ataraxion | 05. anon text

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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Right, sorry, bizarro Earth. But on a serious note, I'm starting to think these guys might be genuine.

As genuine as pirates can get, anyway.

Define "genuine." Genuinely murderous? Genuinely rude?

Genuinely just trying to get by and not murder anyone. Has anyone run into them yet?

Mr. Levison, with respect, that just means you're being fooled by them. You shouldn't be so naive.

Naive, thank you. That one's definitely worse than nice.

I get what you're saying, but I also get that they seem to be keeping to themselves. Unless it's actually taking them several days to make their way from wherever they docked to us, which I guess is also a possibility.

They're also stating that they will kill us if we try to stop them from stealing our supplies. Whether it's true violence or the threat of violence - that is not something that a genuine, decent person does. Decent people do not hurt other people; decent people do not kill so many people they have lost count, as in the case of Mr. Fields.

[ oh. ]

Say we ran out of supplies. You don't think we'd toss a few threats around to get more? I get that they could have asked first, but we don't know what kind of economic or political environment they're used to.

No, I don't think we would. I think we'd negotiate for what we need, like civilized people. And I flatly do not give a damn what sort of political environment they're from; they are not good people if they're willing to kill innocent people for a bit of wiring.

Edited 2013-04-23 03:11 (UTC)

Like civilized people, huh? Because right now I'm seeing a whole lot of us throwing threats right back. Ones that are slightly more enthusiastic than their standard opener.

Answer me this: would you kill the people on another ship to take their supplies, even if you were starving?

[ he should probably lie. there's a delay where he's considering it, but- ]

To save myself? No. But I'd do it if the people I cared about were starving.

[That's...not the answer he was expecting. At all. After a pause:]

But they're people as well, who need to live their own lives. How could you even entertain that thought?

[ he could dance around this for ages, but he's quit lying to himself at this point. there's no point in lying to others. there's also the fact that josh is pretty sure he and edgeworth are actually friends, and edgeworth is a decent person - he deserves to know that he's not in good company. ]

I can entertain it because I've already done worse. I'm not as nice as you think I am, Miles.

[A long, long, long, long pause. Some five minutes pass before, finally:]

When this is over we need to talk

[But not now. Because if he hears that Josh...hurt someone, or killed someone, or - He'll not be able to...concentrate on this. He needs to concentrate on this crisis.]

I'll buy you a beer.

[ which is phenomenally weak, but it's better than not responding at all. ]

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