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[uncurse]

Maybe it's just that I've done a crap job checking in with people since I got back—sorry, still getting my space legs back under me—but I can't shake this feeling like we lose more and more people who were around at the beginning each time the ship jumps. I mean, how many people remember the Cyllene at this point? [ Her voice tightens, like she's trying to sort through a quick tally in her mind. ]

I know some people have been keeping archives and crunching data, but I'm starting to wonder how much information about what's going on here we've already lost. [ Huff. That's a depressing thought. ] Couldn't help noticing how empty the whole place feels while I was patrolling. Or maybe that feeling's because people haven't been migrating downwards with each new jump. Consider this your reminder: SEC only consistently sweeps levels one to ten.

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audio;

[righteously]

That's how this stuff usually goes. [ And he doesn't sound particularly happy about it either. ] I got about a half a notebook full of notes on where I was, not that it does anyone any good now. People take intel with them when they go, and the new people who take their spot have to start all the hell over. Like a freakin' hamster wheel.

audio;

[uncurse]

So maybe we break the wheel. People are archiving what we know, maybe it's time people were more forthcoming about what they've got. All actively working together on some living document—Wikipedia, for nightmare ships.

audio;

[righteously]

[ That whole forthcoming thing strikes a little bit of a cord. Awkward, tense pause. ]

Yeah, no, that's a great idea in theory, don't get me wrong, it's just- you know, when there're two sides to this whole... war or whatever we're fighting, two sides from within the ship, it might not be the safest for some people to be on the out and out about everything right now.

audio;

[uncurse]

What are you talking about, two sides? There are people who've been on board this ship for nearly four years. Secrets and withholding information hasn't done anyone any favors. It's time we tried something new.

[overdraws]

It wasn't always this quiet?

[ Quiet being relative after, you know, boggarts and body horror. ]

[uncurse]

Forty floors of rooms, but we tend to hover around the same number of people. People are getting spread out again. It didn't seem so quiet when we were almost all packed into the first ten floors, even as big as they are.

[overdraws]

How many floors are there, though? New ones keep getting added with every jump, but it has to stop at some point, right?

[uncurse]

Not added.

[ Not that she can see, but Emma shakes her head. ]

Decks 250-300 are written off as passenger quarters.

[hedoniste]

I know Nathan made an effort to get what he knew shared with other people, too, but how successful that was...

[uncurse]

I never thought I'd say it, but it'd be nice to have him around still.

[hedoniste]

Well, I'm not going to argue that.

( she liked him, though, that helps. )

He gave me the tour of Comms, when I was new.

[uncurse]

I always got the impression he thought he was too important for tours.

audio.

[rebelled]

Tyke has been here since the beginning. There are a small number of others who still remain from long before the Cyllene.

[himself included. technically.]

Perhaps you should be seeking out those from the time before the Strela incident instead.

audio.

[uncurse]

Were you there for Strela? No one's given me a really clear picture of what went down.

audio.

[rebelled]

No. It occurred after I was returned home for the first time, and I brought back the jump after.

audio.

[uncurse]

How long were you gone?

[voice]

[circumitus]

Apologies for the intrusion, but -- was on Strela when the Tranquility had docked there. What is it you wish to know?

[voice]

[uncurse]

Whatever there is to tell. Was it like Cyllene?

audio.

[consequence]

[She's been meaning to reach out to Emma, to see how things went with that guy and the time-difference, but things got crazy and she knew she'd have more important things to deal with. Though - hearing the word "back" does strike a chord with Hayley and so she figures she can at least start the conversation here.]

I've been here for a year and a half, but I'm not sure if we've ever attempted to take some sort of chronological attendance.

audio.

[uncurse]

It'd probably help, at least to get the people who've been here longer to make sure we've got all the information.

audio.

[consequence]

Maybe we just need a census. [She's amused at the thought. Someone going door to door, asking who lives with them, when they arrived and then hand them a giant form to fill out about events they remember.]

audio.

[uncurse]

Yeah right, can you imagine? Remember the survey Kate did?

voice;

[axeyou]

Maybe you guys should paint more messages.

voice;

[uncurse]

We have been. Every jump, in the new arrivals' locker rows.

voice;

[axeyou]

Yeah. Which is why I said more. Or maybe you should just give it up. If people want to live on the upper floors, whatever.