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 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.

[interspace]

So you've automatically discounted the idea that there could be sleeper programs in here waiting to do who knows what while hiding out as a useful little space-cyclopedia?

[stayinthecar]

[ Zee's eyes go wide. ]

Sleeper programs?

[ With his capabilities that could be disastrous. And it didn't occur to him, because he scanned himself so thoroughly. But that's the point of a sleeper program isn't it, that it's hidden? Holy crap Misha you just scared the circuits out of him. ]

[interspace]

[ GOOD. Someone else can be terrified with her! She doesn't want to be mind controlled again, jesus. ]

Uh, yeah? I'm not going to trust anything that's directly fucking with my brain.

[stayinthecar]

[ Sorry he's just going to process and be terrified for a moment.

If his programming is altered he could kill everyone. EVERYONE. ]

[interspace]

[ She waits. It is not a good feeling and she knows. ]

[stayinthecar]

That possibility is extremely concerning.