to delay posting this. I will be slow tagging back to comments on this post, though.))

[The camera focuses on Ray's face. He's clean-shaven, his hair is carefully arranged in its usual bristly style, and the collar of his neatly buttoned-up shirt looks almost starched. It's still a casual look, but it's a very neat kind of casual. This is because Ray returned from the breach looking, feeling and smelling like a hobo, and felt the urgent need to demonstrate that this is not what he is.]

[The only thing he couldn't do anything much about are the circles under his eyes and a faint pallidness--he looks hungover. He feels hungover. And is vaguely worried that he might go blind. He can't imagine that moonshine Stan was fueled on not containing at least as much methanol as alcohol.]

Right. That was--kinda surprising. What's gonna be next? Freaking Star Wars? [. . .] I am not, what's his name. Jar Jar Binks. Just so that's clear.

Oh, and the first person who calls me Stan gets his head kicked in. I mean that.

[Private to T'Pol]

This boat doesn't really give you a break, does it? You come through this alright?

[It's a perfectly innocent question. He has no idea what happened to T'Pol during the breach; he never even made it to the fair, or saw her.]

[Private to Howie]

I, uh, I realize this is a bit late. What with the whole carnival business and all. You alright? I mean, you live through that alright? I heard there was a bit of a riot thing happening, but I wasn't involved in that. [. . .] Anyway, I just wanted to say, y'know, thanks. For, y'know. Being around. When, you know. Before the flood. Breach. [He scratches the back of his neck, slightly awkward; then thinks of something and raises his head, his expression a bit on the alarmed side.]

Oh. Right. The--you know. The guy who, I mean, the guy who was in zero. He was running around free, during the breach. Is that--I mean, like, normal? Is he back in the cells? [He's talking about the Master. He knows what the Master calls himself, but Ray is not going to do him the favor of using his title. Ever.]

[Ray is wandering along the level 5 corridor of the Barge, heading for the library. He's carrying his communicator in his hand, and now and again throwing side-glances at it as he speaks. He can't pay it his full attention since he's too busy scrutinizing his surroundings with an extremely wary and suspicious eye.]

So, these flood things. Somebody wanna fill me in? S'far as I understand, you're forced to tell the truth, or something? That is just--spooky.

Does this kind of thing happen often, around here?

[OOC: Ray's affected. He doesn't have that many dirty secrets, but feel free to poke around. You might at least find some embarrassing ones.]