text; un: hinatahajime

[hopefragment]

hi

i'm hajime hinata. from japan, earth. probably the most significant thing about it is a really prominent high school called hope's peak, known worldwide for cultivating talent, so if you've heard of it, that's something we have in common at least.

that's really not why i'm trying out this posting thing, though. i mean, you've all been thinking about it, right? what we're supposed to do now? nobody's in charge here. there aren't any objectives to clear. there aren't even any rules.

do we just... live here? is that supposed to be enough? are we supposed to solve the mystery of what happened on this station before we can go home, like some kind of stupid murder-mystery dinner?

i guess what i'm trying to get at is... yeah, what i said before. what do we do now? i've had enough of weird processed food and pulling open the walls in search of voices to get nothing but wires and stuff i don't understand.

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[hopefragment]

then... what can we do to make the inaccessible areas accessible again? it can't be as easy as just busting down doors. for the layout, i'd say somebody could try drawing a map, but i wouldn't even know where to start with that

i just can't accept it as permanent. we got here somehow, we can get back somehow. maybe not the same way, but that has to be our end goal. getting out of here. if we don't have anything to work toward, what's the point?

[uragiru]

I know that @MORI is looking into system overrides, but hasn't had any success so far.
No one has had any luck breaking down doors either.
I'd say the next best thing would be to search the station for tools that could help us, or alternate routes.
Essentially, we should work together; go over everything with a fine tooth comb and collate our information.

Ah -- yes, of course. My apologies.
I didn't mean to say that we should give up.
You're right that having a future is necessary for motivation.
More like... focusing too much on something we can't do yet will take our energy away from surviving in the moment.
The station has already proven itself dangerous.

[hopefragment]

yeah, that makes sense. do you think there could be a way to, i don't know, boost the signal of these watches? maybe send out some kind of distress signal.

[That's how it seems to work in movies, anyway? He thinks.]

that's the other thing i'm worried about. when we do run into something dangerous on this station, what are we suppose to do about it? i don't know about you, but i can't find disembodied voices running through walls.

[uragiru]

A distress signal isn't a bad idea... Although it might be more effective if we could find a command room of some sort.
There seem to be a few people around who have experience with spacecraft, so we could find out if any of them would know how to go about it.

We're going to have to start taking precautions, I suspect.
Avoid travelling alone, use the camera and recording functions on these smartwatches to check if something is a hallucination before you react to it...
Unfortunately, we don't know enough about what is happening here to prepare for much.

[hopefragment]

that's a good idea. i was thinking that, like... a distress signal should be able to get set off from anywhere, in case something happens to the command room. but all i know about space stations comes from movies, so i don't really know for sure. either way, we have to find a place like that to get anywhere.

does that work? trying to record something to check if it isn't there?

[uragiru]

There may very well be some kind of emergency signal we could activate from here.
It's the amplifying of the signal I would think the command room may be necessary for.
But my guesses are based on sci-fi movies too, so I imagine we'll only get an answer from someone more familiar with this situation.

It does. It's a useful way to confirm your own perception if you have reason to doubt it.
It's more complicated on this station, considering there are happenings that seem very much like hallucinations, and yet they appear in recordings...
However, for standard hallucinations, it would work.

[hopefragment]

someone else i talked to brought up a good point about that, too. about how activating a distress signal could attract the wrong kind of attention. i guess if we do find one, we'll have to figure out if we even should use it.

until we find one, though, it's all hypothetical.

that stuff about recording the hallucinations, though... thanks. that's a big help.

have you tried it already? sometimes there have been weird voices in the hallways. do they show up on recordings?

[uragiru]

Ah, that is a point.
You're right, though. Questions like that can wait until we're actually in a position where we can make that decision.

Interestingly enough, they do.
My current working theory is that the catastrophe the previous crew experienced somehow warped reality in this place.
Rather than hallucinations, many of these events seem to be more like... anomalies.
Spatial and temporal disruptions.

[hopefragment]

that sounds like something out of SF...

then again, i guess the fact that we're on a space station in the first place is pretty SF, too.

you're... not seriously thinking that the weird voices and stuff are ghosts, are you?

[uragiru]

Haha.
The idea might have been influenced by my own fondness for SF fiction.
But even in fiction, the concepts are often imaginative extensions of scientific theories that already exist.
To put it another way: I don't need a degree in quantum mechanics to observe what I can already see on this station.

Not ghosts, as such.
A ghost would be an entity that exists in the present, likely with its own will.
What I'm talking about is more like... echoes.
As if time has come loose, in a way.

Although I have been toying with the possibility that the station itself is a sentient, malevolent entity.

[hopefragment]

oh, great. time coming loose.

i'm sure that's nothing to worry about at all.

[He's so tired. Please take him back to his world where things make sense.]

i don't know if that's better or worse than the station being alive and wanting to kill us.