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Ship - Tranquility - I have a bit of a crisis-

So I need everyone to stop a moment and think very hard, and I mean incredibly hard, about this, because forget the bloody temperature and the mess with all that and everything else because, well.

...I've run out of tea.

Proper tea, not the space tea that tastes like the stuff you get from the blank boxes that they sell at the Co-op. Or worse, the off-stuff from Tescos.

Does anyone have real tea?

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blood, bones, body parts. it feels like they keep showing up in everyone's favorite things lately. i would try looking in that tea shop first before asking for favors from whatever entity on the ship is in charge of the lockers.

[ yeah, she might be stalking 90% of the conversations on the network. ]

it's not really looting if no one is planning to use it.

Are you spying on me?

if you consider reading almost everything that's posted on the network spying, then i guess i spy on everything?

[ if only dryness could translate through text. ]

it's not like i'm hacking anyone's conversations.

[wait what]

Don't. Don't do that.

hack everyone's conversations?

[ please, what kind of person do you take her for. ]

very much not planning on it. and if you mean "not spying on everyone's conversations even though it's not technically spying", you should know half of the ship does just that — but i'm looking for important information, not discussions about looting. five seconds will go by and i'll forget everything i skimmed for only two seconds and take my eyes elsewhere, don't worry. i didn't know everyone on this ship was so paranoid about open network communication.

Yeah? And if you're going to forget everything you've overheard, and it's so inconsequential, then you don't need to bring it up with her. That's just like a show of power.

no one's trying for any "show of power". we were talking about tea, the tea shop someone else mentioned was relevant to the conversation, and, along with sharing with another passenger, the better option to waiting for tea that could be poisoned or bloodied to show up in her locker, especially if tea is important to her. like i said, i'll forget everything i heard and i don't have any intention of prying again or interrupting someone's conversation. are we done here or do i need to further explain and apologize for something that was intended to be an innocent suggestion?

I'm only telling you how it comes off. If you were intending to be friendly and neighborly? You were. So next time, just leave out the details from other parts of her conversation because that kind of thing makes people a little nervous.

But no apologies necessary.

i understand. i know you're only trying to protect her from anyone that really is more intrusive than i would ever want to be, but assuming a stranger is creepy and/or a spy trying to pretend to hold power over someone and their conversations doesn't make the accused in question nervous, but it is a little unsettling. i'm not an ai signing my messages with a foreboding smile attached while appearing to know everything about everyone, but with something like that harassing passengers on the network, i can see why certain people might be nervous.

[look assuming the worst of everyone is a very effective way of dealing with people tyvm]

You don't have to be Smiley. We don't know you. You're probably a good person and a model citizen but you should be aware of how you're coming off. No offense.

Just because we all know that everything we say could be listened to, maybe even is being listened to, doesn't mean we want reminding of it. That feeling of being watched? Don't make it worse.

[ does she look like a creeper to you!! ]

i realize. i'm just pointing out that there's a difference between an ominous "i'm watching you and everything you do" and "sorry, i overheard your conversation but i wasn't trying to spy on you so please don't think that". i understand and agree with what you're saying and you're right, you don't know me — and that's fair, but it's double-edged. you're both making a lot of assumptions about someone you don't know within the span of a few minutes from statements that were intended to be innocent or curious, not foreboding or mocking.

[trust no1!! also text conversation so he can't see her but even if he could trust no1!!]

I'm the one making the assumptions. Leave Annie out of it. And I'd call it more suspicion than assumption anyways.

Assumption would be me accusing you of lying. Suspicion is me wondering why you'd choose to drop that into the conversation when you could have just as easily kept it to yourself. And you've told me, it was a joke, and even if I don't really get why, I can accept it as an answer.

[ paranoid parrot: the mitchell saga ]

she asked and didn't make any assumptions, sorry. that's true. [ it's all you and your assumptions, man. ] presuming i was trying to make a show of power to intimidate someone else is still an assumption, but suspicion is more of the right word for it.

it wasn't a joke. it was joke within honest advice. the other parts were sarcasm, but i doubt "yes i'm spying on you" and making someone feel like a target, especially when it isn't the truth, is better than "i try to glean the network so i don't miss anything, just in case". i didn't want her to feel unsafe in that regard.

but i know intentions and tone can't be read from text alone. i'm sorry my intrusion made anyone uncomfortable, you and annie included, but if you wanted an explanation, you could have asked from the beginning before coloring my intentions differently so we could have avoided miscommunication and defensiveness on both of our parts. i'm not someone you have to worry about it; i'm just curious and have too much time on my hands, not a stalker, but it's nice that you're looking out for your friend.

[ and there's that tone issue again. ]

... and that wasn't sarcasm, just to clarify, but it would be sarcasm to tell you you're technically eavesdropping on this conversation, too.

[ she's js. they're both guilty of almost the same thing. ]

[it's a way of life!]

I don't how how it works where you're from, but when someone announces something that suggests they were listening in on conversations--it's because they want you to know that they know more than they should. And I'd prefer to act before asking questions. Saves me time in the end.

I'm not eavesdropping. I'm doing just what you said. I'm watching out for Annie. However I have to do that, I'll do it.

But you aren't a threat, and you didn't mean any of it maliciously, so it doesn't matter. Does it.

[because when it's strangers, it's stalking and eavesdropping. when it's friends, it's love.]

Mitchell-

Mitchell, it's all right. You made your point. I think she gets it.

Good.

[fine yes he'll back off because of Annie.]

It needed t' be said.

back home, letting someone think you know more than you should is mostly reserved for politicians, not someone like me.

[ that's space and its politics for you. she could add in 'and when you know something valuable and announce it, you're going to get shot and/or hunted; no one intelligent would do that' but that's both morbid and.... not comforting in the scope of things.

either way, he's totally eavesdropping with good intentions on his side, but at least she doesn't care enough to call him out on it further. ]

it doesn't matter for all of the above reasons and because it doesn't bother me, considering you don't mean it maliciously, either. [ and there's not much more to say on that matter, given she's hoping the issue has already been resolved, so she settles for a concluding statement instead. ] i hope your friend finds what she's looking for.

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