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[possidetur]

[ Alex looks a little ashen faced and grim, but otherwise no worse for wear. Beside him is Vanessa who looks a little uneasy with the situation. Her hair is loose, arms wrapped around herself and whilst she agreed that they need to do this, and she trusts Alex, it's a little clear that she doesn't want to do it.

Alex clears his throat. ]

Alrigh’, well - I know this ain’t as big news as it would have been a couple weeks ago, but. Vanessa and I - and Bobbie and Kylo - we uh, we had a little chat. With someone who had been on the station before.

Who died on the station before.

And before ya’ll start arguin’ - just listen to what we heard, for a second.

First thing - all this? The crazy shit that we keep gettin’ in to, and why we’re so far from Earth? It’s all because of the Drive. Now we talked to the Medic so I ain’t exactly got a whole lot of technical details, but - they built it because of whatever was going down on Earth at the time, but instead of what it was supposed to do, it moved them.

Moved them, and then started killin’ them.

But the drive is somewhere on the station - or at least it was. So I think we gotta put in a real effort now to find it.

I don't understand this as Alex does. ( her words are quiet as she finally speaks. even if you've not had the conversation with her that she's from 1892 there's a look to her, particularly in her dress, that would heavily suggest that she's not from a “modern” century ) But I trust the information that we received.

( she only knows what the others told her, effectively unconscious during the affair, but there's a feeling that vanessa has. the spirit hadnt meant them harm, nor did it feel like a deception )

It may be that this Drive is behind one of the doors we have yet to open, I don't know, but perhaps someone will discover that.

( her only hope was that there wouldn't be too many questions about how they'd come to learn this information though vanessa doubted that that would be the case )

( there'll be responses from both. vanessa is in purple text )

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[neuralnet]

What sort of drive? Like an... [ He pauses to find the word. ] Epstein drive?

[donkeyballs]

Nah, not as far as I can tell, anyway. It was meant to do somethin', but they were pretty damn surprised it went anywhere.

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[thefaulty]

[The notion that there is something on the station moving beings against their will does not come as a surprise. Even discounting how they got there, Hank-Morely had espoused a similar theory as to what happened to those who disappeared from the station. Transport, not destruction.

The idea that the next step is execution, however, sends a jolt of dread through Arid’s processors. Unfed for far too long, the virus stirs sleepily within her.]

How much time was there between their transport and their death?

[donkeyballs]

[ Alex shakes his head sadly. ]

She didn't say. Didn't exactly get a hell of a lot of specifics. She, uh -

She was a lot more worried about what happened to the people she cared about.

Guess she died before they did.

All she said was that after the Drive skipped them half way across the galaxy, that's when the weird shit started happening. That's when people started dyin'.

[retrorsum]

A mysterious drive that does more than just transport people. This place is sounding more suspicious every day.

Did they say where they what it was supposed to do?

[donkeyballs]

Wish I could say that was only the start of it, darlin'. I'm guessing you're new around here?

It was supposed to save the world.

Whatever the hell that means.

She seemed pretty damned surprised that I didn't really know what exactly they were savin' the world from.

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[biochemastery]

[First things first.]

Someone who died. I'm assuming this isn't the other kind of dead person this station collects? The kind that just walks about, stubbornly refusing to be inanimate?

[No, the fact that this station has killed people before doesn't phase him. That was the baseline assumption, that this was a deathtrap designed specifically to torment him.]

[donkeyballs]

Yeah, well, since I'm one of 'em that's refusing to be inanimate, I would say yeah. Yeah, a bit different.

We uh - had to contact her through uh - different means.

[possidetur]

Does it matter? We know more than we did before.

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[setpoint]

You don't have any idea what kind of drive it is?

[donkeyballs]

Wish I did. All I know is that it wasn't meant to be a transportation device - it was supposed to do somethin' to save the Earth, and it booted them all the way the hell out here, instead.

And then they all started dyin'.

I mean, assumin' here is the here they ended up. Maybe it's moved again since then.

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[rk800connor]

To clarify, are they suggesting that using the drive was a catalyst to the strange occurrences or was it implied that the drive may be some sort of artificial intelligence or program?

Regardless, I think it might be a good idea to stress caution when looking for the drive. Not only could the area around it be more unstable than the rest of the station, but the station has had other... 'reactions' to us breaching doors before. If the drive was essential and potentially dangerous then there may be extra security measures surrounding it.

[possidetur]

We've seen already what this station does. ( she's gonna let alex handle the actual question -- vanessa has no idea as to the answer ) As advisable as caution may normally be why do you believe it will make any difference?

[charlieoscar]

Once upon a time, something like this would have been upsetting.

[But now, these days, other than that dry remark, Mike sails smoothly past the talk of ghosts.]

Don't suppose she had specifics on what or who killed them?

[possidetur]

No, just that it was this place.

( at least that was all that the others had filled her in on after the fact )

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[onlydoubts]

So... this drive might be behind everything that's happened? [ huh ]

This person didn't happen to tell us where we can find it, did they?

[possidetur]

Unfortunately not, though that would only solve one of our concerns.

un:castiglione

[oorah]

[ everyone's asking about the drive. frank wants to know about the ghost. he comes into focus, wearing an RT jumpsuit like always except this one is black and has his name over the breast pocket. CASTIGLIONE, of course. his legal name. ]

Did you get a name?

[possidetur]

Her name was Lucia.

un:millerlite

[pampa]

If the drive is what did this, you think, what? We should destroy it? Won't that strand us here... forever?

[possidetur]

Finding it does not mean destroying it.

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[reposing]

So this Drive is to blame.

This is incredibly valuable information. I don't suppose the medic mentioned what the Drive was meant to do?

[possidetur]

It was supposed to take them to another planet. I couldn't say where.

( or how. if alex understood any of the remaining details better, or had theories, he could give a better answer )

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[a2brutus]

So it was space ghosts.

[Unfucking believable. Ryuji was right.]

Alright, so if we don't find this thing people are just going to start dropping dead. [Simple enough.] So what, we just find the damn thing and smash it?

[possidetur]

That could make our situation worse.

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[disequilibria]

And then what? Find the drive and we go home?

[possidetur]

I would like to hope so but I fear it may be more complicated.