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!

Comments

[alwayscomeback]

Huh. So they're the ones watching us. So it's like...some twisted mind game?

[experiencepoints]

Maybe. There really might be a show, too. They said they aren't broadcasting us while we're here. But, that's just my suspicion.

[alwayscomeback]

Really? You'd think this would be prime viewing. All of us stuck together, going through shared nightmares.

[experiencepoints]

There's no way they aren't watching this themselves, at least. But... Well, I have my own suspicions about this. It's way too similar to a game from the castle.

Have you gone into the heart of anyone you know yet?

[alwayscomeback]

The...heart?

[He pauses for a moment, confused.]

Oh! Oh you mean the Calibrations. Yeah. A couple.

[experiencepoints]

Oh- Yeah, sorry. They were called 'heart games', where I was before.

Could you find anything weird, or out of place? Anything that just didn't seem right, for what you know of them?

[alwayscomeback]

So you've experienced stuff like this before?

[He thinks about Allen. About Nea and STOPS. Nope. Not telling that one. ]

...Not really? It was weird to me, maybe, because it wasn't stuff I was familiar with, but it seemed to tie in to them pretty well?

[experiencepoints]

Yeah. Except last time, we... had to go in and remove corrupting influences from their hearts. Those games were a lot bigger, too...

It must not be quite the same thing, then.

[alwayscomeback]

Corrupting influences? Is that like our glitches?

[He's trying to understand, he truly is. ]

Still. It's weird this place has something so similar.

[experiencepoints]

No, it was... something they had put into the victims' souls, to make them less themselves, and just hurt them emotionally. Things like strange fear or anger where they shouldn't be.

... It is. I've been worried for a while they'd start taking ideas from the Echoes.

[alwayscomeback]

So...it was like having false personality traits being shoved inside? That's...really terrible.

[experiencepoints]

Something like that. Suspicion and distrust, paranoia... At one point, apparently, an actual monster. I missed that one.

The ones here are a much smaller scale, with only one or two rooms, it seems like. But I'm worried they're going to pull the same thing. Keep an eye out for things that are out of place.

[alwayscomeback]

...Sounds like fun for all the family.

I'll do that. Thanks for the heads-up, Nightingale. Anything helps.

[experiencepoints]

No problem. Just... be careful. You should understand what happens if you mess things up badly in someone's heart.

[alwayscomeback]

Terrible things, I'm guessing. Terrible things that mess up their whole mind.

[Like Allen. He's looked SO TIRED lately after all the Calibrations, he's been worried. ]

[experiencepoints]

... Yeah. You change things in these rooms, and you change their heart.

[At least, that's how it worked before.]

[alwayscomeback]

Man, I really hope that's not the case here.

[experiencepoints]

I hope not, but if we really are going inside their hearts, I don't know how it could be different.

[alwayscomeback]

I'll try to not....change anything, regardless. Better safe than sorry.