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Captain James T. Kirk ([personal profile] winscenario) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2019-02-19 11:02 pm

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Who: Jim Kirk 2.0 & you?
Broadcast: no
Action: Marsiva
When: latter part of the calibrations; during the glitching issues


[ Jim notices something is off right on the first day it happens.

It doesn't take much, granted. Having a pilot augment, and having taken to exploring this ship for the past few weeks, he quickly notices when previously plain and inconspicuous glass squares now reveal themselves to be actual computers. He doesn't touch them right away, though, first making sure that he's completely alone in the hallway, and< then he starts poking around.

He doesn't dredge up all the information in one go, unfortunately. But he also is perfectly convinced that he can just go back the next day and pick up where he left off.

But the next day he wakes up, and he remembers none of it.

The second time he's not as stupid, though. This time there's something nagging at the back of his mind, like when he knows he's forgotten something, he just can't quite put his finger on what. Something clicks when he passes by one of those screens again, though. He looks far more worried now as he digs up all the information he did the last time, and then some. He lingers for longer this time too, tries to find out even more from the computer, even attempts to find some way to save the data or send it somewhere.

When all that fails, he makes a beeline to his room, and grabs his personal journal so he can start jotting down everything he saw, everything he remembers. The names of any of the files and research reports that wouldn't open; the names of planets and whatever basic information was there on them, including all the comments on this "Evronias" planet; all the coordinates provided; all the ships' names and information, present and past; even the basic information on every passenger on the Fleet. He has an excellent memory, nearly flawless, but he still goes back to the computer another time, making sure he has all the information he manages to get his hands on.

Then, at the end of it all, he adds a single line: "You've forgotten once."

And from then on, each day that he wakes up and goes through the same glitch again, he adds another line to his journal, explaining what happened this time, and saying how many times it's now been that he's forgotten. He'll probably look more and more concerned and frustrated as the days go by, and more and more attached to his personal journal too. If he sees someone he trusts, he might approach to ask if they've noticed anything weird going on, but if not, he might still be easy to spot near one of those squares made of black glass, or sitting somewhere, jotting something down almost frantically into his journal.

Whatever's going on, he'll find a way to keep remember it. And he can only hope that whatever's making him forget about this one thing, won't make him forget about everything else, too. ]
stillgotmyleftarm: (Default)

[personal profile] stillgotmyleftarm 2019-02-22 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Bucky's been here a few days by now - more than long enough to get acquainted with what little there is to do in the common areas, and definitely more than long enough to want to start poking around.

He's still getting used to having the pilot augment, himself - it's weird, knowing things when he knows he didn't learn them. Weird, and unnerving... but also not entirely useless. So there is that, even if he's not sure he trusts the information to be complete and accurate. If someone put it there, they could obviously control how much and how true it was.

Either way, he's exploring, himself, when he comes across someone hunched over, looking at a square of black glass - wait. Did it just flicker into a computer screen?

Now he definitely stops and squints at it.]
Did you do that?
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[personal profile] tempredmental 2019-02-22 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Keith had taken notes on these exact screens last time, too. In fact, he could be found doing the same things as Jim... poking at them, taking notes, drawing sketches of what they look like... He had managed to be lucky enough to have one of his notebooks with him to do just that in.]
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[personal profile] jolting 2019-02-22 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[To put it simply, Victor is getting worried.

He knows this behavior. This obsessive note-taking and the increasingly frustrating attitude. He doesn't say anything at first. After all, this is exactly the sort of behavior he was known for. But the more frustrated James gets, the more he goes over the journal, the more Victor worries]


Only one of us is supposed to be mad, you know.
jolting: (W: Squint)

[personal profile] jolting 2019-02-23 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[He thinks about this for a moment. His definition of "weird" doesn't always match up with other people's, but that may be exactly why James is asking]

Not since we were all bouncing around each other's heads. I'm guessing that's what the notebook is for.
jolting: (W: Think)

[personal profile] jolting 2019-02-24 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well... if you forgot about them, it's possible I saw those same weird things and forgot, too. Maybe if we walk around the ship, we'll see the weird things again.
jolting: (W: Concentrate)

[personal profile] jolting 2019-02-24 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Since he has no idea what James is about to show him, Victor puts on his lenses-- just in case there will be colors he needs to distinguish. He eyes the journal curiously]

Why not the camera?
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[personal profile] stillgotmyleftarm 2019-02-25 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, [Bucky confirms, leaning in a little closer.] Is it not supposed to do that?

[He's new enough that he really has no idea.]
tempredmental: (Watching Your Back)

[personal profile] tempredmental 2019-02-25 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[Keith looked back at Jim for a moment.]

These seem to be based on augment... what we see. My friend is an Engineer, and she saw something different than I did last time. She didn't see these panels like I did, or the information on them.

[He decided not to bring up the weird energy that was starting to creep in again like last time. That seemed to be something only certain types of people could pick up on... namely, psychics and the like.]
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[personal profile] jolting 2019-02-27 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Let me take the pictures this time. I don’t have any memory or writings telling me I’ve tried before. We could get a different result.
jolting: (W: Uhh)

[personal profile] jolting 2019-02-28 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure. [He frowns. Is there something about them he should be noticing? He's trying to learn about space ships, but he's mostly been relying on James to explain things to him]

What about them?
jolting: (V: Uhh)

[personal profile] jolting 2019-02-28 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Victor frowns. He hadn't thought much of the augments recently, but now...]

I'm lab support. Maybe... something different will happen with me there? [He's just guessing. But that's what science is at times: just guessing and seeing what happens]
jolting: (W: Worry)

[personal profile] jolting 2019-03-01 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[He doesn't like how that sounds. It makes him feel like he can't help James after all]

What can I do, then?
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[personal profile] stillgotmyleftarm 2019-03-01 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Same, [Bucky has to admit.] But I've only been here a couple of days, so...

[His mouth curls into a half-smile, a little helpless and self effacing.] At least if I'm going crazy, I'm not the only one? I think that makes me feel better.

[Although the fact that neither of them knows what's going on maybe doesn't.]

It doesn't look like it's saying anything useful.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2019-03-01 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's hard not to notice yourself looking stressed, looking worried. Kirk felt it too, a nudge at the back of his brain, knowing that Atroma was doing something, hating that it was. Hating he could do nothing to stop it, that, as of now, there was no cure - mostly because of whatever Atroma had slipped into their brains, quite literally, he was sure. He had his coffee in hand, the bridge of the Enterprise left behind for the day when he caught sight of his other self, so clearly out of sorts. ]

Please tell me you've just had to much coffee today.

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