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First thing's first, and this isn't just me being a pain in the ass but could someone maybe bring everyone on board up to speed on the Smiley thing? We've got a lot of people around here don't know what's going on and if I have to put my hands up and be the first to admit to it then so be it, but for the love of God if there's something you've got to share with the class get on and do it.

I do a lot of watching around here - guy can't be on duty all the time - and I've got problems. Communication is a big one, there's a whole lot of difference between the people with their hands on the wheel and those who're just along for the ride cause they got nowhere else to be. There's no liaison between one and the other, everyone's just gotta sit tight and wait for information to trickle down, and I don't know about the rest of you but I don't think it's working out.

To that end I think we gotta have that meeting people have been talking about, whether it's for the sake of expediting that or just to get people talking--we're jumping again soon, and I'm pretty sure things are gonna be as much as a shambles for the new guys as I felt they were when I got here. Sure, we're all gonna be just as screwed coming outta those things as anyone else, but at least we know where we are.

Now I'm not saying it won't be dangerous, or that there's not a hundred different excuses for leaving things the way we are, I'm just saying - and I think most people agree - that some kind of something has gotta be done, and it'd have been a hell of a lot easier if we'd had the opportunity to discuss it last week, rather than leaving it to the last second. I know: everyone's too busy asking 'How high?' when Smiley-boy says 'Jump'. While I'm on the subject, what the hell happened to that chapel idea we were floating? We got go ahead for that yet?

One other thing, and I'm gonna be assertive and straight out say it. If you wanna be useful, then join the crew. And if you don't wanna be useful-- [ He just shakes his head. ] Only thing I can think of is the story of the Little Red Hen.

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That you, God?

[ So unsure he's resorting to thin attempts at jokes. It makes sense, okay. ]

[What is comedy? :|]

No. MY namei s Castiel.

You know if you're having this much trouble with text, we could always try talking?

IH ave been told to practiceusing the text function. I apologize if iti s a problem..

When you put it that way, it's not a problem at all. You on a Comms crash course too?

I haveno plans t ocrash anywhere.

Hah. That's funny. You want my advice? God knows the first time I had a mobile phone I didn't even know which way up to hold it. Try slowing down.

I do not like these devices. They take too long to use.

The text function does, that's for sure. Generally I try to avoid it, but most people seem to prefer it for some reason. Frankly I think they're just shy.

If they were shy, they would not wish to use them at all.

That was a joke. Doesn't work well in text does it? For shy read: for the most part secretive, manipulative, or have questionable ulterior motives. Some of them probably are shy, or maybe they can't talk at all. We got all types around here. But it's hard to trust people when you can't hear their voice, and personally I prefer to be able to look them in the eye. Personal preference, of course.

I do not always understand humor. IF you do not trust those who converse through text, then perhaps it would be wiser torefuse to acknowledge text responses.

Now that'd just be rude, as well as uncooperative. And like the girl above and yourself have proven, not everyone who speaks through text is a Bond villain.

A Bond villain?

There's a couple around here fit the description. You don't know Bond?

There are a number of dangerous people aboard thiship. They do not alll make their motives known. I understand the word, butn ot the context.

No, not all of them do. The ones who claim to be villains outright at least you can keep an eye on them, but the ones who make you uncomfortable without making it clear what they're after... [ He's thinking of the mysterious S. ] Bond was the guy's name. I can't really explain the whole thing, short of the fact that his villains were always the kind of bad guys you didn't want to mess with. Huge, grandiose plans, ruthlessly clever double-crossing manipulative types. When you're taken away from your world and what you were doing, there's two things you can happen. You either find something new to occupy your time, or you don't. In the first case, with a bad guy, odds are people are gonna get hurt. In the second case it'll drive them stir crazy. It's the crazy kinds that I don't want to be trapped on a great lunking spaceship with.

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