[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

[muscovy]

I only wanted to know who arrived this time, so I only watched their lockers.

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?

[ryuuzaki]

It's something that happens... not to everyone every jump, but to some people every jump, or most jumps. We haven't kept track of whether or not there's been a jump where it hasn't happened at all.

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.]

[muscovy]

...How do I request something like that?

[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.]

[ryuuzaki]

You can't. It just happens, or it doesn't.

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?