mark xii suit ❦ [ voice + four encryptions ] ❦ forward dated to monday evening

[starked]

[ tranquility! you were totally missing tony. or at least some of you were from the state of his communicator when he came back into a place where he could read it. whatever, there's some noise in the background that sounds suspiciously like the medbay when tony actually starts the feed up. there's a reason for this kids, but tony, being tony, isn't particularly up for explaining what it is beyond a select few. but hey, if you're feeling lucky, you'll actually be able to see what really happened hidden in this post. ]

I know what you all are thinking, how dare you disappear like that and worry half of the ship or at least random parts of it who were crying about it. Lost is actually the technical term for what I did, since I meant to just take a small stroll and then suddenly I took a bad turn it wasn't that bad. My bad, though, next time I'll take a map or something to show me around not just the communicator. Left the nonexistent map in my room clearly, which yes, I know, Tony, that was incredibly idiotic of you. But hey, it's not the worst thing any of you will or have seen me doing by  a long shot. And I have a thing about making interesting life choices like that. I could have disappeared during a time like the plague we had. Or during the lockdown. At least now it's shockingly quiet minus a few things. [ or disappearances, but hey, no one needs to know he noticed alayne was gone. he'd like to personally forget he ever saw that. but you know, he sees too much and he can't really take that back now can he? ] I'm not typically one to give little messages about how we should pay attention so nothing bad happens, because really, I'm pretty sure some of us keep watch enough so a number of you all can rest easy and not spend every waking moment monitoring the network. But I think, when everyone is wandering around, you might want to make sure you're watching where you step. You don't want to be like me coming out feeling gross and like you could eat a horse.

There's an old saying about that, I think. Eye or eyes have it.

Anyway, I'm not dead, rejoice or cry into your space food, either one is really fine with me actually. And you know, because I'm feeling generous after coming out of the hellish hallways, I know we have some engineers on here and I know we have people who randomly build things, I don't care about them, technically, but I do care if some of you might actually need something say built for you and are wondering god, who would do that for me, well as it turns out, I do actually have a lot of free time to do various projects and I seem to be lacking in them right now and for the foreseeable future. So, to rectify this, consider this me asking all of you to come to me if you're dying to have something done in the vein of building things for you. I could do encryptions, but people can be weirdly fussy about those. Whatever, you know my number. Call me if it sounds good to you maybe.

[ avengers encryption | stark encryption 100% | unhackable ]

Meeting as soon as I get out of medbay. Just with the four of us. Christ, we're down to four again. Awesome. Pepper sitting in, obviously, if only because I'm a little worse for wear as it turns out. 

[ encrypted to listmates | stark encryption 100% | unhackable ]

What are we down to now? Eighteen? Nineteen? Caffrey and I just randomly disappeared only to come back just a bit fucked up. I think this calls for a list members meeting. Just for kicks. And I don't actually care if you're rolling your eyes at this, any of you, because personally, I'm just a bit tired of wondering if one of us is going to magically get killed or disappear at a jump. Or, as Caffrey and I have demonstrated, just randomly get lost in a ship we've been on for months.

[ encrypted to neal caffrey | stark encryption 100% | unhackable ]

And it seems as if I'm not the prodigal son any more. Separate talk, you and me. Or do I offend your hipster sensibilities too much still?

[ encrypted to spock | stark encryption 100% | unhackable ]

...Can I trust you to keep a little secret from someone? You know who I'm talking about, I imagine, but if I do tell you something, it needs to stay extremely hush hush.


[ ooc | okay, two things! one, bare with me on any slowness with this post since i put it up now as opposed to monday for a very specific reason. and two, there is actually something wrong with tony, but he's not as crazy as neal was when he came back. what happened to him was more physical with a tiny bit of crazy added in that i might sprinkle in this post. this does not mean mr. stark will be dropping metaplot hints, because i don't really have any to actually give! beyond what we already know because of spock's misadventures in melding with the ship. 

what is hidden in this post and will be mentioned for sure is what exactly happened to tony and the "why" of what happened. so yeah, that's the end of this grossly long note. ]

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[majestyofthethrone]

[She hasn't slept since Castiel told her he needed time, so her encryptions are way off.]

I got a piano. Neal and I played Heart and Soul. I finished an equation that makes no sense. I was really worried about you.

I'm glad you're not dead.

PERMAVOICE, Encrypted 100%

[starked]

[ And Tony just isn't even going to question it, but good lord, he has got to bump up that encryption. ]

So I saw. You shouldn't have been. I got a shockingly good track record of surviving dumb stunts. [ A beat. ] What was the equation?

voice » auggie locked

[unparental]

How are you?

voice » auggie locked

[starked]

Do I get one free lie before you ask again or do I have to tell the truth right off the bat?

voice » those who wander filter etc

[became]

...making you what now, exactly?

voice » those who wander filter etc

[starked]

You know Cassandra's myths, Caffrey?

AXVENGERS FILTER.

[aimlessness]

I'm in.

AXVENGERS FILTER.

[starked]

Somehow I knew I could count on you. Long story made really really short, and I should have maybe pinged you guys earlier about this, but I took the trip. It was, fun until it was boring beyond belief and then, surprise I may have had something happen to me that— well, god, no I'm not feeling like saying this over any feed even if I encrypted it.

Anything happen beyond what I saw over the network? [ because you're his eyes man. ]

voice;

[mingus]

[ there's a moment here when he debates encrypting this but it's not like he actually knows tony stark, he knows of him (haha) but he's feeling pretty weird about open network conversations lately.

but even if he does, he imagines tony's the type of guy to notice when a fella puts an encryption on just a bit of small talk. ah well, he'll see how it rolls. ]

You probably could've said all of that in probably a couple hundred less words than you did, buddy.

voice;

[starked]

Haven't been able to talk to anyone in about a week and half, maybe? Left around the jump and just came back in the early beyond belief hours of the morning. I'm entitled to them.

[ a beat unlike any other beat. ]

Besides, not really my style to be short with these sort of things.

AXVENGERS FILTER;

[widowing]

When?

AXVENGERS FILTER;

[starked]

I wanna to say tomorrow? To be honest, I'm wanting to break out of here already, but Pepper is fussing at me for— understandable reasons I guess and it's not gonna kill me to stay tonight.

audio; list member encryption

[tumbleweeds]

'kay.

[ No arguing, no comments. Just that, though she does pause to try and inject some of her usual... self... into it. ]

And don't eat my horse.

audio; list member encryption

[starked]

Don't make fun of an accessory I'm gonna be wearing and I suppose I can promise that.

[ It's weird, having her reply like this, but he knows who isn't here any more and he can't say he blames her for being like this. ]

...When did you get a horse though?

LIST FILTER.

[northerner]

[ robb sounds tired, bleary and voice frozen through with grief. this is a good thing, a good thing, but. ]

It's good to see you returned. Are you well?

LIST FILTER.

[starked]

[ if there's one thing tony can understand it's why robb sounds that way. it's something he doesn't want to dwell on and maybe a part of him thinks it's his fault alayne is gone, but that's perhaps neither here nor there. ]

Well enough. I've been better, but that's what you get for wandering around. [ a beat. ] What about you?

[buttmad]

There he is. [I'LL TAKE VOICES YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR FOR $200, TONY.] You know, when Pepper told me you were missing, all I could think was, "No way, Jose. He'll be back. Tony's gonna come out of this like nothing even happened."

And here you are in... In... I'm sorry. Is that- are you in the medbay? [HE KNOWS THOSE SOUNDS, OKAY. He may have spent an hour there after Seraphim NEARLY BROKE HIS HAND.] Did you get hurt out there?

[IS HE CONCERNED OR IS HE REALLY HOPING YOU'RE BLEEDING TO DEATH?

...It's both.]

[majestyofthethrone]

It's you!

list filter;

[goldshirt]

What was that you said about being long winded?

[sorry, Tony, he's riding high on mask euphoria; though he actually sounds- really stressed out. his tone is clipped and irritated, hounded. something to do with seeing starving people and dead cadets, idk.]

Maybe if the both of you hadn't wandered off this wouldn't be a problem.

What do you think getting all of us together will be good for?

list filter;

[became]

I'm with the cranky guy. Not really feeling like a group meeting of Club Sitting Duck.

text; list filter

[touchie]

"just for kicks?"

voice; list filter

[starked]

Do you have an aversion to using the voice function?

video| private filter| unhackable

[firstofficer]

[ it comes with considerably less surprise than messages between them have. their frequency, and candid nature leaves Spock continually unbalanced on the subject.

but Tony's query reaches him regardless, and for the faintest tilt of his head- an unspoken acknowledgement you would not have contacted me if you believed i would not affirm your request- his tone is heavy. certain. ]

I am at your disposal.

voice| private filter| unhackable

[starked]

[ there's a significant pause where Tony doesn't even say a word, and where the only thing that can be heard is his breathing and strangely, fabric shifting close enough to where Spock can probably hear it. ]

You remember when you made that interesting life choice of trying to communicate with the ship?

audio; list filter

[cutsofftheirlimbs]

Are you ever going to stop in the engineering bay and say hi?

Otherwise, I'm good with grouping up, though the crank squad seems to have other ideas.

audio; list filter

[starked]

I might. Later. Medbay, blah blah, have to finish one tiny project before I actually do anything I particularly want to do.

And they're also a bunch of idiots. Five minutes, just so I can show you all something. In person.

video »

[sweetmotherofgod]

This offer to build things. Is that strictly limited to need, or does "really really want and it would probably be good for the ship in a roundabout way" count?

voice »

[starked]

Need is a really flexible term with me. So that might actually count as need in my book. Depends on what it is.

text. private, encrypted 100%

[ex_sorted385]

I think we should talk.

voice. private, encrypted 100%

[starked]

Seriously, if I use voice, there's a reason for it. I'm not feeling like reading text.

I don't think we should. I know you pinged me while I was gone. But I'm not the biggest fan of talking. Especially about what I have a sneaking suspicion you'll want to talk about.

[ not here ]

[sexting]

[ oh, look. it's tony 'that blackmailing fuck' stark. yeah, yeah, cambridge was reeeaally missing you. ]

[ not here ]

[starked]

[ aw cambridge, you keep acting like that and tony might think you really do care. :') ]

text;

[inebriety]

[Tony has an interest in seeing other Tony alive and well even if he's pretty sure he's actively disliked.]

We really do talk a lot.

voice;

[starked]

Yeah, so I know, so everyone says and insert something about us talking a lot that undoubtedly some newspaper has published. [ a beat. ] You have something else to add to that? Or am I going to be stuck reading text that offers nothing of substance to the conversation. Because if that's the case, move to voice.

voice; list filter

[20mentholkools]

Not the type to do meetings, Stark.

voice; list filter

[starked]

And yet you're the type to go on expeditions. [ there's a pause. ]

Even if I have something to show you?

text;

[puppydogeyes]

You see anyone else out there?

voice;

[starked]

Tyke, do me a tiny favor. Voice if you're going to talk to me right now.

[ A beat. ]

No. No one else as far as the whole other people who I imagine have wandered off too, if that's what you're asking.

video;

[stimulations]

You took your bloody time.

[Josias doesn't really react much to people disappearing, because they're simply gone and what's to do about it? But being missing is different, and yeah, he was a little concerned.]

And I suppose while you're attempting to sell your wares, I should mention I may have done something of a live demonstration while you were away. [Half a grin.] Not that I attached your name to it, though.

[Though whether that's a good thing or not depends entirely on whether Tony thinks creepyrickrolling the entire network is a good advertisement.]

voice;

[starked]

Took a few wrong turns coming back. Could see at my best. Something about it being dark and me not having night vision.

[ Which okay, is technically only part of the reason if he's being one hundred percent honest. And truthfully, it was a very small part of it. Though, Tony isn't going to lie, he's rather touched about Josias' concern. ]

So I saw. I'm feeling like I should just call on you whenever I want to creepily rick roll people. No side effects on your end?

voice; cambitas encryption

[coffeeking]

How bad?

voice; cambitas encryption; just between them

[starked]

How squeamish are you? Or better yet, look and see if I hid anything in what I was saying to tell you or anyone else listening how bad.

video; list filter

[cargojet]

Bunch of fucking babies.

I'm not tugging on Tony Stark's shirtsleeves like an infant who needs his hand holding. I know it's your M.O. to try and get people to throw in together, Stark. Let me guess, we gonna get a cute acronym to go with it, too? A clubhouse with a 'no girls allowed' sign on the outside?

You know what 'listmates' teaming up to look after themselves stinks of to me? Division. Them against us. As though our names being on a god damn freak sheet means that us and our deaths or whatever happens make us more important than everyone else on board. As though hundreds of other people haven't disappeared or been killed in the time it's taken a half dozen of the people on the list to vanish or die.

It's not happening. We're not special, and all I see is you dancing to Smiley's tune.

video; list filter

[tumbleweeds]

So the thought that you could go, hear what he has to say, and tell everyone else never crossed your mind, did it?

God I'm stuck on a list with a bunch of fucking morons.

video;

[parkours]

Do you always talk this much? [ Because really, Tony, it just seemed like you went on and on. ]

voice;

[starked]

You should be thankful I didn't do it all in text. [ A beat and then a small laugh. ] Unless I'm feeling particularly rushed, I'll confess, I do love the sound of my own voice.

audio;

[suddenlycaptain]

Welcome back. [ She guesses. ]

What sort of things do you make?

audio;

[starked]

I'd say it's good to be back, but hell ship makes that kind of a lie. [ Well, technically he is but, you know, let's not sound super excited! ]

Mechanical things, mostly. Built a tattoo gun for someone on the ship, a few other things. Really could and computerized things. If you're gonna ask, I can tell you if I can make it or not. [ A small pause. ] Weapons are off the table unless you can make a real good case about it.

voice; on time and making total sense is me

[invalided]

Bit of a waste to be crying into your food around here, I'd think. [ Which is less the point but he's just saying. Man. The things you miss during your off-shift from Medbay. ] I hope you made it back with minimal damage?

voice; ...can i pretend this is on time too?

[starked]

Might make it a little saltier. [ Hey no, it's a totally important point what are you saying, John. ] Well, I'm not dead and I'm yet I'm still stuck here, Watson, what do you think?