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recently a handful of us had made contact with an outside source - a certain lina barnez and joshua sachin. some of you may still be confused by their most recent attempt to communicate.

what we know is that they work on behalf of van rijn, who is supposedly the prime minister of alexandria and is behind the construction of this ship.

lina and joshua have been described as "bloodhounds" for the prime minister, who is undoubtedly looking to get back his ship. what this entails for us, we don't yet know.

have been on the tranquility since the first jump, and recall the events described in their transmission. a timeline of those events as we experienced them can be read upon in the welcome manual. can answer any further questions if you still have any.

for those of you who are unaware, the strela outpost was occupied by a population who appeared to have been in synch with each other. we later discovered that they assimilated people into what we know as a hivemind, and had attempted to round us up in efforts to become part of that assimilation. we managed to escape, but it would seem that some time after our departure the strela outpost has suffered an "accident" that had wiped out all of its inhabitants.

like the outpost, arima was a colony populated by living people at the time we were there. plenty of survivors had been left behind when we departed. however, lina and joshua insist that the people of the colony were all killed when they had been very much alive when we had left, but only after they had expressed hostility towards our crew - not much unlike the temperament we were met by the people of strela.

there's a possibility that these locations we have stopped at were affected because of the tranquility itself. at least, that's what the people working for van rijn seem to believe. whether or not that's true, can't say.

after all, don't believe everything they tell you.

am concerned that there may be a chance that whatever so-called "phenomena" that's affected the people we have previously encountered may be affecting us in some way as well.

and that's where we're at.

apologies.

[ooc: Feel free to threadjack and discuss amongst each other in this post. I don't mind!]

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I just want to put it on here that I think it's important to remember that the info about them being bloodhounds out to kill us is coming from the possible ghost of a possibly mind-controlled pirate. I'm not saying we believe "Lina" and "Joshua"-- I definitely don't-- but it's not like Laurens is somebody to just take at face value either.

Some other weird things: [ Yes, she has been making a list and it's so obvious in the way she ticks them off. You can almost hear the fingers being raised one by one. ] One, them claiming that they know what happened with the Scylla, which seems like it should be impossible since unlike the stations there's no scene left behind for them to go investigate. Two, confusion about us being here unwillingly but no surprise at all at the idea of people here being from different universes. Three, suggesting that we take things up with the captain. It's like they have some information they maybe shouldn't and don't have other information they maybe should.

Anyway, [ and here there's the sound of cloth on table top as she sets her elbows and leans in, throat cleared a little, away from the mic ] we need to figure out what we want to do if they make contact again because it seems likely they will. I'm hoping slash expecting that people from Comms and Engineering are going to chime in and tell us what they were able to find out about the signal. I really doubt their goal is actually helping us but it seems like it's still a good idea to keep in touch with them if possible. We'll have to be careful but I think we'll have more options that way.

You have a point about Laurens. The problem now is trying to figure out who we want to believe -- if it's anyone -- because the fact remains that something is happening to us and to those we seem to have made contact with.

Yes, it is strange that they appear to have known so much and yet so little. Though, suppose the same could be said for some of us as well. [She has, after all, been living on the Tranquility for three years and in spite of that, doesn't seem to know much at all about how it actually functions.

[She sighs.] Time will tell, either way.

[Even if they were true about their intentions, Rey has already considered the likelihood that her and her fellow captives of this place might not be able to be helped. But that's a concern she's not so ready to vocalize again at the moment.]

Thank you for this. I was just about to point out that "have been described" is an interesting and deliberate avoidance of saying by whom.

If our "he said-she said" is between an amoral psychopath and government officials, I know who I'm listening to.

I mean it's totally possible that the government officials are the amoral psychopaths. There's really nothing trustworthy about any part of this.

Unfortunately, choosing to trust no one leaves us at a stalemate in which we're still riding the roller coaster straight out of a horror movie. Personally, I'll take the lesser evil any day.

laurens isn't a psychopath

[ jeez. ]

Well, he does quite the impression of one.

he's brainwashed
and angry
there's a difference

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