TEXT | username: hughes

[ontheline]

[Out of nowhere, your worst fears confirmed: in bold red -- ]

:)





... Nah! I'm just messing with you! Bahaha. [Like it's not obvious; his name is right up there, but he's a doof. Though to be honest, also he's genuinely curious if Smiley would actually appear at his own mention, should his ego be that inflated. Because nobody even knows if the ship is completely non-functioning in that regard, huh? How much still effects them, from the bowels of that place? Hughes is starting to think crashing really did a number on anything in there that could have communicated with them once upon a time, though.] It's Hughes here. How many of you have even been around long enough to recognize that? Can't help but wonder how long it'll take before we have just a few select people who've even been in the ship when it flew... After all, how many of you are even from the first jump? Or even the first ten? There'd been so many by the time I had woken up here.

On that thought, I figured maybe we could share some information here in this entry. Now that we have a means of doing it, anyway. Me, personally? I'd only been on the Tranquility for a few months. But I know it has quite a history. You're all testimony to that. Wouldn't want the story of your time there to die, right?

... Unless you'd rather do that, since we don't have the booze to drink it away.

Eh. Anyway. We could always move around texts to a larger file, try to reconstruct a new jump informational document. Shouldn't take as much as voice or video-based entries. And of course, as a note, anything less pertinent but still interesting to hear would be good, too. Tell us newer folk things that really stuck with you, if you're feeling brave about it. Or we can just all complain about missing the food we had in the kitchens. I'll admit, you really miss it when it's gone. Hell, it's a good way to pass the time, learning about things before our crashing and burning. The first more than the latter.

... And yes, if anyone is interested in emoticons, please send me your best and brightest ones. If you don't know what they are, you're missing out on new age material. I'm here to help. And possibly make things worse here by flooding the comm with a newly adopted family of emoticon soldiers.

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ Everyone stay safe and don't fall into acidic rivers! Thanks!

[Hughes is the hippest most happenin' dad.]

Comments

[voice] username: MAGNETO

[sorrycharles]

An entity from a plane of existence outside of time and space as we know it resides within the ship and has made a mission out of fucking with us.

[ Put succinctly. ]

We should discuss the matter of its continued survival.

username: MAGNETO

[ontheline]

Nice username! So bold and loud to the eye.

You have experience dealing with this entity? Do we know if it's been active since the ship crashed, or is it potentially destroyed? I'd like to think nothing made it outside of us, but the ship apparently still has enough juice in it somehow to continue with multiple jumps.

[sorrycharles]

Masks, missing time and bloody noses are all consistent with its modus operandi.

If it’s not the same entity, we’ve attracted another just like it.

[ His failure to acknowledge the state of his username feels deliberately abrasive, in the scheme of things. ]

[ontheline]

And what would the odds of that be?

[Really, it's silly to think the Tranquility is a common occurance.

But who knows.]

What would you have us do, if you had the leisure of pushing everyone around?

If this thing is still verifiable as 'alive'. Or whatever it counts as.

[sorrycharles]

It depends, [ says Erik. ]

[ontheline]

That's a cliffhanger of a statement. Depends on what?

[sorrycharles]

On whether or not the ship is facilitating our survival.

[ontheline]

... That is a point.

There could be a very good reason we're unable to pass the tether.

[sorrycharles]

Van Rijn's people claimed the ship was built for colonization.

[ontheline]

And the ship itself is very committed to keeping us close for that purpose?

[sorrycharles]

The symptoms we experience upon attempting escape are similar to the side effects of separation we suffered while on the ship.

If the real threat at the border was death from suffocation or exposure, the consequences of pressing any further would speak for themselves.

[ontheline]

So would you suggest a potentially dangerous trek through the broken-apart ship for a grab at answers?

Not that I'd disagree — there's danger in just about any option these days...

[sorrycharles]

I suggest we gut the ship and destroy it.

1/2

[ontheline]

[ontheline]

Shouldn't we actually make sure the ship isn't what is keeping this area habitable by oxygen-breathing specimens like ourselves?

[sorrycharles]

Posthaste.

[ontheline]

Have any ideas on how to do that? Are you suggesting maybe hacking into the system, or whatever you kids do these days with your 21st century business?

[sorrycharles]

[ what ]

Testing the air would be a start.

I’m not sure we have the technological capability.

[ontheline]

[Huff.]

Then it's a little harder to accomplish the whole 'posthaste' thing, isn't it.

[sorrycharles]

Nothing is easy here.

The ship defends itself against sabotage.

[ontheline]

Maybe trying to get to the controls of the ship would get us some headway in using what's left of its technology.