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[voice] [locked to all player characters]
[You may know the drill: the low, calm, somewhat English-accented voice of a young man.]
This is Ryuuzaki, speaking for Communications.
From the viewpoint of network traffic, there are still no signs of any new arrivals this jump. The department will let you know if anyone turns up.
Those of you who have been monitoring the length of jumps: do you know how long this one lasted? Is it possible to tell whether or not we've moved at all?
Did anyone find new items in their lockers?
We can't check on the drive itself, but we can determine whether or not there's anything further to discuss.
[Talk of past jump drive malfunctions leads to concern about potential current ones... other than the usual. Or does the lack of new arrivals mean it's now functioning as it's supposed to?]
This is Ryuuzaki, speaking for Communications.
From the viewpoint of network traffic, there are still no signs of any new arrivals this jump. The department will let you know if anyone turns up.
Those of you who have been monitoring the length of jumps: do you know how long this one lasted? Is it possible to tell whether or not we've moved at all?
Did anyone find new items in their lockers?
We can't check on the drive itself, but we can determine whether or not there's anything further to discuss.
[Talk of past jump drive malfunctions leads to concern about potential current ones... other than the usual. Or does the lack of new arrivals mean it's now functioning as it's supposed to?]
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This topic seems to interest you.
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If something unusual is happening -- if something has gone wrong, I want to find out as soon as I can and help in whatever way possible. You mentioned the jump drive. Do you know if it's connected directly to any other necessary systems? If something is going wrong with the drive, I'm worried about what other systems might be affected.
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What does tend to have global effects is any problem with the nanites, but that seems unlikely to be related to the jump drive. Also, if there were other issues, I think we'd see them.
However, there are probably larger questions related to the workings of the jump drive itself. If a compact universe can in fact develop inside it, what can it do to the physical nature of the ship itself?
I'm not sure that any of that will answer the question of whether or not we actually went anywhere this time.
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Hearing that there's not much chance for crossover if there are any failures is a little comforting, but if the jump drive -- or the anomalies the jump drive forms -- are affecting the ship in various ways, it sounds like cross-system failures might be the least of our concerns.
I'm sorry for all of the questions and the worrying. I'm just trying to understand what we're up against.
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To my knowledge, there are clocks within the ship and clocks on the exterior, although this is a relatively recent innovation on the part of some passengers. We didn't have them a year ago. The passage of time they measure is not consistent between the two locations: devices outside of the ship have shown weeks or months passing during a jump, when the clocks inside the ship showed no significant passage of time at all.
A few years spent on the ship with monthly jumps may equate to nearly a century passing outside of the ship.
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I'm curious. The passage of time isn't consistent? Has there been any pattern to how much time passes outside the ship? Is that something I should be addressing to a different department?
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Prior to those efforts, there was a woman named Jaye who had the capability to survive jumps outside of the pods by taking the form of an insect. She didn't do it every jump, but on the occasions when she did, a few years ago, one jump took a month, the other took a year.
That may not have had much to do with the distance we traveled, given the way the drive operates -- it's possible that we spent the entire year in a wormhole.
You're aware that there are small black holes in various places throughout the ship? They should be physically impossible.
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What sort of properties do they have?
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Take a look. A passenger fell into one a few years ago. They didn't come out.
[He attaches this video to his comment.]
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From what I remember from my courses at SFIT, the smallest a black hole should be while still sustaining itself would still be the size of a mountain. Even those are theoretical. Anything smaller than that should quickly expend its energy -- they shouldn't be able to stick around.
That's just my understanding. Astronomy isn't exactly my field of expertise.
Are the black holes contained to certain segments of the ship? That video... how did that passenger stumble into that situation?
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As to the passenger -- they appear to be made of stone there -- they went wandering in the dark hallways, or they got lost, I'm not sure which. The creature attacking them in the video is a manticore, and for obvious reasons, we've never been able to count their population... I think it's possible that they may be like the things we've been seeing lately, creations of someone's mind, which wouldn't make them any less real.
A number of people have gone into the halls and come out unharmed; while it's not a good idea, there's also no absolute guarantee that anything terrible will happen.
To my knowledge, the holes are mostly located in the corridors, but the exact location may vary. The layout seems to change with every jump. Mapping the halls has proved impossible, but there are always people who want to try.
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Is it possible to impose any control over the creation of someone else's mind?
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Granted, this place seems to hinder progress just out of spite, but it pays to know what has and hasn't been attempted... especially if things are changing... As for motion, you got me. That'd be better off if we knew where in — space we are, right?
[SPACE???? HUGHES IS NOT USED TO THIS EXTREMELY ADVANCED SHIT.]
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We could have been out for a month, we could have been out for a year. It's hard to say.
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We're in a big super advanced ship in space and nobody actually has a way to measure time in here from jump to jump?
[NO OFFENSE HE'S JUST SURPRISED REALLY]
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Clocks within the ship show no time passing at all during a jump. There was a passenger named Jaye who could ostensibly shapeshift into creatures in a way that allowed her to survive missing the jump... insects and so forth... she claimed that one jump took a month and another took a year. That was the only clue we had at the time that the passage of time might be unusual or irregular. Readings since then have shown that those inconsistencies persist.
The clocks that seem to have successfully measured the length of a jump are outside of the ship. They aren't easy to get to. You're aware that there's no breathable atmosphere out there...?
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[is he really though
is he really
they don't even have cordless phones L he lives in a savage society]
And we don't have anything capable of going outside of the ship yet... but it sounds like time is pretty much unhelpful as it is, if it fluctuates every jump...
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People who want to go outside of the ship can do it in a space suit or a shuttle, but it's risky, particularly the suit.
If we can find a pattern in the fluctuations, it may be useful, although I'm not sure what exactly it would say. What Thomas has said may be more important -- we appear to have returned to an area where we were a few months ago. That's not good news.
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Aaah. That's... not good at all, huh?
I'm guessing this is a hot zone full of potential risks and enemies?
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I apologize in advance for this excuse for a hook.
Any insights?
no worries boo!!
slides in here hi
can you tell how far back we went?
heyyyyyyyyyy
Rey took the words right out of his fingers.
mindmeld activate.
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[voice]
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Why were you worried? Is there something...?
[Something you know?]
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[Her tone trails, her answer fading more into silent thought than anything actually helpful to anyone.]
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That clock.
If space and time are related, and the clock has stopped--
[He interrupts himself; his mind is working as much as Rey's seems to be.]
But last month's jump appeared to have been successful...?
If it wasn't, or if it was only partly so and this one wasn't at all, we might have the obvious problem. That's what concerns me right now. It's possible I should be worried about more. If that's what our red friend meant, after all of the ticking comments, how could he have known based on the information he had?
What are your thoughts?
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Suppose it depends on how you interpret the information given to us by both parties.
When Smiley had said "the clock is stopped", he also seemed to imply to some that we will never see home again. Given what we know about the way the jumps influence dimensional shifts through wormholes, was wondering if perhaps whatever that thing in the White Room learned had something to do with whatever's changed this jump.
Ward had also elaborated that "the clock has stopped" did not mean a literal clock, but that the "path" planned for us is now gone. Though he didn't specify what path it meant exactly, figured that it may have something to do with finding a way around our ability to control it, as well as the jumps.
...
Again, this is mostly just conjecture.
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As to the ability to return home... if he was referring to that, why did the subsequent jump seem to operate normally? Either way, I was under the impression that Ward thought it was more or less a good thing that the "clock" had "stopped."
It's not a good thing for us to go back to anywhere we've been. Arima might have had some appeal, once, but... that isn't an option anymore.
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Did you see anyone find anything in their lockers that seemed to surprise them, or did you only watch the group that would have belonged to the most recent arrivals?
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Why would find people that have been here longer something in their lockers that would surprise them? [...oh.] Is this like the eye that Firo found?
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It's like the eye Firo found, or like the hazmat suit I found, but it isn't always unpleasant. Sometimes the item is something useful, or a delicacy.
[He elects not to discuss the newspaper he received a few months ago, or Darcy's trophy.]
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[It sounds like the boons back in the Drabwurld, but there one would just know because a fairy or an imp would show up and present one with a request form. He hasn't had anyone approach him with request forms yet, so there has to be another mechanic.
And he has a few things that he'd like to request.]
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It isn't always something you would want. It isn't even usually something you would want.
What sort of thing would you ask for?