Despite the fact that is it still very much winter outside, Life Support is having a Spring theme today. Or at least the table is full of cakes and sweets shaped like yellow flowers.

There's also a box of yellow smiley-faced stress balls sitting on the table, in case anyone wants to... de-stress.

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OPEN TO ALLCome share your angst and ( Read more... )

[oom: Communicating.]Guppy is sitting in a booth near the trilobite tank, eating his dinner and helping his toddler to do the same ( Read more... )

Subspace is strange. Since it is, in essence, nowhere, it's kind of everywhere all at once. Doors are a polite way of moving from one point to another, but they aren't necessary ( Read more... )

[OOM: At least she's got a name now, and it sounds a little familiar: Shu. In a time of crisis, memories aren't necessary if the knowledge is still there.

Long version is long. Thus, summary is here.]There's a young woman looking bewildered in the door. She's in her late teens, and dressed in strangely cut clothes that are reminiscent of ( Read more... )

[OOM: Memories are funny things. Unless you don't have any.]

[OOM: The scientist is not trapped anymore, but she's just as lost. Dropped out of subspace at random, she can only rely on the kindness of strangers.

Warning for length and strange new world.]

[OOM: Washuu's still trapped. She's still got her mind, if nothing else. Unfortunately, planning is difficult when the distraction never shuts off.]

[OOM: Washuu's lab has been jacked; it's already too late. AI-Kagato's practically his old self again as history repeats itself.]

There are two Hakubis in the bar tonight, and there doesn't seem to be violence in the offing, so that's good. They're even chatting amicably, which is even odder. There's no chance of overhearing their conversation; some of it is not vocalized. It's probably just as well. Washuu's heading back to the lab tonight, come hell or high water, so it ( Read more... )

Another day, and no door. Catalina is tired, tired of being angry, tired of being trapped.She is almost at the point of abandoning her enraged urge for vengeance ( Read more... )