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

[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?

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?

[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.]

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

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.

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?

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?

[ 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?

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

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?

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?

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

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