voice + text transcription

[expellerhead]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Yes
Action: N/A
When: Now

[putting his voice on this thing is...not preferable, but this has to get out to everyone to be even half as effective as aizawa would like it to be. so time to get over it.]

Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

One: length of time you've been here.

Two: whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

Three: something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

Four: something you miss most desperately from home. No 'family or friends' here, please. Material objects only.

Thanks.

[and below the soundbar, a text transcription:]


Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

1. Length of time you've been here.

2. Whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

3. Something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

4. Something you miss most desperately from home. No people, only items.

Thank you.

Comments

[expellerhead]

[another first gen-er. makes a note to pump this guy for info too.] Donuts aren't that hard to make. I'm sure someone could cook some up for you.

[goldenglasses]

Yeah, but I could always use MORE donuts! You asked what I miss and right now I miss donuts.

[We're sorry. Were you expecting helpful answers?]

[expellerhead]

[yeah he was hoping for it you...irritant]

There can't have been that steady a supply back home. Unless you ate them every single day.

[goldenglasses]

Every day I could! Who wouldn't?

[expellerhead]

Someone who wants to avoid type 2 diabetes.

[goldenglasses]

What's that? No. Never mind. Don't tell me. I'm happy not knowing.

[expellerhead]

Probably for the best.

Got a few questions for you, if you don't mind.

[goldenglasses]

Sure why not. Go ahead, but I can't guarantee I have an answer.

[expellerhead]

I'm sure you will, it's just logistics.

When you arrived, it was on the Marvisa, right? Same as usual?

[goldenglasses]

No, I actually woke up on the Three Twins. Which was my original ship before it merged with the Windrose to become the Twin Roses.

[expellerhead]

Did you? Was the Marvisa included in the Fleet, and you couldn't just get to it?

[goldenglasses]

It was there. You could see it out the window. No one could get on it until people started to trickle in like they do now.

[expellerhead]

[that is fucking FASCINATING.] Do you by any chance remember how many people just appeared on their ships in the beginning? Were you all just in one big wave?

[goldenglasses]

At least twenty five people. It might have been more. I didn't exactly get to talk to everyone who showed up that first day. There was a LOT to take in.

[expellerhead]

That's still considerably more than the number of people we have coming in now. So what we see afterwards really IS just a trickle.

[goldenglasses]

They did say we were the start of a new cycle. So that's probably why we had so many then in a way we haven't seen since.

[expellerhead]

Right right, the cycles. They mention anything else about those?

[goldenglasses]

Not really. Basically all we were told was: welcome to the 12th cycle. There are files to read. And please fill out the captain forms for those interested.

[expellerhead]

Do you know if all of those those files are still uploaded to the network?

[goldenglasses]

Oh yeah. It was just the standard stuff. Applying for captain. Ship transfer. Some stuff about the individual ships. It's all still up there.

[expellerhead]

Wasn't there a change of hands recently? [that's what it's called when there are brutal murders conducted on live air right]

[goldenglasses]

Yeah, I suppose you could call it something like that.

[expellerhead]

Could also call it a public execution, but at this point I couldn't even say if it had been staged or not. Hard to believe anything we see when all the information we get is more or less controlled.

[goldenglasses]

That's very true. Still-- [There's a brief pause as he picks his words.] --real or not I don't think going that far was necessary.

[expellerhead]

You won't hear an argument from me.

Those two who were killed, were they here from the beginning of this cycle?