ataraxion | ( 04 ) text ♧ go ask alice i think she'll know

( 04 ) text ♧ go ask alice i think she'll know

[ solitude is an easy leap for a guy who likes to throw around dostoyevsky quotes like it ain't no thing, and men who go looking for secrets often find them. as such: have the very first non-video caffrey post, tranquility. fuck smiling, this shit ain't right. ]

"Try not to die".

This ship really is the most user friendly around, isn't it? And helpful.

Anyone who isn't used to computers, ask Tony Stark what I mean.

[ he'd say he's sorry, tony... but he isn't. ]

L O C K E D ( listmates )

Normally I'd make an English lesson out of this one, but forget it. "Solitude" is the password you want, if you like feeling special, not to mention uncomfortably singled out.

I don't know about the rest of you, but this is a list I could stand not to be on-- and I don't feel particularly giving, especially not towards our smiling friend.

Any thoughts from the other esteemed honorees?

/ L O C K E D ( listmates )

L O C K E D ( wardnik )

I need a word. And you two need better PR, so let's help each other out here.

/ L O C K E D ( wardnik )

L O C K E D ( our smiling friend)

I'm flattered, but I like to exchange names before I commit to anything. How about a quick sitdown? Strictly off the record.

/ L O C K E D ( our smiling friend )

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[ HA HA HA HA. no. ]

Thank you. Is it actually impossible for the two of you to act like adults for five minutes?

okay, back on topic.

two things. one, being older than the rest of us doesn't necessarily make you any wiser. and two, if it is a hitlist, we'd probably be best served by having at least one person who's maybe not on the list as opposed to everybody definitely being on there.

You'd like us to act like adults? That's rather rich, coming from the bickering couple. I, so far, haven't gone to any particular lengths to berate the unseen smile that seems to be keeping a constant watch on us. That said, in my opinions, using the network to discuss these matters is not currently very appealing. "Nothing is off the record", after all.

the likelihood is that ship is equipped for surveillance.
off network, on network.
the difference may be inconsequential.

I was going to say it, but she already did. Either way we'll be seen. Nothing is off record, at all. Especially if one does take into account the idea of the ship saying it was watching us. And while the idea of not being on the list is a pleasant one, the fact that out of the three of us I do have the power that provides the least bit of help in theory doesn't make the fact that I'm the lone individual who has found myself free of it any nicer and/or good.

Excellent, I suppose now would be the point someone states the obvious and remarks upon how we're all most probably doomed? Perhaps our observer is playing with us in a different way. The lack of a common factor to link all of us on the link makes me wonder if whoever is behind the smile merely wants to make us paranoid, and that there's no meaning behind the list at all. [ Well. ] Or at least one can dream that that might be the case.

well, since you asked: we're all doomed.

maybe it's trying to figure out fault lines among the crew? that would explain both the clusters of related people and the lack of a unifying relationship between everyone on the list. (and just looking at us, it's kind of working.)

other possibility:
observation and data collection.
present a given body of subjects a problem to solve
to determine, discern and evaluate their methods and cognitive strategies.
adapting its tactics, based on what it learns.
the harder the problem, the more frustrating,
the more we're forced to operate at extremes,
the more daring or desperate we become.

Says the man who for a brief time was here before any of us. With Cambridge. Pot calling the kettle black.

Cambridge and I were hardly exactly airing our tiffs all over the network.

This isn't a tiff. Besides, your definition of a tiff isn't necessarily mine. Point remains, you two were the first and yet neither one of you did a thing.

Neither of us did a thing about what? There were no strange anonymous beings to investigate, and we had just been unceremoniously dumped on a damned spaceship. What would you have done in my place, Dundee? In fact, is there anything that you have done since your arrival that might constitute as informative or largely helpful? Besides trying to have a little chat with what might be the most dangerous entity or being on board this ship, that is.

Edited 2012-05-21 01:22 (UTC)

I would have done something. Her first post when we came was her being pleased about shoes. In addition to that, I do believe here actions before we arrived with regards to her ability i.e. threatening to airlock individuals might have been a bit, oh , I don't know, idiotic? Keeping a low profile seems doomed from the start when she does that. And shockingly, I'll count actually remaining low profile minus talking to a smile that insists on putting three order members on a list for god knows what reason as doing something useful. God forbid I'm actually quiet in what I do. Let me make as much ruckus as the rest of us. In addition, perhaps the fact that you two were rather idle because of being unceremoniously dumped onto this godforsaken ship might be half of the reason this is even an issue.

Edited 2012-05-21 04:35 (UTC)

What relevance does this have to me, Dundee? You can't blame me for Cambridge's indiscretions, I was never her keeper. What she said or did was never supposed to be my responsibility. Besides, other than making space hangover-induced threats and being good with technology, she hardly acted in a suspicious manner If you will, please name a time where I have acted inappropriately or done something that might compromise us, rather than complaining about what Cambridge - who is no longer here, if that has escaped your notice - has or has not done. I have kept an absolutely reasonable profile, for God's sake, and I intend to continue to do so. You're here now, Dundee, so why don't you get on and "do something" as you claim you would. Or was that a privelege only allowed for those of us that originally arrived in the first jump? You have no reason to complain about myself and Cambridge when you have been here all this time and been just as idle as we were.

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[ Following this exchange. ]

make them stop.

[ Cause god knows, she can't. ]

[ ... really, you two? chapel might be quoting youtube videos, but at least he's not doing this. ]

oh good lord.

i'll try, but i can't promise anything. (sorry.)

just glad cambridge isn't here.

[ Comms would be shutting down left and right, quite possibly. Then cue a really awkward pause. Can a pause be awkward when it's basically just comm chatter? ]

thanks.

that'd be one surefire way to make it worse. either cambridge, to be honest. [ american cambridge would probably just knock heads together until either the arguing stopped or someone was unconscious. ]

probably shouldn't thank me until we know if it worked or not.

[ Her response doesn't come until after his attempt to break up the party. ]

still, thanks.
we're not your order.
you're not beholden.

yeah, well. i still know y'all, and we're all sort of stuck in space together.

besides, that really wasn't getting anything done. even punching it out would have been more productive. (not that i'm saying they should punch it out. oxford's still in knee rehab, and i don't think dundee really does a whole lot of punching.)

maybe they should.
punch it out.

less semantics.

[ And we run governmental organizations how? ]

lessons from the OED:
also off topic.

[ because no one else wanted to? because for some reason we passed the evaulations? (how everyone did that is another question entirely.) ]

It wasn't a lesson, it was a correction. Minor difference. But feel free to lump me in with those individuals who you take lessons from apparently.

why are you doing this.

because you're treating me like a child. because i want to. because i can. because- i don't- united we stand, divided we fall. i'm not going to watch the three of you die.

[ so many answers to that get deleted before he finally settles on this: ]

Compromised when it comes to you. Always am, always will be.

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