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

[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.

[scrapheap]

Let me guess, you've got some magic oil.

[jurisimpudent]

I...What?

[scrapheap]

Magic oil. Or some kind of dried skin. Ground up bones. That's the crazy stuff they used to try to sell.

[jurisimpudent]

I, um...N...no. I'm not...selling anything.

[scrapheap]

Sure sounded like it, trying to give me a guarantee on living longer.

[jurisimpudent]

I - Cease trying to distract me! It's not selling anything! I'm warning you against - this course of action!

[scrapheap]

Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to distract you. Alright, carry on.

[jurisimpudent]

You - Hrmph! I'm just - turn around. That's what I'm saying.

[scrapheap]

You'd have to talk to the captain about that. Though, fair warning - he won't listen.

[jurisimpudent]

I'm talking to you. He's an idiot; that's clear enough. His course of action is his course of action. But if you have others to support, then I am asking you: don't engage us. Please.

[scrapheap]

That isn't how it works. Captain gives orders, you follow 'em. Don't want to do that, don't have to be on his crew.

[jurisimpudent]

With respect, I don't think that he's going to be captain long enough for you to be in trouble with him.

[scrapheap]

[That gets a laugh.]

With respect, I think I know my captain a little better than you.

[jurisimpudent]

Ma'am, we're going to fight back. And I assure you - you're not going to prevail against us.

[scrapheap]

You really shouldn't do that. Just wait a couple of days, we'll be right out of here. We wouldn't come on this ship if we weren't fully prepared.

[jurisimpudent]

That's not going to happen. We're not going to let you steal what we need to live. I am sorry, but it's not going to happen.

[scrapheap]

We're not stealing what you need to live.

[jurisimpudent]

You don't know our needs.

[scrapheap]

I know a ship's needs. We're not taking anything you can't replace, and all of the stores we've found weren't even touched anyway.

[jurisimpudent]

[He clenches his jaw. Finally:]

Why are you assuming we can replace it?