oo1 / video

[interspace]

WHO Misha Hunt
BROADCAST Fleet-wide video!
ACTION Marsiva hospitality deck
WHEN May 20th because I'm a loser

[ The comm is set down on a table, facing down to give a wide angle of a young redheaded woman who is basically standing inside of a couch. Phasing! She looks to the camera, brows raised very pointedly!! And then walks forward to one of the walls leading further into the Marsiva and pushes.

Nada.

She looks back to the camera. Walks back to the couch, does a slow turn around while standing inside of it, then goes back and pushes on the wall again. After a moment, she steps back, uses both hands to point at the stubborn wall. ]

Is anyone else seeing this shit?

Comments

[stayinthecar]

I don't know if the ships are alive, they've shown no signs of intelligence.

I came with certain tools including a laser cutter.

[interspace]

Has anyone tried talking to them yet?

You... lucky dog. Jesus. What I wouldn't do for a laser cutter sometimes.

[stayinthecar]

Actually, I have, and if they are sentient they don't answer. Neither does Atroma. They make announcements sometimes.

What would you use it for?

[interspace]

Announcements? What kind?

[ There's actually a shrug. ] Laser cutty stuff? Ha. It would definitely be better than a swiss army knife, that's for sure.

[stayinthecar]

When they assign people to ships or the fleet approaches a planet or waystation, there's an announcement. They don't answer it if people try to respond, though.

[ Laser... cutty... stuff... okay. ] A swiss army knife would not cut through a wall expediently, no.

[interspace]

How often do we approach planets? How fast do these ships go?

My point exactly.

[stayinthecar]

I don't know the speed of the fleet or distance between planets, but I've been told that we approach someplace -- waystation or planet -- approximately monthly.

[interspace]

Well, that's pretty insane regardless. Monthly? Do we run out of supplies that fast or what?

[stayinthecar]

As far as I can tell, we never run out of supplies. The stops are just meant to make us more "entertaining."

[interspace]

[ Huh? Never? She furrows her brows at that and files it away. That is incredibly suspicious. ]

Like flavors of the month or something?

[stayinthecar]

I'm sorry, flavors of the month?

[interspace]

Something new to spice up the show and make sure it doesn't get stale.

[stayinthecar]

Oh. Yes, that's most likely.

[interspace]

God, this really is just a drive for entertainment all the way through.

[stayinthecar]

I've yet to see any signs of cameras, either, though. Or an indication of who our audience might be.

[interspace]

Hah, maybe we're the cameras.

[ Oh, ugh, no, never mind. She doesn't want to think of that and visibly shudders for the idea. ]

Scratch that. Anyway, audiences range from far and wide and it's probably for the better not to try and predict them.

[stayinthecar]

I've considered that as well, that the augments have some kind of recording capacity. But I'm uncertain how to test the idea.

[interspace]

Find the frequency would be the simplest, but that's probably going to need a lot more tech than is readily available, huh.

[ She has no trust for the idea that the tools they need will just be lying around somewhere. ]

[stayinthecar]

As far as I can tell, they're not broadcasting on any known frequency. It could be an unknown one to me. The technology here is extremely advanced.

[interspace]

Yeah, that's definitely the problem. I'd happily volunteer myself for getting this damn thing out if anyone wants to study it, though.

[stayinthecar]

I'm not sure that's safe.

[interspace]

Well, no, it's presumably tied in to my brain stem and all other kinds of fun functions. On the other hand... fuck this, I don't want it.

[stayinthecar]

...maybe your ship will have a medical professional. But I really don't think you should look into removing it.

[interspace]

Really? Really, we've got something attached to who knows what in our heads and you think it should stay?

[stayinthecar]

No, but mine is so thoroughly integrated that it's beyond my capabilities to remove. Also, they provide us with necessary information about our environment. How to operate the ships, specifically. Not only would removal be risking permanent damage to your nervous system, but could lead to disaster in other ways.