video

[somakemelaugh]

Who: Undertaker and ERRYONE
Broadcast: All
Action: Goldstone
When: After calibrations/shuffle


[Welcome to the parlor. Or at least, it would be the parlor if it was back in his home. Either of the ones before. For now, it's just Undertaker's modest little abode on the good ship Goldstone, not too unlike many of yours who stand witness to it now. Maybe he'll add to it over time. He has heard audiences like to get to know people, and what better way to do so than to personalize?]

[Alas. Without much means to add such customizations (yet) you get only to see his smiling face, complete with the scar crossing right over it. How's that for unique?]

We're a lively bunch here, aren't we? Starting things off with a bang, visiting people in their past lives with or without them knowing. Just like the good old days, back in the academy. [There's a giggle, one which might or might not put a shudder down spines. He's an... unusual git and he knows it, complete with the mortician's facade and, some might recognize, the overly cockney accent.]

Ah, we're going to get along just fine, I think. Too bad they've not made use of the smarts I was given, [He flicks a hand.] lab support or something other, bandages I suppose. Wouldn't be much use to me anyway, but you'll find me on the Goldstone, should you have need of my assistance. Look for Undertaker.

[And, with a tip of his hat, the video feed ends.]

Comments

[somakemelaugh]

Oh? Well there's a comfort. Curiosity isn't rewarded with death. Being a corpse isn't any fun, I can assure you. I should know - I've dealt with them day in and out for years.

But, ah, how should they know to tell you that you won't be missing anything when you return? With these little things still here, what if I were to return home and reach up and feel that? I come from a time where something like asthma can kill a person. Leaving a mark like that... [He shakes his head.] That would be obvious after a while.

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

It's not rewarded with certain death at least. There are many things that could still go wrong with trying to find out more about our augments.

Perhaps, it depends on how observant you are? or the people around you. [Tim likes to believe he would notice a new scar on himself but he is covered in scars. There is a possibility that something that is already healed would pass his notice as something he simply forgot how it came about. Especially to do with the skull; concussions, after all, could explain away memory loss]

In my own world, one more scar might not be that prominent. We will only know for certain if we get home and do notice them.

[somakemelaugh]

So there are. We haven't yet the equipment necessary to even see it, but that should come in time. A place like this? All this technology around? I believe it will.

[He would believe he knows his own body well enough to know what is strange and isn't, given he hasn't changed physically in any way over the last several centuries, save a very specific set of scars all over him with which he is well acquainted. One of the perks of being dead already.] I may notice it, I suppose. It isn't a place I reach up to play at often under all of this hair, but washing it is a chore enough. I've become quite familiar with that place on my own body. The question then is whether or not we come to understand this little thing well enough to risk removing it from me.

[Yes, he'll volunteer for that attempt if it comes down to it. He isn't sure if it will even work, but if he has one, he knows Ciel has one as well, and he'll not put the boy at risk.]

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

I'm sure we can find something or maybe even build one over time? but the two planets we've visited while I've been on the drift haven't been that technologically advanced so I think it will take a while despite the advanced technology that the ships themselves have.

[somakemelaugh]

Considering it was something or someone on the ships here what put these things in us, I don't believe we'll find those answers about the fleet. I believe you're right about that. Is there any record of this lot having visited a world where the technology was so advanced?

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

I would have to ask around to find that out. I know Vash has been here for four years I believe? So it might be useful to talk to him.

There are records of most communications broadcast through the devices but that is hours upon hours to go through. I haven't really gotten that far I'm afraid.

[somakemelaugh]

[Hours? Oh, he would believe it. Hours upon days upon years.]

Sounds daunting. I don't think I'll have that kind of time for a while yet, but I'll do what I can and see if I can find this Vash fellow. Many thanks for your help in that.