† 009 [31 july, shortly after fitz's post]

[klutziness]

[even though the feed is garbled, rikkus' frustration and something akin to fear are clear in her voice]

Don't be ▒▓▒▓ing idiots. Get to medbay or somewhere not en▒▓neering! Trust me, you don't want a▒▓ of what's here.

[there's a short pause]

I need my engineering cr▒▓ on deck though. Stay together, stay safe. Find Fitz, stick with him. He'll ▒▓▓▒▒▒

[the feed abruptly cuts to white noise]

Comments

[forgodssake]

you do realise your best case scenario remains as is if we stay and fight
only we'll be on a crippled ship + almost guaranteed casualties

[fullmoon]

Not if we go along with them long enough to move the fight.

[forgodssake]

I can't even begin to conceive of how that could be made possible
not when we can hardly maintain a united front on a network post, let alone an operation that puts an army 100k souls strong within spellcasting distance

we need to finish this out as a whole or we're going to lose a lot of people in the effort

[fullmoon]

So you doubt our ability to unite behind any plan except the one you like.

[forgodssake]

[ Jeeze louise. ]

for god's sake Remus
the plan was always to delay them until the jump in seven days
when we knew it wasn't coming, we still had to try until another opportunity to escape presented itself

all I am trying to do is see this through to the end

1/2

[fullmoon]

[ Oooh he got a for god's sake.

It makes him pause long enough to step back from the precipice of his temper tantrum. ]

Sorry.

[fullmoon]

I don't want to go down running, after all this.
Or run into more of the same.
Do you think we'd be able to keep control of if long term?

[forgodssake]

[ APOLOGY ACCEPTED though he doesn't say as much. It can be implied in the fact he picks up the conversation. ]

I do think that
I think if we jump now, we're giving ourselves a new beginning
one with more control than we've ever had previously

private.

[forgodssake]

William voicing his opinions down there is a result of his white room experiences
he's being influenced
Kate too is behaving oddly possibly for the same reason

[ He doesn't frame that into his argument. He just offers it as fact. ]

private.

[fullmoon]

So it's me & the mind-controlled set, you're saying.

private.

[forgodssake]

hate to be the one to tell you
look, I'm not dismissing everything they're saying. they're not irrational. but I think they're omitting other truths in favour of this one rationale
what I saw in William's mind was violent aggression (towards those arguing in favour of jumping) and fear

private.

[fullmoon]

Brilliant.

[ Sarcasm font. ]

There's nothing in my head. You can check.
I just think it's stupid.

private.

[forgodssake]

it doesn't help there are people who are making it sound as such.

[ The most frustrated telepath in the world. ]

I know you think I'm just trying to escape this one battle but I am looking beyond it
this thing isn't here to help us take down Van Rijn or stand by and let Van Rijn do its dirty work, I promise you that

the worst case scenario of jumping (setting aside the incredibly statistically unlikely approximations that we'd crash into something) is more of the same of what we've endured previously, only with additional control over a powerful mechanism and time to regroup and consider what to do next
the worst case scenario of remaining is Van Rijn gaining control of something affording him access to as many worlds as there are souls on this ship, or this thing freed of our control

private.

[fullmoon]

The worst case scenario of jumping is that we're all slaughtered in our pods for getting in its way & Van Rijn finds our corpses & the ship with nothing to stop him.
Or that we evade him now & 5 or 50 or 500 years later they work their way around to the technology anyway.
Stalling won't make a difference to anyone at home.

private.

[forgodssake]

nothing about Charlotte's warnings implies that that's at all the sort of danger we're facing. she's talking in terms of strength (which she believes we have) and being unified (which I am presently working on), not categorical failure. and I trust her sense of our capability.
we're in the eleventh hour, now. I suggest you make designs about getting to a grav couch if nothing else.

private.

[fullmoon]

She thinks we can force a jump. She hasn't said anything about what we're meant to do afterwards.

But all right. [ Whatever. >C ] I'll fuck off & go prolong death for however much longer.

private.

[fullmoon]

[ Wait but also. ]

Will Kate & William be able to stop?

[dogbane]

are you buying the shit he's selling

or the confidence with which he's doing it

[fullmoon]

You're not helping.

[dogbane]

i dunno im working in bloody medbay

your shit friend is working on bloody mass murdering all of us in defense of self and theoretical multiverse

[fullmoon]

& you're making people who disagree look hysterical.

[dogbane]

im not fucking hysterical

im pissed off

[fullmoon]

You're mind-controlled.

[dogbane]

oh for fucks sake you too then

how's it we're on the same side of this debate and only one of us is.

or are you an unfortunate victim this go-round as well

[fullmoon]

I'm fine.
This plan is bollocks.
But the people who want to do it aren't cunts who are trying to kill everyone.