CATCHALL: Shu

[solesuccess]

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[solesuccess]

[ no!!

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.

[roseoftexas]

Yup. Good way of looking at it. Can’t focus on moving forward with your life until we have ours back from this place.

[ it’s a gap year! from idek literally the higher than average guarantee of making it through the week???? give them their money back. ]

[solesuccess]

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?

[roseoftexas]

[ hmm. ]

Some of it. It's a lot of articles and logs about the old crew so far, isn't it?

[solesuccess]

Yup. I can show you everything I've seen so far if you want, but I wanted to make sure you knew. [ a pause. ] And maybe get your thoughts on it.

[roseoftexas]

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.

[solesuccess]

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.

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. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ 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.

That first video log though...

[ hmmm. ]

[solesuccess]

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.

[roseoftexas]

The weekly changes — maybe, but the effects that end up causing people to kill? They’re not lumping those in together, are they?

[ …. ]

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?

[solesuccess]

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.

[roseoftexas]

It'd make sense new body parts would work with nanite tech, but-- [ ugh. ] Calling it a shock collar makes it sound bad, across the board.

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.

[solesuccess]

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.

[roseoftexas]

I haven't, actually.

[ 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?

[solesuccess]

[ stop!! let shu keep his brains in order. ]

That's a good thing. [ but...yeah. ] Beneficial's the word I'd use, yeah. I don't know which of them you trust, but I've had some decent conversations with some of them about this sort of thing. I like keeping them updated as best as I can.

[roseoftexas]

I haven't really talked about this with them, honestly. Amalthea mentioned it a little, and that's the most I've discussed it -- speculating they might have some non-coincidental form of memory loss.

[solesuccess]

[ nodding along... ]

I told Amalthea I'd share information with them. Callisto and I have spoken a little about the memloss thing...and Europa's at least admitted there's a difference in what they remember now. They're becoming a lot more aware as the weeks go on.

[roseoftexas]

Can’t really hide it in the face of… all this stuff we’re finding. [ realises i barely pc’ed the npcs last week. i abandoned my senior crew. ]

With that many discrepancies in what we’re showing them versus what they remember they’re bound to have some doubts or questions.

[solesuccess]

Right. So long as they aren't doubling down on what they remember being exactly correct and refuse to entertain the option...it should be okay to keep talking to them and seeing if anything jogs their memory or not.

[roseoftexas]

... Hopefully. At this point I think we need to know what happened on their last tour.

[solesuccess]

Maybe if we think of the right questions to ask that'll help. You know, instead of just guessing about what might be important.

[roseoftexas]

[ i will be guessing forever. ]

...

Maybe about their previous crew?

[solesuccess]

That's not a bad start. I haven't asked too much myself because I've been...I dunno. Focused on here, I guess? It feels like there's always too much all the time.

[roseoftexas]

There is a lot happening constantly. I maybe talk to them once or twice a week if I'm lucky, and not all of them.

[solesuccess]

To be honest there's still a lot of us left, too. It's too hard to try to talk to everyone here and all of the senior crew all in one week while juggling the effects from the cosmoelectromagnetic storms and our work on Wednesdays and whatever curses are flying around and the lockdown on Thursday and then everything through the weekend.