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[detectivewonder]

Who: Tim Drake and you!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide.
Action: Aboard the First Breath.
When: Shortly after the shuffle.

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JIEYJ XBQXO PYUKO CQZHL TIDPS UKCEJ OVKGW OIDIY CHFQZ YCOIH YYJQF
QOBHJ OPUBP IEFUV EVSHZ RTRFD ZRTMU RGPPH JOOKG KMDIO SIVFO ZWZSV

[Video]

So, when I have missing crew, that just means... what? Their ratings were terrible so they got dropped? It can't be that easy, or people would sabotage their own ratings to get sent home.

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[amarant]

That's what it sounds like...if you don't believe them, do you believe it's something much worse?

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[detectivewonder]

If it's that easy to get home, why isn't everyone doing it? We're one sit-in strike from escape, if that's all there is to it, and they're smarter than that.

video; ALSO I KEEP SUBSCRIBING TO PEOPLE'S JOURNALS IM SORRY

[amarant]

I wonder what they'd do to stop us, if they control the fleet...

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[mysunnydisposition]

[ Steph waits until Tim's done sending his messages before she clears her throat and steps a little closer. Even with the disappearances, and the fact that Cass isn't here, it's a relief just to be here, officially on Tim's crew. ]

So how many people are we down to here, now? ...and is there anything stop Cass from just moving into one of the spare bunks if they won't officially transfer her?

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[detectivewonder]

Not that I know of; that's more or less what happened with Jordan and Alex before their transfer came through.

Welcome aboard.

[he turns away from the screen to give her a warm grin. She's not alone in that relief... ]

[mysunnydisposition]

[ She grins back, brighter now. ] Thanks. Happy to be here, Captain. [ Yeah, she's not letting go of that just yet. ]

And in that case, I'm kidnapping her as soon as I can get her on a shuttle. I'll feel a lot better when all three of us are in the same place...

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[everydayhero]

the stuff in the marketplace on mor is pretty cheap for how nice it is. i got my hands on a dagger there. the sunlight almost blinded me when it reflected on the blade; it's as bright as the beaches in san fransokyo there.

[are you even surprised, tim]

i had a crew member disappear a week ago, too. i don't know why she left.

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[detectivewonder]

My best guess would be stasis on the Marsiva, but there's no way to verify that that I can think of.

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[everydayhero]

yeah, no way in and no way out. maybe we can ask someone on the ship to see if there's anything they can get into.

[except for dying but uh we don't know that]

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[alwayscomeback]

What?




No. Seriously. What?

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[detectivewonder]

What?

[alwayscomeback]

What's the all the letters? Is it a code or...some kind of seizure?

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[save_the_souls]

[Allen barely blinks at the keysmash thing. Just oh. Someone doing some sort of code thing. Ok.]

Even if they did get sent home, I doubt sabotage would work. They might find other ways to make you entertaining.

[But he considers...]

The first time people left, they tried to tell us that there weren't any people at all, and just figments of our imagination...so that's worrying enough.

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[detectivewonder]

I'm not imaginative enough to have dreamed up my crewmates.

The more I learn about this show we're on, the less sense it makes to me.

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[save_the_souls]

Nor am I.

It is pretty nonsensical. I mean, we can't be that interesting to watch.

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[paeon]

[ There's an unfamiliar voice with a Welsh accent here, curious and open. ]

People are sent away just as they're brought here, perhaps? Or, well, there's always the more common case of kidnapping or terrible occurrences wherein they cannot make contact.

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[detectivewonder]

Terrible occurrences?

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[paeon]

To my understanding, space is incredibly dangerous.

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[ladiesss]

Intercepting alien transmissions already, Mulder?

[she's talking about the text, of course...]

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[detectivewonder]

I thought you weren't going to be my Scully, Scully.

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[ladiesss]

Did they ever turn the X-Files into a harmless Saturday morning cartoon? Where Mulder and Skully are quirky teenagers and solve paranormal mysteries together after class, despite it going completely against the main show's established canon?

Because that could work. I could do that.

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[mortalcoil]

[after staring at this for a while, and dicking around with strings of letters on paper...]

Caesar cipher?

Is there a key?

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[detectivewonder]

Please. Caesar ciphers have been obsolete at least since Kerckhoffs's desiderata, and maybe since Caesar.

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[mortalcoil]

[no, you know what, he's not done with this conversation--though the continuation comes a couple days later.]

If you want better ratings, buy the souvenirs. Make the sponsors happy.

This is a tourist trap. Even the sunny sky is meant to make us think of home. They want us to feel nostalgic and buy their stuff.

And I don't think the missing passengers go home. It is more likely that they are destroyed, or stored until they can be popular again.

[detectivewonder]

Destroyed seems unlikely, especially if they can bring people back from the dead. Resurrection is a ratings boost they wouldn't just throw away before the Easter special.