At least there's no elevator music...

[thespaceopera]

[At least two weeks have passed since the Drift Fleet passengers woke up on this strange wing of the Marsiva... Some new passengers have even joined the group instead of being Shuffled off to a fleet ship! The large monitor in the central room remains quiet for now, so how is everyone holding up?

Have you been relaxing? Enjoying the Earth media? If you can even remember them, how have Calibrations been treating you? Has anyone started getting a little stir-crazy?

Don't worry... This ship has no shortage of mysteries, and you'll be seeing a few more soon.]


ooc: here's another mingle for the current game event! players can start or continue threads here from any point during the event. the additional setting information is still being postponed due to sickly mods, but y'all are welcome to post additional topcomments for reactions and investigation once it's up!

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[multiglyphs]

[ she pauses at that, eyes widening slightly. in a hushed tone, she asks: ]

This isn't your first time either...?

[save_the_souls]

Ah-

[He was about to answer that as he normally does, then he catches that last word]

- Either?

[multiglyphs]

[ her lips purse tightly, expression grim. ]

I was somewhere else, before this. A few months, at most, but... [ a sigh. ] I suppose it could have always been worse.

[save_the_souls]

Really?

[That makes him frown with interest. Another person taken by these worlds. How many were there...?]

Which place was that? I was at Paradisa.

[multiglyphs]

[ she raises her brows. the word has no meaning for her, but she has to wonder just how often this happens... ]

I was taken to a place called Cerealia. Supposedly somewhere in space, as well, but the hosts then were nice enough to inform us all that our own worlds had been previously destroyed.

[save_the_souls]

I've...never heard of that place.

[He frowns]

But that's not the first world I've heard make that claim. Was it true?

[multiglyphs]

Perhaps for the best. [ it wasn't an inherently terrible place, but she still wouldn't wish such an inconvenience on anyone. ]

As for the claim, there was no way to really know for sure. The authorities would insist, of course, but I'd spoken to people who've been able to go back home for a time, only to wind up back in Cerealia.

[save_the_souls]

[He makes an annoyed click with his tongue]

Sounds more like they told you that to keep you from trying to leave.

Paradisa didn't have any sort of authority, no one explained everything. It was just a castle that...did things to people to get reactions. [Weird things, terrible things...] I was there seven years.

[...Nevermind he sure looks 16.]

[multiglyphs]

Not that we had any way of leaving anyway, [ she says, her clipped tone implying her own annoyance.

but HANG ON SEVEN YEARS? ]

—you were trapped for that long...? I think I would have gone crazy.

[save_the_souls]

Ah....yeah.

[he rubs the back of his head]

You get used to it after awhile. I'm glad to be out of there though.

[multiglyphs]

[ she tuts a little, clearly offended by the notion. ]

Still! To do such a thing to a child! It's barbaric!

[save_the_souls]

[....]

...I'm 23.

1/2

[multiglyphs]

[ bwuh????? ]

2/2

[multiglyphs]

O-Oh... You... [ gj weiss A+ ] You look great?

[save_the_souls]

[....]

Thanks?

[multiglyphs]

[ ]

S-So are you enjoying your time here instead...?

[save_the_souls]

[Smooth Weiss...]

[But he can see she's practically sweating bullets, so he'll go easy on her and give a proper response]

It's...alright. There's bad things, but there's a lot of good things too. It's certainly more peaceful than the castle.

[multiglyphs]

I suppose there's that. There's always something to be said of making a good situation out of a bad one.