un: aphrodite ;; text ;; 001 <- "first post"

[wingstosee]

so i'm not really sure how this works?
it doesn't look like anyone else has posted yet.
but uhhhh no time like the present, right?
so
my... bracelet? watch?
i guess it's kind of a smartwatch.
anyway it said something new just now.

"we made it work. attempt number six was successful. it worked, everyone!"
"wait, there's a problem, we're not where we..."

does this sound familiar to anyone?
there might have been more but i was in the cafeteria
or well. am, i guess

also, first post?
i think you're supposed to say that.

wow i have no idea where to end this.
i hope you're all having a good day?
even with the kidnapping and everything.
okay bye

wait jk jk
jupiter, if you see this
let me know, okay?
this is venus. though i guess that's pretty obvious.
i'm really worried :(
that was probably obvious too

okay bye for real this time?
maybe??
yeah.

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[wingstosee]

haha. it's probably not.
maybe?

should i check do you think

[mapsio]

Yeah, I think just to be safe?
But...how would you be able to tell?

[wingstosee]

i mean he didn't take it apart or anything
so it's probably not in there?
the bomb, i mean. assuming it exists.
i could just take it apart and look myself but that sounds like a lot of effort for a bomb that doesn't exist.

[mapsio]

Agreed! So definitely not bomb in there. Maybe he was just curious about something regarding the watches then.
So that's good news!

[wingstosee]

oh, yeah. it was over the message i got.
the one i posted about?
he told me it was coming from inside the station, which is pretty cool.

it probably would have been easier to just say that, huh.
sorry.

[mapsio]

No apologies needed, Venus-san.
That is pretty cool, and I guess that makes things a little more creepy right?

[wingstosee]

i don't know. maybe?
i mean, it's also kind of creepy if it's like...
"this message was sent from thousands of light years away. that's the closest civilization.
you're standing on an empty graveyard, that hasn't been touched for thousands of years, and nobody will ever find you."
you know?
i think that'd be sort of worse.

[ VENUS WHY DO YOU SAY SHIT LIKE THIS ]

[mapsio]

The whole situation is both creepy and fascinating if you ask me.
Do you think this station is an empty graveyard?

[Because she didn't even think of that.]

[wingstosee]

i mean, it sort of feels like it.
doesn't it?
people talking about trying to save the world...
a completely empty station...
there's stuff all over but nobody to use it.

doesn't it kind of feel like a graveyard to you too?

[mapsio]

People are hearing things.
People are seeing things.

...I guess you're right, Venus-san. Which makes this even more of a mystery.
While I still think it's fascinating, it's also unsettling.

[wingstosee]

right???
ugh. i kind of hate it.
like it's nice not having to deal with. people sometimes?
but i never liked haunted places :(

i get scared really easily...

[mapsio]

I don't think a haunted place is the ideal well, place to be getting away from people.

Are you going to be okay? :(

[wingstosee]

huh? oh yeah. for sure.
it's still better than the summer scouts haha

not like that really takes much?? but. you know

[mapsio]

I see, I see.
I was just making sure. I wouldn't want anyone to be afraid.

[A pause.]

The summer scouts?

[wingstosee]

right.
they were. uh
technically it was a "summer retreat?"
but it was really more of a jesus camp situation.
you know. ship the bad kids off, beat the devil out.

at least you can meet other bad kids that way?
haha.

[mapsio]

[Her eyes go wide at this text. Where are the adults who did this? She wouldn't hold back.

What she sees now? Venus is another person who has suffered at the hands of terrible adults.]

Oh, Venus-san...
I'm sorry that you had to experience that. Adults truly will never know when to stop, or where the breaking point is.
I can't imagine what horrible things must have went on there.

[wingstosee]

i mean... i think they know pretty well? haha.
i don't think not knowing is really the issue.
sometimes people like me just. don't really fit the perfect world they want.
people like us? i don't know.
it probably has to be that, with what you're saying.

and i mean. i can tell you if you want to know?
but other people have already gotten plenty mad over it.
so... i guess i'll just tell you the important part?
which is that it's gone now.
we tore it down. all of it. it's resting in neptune's lake

[mapsio]

It's gone?
It's gone....I'm glad to hear that.
There is no need for a horrible place like that.

[wingstosee]

yeah. i agree 100%.
like, i'd tear down every camp like it if i could?
but i can't really be in every place at once.
just because i'm the devil doesn't mean i'm omnipresent?? haha

[mapsio]

You're the devil?

[wingstosee]

yeah?
oh. i thought i'd said something earlier??
i'm sorry. i guess i've said it so many times to other people that i just. kind of forget now?
but yes. i am the devil. :)

[mapsio]

Not the strangest thing I have ever heard!
But, because I am curious.
What does it mean to be "the devil"?

[wingstosee]

oh. okay
i guess a lot of people just haven't heard of devils, or the devil, or anything like that?
which is kind of weird to me. but not like, in a judging way?
it's just impossible to get away from in the midwest haha

anyway.
the devil is the one that stands against god.
or i guess in this case, the devils. plural.
we're all the devil, and she's all of us? it's complicated.

but basically, if god is like... the biggest police officer in the universe,
then the devil's the one spray painting billboards.

that's not actually something i've done?
i kind of want to now though.

[mapsio]

I guess I am most familiar with the traditional concept of the devil. You know, the one your parents always try to frighten you with.

Oh! I get it.
So being the devil is like awakening your rebellious spirit.
You rebel because you're the devil, and the devil is you.

[WARE WA NANJI, NANJI WA WARE?]

That does sound like a lot of fun though!

[wingstosee]

well, yeah. i'm that one too??
there's not really that much difference. haha.

but you're right. it's a LOT of fun. :)
i don't think i've felt this good in like.
probably my entire life leading up to this?
even if we're all stuck on a space station now.