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[ heeeeey network, have a video of auggie! he's at his desk in the communications office and his headphones are around his neck. the communicator is in his hand and he's looking off to the side, in a sort of spaced out way. which is probably because he's blind. ]

Heeeello, network. Your friendly neighborhood communications team with a tiiiiny bit of an update. As you all know, this ship is ... [ a wave of his hand as he tries to come up with a word before he snaps his fingers ] insane and you're probably all dealing with the repercussions of that at the moment so I wish you the best of luck!

Juuusst, to anyone actively using the network at the moment, please do not be alarmed if you hear something, uh, out of ordinary, so to speak? We picked up a bit of a disturbance and the source seems to be from the ship itself, not anyone on the network. If you do happen to hear it, you will probably be a bit alarmed at the sudden noise. Please please, do not panic and try not to go looking for the source because like I said, it's from the ship. Stay in your groups, stay in your camps, don't do anything stupid.

[ or at least, they think it's from the ship. There's not actually much of a source but he's at least sure that the screaming isn't coming from anyone on the ship. ]

Anyway, yeah, there's your warning. We'll be watching the channels from here to keep track of ... whatever it is. Good luck!

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So. Screams, huh?

[ hey, at least it's to the point ]

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The screams aren't new. Assuming you're not doing so already, if you can find the audio from Stark's recording a few jumps back, you might be able to check and see how similar they sound. Something tells me we're not going to be lucky enough for it to be a recording, but maybe we can match some voices.

[ Pause. ]

And you're aware everyone is going to be trying to hear them now, right? Or they'll end up thinking the hull is falling apart and it's the screech of metal.

You should simply say what the noise is rather than trying to speak around it.

[Blake looks exhausted, and vaguely annoyed - and it probably comes through in his voice, too. He's heard enough doublespeak to know it immediately. "Gotham won't be forgotten", anyone?]

What do you mean?

[ Close Auggie, but you might have mentioned that your friendly neighbourhood ~~spiderman~~ section chiefs/Captain Kirk are already working on protecting everyone. And that it's important to stay warm and not interfere with their investigations. Basically anything but the whole message being about listening to their comms for spooky messages.

But oh well, he tried. This is what you get when you delegate. ]

Shouldn't be hard for us to run an analysis of two and see if there are similarities.

[ Yes! Data to analyze and compare, finally! ]

Then they get their eardrums blown out! [ a shrug ] Stupidity ain't my problem. Only making sure people know what they're doing is stupid first.

[ Don't listen to Nathan, Auggie, that was A+. Tosh nominates you to do all of Comms' announcements from now on. ]

Yeah, you know what? No thanks.

I want to say it was back around jump eight, but I could be wrong.

They're going to hear them eventually. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing at this point. We have to figure out what we're going to tell people. There's no hiding this.

With all due respect, that's deeply foolish.

Edited 2012-10-30 01:56 (UTC)

Stupidity is everyone's problem when we're in a place where stupidity could get everyone killed.

[ You turncoat. Only if he does them without his tongue. He could do with a good laugh after this. ]

[ he'll bump it up a bit because sheesh, at least try and go all the way, brah ]

You're on SEC, right?

_{[ and failing. This is really fucking annoying. ]}

[ oh well. he's totally going to be PR manager from now on, that was fun as hell. ]

Add one what?

[ THREE BLIND MICE. THREE BLIND MICE.
SEE HOW THEY RUN. SEE HOW THEY RUN.
THEY ALL RAN AFTER THE FARMER'S WIFE,
WHO CUT OFF THEIR TAILS WITH A CARVING KNIFE,
DID YOU EVER SEE SUCH A SIGHT IN YOUR LIFE,
AS THREE BLIND MICE? ]

I'm agreeing with you.

That was the same jump Isaac died. So do me a favor and make sure you keep the doors closed to all but the flight personnel from now on.

[ Pause. ]

Kid did his best with a lousy situation. We're between a rock and a hard place here same as everyone else, and I believe in my team.

_{[ POINTEDLY TRYING. ]}

[ YOU WILL END UP HATING THIS POEM, WON'T YOU? ]

Then you should also be clear and straightforward with what you say.

_{[ HE HATES MOST THINGS, IT'LL JUST GO ON THE LIST. ]}

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