Everything you know is wrong

[foolishjustice]

Who: Goro, Kurama, Jailbreak, and everyone, get yer butts in here.
What: A chance meeting, and then a station meeting.
When: 6/20, afternoon
Where: Station common room
Warnings: Ghost Talk, probably things related to murdergamer paranoia, everything Jailbreak chooses to be.

[A little after lunch, everyone (androids included) gets a mass text from Goro.]

Kurama and I have found out something important from the ghosts of the Trivesta, and Jailbreak has something she needs to tell everyone too. If you can make it, come to the common room as soon as you can. If not, I'll have a camera broadcasting everything so you can respond over the network.

p.s. this is jailbreak srsly get your ass over here

[When people arrive in the common room, they'll find the glass table piled with a truly ludicrous amount of canned and bottled drinks, in an impressive assortment. There's something there to suit just about everyone's tastes, so long as it's non-alcoholic.

More importantly, though, a tablet has been propped up against some cans, set to record as much of the room as possible. The three mentioned in the group text are already there, with Goro looking more serious than he has at any point other than his calling Shido out.]

I'm going to cut to the chase: we aren't the first people to come here through the Fissures, just the first living people. I've already told some people this, but the jellyfish on the Trivesta were actually heavily degraded ghosts. I repaired them enough to communicate more effectively, and found out that they arrived with the ship...long before any of us appeared here.

Whatever Jailbreak found, I'll leave for her to explain.

Comments

Shortly before the text...

[foolishjustice]

[As much as Goro hates the heat, this morning's trip out to the reef had been worth it. As he walks back into the cool of the station, he takes a deep breath of relief and looks at Kurama.]

I think we need to treat this information like our discoveries in the mall.

[nor_iron_bars]

[So sometimes when you run into someone, it gets uncomfortably literal- Jailbreak only barely avoids this, stepping hastily around the two of them as she strides down the corridor towards the common room at a speed only barely qualifying as a walk instead of a run.]

[It's hard to tell between the speed of the encounter and the fact that the bottom half of her face is obscured from view by her mask, but she looks... a lot more serious than she does normally.]

[Akechi's comment about discoveries doesn't register until half a second later, and she pauses briefly before turning around.]

Yeah, uh... define 'discoveries' here.

Meeting Start

[nor_iron_bars]

[Jail nods thankfully to Akechi and steps forward from where she'd been leaning against the wall. She looks surprisingly focused compared to her normal shitposting self.]

Short version? I ain't surprised that we weren't the first, 'cause we didn't just come through. Something pulled us in. And it's still out there.

[founderinglight]

[This is me establishing Izunia's presence occupying... Well what's usually his napping chair off to the side, with a notebook and pen in his lap.

Anyway, he's not saying shit at the moment but he did come immediately after the network announcement.

Also there's a smear of icing on his MY FEET ARE DOWN HERE shirt. That's surely not at all related to anything.]

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna is yet another person who doesn't really have any information to contribute to the meeting. It's an unpleasantly familiar feeling.

That doesn't mean she'll just be watching quietly, though.]

Then--we were brought here intentionally?

[blackestwitch]

[ Maddie is there, claiming an entire armchair for herself, draped out over the armrests instead of sitting like a normal person. She has her phone out, recording audio. She doesn't need the whole video thing man, she's good with audio. She's also got a Dr. Jalapeño open in one hand, and is trying to look bored while actually paying attention. ]

Okay boss, that's cool. Not ominous at all, either.

[ Outfit check: tank top, flannel tied around waist, new hair bow. Flip flops are kicked off next to the chair. ]

[hairpincurves]

[The girl version of Akira is here with paper and pen of her own. She actually doesn't have anything to say herself, but it's probably worth getting shit written down for her own reference.]

[byanyother_name]

[Well. Kurama is going to shoot Goro a Significant Look before leaning back slightly in his seat.]

That's something some of us have suspected for some time, actually. How were you able to confirm?

[plentyfriendly]

That doesn't surprise me. It's never an accident with these things.

[Phi greatly respects your ability to treat this seriously. For now she's thinking it might be possible she misjudged you.]

It raises more questions, of course, but doesn't everything?

[personalityquarks]

[And because you surely didn't expect this kind of thing publicly announced to not get an android...

Yep, here's an android. Up with their blue scarf around their head and the belt around their waist, to be specific, at first standing on the sidelines looking concerned, but - ]

What...?

[ - Honestly? Looking more genuinely shocked than most of the humans and human-adjacent people in the room.]

[theosophomoric]

[Sonja's not taking notes, but from where she perches on the arm of one of the couches, she listens with an intensity that suggests she probably means to later.]

So it seems to me that the next question - or one of the next questions - is whether we can make contact, and supposing we can, whether we ought to.

Re: Meeting Start

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Unto itself, not surprising.

But can I safely assume there's more to it?

[fistsofchange]

[Lin didn't have much to add, at least at first, so she just sat on one of the couches in the rooms and listened to everyone else spout their various theories about reality warps and ghosts and other things she didn't really know enough about to have a strong opinion about.

She did have at least one thought, though.]

Maybe it's trying to call for help.

I don't know, obviously. None of us do. But...If something is doing this to us on purpose, I think it would be a mistake to immediately assume that it means us harm.

All I'm saying is that even if it's been really annoying to be trapped here, we shouldn't let that anger make us assume that this thing is hostile.

[dubiouslychthonic]

[This is all a bit outside Jetshard's area of expertise and fairly early in her day, but she'd been up by the time the announcement went out, so she's here, observing from the edges of the group with a cup of coffee in hand.]

[moonlightglory]

[Faith nods. This makes more sense than most of the shit that's gone on around here.]

So, all we have to do is find it and kill it.

[giltfoil]

[Ravus arrives with a small pile of books tucked under his arm, which he places on the table.]

I have done some research of my own, concerning the history of this world before our arrival. Apparently, the Fissures were not known to be produced by any specific cause, but were a phenomenon that destabilized the entire world, beginning from the areas with the most magical development.

Further, I discovered a journal which details the inception and purpose of the project that created this station among others.

[motherfucking_ghost]

So...shit, so anyone with magic needs to stop using magic, cuz it's tearing this place apart?

[burninglight]

And that purpose would be what, exactly? You can hardly just leave it at that.

[hairpincurves]

Hey, can I borrow those books? I want to take notes from them for my own reference.

[beguiledcard]

[ After Akana asks-- ]

Any chance I can borrow the books after she's done, to take notes and pictures?

[beguiledcard]

[ He watched everything over the network, but finally arrives fifteen probably like... thirty minutes late with something better than Starvicks.

And not looking incredibly thrilled, honestly? Because, yeah, he's worried as hell about all of this, but there's... one thing that kind of piles on top of everything else, for him. A something that has him muttering so that only whoever's closest to him can hear it. ]

So, on top of everything, there's a chance there's a timeline out there where we're just... missing.

[ That's not a happy feeling. It's the kind of feeling that causes one's stomach to seemingly sink. ]

[nojohnyouare]

We thought Church was evidence otherwise, but... Now it's possible.

[Her fists clench and she shakes her head.]

I can't allow that.

[fistsofchange]

Are you...suggesting that you thought we WEREN'T missing?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... I'm dead.

[That's Pidonus' entire reaction to that reveal. Well, other than looking like she'd really like to faint right about now.]

[dragonmouth]

Then the man I'm loathe to call my sister's father has gotten his wish.

I'm almost tempted to return out of spite.