[005 ♟ The plot thickens...]

[justareverie]

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[ It's apparent the communicator has switched on by itself again... Anybody looking will see a simple, empty room, the only visible furniture being a swivel chair with a khaki safari vest on it, a single bed and nighstand, with an unlit lamp, his inmate's file, and an empty bottle on it. John comes into view in the process of putting a

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[Private]

[most_feared]

There is. The problem is, I don't have a clue what someone here would do about it yet.

You see, some things on the Barge supposedly happen because of dimensional instability. We have "flood", it's because "water" has splashed over and we take on the traits of another universe in part. In a "breach", the entire ship takes on the effects and we all change into completely different people.

That sorta suggests that there are barriers that usually keeps the "water" from getting in. But then you have this, which is more like the barriers within the ship itself are being damaged. Especially with the CES doing this bullshit it's doing. What doesn't fit the scheme, though, is the stuff meant specifically to fuck with us.

Like the helper elves. It's almost as if they've been put up to fucking with us. The rattling at the doors. The dark in the hallway and the whistling. Shit that purposefully messes with our senses and doesn't leave any trace evidence.

Those are the red herrings. I think that bit is meant to just taunt the shit out of us while whoever it is gets away with what he's doing... Frankly I just wanna figure out how to keep the ship secure. Kinda hard when everybody seems to think the best way to help is to kidnap someone and tie them the fuck up.

[Kay is a bitchy, bitchy man.]

[Private]

[justareverie]

Well... thank you. Some sense in what seemed chaotic, it's refreshing.

I agree that this feels like something that's going fundamentally wrong. Something inherent to the ship itself-- the barriers you talked about, what keeps us safe from staying affected, I assume.

And- and I can see a purpose to the floods and breaches, to the Admiral's means, though whether I agree with them is out of the question. I mean, I- don't know exactly how intentional it can be, but there's a reason, a purpose to those events, to getting to know oneself. To redemption. But scaring people, messing with their heads... that's counterproductive, if you ask me.

I could absolutely be in the wrong, here. Admittedly, first thing I thought about the figure some people saw is what if it was the Admiral himself. Nobody that's seen him remembers his face, huh?

That's the hard thing about places like these. Try to figure them out and you go insane.

... helper elves?

[Private]

[most_feared]

Yeah. The faceless things. They used to work here apparently.

They might not be ghosts of them. They might be them. But programmed to do something other than odd jobs. To be our "ghosts". Apparently anyone in control of the Barge has the option of reprogramming them [the Master], and you don't have to be an incorporeal entity to do so.

[Private]

[justareverie]

[ Pause. ]

Where'd you get this information?

[Private]

[most_feared]

Me and a P.I. on board got pictures of them, and people here before the workers were dismissed were able to positively identify them.

[He digs up the post record and shows it to him.]*

*OOC: Mod-approved and the pics even came from one of them. I promise.

[Private]

[justareverie]

...I thought wardens and working inmates were the only staff here. [ Another pause. ] Is that what they were?

[ Oooh ominous. ]

[Private] \o/ I LIKE HELPING

[most_feared]

I think they were more like worker robots. They seemed to exist only to do odd jobs around the ship. As the Marquis said, the Master, while having taken over the ship, dismissed them to cause discord. The Admiral kept the change when he returned, wanting people to remember this place wasn't a pleasure cruise.

[Private] ahaha kay looks so smug in that icon

[justareverie]

And they may be bitter, or they may be an image from the past. A projection? It would be a good image to invoke as a distraction maneuver.

[Private] He's a cocky bastard in some of them.

[most_feared]

My guess it's that or it's actually them. Just because they didn't move like that before doesn't mean that someone in control of them can't change the way they behave.

[Private]

[justareverie]

Someone in control of them... after the Admiral retired them, I presume? So it could be any number of powerful entities out there.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see, huh?

[Private]

[most_feared]

Normal humans have commandeered this boat before. All they'd have to do is figure out how to work it.

[He doesn't answer that bit. Because he doesn't really intend on waiting and seeing, no matter what cosmic bastadry he's dealing with.]

[Private]

[justareverie]

[ And he picks up on that. But the last thing he wants is this place gone, like, evar. ]

If you think we can figure how to stop this ahead of them-- I'm all ears.