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Who: Nightingale, anyone else
Broadcast: Video
Action: Y
When: The 11th, sometime mid-morning.

[The video starts up showing... Well, for most people, it's probably an empty wall, at the end of the dormitory hallway, and there's a crazy person just pawing at the wall. For those who have the lab support or cook augments that are currently glitching, though, you can see the doorway and touchpad. A hand will reach over from outside of the camera's view, touch the touchpad, the digital voice says "Level five access granted", and the door slides open, at which point she pulls a chair from off the camera to wedge it into the doorway so it can't close again. This probably looks very strange to anyone who isn't glitched.

This is when she will finally turn the camera around to show herself.]

This is Nightingale. I've found something weird that definitely wasn't here yesterday, and I'm starting to think this ship isn't as safe as was claimed. I need a party down here to investigate this, as soon as possible. Preferably people that are able to fight in case things get ugly. I haven't gone through here yet, but I think we might be on a time limit.

... And, while I'm making myself sound totally insane, something's wrong with the ship. I've been checking it with my Scan spell for a while now, and it feels more like a monster than a ship to me. Aren't there story books in here about getting swallowed whole by monsters and living in their bellies? Because that seems a little relevant.

Anyway, I'll be going to investigate this room soon. It's at the end of the dorm hallway. Anyone else who wants in, hurry, I'll be here.

[And true to her word, anyone who comes to check it out (or to check if she's completely lost her mind) can find Nightingale standing right where she said, anxiously checking her communicator. The door is still wedged open, too.]

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[experiencepoints]

No, we have a few people here in person who can't see it either. They can see me walking through the 'wall', though, so it's not me being crazy.

It's either my magic sight, or just that only certain people can see it. I don't have enough information yet.

[feathery]

Magic sight?

[experiencepoints]

Passive class skill. I see magic stuff that is meant to be invisible. Mostly for checking barriers and detecting traps.

[feathery]

Huh, nice. Sounds magey for sure. Have you got any other ways to tell if it's a magical barrier, or does it have to be trial and error.

[experiencepoints]

Normally I would, but my Scan spell seems to go weird when it interacts with this.

[She pauses for a minute.]

Though there's always the option of picking someone with a lot of HP and sending them inside to see what happens.

[feathery]

[He nearly groans, because he knows himself well enough to guess where he will end up. Assuming someone else doesn't intercede.]

Before I do something as reckless as volunteer, what kind of weird do you mean.

[experiencepoints]

... I was gonna suggest the little built guy with the big panel of metal, but if you have a better shot of handling it, you're welcome to.

It doesn't work- I'm getting big returns of no information. Not even a name. ... That puts the ship in superboss territory, or has some really weird special properties.

[feathery]

I used to be a knight. Dunno where that puts me on the scale here, to be honest, but I can take some hits and pass out a few of my own if it comes down to it.

[He's quiet a few seconds, mulling over her comment about the ship.]

This sounds all kinds of fucked up, but whatever. We're trapped aboard already, what's the worst that can happen. [It's a little sarcastic, but that's hardly unusual.]

[experiencepoints]

We're trapped inside a monster. It could decide to start digesting.

[She doesn't think she even has to expand on that.]

[feathery]

Sure, but it could do that at literally any point with or without incentive, right.

[Positive thinking!!! This is why he will never be allowed to make inspirational speeches.]

[experiencepoints]

Well, yeah, but you asked for the worst.

[feathery]

If it makes you feel better, I'll take the blame for pissing off the eldritch shipwhale in any possible future where that comes to pass. I mean if nothing else, I'd find out if I can still stop the clock, I guess. That's what panic-mode is for in the movies: unlocking your reluctant potential. Or whatever it is.

[experiencepoints]

In my experience, panic mode usually kills you.

"Stop the clock"?

[feathery]

Time shenanigans. Came as part of the knight deal. Hells of overrated, and I mostly only get conned into using them by total bullshit. But they're a thing.

[experiencepoints]

... Time-related class active skills. That's... pretty powerful. How much can you do?

[feathery]

Stop it, reverse it, fast-forward it. [He says it the same way a kid might deliver unwanted rote memorization.] Bump myself somewhere else in the timeline. But I can't fuck around with the past or future. Not carelessly.

It's got—conditions. And I might not even be able to do it here; I couldn't back in Asgard, though I lost all my sprite-shit there, too.

[experiencepoints]

I see... So you couldn't go back in time and give yourself a warning about the calibrations before it started.

[feathery]

Nope. Not without consequences.

[experiencepoints]

Damn. So much for that plan.

Guess we'd better go inside, then.

[feathery]

Great. Hang on, I'll be there in a few.

[And he will just. Hang up now and wander out to meet her.]

[experiencepoints]

[and he will arrive to this small crowd out in front of the door-wall-thing.]

Hey. Ready for this?