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.

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Comments

[jurisimpudent]

Unwilling. None of you deserve any kindness whatsoever.

[scrapheap]

Well, I wasn't looking for kindness, but that's a little harsh. You don't know us.

[jurisimpudent]

Have you all threatened to kill us if we don't let you take whatever you want?

[scrapheap]

Captain gave his usual warning. Generally makes things run smoother.

[jurisimpudent]

So that's a yes. So it's armed robbery and piracy, and so you're all criminals, and that makes you worthless.

[scrapheap]

No room for honour among thieves?

[jurisimpudent]

No. The moment you dedicated yourselves to making life worse for everyone else, you lost any claim of nobility. Of honor.

[scrapheap]

See, I actually dedicated my life to trying to make things better for myself and my family, but I never made any claims on nobility. Those things are cute in the stories, but they never hold up in real life.

[jurisimpudent]

Oh, for yourself and your family. You know, most people are able to help out their families through channels other than murder.

[scrapheap]

You make it sound like we boarded just to slaughter all of you.

[jurisimpudent]

You boarded to threaten us, frighten us, and take what's ours with threats of death. I've talked to your fellow Fields, you know - he's no stranger to killing. He doesn't even bother to keep track of how many he's murdered.

Does your family know that every single day you stand by and help as innocent people are killed? Are they proud of you?

[scrapheap]

We boarded and gave you a choice. Take the smart option and none of you have to get hurt. Nevermind the fact we're not touching anything that's yours.

Every day my family get to live a little longer on the money I can send home to them. As long as they're not starving, I don't care if they're proud.

[jurisimpudent]

So tell me about your family. Do you have children? Siblings?

[scrapheap]

That's going to depend. Is this going to be a friendly conversation, or am I going to be offering them up for you to insult some more?

[jurisimpudent]

It will not be friendly, as - as I said - I will not be having friendly conversations with murderers. But nor do I mock at such things as that.

[scrapheap]

[She hums thoughtfully for a moment.]

Siblings. Eight of 'em.

[jurisimpudent]

And they depend on you, do they.

[scrapheap]

Yes, they do.

[jurisimpudent]

What would happen to them if you died?

[scrapheap]

Ciro's oldest. He'd take over.

[jurisimpudent]

And you're okay with that?

[scrapheap]

What do you mean?

[jurisimpudent]

You're not remotely troubled by the prospect of dying?

[scrapheap]

It happens. Prefer it was as late on as possible, but there's no stopping it coming at all.

[jurisimpudent]

There's one way to make sure it comes a little bit later, ma'am.