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[hot_mess_express]

Who: anyone
When: day 38, after noon
Where: in and around the train

[A gentle breeze keeps the afternoon cool. It seems peaceful around now, with the malice pushed back so far, unless you're heading to the island of concentrated malice of course.

It's a good day to relax and daydream.

Distantly you might sometimes hear the tick ticking of clockwork? Or it might be your imagination.

Speaking of imagination, if you think about things too hard you may find your thoughts and feelings shared with those nearby. Or even if you don't think hard at all.

At the mildest this might simply be like your thoughts and emotions being understood by others next to you, either in a vague or explicitly detailed way, but at the most extreme you might project shared delusions. Something like others getting to watch your own memories. Or fantasy sequences. Or inner monologues. Or maybe even blending you delusions with another's.

Whether it goes that far or remains a more telepathic/empathic thing is very random.]

Comments

[schrodingerscockroach]

Especially here. [Looks at the water. That'd be really humid.]

What has the weather been like? Just rainy or....?

[bowtiedbones]

Mostly a lot of rain lately.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Hm. [He wonders what that says about the rest of the world. Or maybe they're in the rainy months.]

[Or maybe it's the Malice.]

[Actually]

Wait, how long has the train been in operation anyway?

[bowtiedbones]

This is Day 38.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....that.....

Is a lot shorter than I was expecting.

[bowtiedbones]

We're still on our first star, you know.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I didn't, actually.

[Clover is a mess of information, mostly used the app.]

[bowtiedbones]

It's been 38 days and 16 trials. There are 100 known stars, and we need to purify at least 10 of them.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....what happens at ten?

[bowtiedbones]

Um, we possibly save the universe?

[schrodingerscockroach]

With ten percent.

[How does that even work.]

[bowtiedbones]

It's not a math problem, it's strategy.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Are these ten planets in strategically strong places?

[bowtiedbones]

Ask the Construct. I only know what I got from the Prince.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Right. That's fair. I'll ask him tonight. [Just in case things Happen today.]

[bowtiedbones]

It's going to be a while before we have to deal with those ones anyways, and that's if the train's able to go where we need it to, too.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I know, but it'd be good to know what to look out, or see if there's some way to find out more information. Things like that.

[bowtiedbones]

I think all of those things are covered on the Prince and his retinue's end. We don't have any astronomical capabilities.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....I wonder if we could change that. Maybe see if we could get some kind of astrophysics lab or observatory next upgrade.

[bowtiedbones]

You know astronomy is like, hard, right?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yes.

But I'm also special ops in space and maybe had an AI in my head at some point. I should at least have some knowledge on how to observe things through space for tactics. Hopefully I'm not the only space travel person, but there's also potential for books and very smart people on board.

[bowtiedbones]

Sorry you're what?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Special ops.

In space.

From my perspective, we've had computers and space travel for over half a millenia. Viable deep space travel a few centuries.

We've colonized a lot of other planets. There's a good chance I wasn't even born on Earth. Or been on it.

[bowtiedbones]

Why are you still watching Star Wars five centuries later!?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Because around three dozen sequels were made and they're classic films?

And because there's been a resurgence of classic films as old messages sent to space around that time finally reach planets we've since colonized thanks to slipstream travel.

[That or literally everyone in RVB is a film nerd.]