10 | video | Sir, I think you'd better take my hand / and pray we'll make this one out alive.

[the_vishual]

[ The video clicks on and there's Chase--smiling, if gently. She looks like nothing at all has happened to her, asides from maybe going on a pleasant stroll through the oxygen gardens. ]

Those that have come out of the fog, congratulations. I trust you're all back safe, if emotionally harmed. Please seek assistance from the designated persons aboard this ship if this is your case.

Furthermore--be it the mist or rust, please be aware that it's the least of our problems. The endgame, as it were, is still to try to figure out why we're here. God may have willed it, but there's always need for a further explanation. Please keep this in mind while investigating the ship, if you so wish to do so.

And, lastly, if anyone has some chalk, I'd like it. [ A beat. ] I want to learn how to play hopscotch.

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[majestyofthethrone]

I have chalk.

[the_vishual]

Do you know how to play?

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[ringbearer]

[ he's too exhausted to even go near that 'endgame' business. instead he keeps it on voice. ]

Hopscotch?

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[the_vishual]

It's a game, where you jump and there's chalk and a stone.

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[fly_like_pie]

[ He still has that "wow, what just happened" face, so might as well stick with text. ]

hopscotch is a nice recovery for..... all of that

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[the_vishual]

I've always wanted to try to play, but I've never got the chance to!

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[walksonrooftops]

[Oh god Chase, here comes the worried catbrother, a huge mess of confusion and worry even though she's treating this transmission like it's about the most normal subject matter in the world.]

Chase! You're not hurt?

[He knows that Chase is different somehow. She knows things he doesn't know, feels things he can't feel, but it doesn't deter him from wanting to make sure nothing caught her unaware. It could happen, right?]

You weren't in the fog?

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[the_vishual]

Asato! [ A big big smile, eeyup, because Asato is Asato and even if they don't quite talk as much Chase still occasionally crawls over to nap with him. ]

I'm fine. You're fine, too, aren't you?

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[shoyu]

Well, ah. I suppose that's one way of dealing with the ship's unpleasantries!

[ admittedly a little impressed by how -- unruffled she looks by all of this. ]

I believe you also need a pebble or some sort of marker as well as chalk, for hopscotch?

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[the_vishual]

Do you? I thought--I thought all you needed was chalk!

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[yardbird]

[Well, shit.]

Were you

Did you go



You saw it?

[He's not in such great shape to talk over the network, but when he's having issues articulating himself through text? That's just sad.]

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[the_vishual]

I saw it. I just didn't go.

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[toasterprophet]

I'm glad to see you're well, Chase.

Do you think the endgame is close at hand?

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[the_vishual]

Oh, no. Not at all, number two. There's quite a long journey ahead.

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[showbizpanache]

Endgame?

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[the_vishual]

Yes. Everything ends, sir. This ship. Us. Love.

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[thenormalsquint]

I have some. If you beat me, you can keep it and another color.

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[the_vishual]

Oh! I like this. There's stakes, now. Sera's teaching me how to play, but then I'm going to be really good at it.

What colours do you have?!

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[puppydogeyes]

If you know this shit then why don't you give us some warning.

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[the_vishual]

Why?

[text forever] (for now!!)

[wolfdreamer]

What is hopscotch?

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[the_vishual]

[ Bran~ ]

It's a game with chalk squares and pebbles. And you jump jump jump and that's all I know, really.

[signatures]

You think God did this?

[the_vishual]

A God.

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[olympicgrade]

I don't have any chalk but if I did, I'd definitely teach you. I hope you find some. [ This place could use more things like that to help pass the time. ]

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[the_vishual]

Thank you, miss. Sera's going to teach me.

[predictor]

[For all his 21st century knowledge and the fact that he is, right now, just an edge away from genius... he actually doesn't know how to play hopscotch.]

Hopscotch?

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[the_vishual]

Yessir. There's chalk, and--well, a stone, apparently. And you jump across the chalk with the stone--

Hmmm, no. That's not quite right.

I guess you run over it and then hit the stone...

Huh.

Well it's a good thing Sera's teaching me. Do you want to learn?

[andblockbuster]

[Oh, Chase.]

Were you... there? In the fog, I mean?

[the_vishual]

No, Topher. [ The perks of being omniscient. ]

And you're okay. [ A statement, not a question. [

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[firstofficer]

Direct, as expected.

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[the_vishual]

I learned from the best. [ Griiiiin. ]

[meddler]

You've never played hopscotch?

[the_vishual]

No. But I've heard it's fun!

[forever grumbly voice]

[unsoldiered]

[After he recuperates from having an unexpected visitor in the form of a grumpy dutchman, he sees this entry. And since he can't really drag himself out of bed long enough to do what is, y'know, required of life, he just talks to Chase here. Because she's one of those more important people in his life by now, it's true.

...

Dammit, you better not have seen any of that otherworld business, young lady.]

You didn't go through any of that crazy mess, did you?

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[the_vishual]

No, I didn't. [ Grin. ] The fog or the Otherworld.