[voice] [locked to all player characters]

[ryuuzaki]

[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?]

Comments

[ontheline]

[HUH.]

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]

[ryuuzaki]

[His tone becomes conversational. He doesn't know Hughes well, but they have spent some time together recently.]

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...?

[ontheline]

... Yes. Yes, of course. I'm aware.

[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...

[ryuuzaki]

[Hughes, you're a good addition to Communications so far, but you have done nothing to convince L that your society's closest analogy to "visiting outer space" is not something along the lines of "standing on the roof of a ten-story building."]

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.

[ontheline]

[WELL THAT IS ACCURATE, REALLY. TEN-STORY ROOF IS SPACE MATERIAL!]

Aaah. That's... not good at all, huh?

I'm guessing this is a hot zone full of potential risks and enemies?