Video

[hearsthesea]

Who: Shirley and all!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Now

[There's a teenage girl broadcasting, with a polite smile and an air of formal pleasantness about her.]

Hello, everybody. This is Shirley of the...formerly of the SS Huntress? I'm on the Marsiva again, so the Atroma must have done something. I know people have fallen asleep for a long time before, but I remember Varric...

[Shirley's smile fades, and some of the formality in her demeanor drops away as hesitation takes its place. She's still making an effort to stay positive, though!]

Could anybody please tell me what date it is? As best as we can, around here. I'd also appreciate if somebody could tell me more about what system we're in as well. And of course, if anyone who knows me is seeing this I'd like to hear from you. Has it been a while?

In any case, to everyone - thank you for hearing me now. Whatever's going on outside of the Marsiva right now, I hope you've found something to enjoy here.

[And for anybody else on the Marsiva, she'll just be exploring the ship until it's time for ship assignments and more confetti probably. Shirley barely saw the Marsiva before getting whisked away the first time, so she may as well take advantage of the opportunity now.

And besides, she's been wanting to look for something here. Time to check in all those nooks and crannies...]

Comments

[hearsthesea]

What? How is that even possible?

[Baffling and slightly concerning. Shirley would very much like to stay the age she is, nobody needs younger Shirley.]

[nerdeology]

I wish I knew. We never got an explanation for it.

[It's as mysterious as the rest of this place, really.]

[hearsthesea]

That isn't very surprising, with how informative they've been before. Have you seen anything else like it?

[nerdeology]

Not before coming here, no. It's very surreal.

[hearsthesea]

What about while you've been here? Has anything else strange happened to people?

[Well.]

Besides whatever the planets have to offer, that is.

[nerdeology]

I'm not aware of anything specific, so you may need to ask around for someone who's been here longer. There's plenty of strange things about this fleet, to be sure.

[hearsthesea]

There are, but I didn't expect something so...dramatic, from the Atroma. As we said, they're usually less direct about it. Maybe they've changed since I left.

[nerdeology]

I can't really say- the change I witnessed was within the last few months, so it was recent, but I don't know about others.

[hearsthesea]

I guess we'll have to see what happens in the months to come, then. Hopefully if they do something like it again, it won't be too much trouble...or permanent.

[nerdeology]

I haven't heard of anyone being affected by permanent changes so far, if that helps at all. I think if that happened, it would be more widespread information.

[hearsthesea]

That does help. Although now that I've said it...I hope the Atroma don't get ideas.

[Please don't let that happen.]

[nerdeology]

...Is expecting them to do something now that we've discussed it likely to subvert those expectations, or have we just doomed ourselves?

[How does this reality-show thing work.]

[hearsthesea]

I don't know. I hope we haven't.

[In other words: who knows?]

I don't know of any way to stop them from doing anything either, but we should at least be on a watch for anything strange. Just in case.

[nerdeology]

For now, that's really all we can do, unfortunately.

[hearsthesea]

Yeah. Let's hope for the best.