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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 )

Comments

[possidetur]

If we continue to investigate where we are then more answers will come.

[charlieoscar]

[It's not the best Chin Up speech he's ever heard, but it gets the job done. He exhales and squares his shoulders with nod.]

Back to work then.

If there's anything I can help with, let me know.

[possidetur]

There may be depending on your familiarity with technology.

[charlieoscar]

Depends on the equipment. This is all after my time.

[possidetur]

As it is mine. I'm trying to learn how to use it.

[charlieoscar]

[He lifts his cap, stretching idly at his thinning hairline.]

I've got some basis... might able to piece my way through it if the extra hands are needed, but I'm no cheng.

[possidetur]

What's a cheng?

[charlieoscar]

Ah, Chief Engineer.

While most of us back home could all get our hands dirty if needed, they were the ones actually keeping the ship sailing nice and smooth.

[possidetur]

It's a term I've never heard before, though I also know little of ships.

( and the kind of ships she did know of didn't have the same sort of mechanisms )

May I ask when you're from?

[charlieoscar]

United States, 2015.

[A beat, and then he adds:]

Earth. If any of that means anything.

[You could never tell what would or wouldn't here.]

[possidetur]

It all does though you are from a much later time than I.

( as vanessa had come to expect )

London, 1892.

[charlieoscar]

Well... [He takes a long breath, lets it out again slowly.] You've got that guy from the 70s beat.

[He has to make it a joke. If he doesn't, he might have a stroke trying to wrap his head around it.]

I thought this was all impressive coming from when and where I do, I can only imagine... [Oof.]

[possidetur]

It's certainly been a lot to learn.

( it had taken her a while to even use the devices and vanessa still rarely did )

Though, as you may expect, there is much that is still foreign to me.