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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-02-20 03:51 pm

open | event | Jailhouse Rock!

Characters: Team Delta; also, everyone!
Date: February 17th (through 24th)
Location: The prison beneath the Palace of Landed Sky
Situation: Troublemakers caught rooting around the broken areas of the shell have been rounded up for indefinite (OOC: until the 24th) incarceration (after which point the shell will be repaired and the final phase of the event underway). Some will get a special visitor, others may get supervised visits from friends, and others still may be jailed together!
Warnings/Rating: Incarceration; to be updated as needed.

OOC Note: This is the second phase the three phase February metaplot event! Characters caught unlawfully breaching the containment and repair areas of the turtle's shell will be (generally) brought straight to the prison, having been arrested and escorted primarily by Raylan's taskforce. The majority of these arrests, if threaded out, should occur on the initial log for this event, but a thread header for arrests and escorts is provided here!

Prison | Palace of Landed Sky
Overview
Each Sector has one central police station with holding cells meant for overnight infractions and common misdemeanours. These cells are solid, but not infallible to the experienced escape artist. They, however, are nothing to the cellblocks neatly built within the shell beneath the Palace of Landed Sky as those brought in will quickly learn. This prison is built beneath the palace itself and its walls are hewn out from the turtle's shell. The floors run quite deep, though only the most dangerous criminals are kept in the lowest levels.

Ambiance
The calming effect found at Tu Vishan's head is prevalent in the dungeon and, in fact, is one of the primary means in which prisoners are contained via their complacence. However, with the damages to shell and flesh, Tu Vishan has become distracted and the normally peaceful aura has become inconsistent, with flashes of normalcy, anxiety, and pain noted by all in the area.

All powers are likewise usually contained in the prison, but the field controlling that has become unstable with Tu Vishan's injury. Powers can be inconsistently accessed, with their strengths varying between barely accessible to fully available for use.

Initial & Processing
Upon arrival at the Palace of Landed Sky, all are directed to the right and walk down a long set of stairs with guards posted at landings/intervals which begin at thirty feet and slowly decrease to ten feet. At this point, the taskforce is relieved of their prisoners and a note made to record how many Foreigners (or kedan, in some cases) they have brought in. That is where the role of the taskforce ends and the guards begin.

All prisoners are first funnelled into one of three processing 'tanks' -- large cells situated in a connecting line that each hold between twenty and thirty human-sized bodies. The average time spent in the drop tank (as it is referred to by the guards) runs to three hours during times of rest. They've experienced a spike of business, so to speak, since the shell broke and Eshai's post on the network warning the Foreigners away. Kedan were first to be found on the wrong side of the containment line, having no central warning system such as the consoles to keep them away, but the Foreigner count in the prison has been slowly increasing the longer it takes the repairs to be completed. Currently, a new arrival can expect a wait of up to twelve hours in these cells. The facilities of these holding tanks are minimal, with benches provided and sparse snacks dispersed every four-to-six hours. Prisoners needing to use the other type of facilities are expected to call for a guard and be escorted to-from their business.

Once they've reached the front of the processing queue, they are called to the front by the guards and escorted to a small interrogation room in which they are asked what amounts to tombstone information (name, age, race, suite, etc). These rooms are moderately lit and cooperation is encouraged with the provision of a meal (noodle bowls with meat, vegetables, and broth). They are relieved of extraneous possessions, but left with their surface clothes for the interim with all possessions returned on their release day. (OOC: This interview is generally handwaved; contact Alex at [plurk.com profile] reignsdown or by PM to this account if you would like to thread it and she will provide an NPC to interact with.)

From here, the prisoners are assigned a cell with up to six others and so begins their indeterminate incarceration (OOC: which, unknown to them, will end after February 24th).

Prisoner Life
Each six-person cell is moderately sized with a small partition for toilet use to block cellmates from view, but not from the cell across the hall. There are six beds, lined up on two walls and bunked three high. This gives each cell a rather high ceiling compared to what one might expect. There is a long desk surface with a bench that stretches between the bunks; up to three may sit abreast on this bench at any one time. These desks date from a time when books and papers were more commonplace on Tu Vishan and prisoners were allowed them; nowadays, they are simply a lounging surface for the majority of prisoners.

The cells are emptied each day at dawn and the half the prisoners on each floor sent to the mess hall and half to a large room where they are instructed to walk or run laps for physical exercise. After an hour, these groups are switched to allow the other food/exercise, whichever they were lacking. Meals in this prison generally consist of noodles or rice, vegetables, and a sparse selection of meat with water being the primary source of hydration.

From there, the prisoners on each floor are broken down into teams of ten and assigned work tasks that range from textiles (ex: building/repairing paper lanterns) to upkeep (ex: janitorial duties, laundering, assistance to the kitchens). There is no prison library to attend to and all prisoners are expected to do their part, just as they would on the surface.

They are gathered four hours before dusk and the rotation between exercise and food is repeated. Oftentimes dinner will include a glass of watered down nectar or thin wafers as a form of dessert to differentiate the meals. Then all are ushered back to their cells for a two-hour downtime until night and lights-out.

Bathing and showers are arranged every second day, after the evening meal and exercise. Kedan and Foreigner prisoners are separated for this and provided group bathing facilities with a time limit of one hour to get, clean up, and get out.

Delta Team
Life for Delta Team matches that of the other prisoners, though they will have an NPC visitor one evening that will change things rather significantly. (OOC: A separate thread header has been provided for this group of characters in which to freely interact with one another in the cell before the NPC arrives.)

OOC: Thread headers (and starters for the teams) are provided in the comments area of this post!
histruename: (Intrigued)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-09 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
Sure.

[He answers simply because really, that's one hell of a loaded question.]

Guess I have a few close friends that are practically family. How about yourself?

[He mentioned a brother, so there's probably more.]
seriouslytwisted: (bleh. don't wanna.)

[personal profile] seriouslytwisted 2013-03-09 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Some brothers. [A dad.] Pains in my shell, all of 'em.
histruename: (You don't say)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-09 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Sounds kind of fun to him. Hellboy always wondered what it would've been like, growing up with siblings. Though he figures Liz and Abe kind of filled that role later in life.]

Any of them make it here?
seriouslytwisted: (stfu dumbass)

[personal profile] seriouslytwisted 2013-03-09 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
One of 'em, yeah.

[Raph debated briefly on avoiding answering it, but it's not like he's exactly keeping it a secret. He doesn't care who knows. Besides, what's the bfd? This guy just told him all this crap, true or not, and he just feels like being all chill and stuff. Yeaahhhh.]

The one that's the least trouble. So that's good.
histruename: (Hmm...)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-09 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Hellboy nods once. In a way, he's glad the kid isn't on his own.]

Still managed to land you in here. The others must be a hell of a lot of trouble.
seriouslytwisted: (OW.  fine.)

[personal profile] seriouslytwisted 2013-03-09 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...

[Funny story about that; Raph is the one who landed them in prison ssssso. Not gonna admit it though.]

What about you? Any of yours here?
histruename: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-09 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, he suspects as much.]

No. Guess it's just me.

[But damn, he really does miss Liz. It's hard not to hope she shows up again.]
seriouslytwisted: (hmmmmmmmm-)

[personal profile] seriouslytwisted 2013-03-09 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
That blows.

[No really, it does. It really sucks.]

Do you want any of 'em to show up? [Mostly Raph's just looking for justification for wanting his family to show up here. If other people want that, he doesn't feel like such a needy little loser.]
histruename: (Mournful)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-10 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Hard not to.

[It's a painfully honest answer. Especially when his world's pretty much gone to crap. Especially after what Liz told him. At first, this place had been like a vacation to them, a place where they can pretend all that madness wasn't happening, like getting caught up in some kind of dream.

Though this place has madness of its own. Seeing the ruins on the mainland; the presence of this so-called "enemy" lurking in the distance is making this place feel more like home every day.

It's hard to say where they would be better off. But either way, it just feels like postponing the inevitable.

Much as it would be nice to see them again, this isn't where they belong.]


But I don't think that's such a good idea.
seriouslytwisted: (ugh gross)

[personal profile] seriouslytwisted 2013-03-10 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, Raph can understand being torn about it. He doesn't want his brothers here if it means they'll be in comas back home.

...geez, that means Donnie's in a coma. Do not want.]


How does that woman find us to drags us here anyway?
histruename: (Okay)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-10 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs, wishing he could give the kid a more solid answer.]

Your guess is as good as mine.
seriouslytwisted: (bleh. don't wanna.)

[personal profile] seriouslytwisted 2013-03-10 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhhh. [Raph's back on his feet, but only to walk over to the bars and hang off of them for a bit.]

I gotta get out of here. When do we get yard time?
histruename: (Listening)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-15 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Beats me.

[Seriously. How does anyone have that much energy? This kid's almost literally bouncing off the walls. It's starting to make even Hellboy antsy. Or maybe that's just the influence of the turtle. (Not that he could really tell the difference.)

He shifts, resting his normal hand on top of that giant stone one sitting heavy in his lap. It's practically itching to smash those bars into splinters, but that would probably cause more trouble than it's worth.]


So where you from?

[Yeah, okay. He can't help being curious. If the kid doesn't want to satisfy that, oh well. Idle conversation is better than sitting here with nothing but his own thoughts.]
seriouslytwisted: (jesus just shut up already)

[personal profile] seriouslytwisted 2013-03-15 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Your worst nightmares.

[The most annoyingly teenage sarcasm here. Also it's doubtful, considering Hellboy is...y'know. From hell.]
histruename: (You don't say)

[personal profile] histruename 2013-03-15 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
...Right.

[All right, kid. Then he won't ask. All he can do is hope they let everyone out for exercise sooner rather than later.]