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[eripui]

Boy, that was a close one! That gas formation was a clever trick.

Hello there.

I know I've already spoken to some of you—I had hoped to do this individually—but it appears we need to move things along more quickly than we'd realized. That ship of yours seems eager to shake us, and we simply can't let that happen.

My name is Lina Barnez. The rest of the team and I have been working on contacting the Tranquility for some time. Unfortunately, our tech isn't perfectly compatible with what you're running on. It hasn't been easy, but we're managing. I don't know how long we'll have.

We're here to help you, but in order to do that, we'll need you to help us. You've been through a lot on this ship: it's a miracle so many of you are still with us. We'd like to make sure you stay that way, but we can only do that if you're completely honest with us.

We know about the events on Strela, the Cyllene and Arima, as well as the Scylla. What happened to those poor people was not your fault, and you have my word that we have no plans to hold you responsible for those events.

But we need to work together to make sure it doesn't happen again. The more you tell us about what's been going on aboard the Tranquility, the more we can do.

[ NOTE: All conversations will be cut off before too long by the engines suddenly powering back up, and the jump alarm sounding to alert characters to proceed to medbay immediately. ]

Comments

[fullmoon]

[ Let the record show that whatever my OOC involvement may have been, ICly Remus had nothing to do with this and is slightly (slightly) sorry. ]

Force of habit, I suppose. Most of us sleep in the passenger quarters & not all of us work.
'Crew' makes it sound as though we have some sort of control over the ship.

[eripui]

[Lies and slander!!1!]

And so you would say that you do not have control over the ship?

[fullmoon]

Not personally, no. I'm doing well when I have control over my comms device.

When you said the cause of morbidity for each corpse, did you mean it varied?

[eripui]

Do your comms devices give you trouble often, John?

All seem to have been different, or otherwise unexplained, yes.

[fullmoon]

Daily. It's me, though, not the devices. I'm not very good at this sort of thing.

Could they have done it to themselves?

[eripui]

You're unfamiliar with such technology? Or would you say that you cannot interface with your device correctly?

If so, we do not have sufficient means to discern how they managed it without further information about the situations themselves. It's all very without precedent.

[fullmoon]

It's not something I've had a lot of experience with, no.

Were the times of death puzzling because they were too close together or too far apart?