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[vivelavenir]

Brethren aboard, I come to you today with an enquiry most... well, most abnormal.

I wonder-

[A pause here, squinting, as if not entirely sure how to phrase such a thing. Perhaps it will sound like lunacy, but then, he is very used to being called eccentric anyway. So maybe simply coming out with it was for the best.]

-I wonder if anyone has before been contacted, on their devices, by someone outside of the ship?

Someone not aboard, who does not even know the name Tranquility, and perhaps is not even very familiar with the technology here, as I was once not... Someone curious about us, and this place.

[And unwilling to say why, though he should not wish to alarm anyone by making this sound more cloak-and-dagger than it ought.]

Has anyone else ever communicated with such a person? A voice in the void?

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[jondrette]

And sisteren! You must not forget the farer sex, let alone dear Eponine! Or I shall tell Gavroche and he will be cross with you.

Who has contacted you? Friends from Paris? [Marius?!

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[vivelavenir]

Do forgive me, dear mademoiselle. Surely, women are most welcome always.

I am not sure whom it was, but no, certainly not a Frenchman. [Nor friend, as yet.]

[Video]

[jondrette]

[Damn. Not Marius.]

But you've received a strange message from them! Were I a religious woman, I would say perhaps it is God or an Angel, but we should be amongst them now, if such a place did exist and we were granted access.

anon;

[lostsoldier]

curious as in fishing for information about us?

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[vivelavenir]

I suppose so... yes.

anon ∞

[lostsoldier]

what did they ask about?

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[enlistments]

And you did not know this voice?

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[vivelavenir]

T'was no voice, monsieur. The messages were in text alone.

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[enlistments]

I see. And what exactly was the nature of their inquiry? What did they want to know?

[alsohawkeye]

Did they give you their name?

Could you reproduce the conversation you had with this person for us to see?

[vivelavenir]

Yes, he did supply it.

I do still have it on my device, I believe, yes. It should be legible for all.

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[talkingaintdoin]

Can't say I've had the...pleasure of such a conversation lately. Plenty of folk aboard who're curious about the differences in each other's worlds, but usually with some basis to go on.

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[vivelavenir]

I should count myself among those that are curious, indeed.

But I am quite convinced he was not among us literally, even if he had the same intellectual desires as us, to learn of our fellowman.

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[talkingaintdoin]

Well, we're all curious. Some more'en others, I think.

[She's curious too, but she knows when to ask questions and when to keep her mouth shut. Right now, though, she's not sure what time it is.]

How're you so sure that he's not runnin' around like the rest of us? Could be that you just haven't met him yet.

[majestyofthethrone]

Has anyone offered to help you track it? I can, if you like.

[vivelavenir]

Sera- how are you?

No, no one has. Are you so able?

[majestyofthethrone]

I'll manage.

I don't know. I can try, at least.

[ryuuzaki]

This is Ryuuzaki, from Communications.

To begin with, yes, it's happened before.

My first question is, have you been contacted by this person at all since the most recent jump? If not, since the week prior to that?

Second, would you be willing to visit the department? As soon as possible, please.

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[vivelavenir]

A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Monsieur. I am Jean Prouvaire, but please, Jehan is fine.

[That's a rather novel name, 'Ryuuzaki', but all right, an attempt not to become side-tracked by his own curiosity:]

It is good to think that there may be some record of events like these, thank you for informing me.

I was contacted after the last- we completed the conversation and have not had further communication, I fear. I am certainly not sure how to reach out to him, for it was a he.

I would be most willing, if you feel it would be of help.

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[servator]

I've been told it's happened before, but I can't say I've got a lot of experience with it. What was the conversation like?

Could be there are actually more ships around here and the transmissions have been blocked. ... Could be a lot of things.

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[vivelavenir]

Aside from the rather contained nature of his own replies, he was merely very curious- very polite.

It does seem it ought to be possible, does it not? Other ships. We have, after all, landed before, seen evidence of other such vessels as ours.

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[servator]

What exactly did he ask? I'm sorry, I know you've probably been over this, but if you don't mind...

Landed? Really? [ That's something she's interested in hearing about, too. ] Mind giving me the details? The questions about the call can wait.

[kutte]

They tell you they were from outside the ship?

[vivelavenir]

No, in no certain terms.

But the implication seemed rather enough. I do not know why else someone would ask me simple things about the ship, and yet be so easily confused by the answers.

It seemed he was foreign enough.

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[skjalf]

( this is so very fishy, and elizabeth is on this at once. )

Did this individual attempt to sow distrust in the rest of us aboard this ship, monsieur?