05. anon text

[growling]

Welcome aboard to our new friends. Please pretend you can't see any of this.

Working on a cheat sheet of information for anyone too lazy to stalk other people's conversations. Two heads, etc. Feel free to pitch in, I'm sure a lot of you are better at stalking than I am.

Tranquility - government vessel, missing? Tech damaged.
Alexandrian - time period? Roughly 40 years prior to whenever now is.
Demologos - type of ship we're on, warship (w/Bram Stoker inspired modifications).
Ship name - Scylla (sp?).
Planets: Alexandria (wealthy), Hyperion (machines), Pasiphae (food), Sycorax, Ceres. Jiutian - possibly space station?

Crew names/count so far on the network (sp?? on all of these, but who cares):
Felix Laurens - Captain
Casey Kassandros aka Kasey with a K - Tech? laughs at our encryptions Probably not tech. Scared of water and girls. Not tech.
Hays/Hayes - Chatty Cathy. Mechanic? Probably looting tech.
Fields - Gun guy. Full of crap.
"Trixie" - ?? Name provided by Fields, accuracy suspect. Probably Juliana.
Noam - actually tech?
3x 2x (male) mystery guests

They already think we're amnesiac idiot thieves/squatters, so don't worry, there's no such thing as a stupid question. Or a reputation to uphold, pretty sure any efforts at negotiation were null out of the gate.

They can read everything, don't drop too much info on us if possible. If in doubt, try to meet with each other in person to discuss instead. In a perfect world this post is here to disseminate info on them, not us.

Disclaimer: They already know we're clueless as to our how/when/where/why (or really good at pretending to be clueless), so if you're going to yell at me for making that even more obvious, I'm only mildly sorry.

p.s. dear Casey, is the anonymous function in the useless camp too? Anon irrelevant.

[ updates/approx. day 2 ]
[ updates/approx. day 3 ]

Comments

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[fractious]

...is that a kind of ship?

[ they don't have cars underground. or at all, where hayes is from. ]

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[loyalpup]

Nah, it's what we drove around in back home. It wasn't so new so it was always breaking but Dad always knew how to fix it.

[Confused and slightly concerned]

You ain't never seen no van before?

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[fractious]

So it's like a shuttle? Littler, just for a couple people.

[ that's all she's got on 'driving around'. and there's a pleased grin at the description of his father, because hayes prides herself on just knowing what's wrong with machines. ]

Never heard of one, but I bet I could fix them like that too.

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[loyalpup]

Yeah.

No, maybe not. I ain't never seen a shuttle before.

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[fractious]

You have 'em here.

[ she holds up her hands, cupped together. ] That's a ship-- [ now two fingers, and then after a moment of hesitation one folds down so her index finger is the only one up. ] That's a shuttle. Lots of people on a ship, only a couple on a shuttle.

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[loyalpup]

[He clearly needs to explore the ship more]

Oh, then yeah I guess our van was like a shuttle. Me and Dad lived in it forever.

You know how to fix all them shuttles we got? I was thinkin' that iffin you fix them then maybe everyone won't be so mad that you and your friends are here!

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[fractious]

I stayed where I grew up until I left.

[ matter of fact, because hayes lacks self-pity along with a certain amount of basic empathy. ]

...they broke those too? [ a little bit of outrage there, what has been done to this poor ship, ffs. ] I can fix anything, but they won't let me fix those for you. If we take them, I can fix them.

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[loyalpup]

Yeah, I lived with me Dad until... We lived in the woods a lot so it was helpful to have the van.

[Defeated face]

Because they're pirates? Are you their prisoner? Iffin you are I can come get you and I bet they won't know.

Um, unless they're listenin to this bit.

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[fractious]

I didn't have one of those.

[ literally, yes, but definitely better off in the spiritual lack. ]

They probably will, but you couldn't find me anyway so it's okay. [ you can go on the "people hayes legit would be sad to see shot" list, tom.

it's a short list. ] It's my ship too, why would I leave? You guys don't even know where we are.

[ that's not a good shot for survival, and hayes is all about surviving. ]

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[loyalpup]

[Biggest grin]

I bet I could find them! They smell real different from folks who been on this ship.

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[fractious]

...what do we smell like?

[ that's weird, dude. ]

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[loyalpup]

[He was told to stay put but he can't really smell them clearly in his room, so he's popping out for a bit

Taking a deep breath]

Different. Not bad or nothin' but they don't smell like our ship.

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[fractious]

You can't tell that from there.

[ disbelieving but not condescending for once ]

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[loyalpup]

Sure I can. It--

[Right, Derek probably wouldn't think it's wise to talk about wolf stuff with pirates]

Iffin I walk down towards the kitchens I can smell em better.

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[fractious]

I'm not near any kitchens.

[ vaguely regretful there, she would have liked to raid those herself too. ]

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[loyalpup]

[Tom knows about stealing food, man]

They left you on your ship all by yourself? Don't seem right.

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[fractious]

I'm not on my ship right now.

[ she's currently wrecking shit on an upper level no one knows exists yet, but technically she's not supposed to say either of those things. ]

They need to know what's best to take, so I get tech duty. No kitchens, they let Kasey do those. [ and she hates that about him SO UNFAIR ]

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[loyalpup]

Oh, yeah. Me Dad used to have me do the stealin' cause they ain't so hard on kids if they get caught.

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[fractious]

I'm not a kid. This is my job.

[ seriously her professionalism is unmatched ]

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[loyalpup]

Didn' say you were.

[head scratch]

If you take all our stuff won't we die?

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[fractious]

We won't take everything. And all you have to do is go to a station and get more after.

[ just most everything and a wake of destruction, but: pirates ]

We need it too.

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[loyalpup]

Why don't you go to the station? Dad always said it ain't really stealin' if it's a big shop that can afford it.

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[fractious]

All the best ones belong to people who don't like the Captain very much.

[ she shrugs ]

We saw the message and thought this was an easy way to get Alexandrian tech without going near any of those ones.

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[loyalpup]

Yeah.

[confused even more]

Wait, what's Alexandrian?

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[fractious]

Alexandria's a planet. It's where all the nice stuff comes from. Food's from Prophasae, machines're from Hyperion, anything fancy and expensive from Alexandria.