mark iii suit ❦ [ text + two encyptions ]

[starked]

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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[starked]

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.

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[andblockbuster]

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.

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[starked]

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?

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[andblockbuster]

[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.

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[starked]

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?

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[andblockbuster]

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

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[starked]

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

lay it on me.

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[andblockbuster]

[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.

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[starked]

[ 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?

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[andblockbuster]

[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.

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[starked]

[ 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.

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[andblockbuster]

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

[HE WENT THERE.]

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[starked]

[ 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.

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[andblockbuster]

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?

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

[starked]

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?

voice; stark encryption 100%; FFF. JUST A BIT. And here's some foreshadowing for added humor.

[andblockbuster]

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.

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

[starked]

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.

voice; stark encryption 100%; Oh God, IT'S EVERYWHERE.

[andblockbuster]

...For realsies? [Why does everyone make British AI's with personality. That is just weird- COOL, but weird. ...Enough of that.] But the fact is most people don't program things to get offended or-or angry or anything like that, because it's like working around a loaded gun.

Assuming it's the ship, which is a major if, but I don't wanna place all my chips on it being a person with everything weird that's been happening... This could be easier to end than we think. All we have to do is find out if the ship had AI capabilities that maybe-sorta didn't get the plug pulled all the way and go from there.

voice; stark encryption 100%; IT'S NEVER ENDING. WE ARE DEADPOOL RN.

[starked]

...Realsies. No, yeah, I really did. [ because british people are cool, topher, that's why. ] Not if you do it correctly. No, I specifically put in failsafes on JARVIS to keep shit from happening. Theoretically if someone made this, they could be missing the failsafes because not everyone is as awesome as me and thinks of everything.

Fair point. Would it let any of us reset it though? That's a question you have to ask.

voice; stark encryption 100%; LET'S GO WATCH THE GOLDEN GIRLS AND EAT CHIMICHANGAS.

[andblockbuster]

[The most nervous laugh] You saw 2001, right? Wouldn't bet on it, no.

[This would be a lot less funny if Topher had any idea that HAL was on the freakin' ship.]

voice; stark encryption 100%; IS THERE EVEN GOLDEN GIRLS IN SPACE? THERE SHOULD BE IF THERE ISN'T.

[starked]

[ ...a w k w a r d. ] Yeah, I've seen it. Talked to him. Not actually the worst guy. Despite any refusals to do what Dave wanted.

[ tony, for once, topher, is not shitting you. ]

voice; stark encryption 100%; Someone ask for a TV next jump. And a satellite dish.

[andblockbuster]

[.....

OH GOD. YOU'RE NOT KIDDING.]

I'm gonna... assume that he's... gotten on his meds and has no intention of letting the air out of the cabin or anything.

voice; stark encryption 100%; MAYBE THEY'LL PICK UP THE ALIEN VERSION OF IT.

[starked]

[ LOOK HE'S SORRY SOMEONE HAD TO TELL YOU. ]

Harmless. On his meds and everything and human body, remember? Little hard to do stuff in it.

voice; stark encryption 100%; And Betty White is inexplicably unchanged. O_O

[andblockbuster]

You'd be surprised. [He's friends with Wheatley, okay. Wheatley talks to doors. He's not sure how much damage that could cause, but he also doesn't want to put money on it being harmless.]

Okay. HAL and certain other parties who shall remain nameless aside... If the ship's got an AI and we've got AI's who would probably jump at the chance to do something useful.... Why not send them on a-a diplomacy mission? Assuming we could get the go-ahead from Mom and Dad on the bridge. And assuming the ship's even got a functioning AI, but what big creepy ship doesn't?

voice; stark encryption 100%; ...i always knew there was something about her.

[starked]

Call me an optimist. [ Wheatley is an idiot tho. Sorry, in Tony's ranking he's like way down at the bottom. ]

Wheatley. You can say his name, I'm the annoying guy who just reads everything a lot. I mean, in this hypothetical situation, that's not the worst idea. And if something bad happens...it's not like we lost any of...us.

And don't call them mom and dad.