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mark iii suit ❦ [ text + two encyptions ]

we might have a problem.

[ normally tony wouldn't bring this up at all, but creepy red smile thing is really fucking creepy and this is some shit out of a horror film. ]

not a demon problem, because unless i'm wrong winchester and the angel thing have that dealt with. was going to mention this before that came up, but not all of us can split our attention between two things. actually most of you can't. right, though, problem of the ship variety.

[ and then an attachment entitled i am a smile and i am creepy is sent to everyone's device. ]

i know what you're going to say, tony you made the creepy smiling thing mad. you're going to get us all killed. no, i'm not. what i did was discover something kind of important. the good ship tranquility is watching us. and as much as i'm cool with being watched, kind of want to know who the fuck is watching me on this huge ship. weirdly enough.

i know you two are watching everything. what do you say about this?

[ finally tony adjusts his device to video and if they pay attention, they see that he's in his suit. it's a bit of a way to intimidate them, but he's not going to come right out and say it. ]

Okay, whatever, you two are in charge along with Kirk. I don't care, if that's one of you two, I want to know. Everyone does, but I'm the one who asked the questions and got the answer so I get the first answer.

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[ which then makes you wonder what goes on in that part of the suit. ]

kirk. not of the original crew. even if ward wasn't messing with us, they'd go for his abs first.

[ ...are you really saying that, topher. ]

one had my face. also holmes' face. it's the same face. it makes about as much sense as....pretty much all of this, let's be real.

[WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM HIM, TONY.]

Point taken. But I'm willing to go "alternate universes" and leave the rest to sci-fi tropes. At least with everything else happening, we're sticking to the same genre. Whence this... demon business?

leaving the rest to sci-fi tropes leaves out our resident western tropes and our resident fantasy tropes. what about sci-fi horror? then you can include demons.

Demons in space, though? I can buy cowboys in space. I can buy medieval fantasy in space, but we've gotta draw a line somewhere. Sci-Fi horror is, like, alien brain parasites and ships gaining sentience and killing everyone. Anything less than that and we're living in something off the Sci-Fi channel.

mattie ross is a cowgirl. and count the demons as brain parasites. or the shitty version of alien.

And then next all the religious people on the ship'll excuse you of taking the 'Christ' outta Christmas. [He's snickering, because wow, this whole conversation.]

[ banter to kill any tension, topher. don't even. ]

accuse me? do i seem like the type to kill all of those hopes and dreams?

[It's how he rolls.]

You did offend some creepy red text.

did it say tony you hurt my feelings and i hate you? because hey, it may just like setting friends on fire. pyromaniac if you will.

In my experience, there are many things friends do not do to each other.

Lead them down incredibly dark, metaphorical paths from whence there's no return, lie to them about pretty much everything, try to kill all your other friends...

...[Oooh. Maybe he's projecting a little. Dial that back, Topher.] Or set them on fire.

and there's a lot of things that families don't do to each other, but surprise they some times do. did i miss the memo that said it was supposed to be sharing time? yes, your life apparently sucked but not particularly in the mood to hear about how you had really shitty friends.

[ topher, look at you stepping on one of tony's exposed wires of issues. ] or poison?

[He's good at that. BUT LOOK. HE DOESN'T WANNA SHARE EITHER. Moving on.] Or poison. [There's a bit of a pause. MAYBE HE HUNG UP. MAYBE THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER... no. No wait. He's talking again. Okay.]

Getting down to the bare bones of it in a way that doesn't involve passing around the feelings stick, I do... kinda have a theory about all this.

i added that one as a joke. i seemed to have misplaced any feeling stick i had so i'm good on the not passing it around thing. but i am curious. is this a theory you want to share with all of the class or just me?

Depends on whether or not you want a complete witch hunt. We're not all rational human beings on this ship.

just me it is then. i do love feeling like i get to hear all the secrets. lay it on me.

[Yeah, he has intense feelings on those CHAMBERS OF SECRETS, but at least he's in on this one, so he can't complain. Much.]

Right. So. The ship is all functional, right? Just missing everyone but good old reliable Resnik and Ward and no one knows why, but why the new people? Every jump, we keep getting more and more people- a ship this size? [He makes a pfft sound.] There had to be a ton of people working on this ship. We're not here by some chance universal screw-up. Something is bringing us here. It's filling in the gaps. Until... Whatever happened to the rest of the crew happens to us.

[ oh shut up topher. no one likes a dude who has intense feelings. but hey whatever, guess he'll flip his device on voice for you. ]

Did you just imply that we're going to face the same fate they did? As in oh, I don't know, being trapped in never-ending hallways and shit?

[SCORE.

And look at Topher bein' oh-so-casual.]

Or getting eaten by the ship. Something had to of killed those dead dudes in that room.

[ oh don't you dare say it topher. don't you dare. ]

Depending on what it is, it would already be dead by now. Because I heard from a little birdy that nothing can exist outside the couches unless it's a freak of nature.

Am I speaking Urdu? I'm not talking 'alien in the vents' here. I mean the ship, itself.

[HE WENT THERE.]

[ OKAY, ONE, KUDOS FOR FINALLY GETTING WHAT TONY WANTS EVERYONE TO GET, but because this is tony he won't tell you that and instead he asks this: ]

Out of all the languages to pick, you choose Urdu. Really?

Hypothetically, say you're right, there was skeletons left behind, why would a ship that's probably programmed to be clean about shit leave evidence behind.

How many ships do you know that are programmed to kill people? It's basic scare tactic- it knows we have nowhere to go. And FYI, if there are functioning shuttles and we could leave at any time, then how come Resnik and Ward haven't flown off for help?

There's two functioning shuttles. They can't go too far away from the ship. That would be why. Take it from one of the guys who have been down there actually fixing them up.

Also. I didn't say that they're programmed to kill us. I- The programming of this ship wouldn't allow us to be overrun by trash. Treat a skeleton like trash and what would a ship do?

So theoretically if a ship started thinking of actual, living, breathing piles of trash? There's scare tactics and then there's basic sci-fi cliches. If this is the ship, it can write off anything by flashing a few red lights and making it look like an internal problem, but something here is mocking us. Either it's the ship or there are plenty of not-nice things that we're not being told and someone's gonna get killed over it.

AIs are capable of personality, I know because I've built one with personality. Though it was more dry and British and not murderous. Which would mean that this ship is capable of having a personality to go with it's programming.

...Could be corrupted programming if it's being mocking like this.

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voice; stark encryption 100%; OKAY IN HINDSIGHT THIS CONVERSATION MAKES ME LAUGH.

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voice; stark encryption 100%; MAN LOOK AT US AND OUR FORESHADOWING.