audio; un: nanatsuya

[counterfeitheart]

So uh

I see everyone got this bullshit list of bullshit. Or at least numerous people.

So here's the deal. You got this shit here that don't mean shit, like "Geoscience"? Is that even relevant to us right now? "Comms Officer". Yeah that sure as hell doesn't mean shit to anyone here. Sounds like some military crap, first of all. Here we are, everyone using the comms and I can't see anyone figuring out how to stop someone yet. "Quarter Master"? Who the fuck even cares.

Now "Chief Food Supplier" is something we direly need but seeing as all we have are those crappy food dispensers, I'm not entirely sure what you would even do. I think that could be reworded to "Head chef" too, unless one of you fuckheads want to fly your happy ass down to that planet over there and try to catch some real meat.

Anyway, that's all just unnecessary garbage, but what I'm trying to get at is that we HARDLY have what could pass as a society here, and I don't know about you, but ain't none of you paying enough to get me or like anyone with a shred of self-respect to be a goddamn "Waste Disposal Chief". We don't even have an economy here.

So, how 'bout we just set this shit aside and don't even think about it, honestly? If you want a roster so bad, take one of those books and write everyone's names down.

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text; un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

i think a lot of people care?
but maybe not the people we want caring.
if we even want a captain, or a quarter master, or anything like that.
which i kind of don't? haha.

actually it's not even kind of.
the idea of someone trying to make themselves captain...
legitimately pisses me off?
like, we don't need that. what are they even going to do?
aside from lord themselves over everyone to make themselves feel big.
ughhhhhh.

He's gonna voice at her text bcuz lazy sry venus

[counterfeitheart]

No it's awful and I will physically fight any bitch that tries to lord themself over me.

So like, I care too but I care in that I'm determined to stop it.

UGHHH FINE she'll switch because he's cool

[wingstosee]

[ why does everyone like voice so much more?? she sighs, switching over to an audio feed. ]

Okay, yeah. It's basically the worst? I'm not really into the whole fighting thing, but I'd definitely... I don't know. TP them or something?

typing is too HARD for BOY WHO GREW UP IN THE 90s LET HIM LIVE

[counterfeitheart]

Really? Fighting is pretty fun in my opinion. I've never been real good at making speeches[A lie. He's lead one and a half rebellions.], but I can let my body do the talking for me. Don't know what to say? Punch 'em if you're pissed. Kiss 'em if you're happy to see 'em. Hug and cry and laugh.

[All of those stupid and honest things was what he enjoyed about being human.]

But I guess TPing can work too. It gets the message across. I can handle the punching if we need to get into that.

TAP OUT THE LETTER MOTHERFUCKER YOU CAN LEARN A NOKIA

[wingstosee]

Haha. I mean, most of that sounds pretty good? [ she's got that tone in her voice - you know, the one somewhere between scandalized and delighted? the "i can't believe i get to say this now" sound. ] I'm just not into the punching part. Too many people told me I needed to do it, you know?

[ if it came down to it, she could - but god, does she hate the idea. unlike tping someone's room. she is so down to do it. ]

audio | un: apollo2

[solarcharged]

[ if super dad sounds tired that's because he is. this roster can only mean bad news. ]

You're right. Most of the positions on the list aren't applicable to us in the slightest. But they do tell us some pretty damning things about what might be going on here, don't they? I'm specifically thinking about that chief warden role.

The only place I can think that would have wardens sure isn't a space terminal. It's a prison.

audio | un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

[ oh, apollo! she knows apollo and kira - maybe not well, but at least well enough to feel comfortable speaking on mic. so she reads his post over, and flips to audio and offers her piece: ]

Yeah! Yeah, I was sort of wondering about that. Only... Okay, I'm still new to all this. Is a space terminal, like, a thing? Because I was definitely reading it as like. "Final stop." Reverie's final stop.

[ ... ]

Which actually sounds kind of menacing. When I say it out loud.

[solarcharged]

Terminals are a thing, yeah. Like bus terminals, in space. But I know what you mean, the name is a bit like...

[ You can almost hear the bitter, wry smile in his voice as he continues: ]

"Reverie Terminal - where dreams come to die".

audio; un: hinatahajime FEEL FREE TO IGNORE TBH...

[hopefragment]

Well that's comforting. I'll sleep better at night with that thought in mind.

[wingstosee]

Haha. Oh my god? [ she doesn't actually sound particularly amused. ] Wow. That's so dark.

[ so maybe it is a space prison. you don't just get a name like that on accident, right? that's like, hilariously on the nose. but that leads to another question: why? slowly, she sounds out words as she thinks. ]

I know what I did, [ and the words are barely out of her mouth before she winces- he's not going to like hearing that from her, huh- ] but I can't honestly think of anything for a lot of the people here? I mean, like... Reasons they'd be in space prison.

Audio

[counterfeitheart]

Oh boy, I don't hear that often. Let me soak in it for a second.

[Yes he's actually going to pause to enjoy someone saying he's right.]

I figured it was some kind of prison, honestly. The shitty food tells you everything. Sure is nice of them to include a bar we can get to, though.

[solarcharged]

Yeah, the bar thing is a good point. But then again... these decks we're on might not be the actual the prison area. The cells could be on the lower bits of the terminal we haven't gained access to yet...

[ he pauses for a silent shrug ]

Just a theory. Hopefully a bad theory.

[counterfeitheart]

Well I mean if we've got a chief of security up on there, we probably have a brig or whatever, right? Guess we'll find out when or if we get down there, but I dunno.

Either way, we're not the ones in those cells right now. I think we've got a number of other issues to manage before we start freaking out about hypotheticals.

un: thief | audio

[mitsubishis]

I can get you some real meat, sweetheart. Not for the rest of these assholes, 'cause most of 'em been a huge bag of dicks, but I like you. You've got brains. I can get you some McDonald's or something.

Audio

[counterfeitheart]

You know normally I'd be offended but right now McDonald's sounds like a five-star luxury so I ain't gonna look a gift horse in the mouth.

[mitsubishis]

It don't have to be McD's. I can pick up something else. What're you feeling? Steak? Sausage? Lobster?

[counterfeitheart]

I haven't had a steak in...

Well, a real long time. That'd go down real nice. You wouldn't happen to be able to pick up some smokes from your pocket dimension, would ya?

un; hudie

[bu773rfly]

[yeah this is valid.]

We could stand to have some kind of common code of conduct or group goal, but those only stick if a majority believes in them.

People will probably gravitate to certain other people naturally. They won't be thought of as leaders at first, just reliable, trusted figures with good ideas and useful skills. Until that happens, forcing leaders through on unproven qualifications just creates conflict. It only took a few hours after that list appeared for people to start fighting on the network, and I don't want to live in cramped quarters with people who resent each other.

[counterfeitheart]

[Don't get used to thinking that about most of the things he says.]

I feel like our group goal right now should be "figure out where the fuck we are and then go home", honestly. Not "get comfy and start assigning jobs".

Also I'm sorry but we're definitely going to be resenting each other if we gotta live here for any stretch of time. We're just a bunch of strangers forced to live together.

[bu773rfly]

[mmm yeahhh about that....anyways]

Rephrase. Resent each other more than is inevitable.

[counterfeitheart]

Yeah okay that's fair enough I GUESS. Like, technically.

[Does it sound like he's pouting? He is a little.]

Hey question- how many robots do you think are up here?

un: brightness_kholin

[veristitalian]

It might be more useful to look at it not as a prescription of how things should be, but a reflection of how things were before we arrived.

Does Quarter Master mean the population lived under a military style command structure? The list seems to imply military control, with other researchers on board.

The word governor, in my world, implies someone governing a place on behalf of a colonial authority. So what people financed this research outpost, this expedition? Why did they let the station be abandoned? Are they still alive, or is theirs the world that ended?

[counterfeitheart]

That's. I mean, I was maybe kinda taking the scenic route, but that's more or less my point. Like, this shit doesn't really apply to us, it looks like how things might have been before. I'm just not real good at the whole deduction part.

I think if we could maybe... maybe it down to that planet out there, we might answer a couple questions. As it is, it seems like it was some kind of facility for researchers, what with the roster mentioning so many different kinds of scientists.

Perhaps even looking to terraform a new planet. Who knows? Whatever it is, it hacked into something else and now we're here.

[veristitalian]

You're right.

[He was. She's just guilty of only listening with one ear. But apologetic glance aside, she pushes on to more interesting questions.]

Research, but with a small security presence.

What is terraforming?

[counterfeitheart]

[Second time in one day!!! Whew, he was on fire. Actually, he was probably not being careful enough. These people might start to wonder where this foul-mouthed teenage burnout actually got good ideas.]

Yeah. I mean it has a bar. How tight could security be? [He laughs at that.]

Terraforming is like. I mean. Humans get this idea in their head that they could space travel to a new planet, but maybe it's environment doesn't suit humanity. So they think maybe they can terraform it, so they uhhh... like. Change the atmosphere, grow some plants and shit, and bam, New Earth.

I haven't heard of it working before but some of these guys come from different worlds, so who knows?