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spacecoast2023-04-05 07:36 am
dropoffs) wrote in spacecoast2023-04-05 07:36 am
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WEEK 4: DECOMMISSION
WEEK 4 ALERT
emergency detected
ALERT: EMERGENCY IN THE SIMULATION ROOMS.
LOCKDOWN SEQUENCE ENGAGING.
SYSTEM REBOOT LOCKED.
LIFE SUPPORT STABLE.
CLIMATE CONTROL STABLE.
FUNCTIONALITY WILL RESUME AFTER EMERGENCY ADDRESSED.
WARNING: PROCEED WITH CAUTION
REQUESTING CALLSIGNS:
INQUISITOR AND HARLEY QUINN
REPORT TO THE MAIN SIMULATION ROOM.
LOCKDOWN SEQUENCE ENGAGING.
SYSTEM REBOOT LOCKED.
LIFE SUPPORT STABLE.
CLIMATE CONTROL STABLE.
FUNCTIONALITY WILL RESUME AFTER EMERGENCY ADDRESSED.
WARNING: PROCEED WITH CAUTION
REQUESTING CALLSIGNS:
INQUISITOR AND HARLEY QUINN
REPORT TO THE MAIN SIMULATION ROOM.
A barrier barred me from leaving my location and the other senior officers are not responding to messages. Tread with caution.
CALLISTO
It's somber, this morning, barring the sudden, clipped request sent out by the Eudora. Hard to not be, considering the proceedings of yesterday - the loss of two crew members that you had come to know over the past weeks. The sequestering of one in the brig, the other monitored in the medical bay. The truth of their actions, come to light. The night passes without fanfare, and the sleep is barely fitful, no matter where you have spent the night.
And then, the morning comes.
The walls of the Eudora feel looming in the silence, but duty calls. Temenos and Harley have been requested to investigate the simulation room. There's nothing to guide them through these hallways except their own feet and the familiarity of this alert from many weeks past; there is no compulsion, there is no guiding light, just a request from the synthetic AI voice of the ship herself chirruping over and over again. If others attempt to investigate in their stead, they'll find that they're given no access through the archway of the simulation room's entry, but these two individuals can make it through without trouble.
The simulation room is not off, like it has been the past couple of weeks.
Instead... it's rather different from before.
And then, the morning comes.
The walls of the Eudora feel looming in the silence, but duty calls. Temenos and Harley have been requested to investigate the simulation room. There's nothing to guide them through these hallways except their own feet and the familiarity of this alert from many weeks past; there is no compulsion, there is no guiding light, just a request from the synthetic AI voice of the ship herself chirruping over and over again. If others attempt to investigate in their stead, they'll find that they're given no access through the archway of the simulation room's entry, but these two individuals can make it through without trouble.
The simulation room is not off, like it has been the past couple of weeks.
Instead... it's rather different from before.
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… Do you ever feel like we tempt fate a bit too much?
[ stares into the abyss. ]
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...I already have a really bad feeling about this, Shu. [ everyone does, but. considering what happened the first time... ]
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[ … ]
There was nothing stopping her from getting out of the medbay as far as I know. Not like Bradley in the brig. [ and. well. they saw what happened at the end of the trial yesterday. ]
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[ and given what they're seeing in the simulation now...oof. ]
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Technically we didn’t “catch” her. Not officially. Aside from everything that happened at the end of the trial, maybe that’s something to do with it.
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[ ...because honestly this looks bad, and his hope for rosamund still being alive is. low. he's not going to verbally say it is all. ]
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She did say she wanted to choose how her story would end. It could be a combination of the two.
[ if they don’t speak it out loud then it hasn’t happened. this is how things work. ]
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[ something taking control, and rosamund fighting back. and now here we are and maybe if they don't say it she'll wake up and she'll be okay. ]
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[ … it’s the waiting around that’s the worst here. ]
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It's a simulation! [ CAN'T THEY JUST. FIX IT??? ]
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HARLEY, SIMULATE A TRAMPOLINE OR SOMETHING!!
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Or the wind to catch him, something!
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... That's one way of doin' things, I guess.
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uh.
yeah. well. there's...our princess.
...anyway he's just going to go quiet and watch this, jesus christ. ]
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Simulate some wings or something.
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frowns. ]
Or that works, I guess. [ a glitch is good. great, actually, so we don't have to deal with losing more people. but now we come back to the original problem of rosamund.
so...he waits and watches again. ]
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though... ]
...this...had to be pre-designed, right? It's way too elaborate.
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Does the sim room have admin privileges? I never really thought about it.
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[ ah. temenos and harley reach the top of the tower, and then there's rosamund. so he sort of trails off on that thought. ]
... [ or maybe the simulation's just stuck this way because the princess is dead. ]
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well, they hadn’t wanted to say it. but it turned out to be true. ]
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this is so unfair. ]