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captains log | 009 | voice

Tranquility, this is Jim Kirk.

Anyone injured or still suffering side effects from the fear gas should check in with medical. Scans are showing the gas is out of the ship's circulation now, but we can never be too careful. For anyone wondering, we do have a suspect in custody, but he's currently recovering from a high dosage of the toxin.

[he pauses, a clear indication that he's changing topics.]

We all knew we were being watched. Despite this recent information, nothing's really changed. Nevertheless I encourage everyone to stay alert and try not to travel alone. This thing is trying to make us nervous, lets try not to give it what it wants.

( Enterprise Crew, Re-l, Chase, John, Sherlock, Natasha, Kasumi, Dean || eta "Nick", Jack Harkness, Ianto, Magneto, Raven, Megamind, Roxanne, Tali, Hotspur, Isaac, Tony Stark, Aberdeen || flags to WARD and RESNIK )

[the filter is a simple one and used solely to make this post private from any civilian prying eyes. Jim knows it will be hacked, and he isn't about to toot his own horn publicly when people are panicking. he's flagged people both versed in this scientific bullshit and outside, because Jim knows as well as any that sometimes it takes an outside view to see outside the box.

just in case anyone hasn't spotted it yet, he fires off a LINK to the hidden documents, along with the translation, making it plain English instead of happy morse code.]

This isn't the first time this thing has mentioned me.

I'm not opening speculation about what the list means, we've got enough of that going on, but whatever this is has purposely left out the clues we need to figure it out. I think Chase has summed it up the best possible way: we're being laughed at.

I tried running another trace but the only thing I keep coming up with is static. Whatever this thing is, it's either part of the ship or has been here for a damn long time. It's coding is almost identical to the network's build.

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Smiles. Just smiles and laughter and laughter and laughter....

So where does that leave us? We wait?

[ raven's bad at waiting sob ]

[ flagged for a reason? she'll take the invitation. consider your filter hacked; she's watching. ]

Almost?

[ because if there's a difference, however slight, then they can isolate it, can't they? ]

What's the difference between it and the network's build?

Do you want me to drum up a psychological profile?

look for cameras.

We all didn't know jack shit because some of us are new. When I'm only just hearing about a room full of skeletons and food, there's a fucking problem.

I picked a hell of a time to come back to this place.

You've done a lot to contribute to this ship. It's no surprise. You're a...key player in this game they're playing.

So I'm guessing from the general reaction, this is the first time the cryptic happy face has shown up. No idea as to who it could be?

I'm still going to focus my attention on fixing the ship's internal communications system in the meantime, but I just realized... Do you think this thing is what caused the malfunction in the first place? Maybe fixing that will be the key to hacking into its encryptions just as easily as it, apparently, hacks into ours.

Medbay is understaffed

Who can fix that

[AKA who can he complain to, just point him that way. Griping about bureaucratic shortcomings is a national sport he can't pass up on, no matter how shitty he feels.]

And how do we know we're not already giving it what it wants?

[ how about mental anguish? because getting over seeing your dead daughter, and then being attacked by her? yeah, not to easy to get over. quinn can still barely sleep, actually no she's not sleeping at all. ]

Wouldn't walking around in groups do exactly that? Show whoever that we're nervous?

Who was it? How did he do it? What are you going to do with him?

[She isn't totally ignoring the red smile situation, but it hasn't actually done anything yet. Better to deal with what can actually be dealt with.]

Hi. You don't know me, but someone told me you might be able to help. My name is Bass.

I'd like to ask you about missing passengers.

[He doesn't say 'prisoners', not this time.]

Good luck trying to get Jack to check in with medical.

Almost identical to the network's build? That lends itself to some theories, but nothing solid. I think it's very safe to say this thing is malicious, though.

How much do we really know about this ship? Ward and Resnik keep quiet, but they seem genuinely in the dark about this. If this thing is using the network's build or is even part of the network, we're going to have to learn a lot more about how the network functions, how the ship is put together, and maybe there are some clues in the ship's history if it's been here a while. There has to be something we can dredge up. And frankly, we should have done more of this by now anyway... but we've been distracted, haven't we? I wonder if that's calculated.

Case in point, and forgive my eavesdropping, but she brought up a problem we've known about for a while. I was trying to put together a better welcoming system months ago, but got understandably sidetracked. If we know more about the network, we could set it up to ping everyone with a welcoming guide as soon as they turn on their communicators, and we can re-do the message on the P.A. system to be a bit more informative.

Thoughts? Sorry about the text, it's easier to get all my thoughts down on paper, so to speak.

It's a villain taunt. Classic maneuver. But hey, nobody cares what the guy who has done evil since his prison breakout at four months thinks about villainy.

[Someone took an emotional turn for the worse here.]

I'm going to show you some of what I found in the communication hubs on our fieldtrip. But the more I work and watch you work, I -- [he pauses, fusses, and then changes his mind about what he was going to say] I guess we'll just see where that leads.

How do we know the people we're traveling with aren't involved in this sort of thing?

[ One of these days, the distinct disadvantage Erik is at due to the technology improvements now since the sixties is going to bite him. ]

How much of the ship have you broken into? [ Because Erik is about to go hunting. ]

[It takes him a while to speak up, if only because the memory of the Fear Gas is so sharp in his mind. He lost his temper, and yet Kirk still breathes. Not a mistake a Blade should make.]

[Still, it's hardly practical to avoid this. And a puzzle is exactly the sort of stick-and-carrot needed to motivate a reluctant Wraith, if only for him to create an even more dangerous counter-puzzle.]

I would find it far more plausible that there is a natural intelligence behind these latest antics than an artificial one. Even if this one had been trained to be exceptionally cryptic, it would still need to be trained.

More importantly, it should be noted that we are strangers here, and that any sort of computer coding would seem impossibly difficult to one not versed in it. You would balk if I asked you to write code in Wraith, and yet even the most technophobic of my Blades knows how to write a simple bypass. Simply because we cannot easily navigate this system does not mean that the native humans cannot either.

You don't seem like an idiot.

[Translation for Alex speak: You seem like a guy who knows what he's talking about.]

So whoever's running this game probably has the ability to read the network at will, right?

Past any filters or encryption we can put in?

[It may seem like a simple question, or even leading. But Alex has some questions, but he isn't really ready to start blathering about it all on an unsecure network, where a mysterious 'unknown' might be reading it.

Why? Because he went through that with Genero. He isn't dealing with that again.

It's the reason the Resistance went completely off line to stay safe.]

[ You've heard his voice before, Kirk. :3 ]

You once said that I could ask whatever questions I wish. I now know that what I asked before was far insufficient.

[ Beat. ]

There were previous threats. What are they?

Hello. I'll be sure to go to medbay; I've received the same advice before.

I'm sure the ship is sentient.

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