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[ex_question191]

[ it's late, or maybe early, either way the lights in the room are dimmed to nearly black. stiles, lit by the device, scrubs a hand over his face, then runs it through his hair, which has grown out all over the place. he's sweaty with the heat of his room, and there are bags under his eyes. this insomnia thing is seriously getting old. how is it possible to get so much sleep and still be this tired? (probably by not having a month's worth of nightmares about being chased.) ]

Hey, uh. It's- last jump was gonna be my twelfth. Jump. Except for how I didn't wake up. Buuuut that was counting number nineteen and twenty as one, so if you count it as two then technically it was this jump.

I think.

[ he looks like he's about to try and do the math again, but then snaps out of it, focuses back on the whole, talking to the camera thing. ]

Eleven, twelve, thirteen, whatever, that's a long time to be stuck here. I'm beginning to feel like it's not so — when I first showed up everything was so cool, you know? I mean, space. Light sabers. Robots. Super powers. There are - there are freaking elves.

[ he makes a kind of i can't even gesture that is probably ridiculous if you already know just how much supernatural his life back home contained. and then he once again veers himself back on topic. ]

That wasn't actually... the point of this post was to talk about all these masks I've suddenly got now? Except not really, because they're Meg's, and she was cataloging them, and now she can't, so I guess the point is to say that— she's not around anymore. And Cassie... Cassie went home too. And Remus. Guess this ship's not big on the magic users, ahaha.

[ he gives a rough, upset chuckle, and visibly pulls himself together. talking about losing people would be easier if he wasn't hot and tired. ]

Anyway. You all probably already knew all of that, since uh, as we established, I'm a whole month out of the loop.

[ he shrugs. ]

Soooo, you know. Loop me.

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[suddenlycaptain]

Stiles.

[ Her voice is heavy with relief, despite herself. Too many of them were asleep last month. ]

There were temperature malfunctions all last jump -- steadily progressing heat. Most of flight crew was asleep and the rest of us tried to help engineering, since even more of them were out. We couldn't find the problem, and as you might've noticed, it hasn't exactly been fixed. Now it's just... more irregular.

People were seeing things, too. Movement in the corner of their vision. And it looks like York went home, this jump, so that's another of us gone.

[ Pause. ]

The shuttle bay's a decent temperature.

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[ex_question191]

[ that's a whole bunch of shitty news with a delicious cherry on top. ]

Carolyn, I could kiss you.

[ uh. except like. not. because carolyn. he has a moment of internal flail, eyes widening, but it's just a thing people say and he tries not to make it more awkward by correcting himself. ]

I'm gonna come to work.

[ and take a leaf out of her book and sleep there, most likely, since his room is literally hell. ]

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[coy]

Long story short? The air conditioning is seriously broken.

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[ex_question191]

Short but sweet. I thought maybe it was just my room. Medbay was okay.

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[mathematically]

The ship's going insane, a redux of what happened about twelve jumps ago happened with a weird amount of people still stuck in their pods, which you already knew and either we've got shadow creatures or— everyone was starting to get heat stroke. Both equally likely.

[ lydia ends up just ticking those things off with her fingers before her mouth twists into a what almost looks like a frown. ]

I'm sorry they're all gone.

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[ex_question191]

Yeah, me too.

[ he tries to sound casual about it, maybe even light, when he doesn't feel that way at all. he deflects: ]

So c'mon, you're not even gonna tell me we're plus one Argent? Your looping skills need some serious work, Lydia.

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[ex_heightens219]

[ elena's sure he said some very important things there -- or semi-important, at least, if you know what the hell he's talking about (something about masks? wat) -- but HOLD UP ]

You've been here for twelve jumps?

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[ex_question191]

See how my number is zero fourteen, zero zero nine? The nine's irrelevant, the fourteen means fourteenth jump. Yours is twenty-six, so I take it you turned up during the mass nap.

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[altercate]

[ aaaaaand we're back to derek locking all his shit. thank chris argent. there's a pause before he speaks, like derek's trying to pick his words carefully. ]

It gets old.

[ though derek was never much for the place, not even when he was new. maybe especially not when he was new. ]

You should get some real sleep.

[ the "you look like shit" is implied. ]

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[ex_question191]

I tried. I can't. Maybe I have to hold hands with someone for three hours.

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[parallels]

You've been here for nearly a year? Plenty of time for the charm to wear off, I suppose. Cabin fever plus paranoia and shadow monsters would count against any high points. Assuming shadow monsters have always been here.

[Or so she thinks he's been here about a year, maths were never her strong suit. Still, she's locking onto that because hello information source.]

New here and not much to "loop" except broken heating. And before this broken cooling. So it's been a bit miserable.

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[ex_question191]

No, no, shadow monsters are not a regular thing. More a recent... development. But from what I can tell, things never really get quiet around here.

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[thebreakingwave]

Good to see you up and about again. It's been a long, hot, and strange month. I've moved all your things around the shuttle bay, relabeled everything with a new system, and colour-coded everything.

[This is a lie.]

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[ex_question191]

Wait, you— colour coded? Seriously?

[ why is this his life. ]

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[leaps]

[ sulu popping up, fresh from the jump. and probably already on his way to shuttle bay, so. ]

You missed a month too?

[ it's kind of a careful question, sulu skirting around the question he really wants to ask. ]

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[ex_question191]

Yeah. Twenty-five, twenty-seven.

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[faithlessly]

You were friends with Meg?

[ arms crossed. ]

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[ex_question191]

"Friends" is a strong word...

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[strayed]

[There's a long pause where Cora just frowns at the camera, because summoning up the words to say I'm glad you're awake elude her. So instead Stiles gets,]

You look like you need another month.

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[ex_question191]

I feel like I need another month. Not in — not in the tube, though. Big PASS on doing that again.

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[puppydogeyes]

What masks?

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[ex_question191]

I dunno, these cursed masks a bunch of people had? She was studying them. I was mostly in charge of notetaking.

[chuffle]

It was pretty miserable. Also someone accused people of being cultists.

[ex_question191]

Man, cultists. So, like... were they?

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[doggedly]

Remus is only just missing. So you're current on some things, at least.

[it comes out all angry and bitter, but without much focus, viz, you aren't to blame for this, not shooting the messenger, it's all this fucking ship. And anyways Sirius is peripherally aware that Remus has (had) other friends, it's just that he never really cared. (Except when he did.)]

And it hasn't got anything to do with magic, obviously. There's no selection process, it's just another bloody game.

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[ex_question191]

I know I'm not the first to say it, but this game sucks.

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[woodlander]

[ She can't loop you, Stiles. She's brand new, and besides that she has no idea what that means.

But this boy is young. Too young, to have been stolen from his home and family, brought here against his will.

And of course, he did mention the Elves. That got her attention, too. But it's not what she focuses on. ]

A month. Where is it that you have been, for a month?

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[ex_question191]

[ holy shit it's an elf. ]

Oh, uh, I haven't really been anywhere. We get in the tubes every month, the gravity couches, in medbay? And I guess I just kinda. Stayed locked right up in there. For a month.

[ yep. good times. ]

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[unforgives]

We missed a month? [well that does explain some things but she can't help but wonder to herself if it was similar to what happened a year ago or like the time where they all missed a jump]

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[ex_question191]

Yeah. Uh, not everyone, though. Just... some lucky few. Real comforting, right?

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[vindicating]

It was mostly just malfunctions with the temperature as far as what happened last month, at least.

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[ex_question191]

So nothing drastic, gotcha. Weird, though. That it was hot. I guess that's why it was hot like, in all my dreams? I bet my stasis fluid was all gross and sweaty.

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[handelaar]

[But is he ever stalking that thread with Tyke.

Sorry who are you again kid.]

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[iceboxed]

you look like crap

[hi stiles]

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[ex_question191]

Thx bro. Great to see you too, so glad you're not dead, etc.

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[deagle]

Welcome back.

[ derek don't take credit for him locking things, he doesn't need you to be paranoid.

chris is intrigued by the masks but he'll save commenting on that for later. ]

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[ex_question191]

Gee, thanks Mr. Argent!

[ all insincere. ]

Soooooooooo, uh. How's the. Hunting thing, going.

[ yyyyyep so smooth. ]

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[gilding]

Not all magic users, it would seem.

[Which is vague enough that he could totally say he isn't talking about himself if asked, right. Though really, his curiosity is drawn by mention of Meg and any work she was doing before departing.]

Cataloguing masks to what end, exactly?

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[ex_question191]

To understand them, I guess.

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[growling]

Welcome back to the land of the living. [ see that's a really deep joke that josh doesn't even get, because you died. still, on a more serious note: ]

I'm sorry about your friends. And while I get wanting to carry on Meg's good work, maybe don't. Did she get around to cataloging the fact that those masks are incredibly creepy?

two weeks is not a month

[ex_question191]

Yeah, yeah, she made me write out a creep scale on every post-it.

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[consequence]

[So, maybe this takes place after the 12th. Maybe after her talk with Emma and the network and such she got nosy and decided to go back a bit and see what she'd been missing out on. She can be nosy. She can snoop.]

you knew cassie?

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[ex_question191]

Yeah, she was pretty important to me.

[ read: they weren't quite dating but he was digging her. ]

Did you?