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]

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.