driftfleet | Chapter Two [video]

Who: (a glitchy) Richard Castle and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva hallways
When: All week

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[Castle hadn't noticed it before, but all of a sudden he'd become very, very aware of a mechanical hum inside the walls. He figured every ship had its own unique background noise, but this was something different. Oh, finally, something for him to investigate! He wasn't sure it would get him very far, but it was something.

All throughout the week, people could find Castle pacing the hallways like a restless tiger, trying to locate the source of the noise.

Or, perhaps, fellow engineers or maintenance folks could find him attempting to remove a wall panel, or tinkering with what was inside, or else carefully transcribing what he was finding onto his device.

Anybody else with an augment that didn't fit? Well, that's up to you.]

Broadcast

I think my memory's starting to go, folks. I'm getting a serious sense of deja vu when I walk the hallways every day, but damned if I know what's setting it off. Like I know something should be there, but there's a big blank. Just me?

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So, not only are all the augments screwed up, they're screwing up in different ways. It's an interesting observation, though. I always kind of assumed we all got a universal augment that got programmed to whatever they decided to give us, but what if each is different somehow?

They'd almost have to be, to fit our individual neural patterns, especially when you've got several different species on board.

And even with humans, you'd also have to take into account a person's physical size and whatnot. Like, I'm a huge guy, but a child would need one of a smaller size. I'll have to file this information away...

As well as age and medical condition at the time of capture... there are a lot of factors that they’d have to take into consideration when implanting us.

And it makes me wonder how much they know before pulling us in... or if they just give us a thorough exam and go from there.

I was wondering the same thing, especially after these calibrations. If they can expose our memories so thoroughly.... perhaps the neural interface allows them to know everything we have ever known.

Which is quite a cheery thought. Big Brother is always watching...

Oh yes, I am so comforted.

Makes me even more determined to get out of here. If I have to play their game, so be it.

So... [She switches off the tricorder, since they aren't really talking about the wall panel anymore.] Are you trying to win this thing?

If it means I get to go home... yes. I'd like to try and win. Not that I particularly enjoy beating out others for the so-called prize, but then again, they're conveniently vague on what exactly it means to win anyway.

They claim the prize is going home... but I'm not sure I believe that.

Yeah... since people leave so often with little fanfare. If they're the "winners", wouldn't that be celebrated?

And people have come back too... so is the prize simply that you go home for good, we'll never bother you again?

That could be it. I'd like to hope they'd do at least that much for us after subjecting us to this crap.

I hope so too.

[She holds up the tricorder again.]

Come on, we have some more to explore, right? We should get down as much of this as we can, so we can study on it later when things aren't so... stressful.

[Castle grinned, then made an exaggerated bow.]

Lead the way.

Chapter Two [video]

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wrap?

/puts a bow on it