mark xiii suit ❦ [ video ] ❦ shoot the lights out like a machine gun

[starked]

[ good evening tranquility ( or maybe it's daytime, hard to really tell on this ship especially with everything that's happened within the past two days ) you are being greeted by a tony stark in his natural habitat, also known as one of the actual science labs and not one of his fun little makeshift labs on the first floor. it looks like he's actually doing something ( spoilers: not exactly ) but everyone really believes people better when they're working first. at least when they're tony stark. in any case he puts down what he's working on ( which is actually just a buttload of calculations ) and finally actually speaks, exhaling heavily. ]

Good evening Tranquility, at least I'm pretty sure it is, I haven't actually checked, if it's not, replace that with whatever time of day it is. I felt like we needed a Hitchcock flair after the events of oh, what last two months? I'm saying hi from the science not going to tell you all which one because I don't feel like listening to all of you storming the gates. Could have just done this from one of my labs on the first floor, but then I'd definitely have to tell you where those are. And I don't feel like it personally. By the way, not actually going to ever give those up, so if we're consolidating floors, personally vote the fourth floor, so many open rooms up there.

Generous, Tony. Are you-- you're posting? [ and this would be jenna wandering onto camera, carrying a plate in her hand, clearly bringing lunch to tony and prepared to stay and make sure he eats. stefan follows behind her, just nearly out of frame, flashing bits and pieces.

follows like a broody, spiky puppy. kind of. he's fixed his hair, it's very suave. ] Hang on.

[ and she ducks out of frame again. ] Stefan, this is my friend Tony-- not a pirate. Tony, Stefan-- you guys have a lot in common.

[ like being alkies. MASSIVE ALKIES is the subtext here. ] And you guys shake hands or something and I will... not be fixing my hair, because I'm not vain. Tony, you were pretending you speak for the whole first floor?

[ and the whole network gets to see that awkward moment where no one knows if they're shaking hands or not. stefan ends up nodding pleasantly, shuffling a little to the side like he wants to be out of the way. you kids and your newfangled posts. ]

[ ...right yes the— handshake. how about no. because no. so nod back because jenna what does that mean. MOVING ON! MAYBE. KIND OF. ]

I was. Look, a fair amount of those rooms were claimed by me and have my shit in them. So, I can speak for my room. There's like twenty rooms occupied there by us and there's single digits on the fourth floor. it's the logical place if you're going to move us all. Besides, I know someone kept her room and yet is still living in sin in another. Just saying. [ tony that's mean stop that. ] And yes, to the posting. I have another PSA because I'm apparently learning how to be really responsible like that. It's weird.

You're calling dibs. [ comes the quiet, off-camera contribution from stefan, accompanied by the clink of glass against glass. ]

...Traitors. "Dibs". [ hair successfully fixed, jenna steps back into frame. ] As I'm sure Tony meant to say, the first floor has open rooms and if everyone can get along and agree and you don't mind an unreliable lock, dinner is every night.

Okay, pitch done. Continue with the science and telling us all we're doomed. [ it would sound waspish except for how it's clearly an old enough joke 'lol tony you keep fucking it all up' is affectionate. somehow. ]

--oh! No, no, I lied. I would have announced this last month, but-- you know. No Network. I found a therapy department, so... if you don't mind a grad student who you might see at the bar sometime, please come in.

We've got every pillow ever, so you don't even have to talk to me if that's not something you feel comfortable with. Come... I don't know. Beat walls with soft things, it's a very legitimate therapy technique. Anyway: we're open for business, and if I'm not there contact me for an actual appointment at 001 » 016. And related, I'm Jenna. Okay, now you can hit the doom and science.

[ ha ha ha jenna if only this doom wasn't actually doom. for once, tony is maybe going to scare the shit out of everyone with just cause this time. even if maybe you know, black holes aren't exactly his area of expertise. ]

Jenna is lying and don't believe her except for dinner and therapy. [ oh right original reason for posting. ] So we had two deaths in two days, Chase's is incredibly sad and I miss her too, but, the last death, you know the big thing of rocks—

Shale-- [ that would be jenna. ]

—Right, Shale, tumbled down a hole and promptly died. Pretty sure it wasn't capable of dying unless something was say— oh I don't know, something that could destroy matter.

Large, killer black holes. [ stefan still not on camera, but his tone is serious. ]

Broody got it in one. For those of you who are new, once upon a time like jump, six or five or some number we all caught a weird plague that someone I know affectionately calls “dying of blue” and some of us had to go on a wild adventure for a cure that involved a maze with black holes. I know how that sounds and some of you more science savvy people are going to point out that you can't have a black hole let alone several on a ship like this without all of us dying. [ a beat. ] Yeah, usually I'd agree, but whatever killed Shale—

...question. [ that would be jenna, again, actually raising her hand for some reason. ] Okay, you can go back to the monologue but why can't black holes exist in a ship? Just... actually curious.

[ sigh! jenna no, stop interrupting him. ] In simple terms? The entire ship would be pulled into the hole and promptly be smashed into tiny pieces and cease to exist. As I was saying, normally I'd agree, but I've seen it before and nothing else could conceivably kill what was, basically rocks. The maze was from what I remember, not exactly close enough to have us communicate with the network.

Shale was able to broadcast falling down the hole. I'm not entirely sure where that hole is, but, while the hybrid hell monsters are bad. We've got a just slightly bigger problem, if we've got a black hole within broadcasting range. One that seems to kind of defy the laws of normal black holes.

[ when tony takes a breath, jenna moves in. ] It means, in not technical talk: bad things were far out, and now they're closer in. Things always moved in the ship, but this is-- new. New and bad. So if Tony doesn't mind me taking over this PSA-- be careful. Don't be stupid and I don't mean don't do anything, before someone yells about action being needed; I agree. [ jenna's not smiling, her expression earnest but not quite grim. urging.

(hypocrite.) ]

But two members of our group are dead, in two days. That's not okay, and not wandering off alone? That's a good start to stopping this.

[ tony looks like he's going to say something but then he stops instead choosing to just point to his eye that is currently glowing blue through a hole much like a pupil in a normal eye. this is what happens when you do stupid shit like go outside of the normal areas. you go crazy. or you lose an eye. or something like that. ]


[ ooc | in order the fonts are as followed: jenna, stefan, tony. ]

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[voice; private; for Tony]

[ryuuzaki]

[It's a young man's voice, soft, tinged with an English accent. The note of frustration is not disguised.]

This is what defies the laws of normal black holes?

[A little of the tension leaves before he continues, resigned,]

I can't argue with much of the rest of it.

[voice; private; for Tony]

[starked]

Would you like me to give a run down on how light isn't supposed to exist in black holes or how even a tiny one could rip this ship apart before I said black hole? Personally don't feel like it, but I could.

[ A beat. ]

Unless you're from a world where black holes are just innocent little things.

[text]

[testgasm]

SHE'S NOT AN IT SHE'S NOT A QUOTE UNQUOTE BIG THING OF ROCKS

GOD I AM SICK OF THIS

[text]

[starked]

DO YOU HAVE A SHORTER WAY TO DESCRIBE HER THAT PEOPLE CAN MAKE SENSE OF.

[ tony don't be a douche. ]

[sufferances]

But she was harder to kill than most of the passengers.
Which is the point I think he was trying to make.

20% Locked, to Tony and anyone on his side of the feed.

[cutsofftheirlimbs]

I've got something you may want to hear, then. Because I had a feeling this might come up.

[So what he's saying is SECURE THIS SHIT TONY so he can spill the deets.]

100% Locked, to Tony and anyone on his side of the feed.

[starked]

[ preemptive upgrade in the lock, oops. ]

Spill.

voice;

[handelaar]

[IT IS BALLS O CLOCK AND HE IS HAULING CHURCH PEWS.]

Summary. Kinda busy. You fuckers talk too much.

[Hi Tony, thanks for the bike. Hi Jenna, he's kind of carrying every single pew from the Chapel up to the second level right now and if he didn't have to talk about it that would be great. Hi - other guy. Whatever. Other Guy, you spoke the least so you're probably the most useful.]

voice;

[unparental]

That was all Tony.

...mostly because I didn't get a good chance to take over, fine.

[majestyofthethrone]

What if it's just something we call a black hole? A mathematical anomaly we can't quantify because none of us have the right variables?

[Oh and she's not even going to talk about Chase she cried a lot of it out and got into a fight about religion with someone, but she's still ridiculously sad, but she's not talking about it.]

Even people on Earth can create pressure. This doesn't have to be creating gravity if it's isolated pressure.

[starked]

[ Well aren't you lucky that Tony is not talking about it either. LAST CONVERSATION INVOLVED BEING TOSSED OUT OF NESTS. He feels a little guilty. ]

There was more than one of these in the maze though. So it's not strictly isolated. And as far as the right variables the option is to send one of us through there, and that is a suicide mission and have maybe something to record the pressure, but there's no guarantee those readings will even be right. Let alone if we can actually get any of them.

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[suddenlycaptain]

It'd be nice if people actually listened for once.

[ But she's been trying to keep them all safe and alive since she got here, and it hasn't seemed to sink in. ]

Maybe they will now that people are dead.

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[starked]

Please as the poster child for not actually listening, I know how much we don't listen.

[ So, actually, maybe that'a a half agreement there. It's hard to tell. ]

People like being considered a hero. [ Which means, hahahaha, nope. People will continue to be stupid. ]

[lawyer]

So you're calling for a lockdown to areas that are safe because of scientifically improbable shit.

[y/n? either way harvey's going to be following what iron man said because it's iron man.]

[unparental]

...were safe. Unless you feel confident what killed Shale can be argued down to a less gruesome end, were safe.

[ jenna can handle non-science talk, at least.

DO NOT ASK HER TO SCIENCE. ]

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Do we have proof that they were black holes at all? I'm aware that they had the same pull as some sort of gravity well, and I understand that visually they were similar, but it seems from the mere fact that we haven't all been compressed into a single spot of hyper-dense mass seems to indicate some alternative.

[sufferances]

[ people who aren't qualified to explain this: stefan ]

There's a chance it could be. I'm not totally familiar with the ship yet, but it seems like not everything works the way it should up here.

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[firstofficer]

Perhaps it is not the singularity that defies the laws of physics.

[sufferances]

Meaning?

voice

[triedtobe]

[ a) he thinks you guys are full of shit and b) he has lost his mind. it's official. combine a and b and you get the Tranquility apparently. ]

But wandering off in a group's better. [ he's just going to be belligerent now. ]

[sufferances]

Not wandering off at all is probably the best. But at least in a group you have someone to watch your back.

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[mikelo]

[Really, the idea of black holes is terrifying in and of itself, not to mention confusing. For as curious as Mikelo may be, he truly is getting the fact that he seriously needs to back off any ideas of exploring. The ship as a whole is intriguing (as it's nothing like home), but he's not stupid.

. . . In truth, he's actually rather scared. Which is part of the reason why he focuses on the more lighter part of this transmission. There's a curious look in his hazel eyes, a tip of his ruddy topped head before he types: ]

There's really a dinner gathering?

[Because, yes. Yes, that would be excellent.]

[sufferances]

Yes. Jenna runs them.

[nothlit]

that doesn't make any sense. unless this isn't just a ship, because to be able to contain a black hole would take a serious level of technology and i thought this ship was made by humans?

[not that Tobias is a genius, but he's watched enough science fiction to be nosey enough to read up on some of it.]

[sufferances]

It might not have been.
It might have been made by something else.

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[extrospector]

[ Greg watches the video a couple times so he can actually figure out what's going on and finally ends up writing out his response, because he's so not doing a video of all these questions. ]

This was really long and not in an order that makes sense. I have questions.

1. Can I come to dinner?
2. Are you serious about everyone moving to the same floor?
3. Is this an actual black hole or are you saying "black hole" because it's a good analogy?
4. Forgetting about broadcasting range, how do you actually broadcast out of a black hole? We broadcast on radio waves, and black holes trap all light past the event horizon, right? <- serious question, I'm still learning physics.
5. What can we do instead of wandering off alone because I don't think wandering off together is going to reduce deaths.

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[sufferances]

I can take a swing at these, if you want, but I'm not good for all of them.

1. Yes.
2. They are. I think it's a good idea, but there might not be enough room.
3. It looked like a black hole on the feed.
4. I'm shaky on physics myself. But from what I understand, the ship has more than one impossibility at work. This might be something like that.
5. Not wander at all, not until we know what we're dealing with and how to handle it.

t e x t »

[became]

TLDR, Stark.

[ it's video you fuck. ]

voice;

[andblockbuster]

Did people actually forget about those things?

[NOT EVERYONE WENT ON THE ADVENTURE, TOPHER. CHECK YOUR IDIOT PRIVILEGE.]

voice; had to

[handelaar]

[EXCUSE YOU.

This is the (familiar) sound of Netherlands huffing at you, Topher.]

[buttmad]

Well, aren't you just the chirpy bird of paradise right now. [Hammer can only be sarcastic, because his other option is pants-wetting fear.

and also jealousy because HOT CHICK WHY...]

[unparental]

I'm going to be nice and assume you meant Tony.

Hi, Justin. [ oh this will go well. ]

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[ripstides]

I'm all for moving the masses to one floor [ downsides ignored ] but what about the people that aren't? Would there still be patrols on every floor if the majority moved to the first and two to ten people stayed behind on the others? [ listen, he grew up in a camp and he knows that means one huge target as opposed to the many sprinkled everywhere but all in all, if they're on one floor there are more upsides than downsides. it's just- the stragglers. people that are comfortable, others that like their privacy.

and the science is great - thanks for the translation, Jenna - but he's moving right on past that to address the action. ] Not going alone, that part I get. But you're talking around taking action, instead of openly discussing it. How do we choose who gets to be on the team?

[ silly adults! he wants to know if he can trust you or if he really is better off on team jailbait with the rest of the kids. ]

voice;

[attano]

Will gathering everyone closer together not simply make it easier for your "bad things" to eliminate us, should the close that distance?

[sufferances]

It's easier to protect a single group, rather than have people grouped between floors. If something really wanted to pick us off, it could start at the bottom and work its way up.

voice;

[northerner]

I know little and less about black holes, but if they pose a danger, pulling away from them until we know more is best.

[ robb's apparently all about strategic retreats these days. ]

And forgive me, Jenna, but what is therapy?

voice;

[unparental]

Before Tony can hijack this to yell science at you-- you remember how I told you back home, I was going to school to help people deal with hard times or emotions they don't understand, all that stuff? The technical term for "emotion doctor" would be therapist, the the work we do is therapy.

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[tinwoodsman]

A therapy department?

[excuse me a whole department devoted to this brain picking mumbo jumbo? are you going to ask him if he's had sex with anyone yet after the war too?]

[sufferances]

[ dear god in heaven what is this. ]

Yes, that's what Jenna said.