the white noise is deafening silence

[thespaceopera]

[In the very early hours of January 20th, as the Marsiva and her captives drift nonchalantly through the depths of the universe, there is a call. Every single personal communicator and console springs to life, spitting out a stream of indecipherable static and showing only gray snow on screen. It continues like this for a few seconds longer, going black and then going staticky, and then the signal switches to the encrypted channel generally used for speaking to the Interceptors when something big goes down.

This is a little more successful. The voice may be familiar to some, at least through the static.]

Zhade here! I trust I ███ your attention? I'm having some ██▓▓ble ██tting through. Some of the ░▓██▓█ are missing. I can't ░▓▓▓ read on their loc█████ns. [A particularly long burst of static.] ███stening. I'll s█▓▓█ more inf██▓▓▓▓▓█ I get it.

Stay sharp! [There's the sound of someone actually doing the fingerguns wink noise, and then static.

Any messages sent back won't get through, and Zhade isn't there to answer.]

[ A blip of lost time passes right after those words, before every passenger mysteriously wakes alone in their own unfamiliar room. The style of decor resembles that of the Marsiva's Hospitality Deck, if any passengers should remember what that's like. It sounds and smells the same as the host ship as well, all clean and chrome.

Welcome back to the Marsiva, dear passengers. It's time for round three of calibrations. ]

[ This mingle will cover all non-calibration room interactions. Please continue to come back to it for the duration of the plot! You are, of course, free to post any other mingles/posts/etc. that you'd like. ]

Comments

[postocular]

Did you find any other good movies, or is this your first one?

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki has no idea what a good movie may entail. ]

I simply chose one at random. I will probably do the rest as well.

[postocular]

Do you want some company?

[dothelokimotion]

[ he sniffs. ]

I suppose I won't complain.

[postocular]

Cool. [ That's all Carl needs to hear before he makes himself comfortable. ]

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki keeps his attention on the screen. it's a lot, seeing someone like himself being accepted so easily, but it's not real and that makes it easier to digest. ]

[postocular]

[ After the scene is done, he glances at Loki. ] What's been your favorite part?

[dothelokimotion]

I enjoyed the part with the Midgardian story. The Ugly Duckling. And the ending so far seems satisfactory.

[ if not unrealistic. ]

[postocular]

Yeah, those are both good. I've always loved when Stitch makes a city in Lilo's bedroom and plays Godzilla.

[dothelokimotion]

Godzilla?

[ loki is unfamiliar. ]

[postocular]

He's king of all monsters, but he's this massive dinosaur who can shoot lasers from his mouth that occasionally destroys the city. We might be able to find one here, there are a lot of them, I think.

[dothelokimotion]

Toys, here?

[ as far as loki knows, there are no dinosaurs. ]

[postocular]

Nah, movies. Some of them are so old they're in black and white.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki is quizzical. ]

Did mortals not discover colour back then?

[postocular]

The technology wasn't as good. All old movies used to be in black and white.

[dothelokimotion]

[ how do you skip colour with technology??? ]

And people . . . enjoyed that?

[postocular]

At the time, I guess? There wasn't anything else. Now there are all kinds of remakes and sequels that are in color and are made better.

[dothelokimotion]

So you simply keep repeating the same kind of entertainment with small variations?

[postocular]

Sometimes, yeah. People love remakes, I guess. ...Do you want to see if I can find one?

[dothelokimotion]

Why not? I am curious to see this remake.