un: mori

[setpoint]

This morning, I received a message on my communicator from the username m.muller. When I tried to message them back, all I received was an error. I don't recognize her, but maybe someone else will.

[So Mako attaches a video file. There's a woman with frizzy red hair and freckles on screen, looking slightly panicked. "My name is Martina Muller," she says, and her voice is calm and slightly accented. There's a sudden crash behind her, and she cuts herself off with a gasp. "You have to warn the others! There is a traitor on board. Wherever you are, there is a traitor on board, you have to–"

And then the message cuts off.]

It seems like not everyone received it, so it wasn't a network wide broadcast. As far as I can tell, it came from the station, but I don't know where.

I also tried to unlock one of the doors. I've figured out which wires control the locking mechanism, but nothing I did to override or overload them seemed to work. Has anyone else had any luck?

Comments

[neuralnet]

[ Ah... That may be difficult. Haruto usually just forges a mental connection with a network wirelessly. He can do it the manual way, but it would be much more complicated. ]

I suppose, if you want.

[rehabbed]

Was talking 2 some other person abt this very same thing
He thinks it's all cuz of some kind of interdimensional rift

[uragiru]

Would it be better if we could locate some kind of control room?

[setpoint]

Yes, absolutely. We could figure out which systems the station has and which are still running.

[setpoint]

That would make sense. The only interdimensional rift that existed at home was just closed, but more could have opened.

[setpoint]

[Mako nods.]

Jaeger. It's a German word. I was an engineer before I was a pilot.

[setpoint]

Okay. If they're sure. I've been hearing strange things.

[setpoint]

Nothing like this. Nothing so isolated.

[setpoint]

Please. I'd appreciate it.

[setpoint]

[Oh. Interesting!]

What do you think our next step should be?

[setpoint]

What username glitch do you mean? The fact that I couldn't message the user back?

[setpoint]

Stuck inside? How do you mean?

[neuralnet]

[ Great. What has he gotten himself into? ]

Alright.

[unshielding]

We might try to get into some of the computer systems, but that's pretty far above my computer skills.

[warfares]

The one where it claimed everyone's username was taken.

[wingstosee]

like, um...
have you ever played a videogame where the animations weren't very good?
so you turn around, and suddenly your character is just. kind of halfway in the wall?
it was like that, but in real life.
which is about a thousand times scarier to watch happening.
for real. it was bad.

[solarcharged]

I think quite a few people are struggling with it really. First time in space and this isn't exactly the most welcoming of places. I can't blame them.

[donkeyballs]

Good, I have a feelin' this bucket of bolts is gonna need as many people as it can get, to figure out how to keep us all alive in it.

I ain't an engineer, but I've been in and out of ship systems all my life, so hopefully we can figure it out, regardless.

[setpoint]

I think we can, as long as we work together.

[Thank the PPDC for that mindset.]

Have you been on a lot of stations like this?

[setpoint]

Have you been on stations like this before? What are they usually like?

[donkeyballs]

I been on a lot of stations, not sure I can say that they were like this, exactly. Close enough for me to feel weird about what's missin' though.

I'd give my left leg for access to the life support system readouts, right now.

sorry for the delay!!

[retund]

Exactly.
All we can do is keep our eyes open.
And communicate.

[ and anyone holding back will appear suspicious. ]

sorry for the delay!!

[retund]

It's a theory.
A hostile lifeform or contagion on board could also warrant a lockdown like this, as could a fire or chemical incident.

[solarcharged]

Busier. Full of, you know, actual people. Not kidnap victims.

[crayzies]

Yeah. Me too.

It's kind of freaking me out. We got some weird stuff in my world, but not like this.