text.

[technologist]

[ Again with a small wall of text, though this time there's no obvious indication that it's meant as an Engineering PSA. It shows up roughly 24 hours after Annie's warning about the strange noises in the corridors. ]

Re: the creepy sounds in the hallways.

Sent a few volunteers out into the darker corridors to record video and audio (cheers Raven, Sirius & Murphy), along with Grumpy and Sneezy.

[ Context would probably be useful on the last two, but either he doesn't think of it or doesn't care enough to add it. ]

Not sure whether this is reassuring or not, but analysis of the recordings didn't find much. The sounds appear to be inanimate/non-biological in origin. Grumpy didn't pick anything up in the way of human voices or otherwise obvious signs of life forms.

The noises are a bit like what you'd get from a house settling, just on a much larger scale. That said, it's probably advised that you don't go wandering off into the dark, as per usual.

The lights coming on don't appear to be related to any movement, either, but more a methodical rebooting of basic systems. Unexpected, but nothing particularly alarming on the Engineering side of things just yet.

That's about all we've got, but if you've got any questions, let us know.

Comments

[forerun]

i read about some deaths
none of them were 'death by hallway' though

can't avoid them forever
any success of traveling in groups?

[technologist]

Well, it's the monsters in the hallways, mostly. But they don't seem to come near the populated areas of the ship.

The last group was

[ How to put this. ]

Not very successful. They were trying to map the hallways, but they got split up. The woman leading the expeditions was killed when she didn't make it back in time for the jump.

[forerun]

monsters with manners
that's new

i've heard the hallways move
if thats true
what about finding a pattern?

[technologist]

Tried mapping patterns, but any devices we send in have a hard time getting accurate data. Although I'm starting to think the hallways don't move, just

[ A slight delay, trying to settle on a word. ]

realign. It could be more to do with dimensional shifts than physical relocation.

[forerun]

and people can't do it because of the
disappearing thing?

... what the shuck does that mean??

[technologist]

The disappearing and the hallucinations, yeah. People have a difficult time keeping their data straight, as well.

I think the jump drive is creating rifts, making reality unstable. It could explain how we've all been dragged here from different worlds.

[forerun]

of course
people never make it easy when they put you in prison, huh?

so what you're saying is
things move around because like
reality is????

[technologist]

Because reality's got holes in it, sort of. Or just gaps. So when you walk through one doorway, you come out another, or turn the bend in one hallway and end up at the wrong end of the ship.

[ Or ????, basically. ]

Have you been in prison?

[forerun]

i hate this place the more i hear about it

no
just locked up in somethin like one

[Casual.]

[technologist]

That's the popular response.

Was it better or worse than this?