ℍ oo1 || text

[consequence]

[Hayley isn't really big on the network. When the random interactions you have with people tends to circle around to how someone "warned them" about you, it becomes a near survival instinct to avoid running into complete strangers or allowing yourself to be easily recognized simply for that sort of association.

Opting for text - even if it attaches her floor and number to it - feels a bit safer.]


did anyone take a count of the ones that didn't wake up during that jump and then figure out if anyone still didn't make it out? not just didn't wake up, but ones that were just gone.

it's not like we take a headcount each jump. unless we do and I've been missing it each time.

what if that was the first jump for someone? brand new to the ship and a month in the tube before they even realize they've been taken.

[There's a while before she sends one final comment.]

Is this just going to be something I shouldn't be worrying about?



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text, auggielocked;

[altercate]

It happens.
Almost everyone wakes up.

[ is this meant to be comforting maybe???? ]

filter || forever

[consequence]

almost is not the most reassuring term to use when talking about people waking up from floating in blue goo

[altercate]

More honest than saying "always"

not here.

[iceboxed]

[but holy crap why are you two talking this is weird]

[consequence]

[They are practically besties. Only not at all and he probably only keeps tabs on her because he knows her entire life...]

[altercate]

[ it's a small ship things happen!! ]

text »

[blabbers]

it's a possibility, but tracking who appears, disappears, and stays behind with each jump would be impossible without implementing a tracking system.

[ which would be more complex and more trouble than it might be worth in the scheme of things when those resources go elsewhere. ]

if someone new arrived and was placed in stasis last jump, i doubt it would make much of a difference. i'm not sure if that's comforting or incredibly disturbing.

text || forever

[consequence]

does anyone know what even happens to you when you don't wake up from a jump? maybe it has long-term physical effects.

[blabbers]

nausea, dizziness, muscle tissue lost - that much is just a guess. i wouldn't eliminate craziness as a side effect, either, but most of us don't want to find out.

but from what i've seen, most people come out of their pods without any side effects after being frozen in stasis.

text

[doggedly]

people who werent asleep last time have gone this time
it doesnt connect like that

text || forever

[consequence]

what do you mean? people who were awake have left, but all the people that were asleep stuck around?

[doggedly]

i mean i had a friend who was awake
and then this time he was gone
people who were sleeping woke up

theres no connections like youre thinking its not all logic

[briefly]

There would be some sort of evidence in our numbers, wouldn't there-? I mean - someone wearing the number of the previous jump without memory of waking up during the... previous jump.

[shut up poppy]

[consequence]

That's... actually a really good point. I hadn't even considered that.

[briefly]

Then again - the numbers seem to shift out of our control, so there might be a loophole in that theory.

[withlace]

You end up with a number of other things to be worrying about, but if you'd like to recruit a task force to count heads, I imagine there'd be a few who'd sign up. [ she sounds a tad resigned, her words a sigh. ]

Some people return after the chaos of the jump to check. To see who's here and who's sleeping. They keep watch if they choose.

[consequence]

oh no. i don't think i need to recruit anything. I was just thinking a lot and wondered if i had been the only one thinking that way or not.

[withlace]

So, you've no intention of going to look?

text »

[starked]

depends on why you're asking.

[ way to avoid saying anything useful tony. ]

[consequence]

mostly just as confirmation that i'm not the only one that has these thoughts.

[starked]

that's. kind of a bullshit answer. but fine.

you're not. and for the record, someone does have a tracking thing. rigged it up ages ago before they left for the second time. doesn't tell you names, but numbers tend to be better than nothing on a ship like this.

[look]

There used to be a headcount. Before my time. People talked about it. I imagine it's still ticking away somewhere.

[consequence]

funny how something that I thought would make me feel better has definitely just creeped me out.

NOT HERE

[coy]

[ this is caroline right now.



]

[consequence]

[LOL Exactly why Hayley did text only! Though, she does give her name elsewhere, but STILL!! She knows to keep herself not so... public?]