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 ]
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Comments

[doggedly]

oh thank you sir in fact here is a bit of progress for you right now



lauren is a girl's name


seriously my attempts are no better/worse than yours its all stabbing in the dark

[growling]

I think my stabbing is slightly less random than yours. No offense.

[doggedly]

well thats because i really like pirates
dont really want to do very much stabbing at all when it comes down to it

[growling]

Let me guess, you always wanted to be one when you grew up.

[doggedly]

ive a special place in my heart for marauders
do you think theyd adopt me

[growling]

Maybe if you say please.

[doggedly]

I TRIED THAT they said no
i cant imagine why
you think they would want volunteers i am very nearly hurt by their rejection

[growling]

Maybe you should throw together a pirating resume, see if that helps your case.

[doggedly]

[staring for a moment because wizards don't have resumes....]

yeah
question though does jettison mean SHOVE OUT INTO OPEN SPACE AND LEAVE YOU TO FREEZE AND DIE AND CRACK INTO SPACEDUST

[growling]

The pirates threatened to jettison you?

[doggedly]

it was stated very directly i dont know that it was a threat
more of a promise
if you try to join our crew i will jettison you something along those lines


i mean REALLY i only offered
politely

[growling]

I can say with 99% surety that your definition of polite is not most people's definition of polite.

[doggedly]

et tu, mate?

theyre pirates anyway they ought to appreciate a lack of politeness
that ought to win me points
i want to exchange these pirates for better ones

[growling]

I guess that's fair. They do seem awfully friendly, I was expecting more scowling and murderous intent.

Although I guess we're covering the quota on that front.

[doggedly]

are you saying we have become the very things we fear/hate
we have been out in space so long that we have become the enemy

because that is some thinking on a very deep level i am not sure i am prepared for that you have to warn me

[growling]

That's a bit deep, yes, but I guess that's the general idea. I was more going for "we're all kind of on edge".

[doggedly]

on the edge... of being the enemy
this is really doing my head in, very philosophical
you owe me a drink


if we have not succumbed to the darkness of our souls by the time this is all said and done you are getting me a drink

[growling]

Fine, yes, I'll owe you a drink. But if you don't think I'm going to make you discuss existentialism and philosophy over that drink, you're extremely wrong.

[doggedly]

on the contrary mate i look forward to it
i have all sorts of theories and explanations and deep thoughts and philosophies to elucidate for you

e.g.: how do they get KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs onto the grass
if a synchronised swimmer dies must the other swimmers die as well
& so on


GET EXCITED

[growling]

[ by GET EXCITED do you mean stop responding to your texts because that's what he's doing. ]