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[nukeit]

From what I've gleaned off this, things have been coming at you people from more than one direction since I was last here. What's the biggest concern we have right now?

[ Blunt fits her better. There's a reason that question ends up followed by: ]

Any chance someone's seen an orange tabby cat around?

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[video] you wanted a girl with the same clothes as newt right? right.

[the_vishual]

No cat, sir. Or miss. [ Chase takes a moment, blinking at the screen--text is difficult to decipher gender. She continues: ]

With all due respect to Captain Kirk, this ship is a bit of a mess. The most important thing to be warned of is not to go out alone, especially if you're a newcomer. It's proven to be quite dangerous.

[video] hahaha man i still feel like a troll because this is FIVE MINUTES before she meets Newt

[nukeit]

Ellen is fine. I don't know if I've caught your name before. Thanks for the status update on the cat.

[ She's school herself slightly -- she thinks she remembers seeing this girl before, but her memory isn't all that reliable right now. ]

Captain Kirk has been keeping things running since the first wave? What kind of dangerous are we talking about?

[ Feeling exceedingly awkward asking someone so young ... anything. ]

[video] haha oh god that's great XD

[the_vishual]

Yes, miss. Completely. He's very good at his job, despite this ship. [ A beat--she's considering what, exactly, to say next. ]

There's something wrong with the ship. Hallways moving, sickness, hallucinations at one point.. It's troubling. I wouldn't go out alone.

[video] It makes me grin <3

[nukeit]

Hallways moving?

[ Sickness, it happens, and she's heard about some of that from Zatanna. Hallucinations? Some people get a little unhinged while in space, but it takes time. More than people here should have.

Great. Good to know that sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach has a reason to exist. She'd already made assumptions about how bad this place could be; learning the extent was going to take time. And, apparently, experimentation of the highly unwilling sort? ]

Being completely restructured, or shifting around?

[ Maybe things weren't well moored... but this is a ship. One hell of a big girl, too, and she should be much sturdier than that. ]

You've got some good advice with not wandering out alone. I think I'll listen to you on that, yeah? Thanks for the heads up.

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[redhotsummers]

Excuse me--

last time here?

[Here, have a mutant looking at you skeptically. Not because he doesn't believe you, exactly. Just hasn't ever heard of someone leaving here and returning, yet.

And there is one gray kitten curled up around the back of his neck.]

Haven't seen another cat here yet.

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[nukeit]

[ She switches over to video, keeping it simpler. She hates extended conversations this way, but that
s the beauty in hopeful brevity. ]

The last time I was around here, I was tattooed with an 001.

[ She taps on her left arm, though the gesture's partly lost with how video works on this. ]

Now it's an 008, with a different room number following.

[ No news on Jones... she can't tell if that's good or if he ended up as a puddle of feline organs not getting in a grave couch in time. He didn't deserve and ending like that. ]

Cat's aren't standard spacefaring animals. Not where I'm from, or when. Thanks for the response.

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[redhotsummers]

[Well--considering he had been wondering about this just a few days ago--]

You remember this place at all when you went back home?

[Because that is kind of important to him; last place he was in, you didn't remember shit when you got back. Which wasn't good. He's sure this place is the same, but this woman will be able to prove his theory right or wrong.]

Look--I'll try to find him--her?

[He shrugs, running a hand to scratch at Bozo's chin.]

If they are around, maybe they'll come out for another cat.

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[archaeologize]

Last here? You've been here - before?

[ Skeptical Holloway look. ]

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[nukeit]

[ Skeptic, meet skeptic, albeit along different lines and for different reasons. ]

Yes, some months back if the way time's being tracked here is accurate.

[archaeologize]

So, let me get this straight. We're at risk of being abducted more than once?

[ A beat. ]

Why'd you come back?

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[astrogate]

I recall a cat at one time. Haven't seen it in a bit though.

And I think the biggest concern is the amount of secrets.

text.

[nukeit]

Then he might still be around. Thanks.

Secrets on the side of Tranquility?

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[astrogate]

Secrets all around.
Doesn't matter where they come from, they are root cause of a lot of issues after all.

[megamind]

Oh, hey! I remember you! Yeah, I found your cat! Roxanne and I take care of him.

[nukeit]

[ The amount of relief she feels at this is far greater than it should be -- the other survivor found somebody to help keep him keeping on. ]

You have? That's -- really great. He's a tough old thing, but he never did figure out how to open cans on his own. I'm glad he had someone watching over him.

[ ... though she wonders if it's then her real right to ask for her cat back, since... what if this happens again? Hell, with cats, Jonesy might already be over and beyond little ol' Ripley.

... Cats. ]

I hope he hasn't been too much of a bother.

[megamind]

We tried. Food's difficult but I'm pretty sure he's hunting something in the vents some days. [Megamind's tried to cat proof her rooms but the animal is a tiny orange ninja okay] Nah, he's downright companiable. For a cat. I think.

Never had a cat before now, but Roxanne had.

[text]

[doggedly]

1. cat might have been eaten
2. i might not speak for everyone but my biggest sudden current concern would be what you mean by "last here".

[text]

[nukeit]

First, hah-hah, funny. Should I be asking if it could have been by a passenger or something else? Second, I mean what it sounds like. When I was last here on this ship, the Tranquility.

Not with the original crew. Only the first guest appearance.

[text]

[doggedly]

could have been either/or i think
we had some terrifying creatures last month
but we have some terrifying deadly passengers as well



what happened after you were here?

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[howdoishot]

[ After a while, Ellen's going to get a very tentative text.

If text can even be tentative. ] People can keep pets here?

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[nukeit]

[ Miles, kiddo, she's glad to hear from you. ]

People can, if it isn't easy. There's not usually a lot of pet-food available, so you make due figuring out what works to keep them fed like they need to be. From what I see, there's at least one other guy here with a cat. There might be more.

How're you settling in, kiddo?

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[howdoishot]

Are the cats happy? [ He's not sure how they would be, but he's never had a cat, so he doesn't know. ]

I'm okay.

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[widowing]

[ it's something that's happened before - people disappearing only to be brought back - and in some cases they remember and in some they don't. the fact that this looks like a case of the former has natasha very interested, since her partner's just gone missing. ]

do you remember where you were, in between your first time here and returning?

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[nukeit]

In between I was in Gateway, a space station in orbit around Earth, then later in transit on a ship called the Sulaco. Later still, landing on a moon.

Is that what you wanted to know?

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[widowing]

something like it.

[ so she wasn't lost in the ship, or dead. this is...something of a comfort. ]

did you remember anything about the tranquility when you were at those other places?