It...the therapy hurt sometimes and the medicine made me sick sometimes, but I thought it was supposed to do that because it meant it was working. I didn't really notice any changes at the time, which I now know was probably the point. When I confronted Chikara about it he just told me I should be grateful because my body was special now.
Yeah, something like that. [ broadly. ] He killed Chikara and my dad, and he's been working on a plan with Naix to release TC-Perge and spread it across the country. Amame confronted him, and she killed him. But she didn't know someone else saw what she did and...[ ... ]
I can't say I'm sad about Chikara either. [ but there's a complicated little frown. ] ...my dad...made some mistakes that led to this. He did a lot of bad things and he made a choice that cost him in the end. But I never actually wanted him dead. [ ... ] But thanks. Even though it's been so long, it's still...[ he sort of waves a hand because he doesn't want to fully admit he's still having a hard time with everything despite the fact this is an extremely normal thing to be upset about and also his adventure last week really did reopen literally all of those wounds. ]
And yet every week stuff like this happens to try and set us back. [ annoying... ] ...which kind of reminds me. Shu, have you seen the information people have been finding all around the ship?
A little idea sharing? I'm up for that. It's all been pretty fractured what I've seen, and I haven't had a chance to go looking for more information myself yet. [ hmmm. ]
Putting it all together to look for clues might not be a bad plan.
People keep showing stuff to me, and I keep finding some stuff myself just from talking to others. And you're not stupid, so I think it'd be beneficial to have somebody else's brain on this.
[ makes a note to chat on sunday if we're not murderers. ]
Ah... some of this I have seen. These three though-- [ he points at all the ones labelled W2 for us. ] Are new. Margaret mentioned something about galactic storms the other day and that they could be to blame for what's happening, but they'd have to be really punctual galactic storms for them to be the only reason.
Yeah. We've been trying to get them around as best as we can, but this ship makes it a little hard. The senior crew has kind of explained that cosmoelectromagnetic waves are what causes the weekly changes, but the schedule kind of makes that more suspicious.
[ he nods though. ]
Temenos and I talked to a few members of the senior crew to ask them if they can decrypt the video. I tried to myself but the thing's locked beyond me.
The weekly changes — maybe, but the effects that end up causing people to kill? They’re not lumping those in together, are they?
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Have you noticed when you talk to the senior crew about stuff like this, and why they’re here, they’re kinda— [ he taps his forehead and winces like he has a headache ] React to it like it’s hurting them?
No. There's still no explanation for what's driving people to kill. That's what we're looking into.
[ but he frowns to the question and nods once. ]
Headaches, or sometimes it hurts their prosthetics that Nut & Bolt funded for them. I've been thinking it's because they have some control over them, or at least something embedded in them that forces them to feel pain when they get too close to the truth. Like how a shock collar would work.
Because it's bad, across the board. [ that's why he said it. he refuses to treat this lightly when it could be hurting them. ]
...why does that make it sound like you've had amnesia before? [ but anyway. ] We can't. Some of them have agreed that they'd like to be in the loop, too.
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You're saying they lied to you, make you think you were sick, and messed with your body while you thought they were helping you.
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...I only found out because I stole my file from my doctor's desk. They were never planning to tell me.
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Did they just think you weren't going to question why you stopped growing? Aging?
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It...the therapy hurt sometimes and the medicine made me sick sometimes, but I thought it was supposed to do that because it meant it was working. I didn't really notice any changes at the time, which I now know was probably the point. When I confronted Chikara about it he just told me I should be grateful because my body was special now.
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Chikara's an idiot. And an asshole.
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So, this serial killer was active six years ago and then crawled out of the woodwork again recently. That's the timeline I'm getting here.
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It's a long story.
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I can't say I'm mad that Chikara guy ended up in his firing line. But I am sorry about your dad.
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I can't say I'm sad about Chikara either. [ but there's a complicated little frown. ] ...my dad...made some mistakes that led to this. He did a lot of bad things and he made a choice that cost him in the end. But I never actually wanted him dead. [ ... ] But thanks. Even though it's been so long, it's still...[ he sort of waves a hand because he doesn't want to fully admit he's still having a hard time with everything despite the fact this is an extremely normal thing to be upset about and also his adventure last week really did reopen literally all of those wounds. ]
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Grief doesn't really go away, it just lessens. Sometimes you prod it wrong and it's agonising all over again, but eventually it dulls down.
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but...yeah. there is that. ]
Eventually. Whenever that is. [ it's okay though. ] All I can do is keep moving forward and try to figure out what to do about this situation first.
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[ it’s a gap year! from idek literally the higher than average guarantee of making it through the week???? give them their money back. ]
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Some of it. It's a lot of articles and logs about the old crew so far, isn't it?
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Putting it all together to look for clues might not be a bad plan.
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Hold on... [ pulls up his iris and so he can show shu ship roster, video log, customer review form, ship log, journal, video feed. this is monday so i can't show you other stuff yet becksy but catch me later. ]
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Ah... some of this I have seen. These three though-- [ he points at all the ones labelled W2 for us. ] Are new. Margaret mentioned something about galactic storms the other day and that they could be to blame for what's happening, but they'd have to be really punctual galactic storms for them to be the only reason.
That first video log though...
[ hmmm. ]
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[ he nods though. ]
Temenos and I talked to a few members of the senior crew to ask them if they can decrypt the video. I tried to myself but the thing's locked beyond me.
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[ …. ]
Have you noticed when you talk to the senior crew about stuff like this, and why they’re here, they’re kinda— [ he taps his forehead and winces like he has a headache ] React to it like it’s hurting them?
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[ but he frowns to the question and nods once. ]
Headaches, or sometimes it hurts their prosthetics that Nut & Bolt funded for them. I've been thinking it's because they have some control over them, or at least something embedded in them that forces them to feel pain when they get too close to the truth. Like how a shock collar would work.
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Sometimes you get headaches when forcing amnesia, but it's not like we can keep all this information to ourselves when it clearly connects to them.
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...why does that make it sound like you've had amnesia before? [ but anyway. ] We can't. Some of them have agreed that they'd like to be in the loop, too.
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[ imagine if i was like spring is now when i play my amnesiacs. ] Yeah, some of them seem to be finding it... is beneficial the word?
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