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I'll send an SOS to the world
Who: Everyone who wants to!
What: Messages for the outside, NOVEMBER PLOT
When: Mid-October onwards
Where: By Phil's signpost, the lounge, Ari's cabin
Warnings: None yet, will update as needed
Notes: Credit to Batya for the first prompt!
1. Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
A day or two after the signpost goes up, a small table shows up next to it, with a large blank notebook from Sundries. It has been labeled on the front, in careful printing: MAIL CALL.
A nearby note, in the same printing, reads:
2. Only hope can keep me together
In the second half of October, Ari will be in the lounge and other communal areas with her laptop. Anyone who passes by, whether she knows them well or not, will be asked to help her with a project. She doesn't want anyone to be forgotten, she says. She wants a record, because existence is so uncertain. Her injury made her value the people here on the ship more, she'll say, - and the bandage still around her head might speak to that. She encourages people to let her make a recording of them, talking about themselves.
'We can do it however you like,' she'll say. 'Flatvid, looking direct into the camera, or I can activate the holorecorders, give you your own holovid. If you don't know what to say, I'll ask questions. Please?' Are you really going to turn down the earnest young Tradeliner?
3. Sendin' out an SOS
Late in October, Ari calls a meeting of her co-conspirators. She gives them each a different time to arrive at her cabin, so the first arrivals will get to spend time helping with video editing or rocket construction while they await the others. There's time for private chat - but when everyone who decided to come along should be there, discussion begins in earnest.
[ooc: prompts divided up below for organisational purposes; contact me or Batya if you'd like to do something different!]
What: Messages for the outside, NOVEMBER PLOT
When: Mid-October onwards
Where: By Phil's signpost, the lounge, Ari's cabin
Warnings: None yet, will update as needed
Notes: Credit to Batya for the first prompt!
1. Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
A day or two after the signpost goes up, a small table shows up next to it, with a large blank notebook from Sundries. It has been labeled on the front, in careful printing: MAIL CALL.
A nearby note, in the same printing, reads:
If you could send a message back home, or onward to the next place you want to go, what would it say? Write it here for posterity.Pens and markers are available, in a tall cup scavenged from the buffet table.
2. Only hope can keep me together
In the second half of October, Ari will be in the lounge and other communal areas with her laptop. Anyone who passes by, whether she knows them well or not, will be asked to help her with a project. She doesn't want anyone to be forgotten, she says. She wants a record, because existence is so uncertain. Her injury made her value the people here on the ship more, she'll say, - and the bandage still around her head might speak to that. She encourages people to let her make a recording of them, talking about themselves.
'We can do it however you like,' she'll say. 'Flatvid, looking direct into the camera, or I can activate the holorecorders, give you your own holovid. If you don't know what to say, I'll ask questions. Please?' Are you really going to turn down the earnest young Tradeliner?
3. Sendin' out an SOS
Late in October, Ari calls a meeting of her co-conspirators. She gives them each a different time to arrive at her cabin, so the first arrivals will get to spend time helping with video editing or rocket construction while they await the others. There's time for private chat - but when everyone who decided to come along should be there, discussion begins in earnest.
[ooc: prompts divided up below for organisational purposes; contact me or Batya if you'd like to do something different!]
Notebook Messages
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I'm not here just to disappear.
--Rita Mordio, mage of Aspio, from the world of Terca Lumireis.
She doesn't write more because spilling her feelings on paper like this, to potential strangers no less, just about makes her want to gag. Even if she does have a lot of feelings regarding people she misses, people she wants to see again, and people she wants to continue to be with.
Rita has all of Jade's
diarynotes, so not only does she write her own, but she includes a couple choice pages of his writings that describe their general situation and the zombie diner.]no subject
Fio spends nearly about half an hour, hunched over the notebook and writing out the message with care:
Dear Mr. Monster,
Are you still in The Cage? Did you get your wish to become human? Please tell Carrie and Tutie that I said hello.
I am now 8 years old. I had a birthday party and it was the first party where I didn't have to be alone.
This year, I will be turning 9 years old. I hope that I have more birthdays. One day, we can celebrate together.
I have a new family and friends. Some day, I want you to meet them. I bet they would think you're very cool!
I miss you a lot. I hope you haven't been lonely.
Let's play again together sometime. I'll always be waiting for you.
Love,
Fio ]
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dr. bill foster
when i stare out at the artificial night, into the countless stars somehow contained within the limited perimeter of this pocket universe... remembering how impossibly far away i am from you. despite from your perspective never having left at all. i think of all you've taught me about relativity. and i feel closer to you than ever.
you always told me that chaos is beautiful.
-ava
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And she writes. In small print in a corner, or along a margin, LIEUTENANT TAYREY WAS NEVER A PASSENGER with all the meaning that little line carries for her. Eventually, as the book gains more messages, she has the courage for two more.
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Still. He left too many people behind to not say anything.
There are three letters, not written in the book but on paper that's been folded shut and laid between the pages. ]
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Hey boss.
I'm okay. It's actually not too bad here. There's a lot of people like me -- way more than I ever thought were out there. Nobody wants to hurt me. Most of them don't even think 'monster' is a bad word.
But since I did promise to be your sidekick forever and ever no takebacks (what, you think that promise just went one way?), I swear I'm gonna get home soon. If I'm not already. I don't know, is there a me in the evil lair right now who's just missing a pinky or something? Maybe I'm that pinky. A little piece that went 'poof!' and floated off before the rest of me squished back together.
Whatever, either way I'll see you soon. Promise.
Instead of a signature, there's a drawing of an enormous pink shark, jaws wide, chasing down a boat that looks a lot like the Serena Eterna.
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Dad & Jenny,
I don't know if this will ever reach you. I don't know if it's really even fair to tell you this but... I'm alive. I didn't die in that fire. Your gift didn't cause it. That torch saved my life. Every day I think about how much you must blame yourself and I just need you to know that you're the reason I'm still okay. I am. I really am okay. I'm in love, and I am living a good life just like you always wanted for me. I wish I could tell you more but it's not safe for you if I do. I miss you both every day. Jenny, I read your messages on Facebook every year on my birthday. They meant everything to me. But you don't have to write them anymore. Unless you still want to. I won't be able to read them from where I am, but that's okay. I'm happy. I will always miss you. I'm sorry I had to leave without saying goodbye so... I love you.
Goodbye.
Love,
Jonah Jameson Lewis
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The first is addressed to "(No-canon-first-name) Yuuki:"
Dad,
Part of me is still out there. I'm doing well.
I hope you're okay, too.
Leave Sotoba and don't beat yourself up.
Natsuno
The second letter is addressed to "Clarke Griffin of the Sky People." Unlike the letter to his father, Natsuno doesn't sign this one. Even if a version of her does get, she won't know his name.
Don't ever doubt yourself.
You'll be okay.
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To my siblings,
I miss you guys. I know that probably sounds dumb, but it's weird not even being in the same universe as you guys. It's been more than a year since I've been here and I've been sober for 9 months now. I know. Shocker. But I chose it for me. I've got friends and people that won't let me fuck it up. I'm even married. His name is Oda Nobunaga and he's...he's good to me. I think you'd like him. He doesn't have powers or anything, but he's good with a sword. And a weirdo. I hope you're all okay wherever you are. I love you. Don't make that face, either. I can feel it through time and space.
Klaus
There's a pause before he starts the next one.
Mom,
I don't think I ever said it, but I appreciate everything you did for us. I love you and I'm sorry I gave you such a hard time with the drinking, drugs, and jail time.
Love, Klaus
A brief pause before he considers this last one.
To the asshole formerly known as Dad,
I hope this letter finds you alone and deeply annoyed.
Fuck you. I am worthy.
I'm revoking the title of father from you.
And again, fuck you.
Klaus
And one last one.
Dave,
I wish you well and I hope that wherever you are and whenever you read this, you're alive and happy.
A Friend
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The second page is in a much more encoded version of braille, impossible to map to any version she's been teaching in her classes.
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Miranda,
Learn to love again.
It's worth it.
-V
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Chevy, Chiro and Dennis,
Sorry I cant be ther to finish the work ur doing in Boston. Chevy, i figgered it out and she's still paing attenshun to me out here. I know why ur hiding it but u dont need to always always keep it from all of evryone forever.
Chiro if u get this, u gotta throw a kaffeeklatsch for evryone with the good shit. Get Arianna to come outta the liberry for this one dont let Jeremyah keep her away. Tell Cora she should only sing if she wants to. Tell all the Rat-fuckers even Colibri that they're welcom for this one. I learned there lessons well out here.
I'm okay tho. You gotta know that. I'm okay and not alon.
Bash
Letter 2:
To the Ups and the Downs I knew,
Jon ur probly gonna hate reading this so u first. I met Daisy, she was shocked to hear I knew u. She's doing okay here. She got peopl and that helps. You know having peopl helps. Don't push urs away. I know ur still probly doing stupid shit. That's ok bcuz stupid shit gotta be done sometimes. just. don't always be the loudest one doing it. getting caut isn't how u make ur point.
Chris I'm back to being deathish not lifeish and that's a helluva thing. But i remember what u taut me about ravens and ur goddess and death. Its good man.
Alec and Keith if i ever see u again in any univers, I know you wont have a contract with me, but i will still do anything i can to see you happy. You were mine and i loved u. And that doesn't just go away when people disappeer. Beeng back really hilites that for me. The love doesnt just disappeer too.
Artemis I hope somday u exist in a place wher u hav room to be the sweet boy u are in ur hart, with somone who pampers and loves you silly, who satisfys the needs u dont get to talk abt there.
Nate keep making magic. Keep hope and lite alive in the down in the theater. Its hard i get it (heh hard), but it's important too.
Anyone else I missed, it wasnt because i didnt love u enuff. Time and space fuck bad with memory and I think some of dupe I really just wanted to forget. But for the people? You were real and what was there was real. Keep on enduring no matter what. I'll do the same.
Bash
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[The signature is large and elegant, closing with a flourish.]
Elsewhere [Not publicly available IC]
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STR 63-11-11. S 87-04-24. WE ARE REAL. HE IS HAPPY. SPARE US.
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Miranda and Asteroid,
I got the jacket you sent, whether you meant for me to get it or not. I'm Okie, or maybe Cal, if either of those names mean anything to you. I don't think I know you. I haven't known anyone with your names. But every time I read y'all's note, my mind itches, like there's a memory that isn't there.
I want y'all to know I existed. I want someone to hope I still do.
Crumpled-up ball of paper on the floor nearby
Dear "Them",
If you don't let me and my friends and Maxwell go home I swear I'll find a way to throw the entire moon through your living room window. In whatever way that applies to you. See how you like that.
-Wilson P. Higgsbury
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There's an angular sigil drawn next to the message.
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You are more than your service. Do not let them turn you into a body to be discarded.
Someday, you will learn how to love him.
Someday, you will learn how to love yourself.
I know. I have seen it.
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Re: Notebook Messages
CG: I DON’T KNOW WHETHER ANY OF YOU IDIOTS WILL READ THIS.
CG: REGARDLESS OF EVEN GETTING A MESSAGE BACK OUT OF THIS POCKET DIMENSION, WHICH I HAVE BEEN ASSURED MANY TIMES IS IMPOSSIBLE
CG: I KNOW
CG: I JUST KNOW
CG: THAT MY BONE BULGE OF AN ALPHA TIMELINE COUNTERPART WILL BASICALLY JUST IGNORE ANYTHING I SAY HERE AS THE CONDESCENDING RAMBLINGS OF AN IRRELEVANT HAS-BEEN VERSION OF MYSELF.
CG: I KNOW BECAUSE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WAS HIM, AND I AM HIM, SO I HAPPEN TO BE AN EXPERT ON THE SUBJECT.
CG: WAIT. RUNNING OUT OF SPACE. HOLD ON.
Another page.
CG: OKAY, BACK TO THE POINT.
CG: WHICH VERSION OF KARKAT I AM IS HONESTLY NOT THAT RELEVANT, BUT ALL I’LL SAY IS THAT I GOT UNCEREMONIOUSLY RIPPED AWAY FROM THE MAIN TIMELINE ON THE METEOR AND HAVE BEEN USED AS SOME KIND OF ENERGETIC FUEL FOR A POWERFUL ENTITY, ALONG WITH A VARIETY OF PEOPLE FROM ASSORTED UNIVERSES AND POINTS IN TIME.
CG: ALSO, NEPETA IS HERE.
CG: I HAVE THINGS I WANT TO SAY TO ALL OF YOU, SO PLEASE TRY NOT TO COMPLETELY DISMISS ALL OF THIS WHILE CRUMPLING MY WORDS INTO A BALL AND THROWING IT OUT INTO THE COLD VACUUM OF SPACE.
CG: TO KANAYA.
CG: I MISS YOU PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY. YOU ARE ONE OF THE MOST STABLE FRIENDS I’VE EVER HAD, AND I SPENT FAR TOO LONG WHINING ABOUT MY OWN BULLSHIT INSTEAD OF BEING THERE FOR YOU WHEN YOU NEEDED IT. I KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO FIND A NEW PURPOSE IN THE NEW UNIVERSE, EVEN IF I WON’T BE THERE TO SEE IT.
CG: LALONDE. TREAT KANAYA WELL. I WILL PSYCHOLOGICALLY PROJECT MYSELF THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO STRANGLE YOU IF YOU EVER MAKE HER SAD.
CG: BUT LET’S BE REAL, YOU HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR HER. WAY BETTER THAN ANY OF THE OTHER IDIOTS SHE’S BEEN FLUSHED FOR.
CG: TO STRIDER.
CG: I KNOW YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW IT WASN’T ACTUALLY EVER THAT BAD BETWEEN US. THE VERSION OF ME THAT’S THERE WON’T ADMIT TO ANY OF THIS, BUT... OKAY, I’M JUST GOING TO STOP HERE BEFORE I EMBARRASS BOTH OF US ANY FURTHER.
CG: TO TEREZI.
CG: EVERYTHING I SAID IN THAT DREAM BUBBLE, I STILL MEAN IT. AND EVEN THOUGH I’M PROBABLY NEVER GOING TO SEE YOU AGAIN - WELL, NOT THIS VERSION OF ME ANYWAY - I CAN ACCEPT THAT, KNOWING THAT YOU’LL BE OKAY WITH WHATEVER YOU DO.
CG: TO GAMZEE.
CG: HANG ON. YOU CAN GET THE HELP YOU NEED. THERE’S SOMEONE HERE I’VE BEEN TALKING WITH WHO’S BEEN THROUGH SIMILAR STUFF, AND I’M SEEING HER GET BETTER OVER TIME. IT’LL HAPPEN FOR YOU.
CG: TO EGBERT AND HARLEY.
CG: IF YOU’RE READING THIS, THEN IT MEANS YOU’RE ALL TOGETHER. AND THAT MEANS IT ALL WORKED OUT IN THE END.
CG: TO MYSELF.
CG: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ATTEMPT TO TAKE SOME OF THIS SERIOUSLY. YOU CAN HELP OUR FRIENDS IF YOU STOP WALLOWING IN SELF-PITY. DO WHAT I CAN’T DO, AND ACTUALLY BE PRESENT IN THE MOMENT. THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD THINGS IN YOUR LIFE IF YOU JUST ALLOW YOURSELF TO HAVE THEM.
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Video Messages
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Peace and prosperity to you.
I am Lieutenant Arilanna Tayrey of the Tradeline Starship Prosperity, astrogator flying the Keturah line, once Arilanna Kittredge of Cardalek, 284 of the Tower. My papers are appended.
This is an urgent all-channel call for assistance. The gravity of this situation cannot be overestimated. If you hear this, then whoever you are, I urge you to come to our rescue. Follow the trajectory.
I have been held captive for perhaps a standard year. There is no war. There is no conflict, no ransom demand, no path to negotiating my own freedom. All that my captor wants is my suffering, and that of my fellow prisoners. We are not people to him. We are fuel to sustain his bubble universe, and once we cease to be useful to him we suffer a fate so cruel that I can't speak of it.
[Very deliberate, because anyone understanding Ari's Company Standard is vanishingly unlikely to understand any talk of souls and ghosts and the like. Leave the horrors to the imagination.]
The being holding us here is powerful and has done this to thousands of others before us. We number maybe seventy now. Most are civilians. All are from different sectors, vast distances apart. You'll see some of these people on the other holovids. [See that some of them really are alien!] Come to us, help us escape - but approach with caution. We don't want anyone else to be trapped here.
I don't know how long I have left. None of us do. If I'm... if I'm gone before you reach us, speak to Cassandra de Rolo
or John Crichton,and if you can, tell the Tradelines of my fate.I was never a passenger.
Let probability smile on us both, let this message reach you, may you- [a pause, a quick breath, suppressed emotion] -may you fly through safe skies.
[Ari speaks four languages. Ari records this message four times, plus a shorter holovid in which she conveys similar sentiment purely through spacer hand signals.
EDIT: And Ari re-records these, just the same but with the omission of Crichton's name, because no matter how improbable she thinks it is that his enemies will be the ones to find the probe, she understands why he wants to minimise risk.]
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See OOC Note At Bottom
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For simplicity's sake, this is before the Oct excursion
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The Meeting [CLOSED]
Ari will give an update on mission progress. There are a few topics in particular she'll want to raise.
1. That this could be dangerous and if anyone doesn't want to be involved on the day then everyone will understand. She'll say that she has confidence they can pull this off, but in the event that it does go wrong, she's going to take full responsibility because she's the one organising it all.
2. Distracting Friday. Ari has realised that it's not enough to just cause random damage to the ship, although that won't hurt. She's looking at ways to gain (and split) Friday's attention. So what does Friday actually react to? Fires. People smoking in the wrong place. People trying to take jewelry, or take anything from the stores without going through a nonsensical fake payment process. Any other ideas? She thinks text alerts to everyone they know saying 'the rules don't apply right now, try it out!' immediately before launch might work.
3. The Captain. She doesn't use that name for him; he's always 'our captor' or occasionally 'the fake captain.' She'd suggest having at least two people on the bridge - one to call him out and start giving a mutiny speech, while the other(s) attempt to get into the bridge, using their magic (or fake sigil magic, doesn't matter, it's all a distraction)
Ari is keen to hear everyone's thoughts so comment on any of those, improve her tactical plans, have better ones, or bring up your own new agenda items or concerns!
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2. He points out that they need to consider the option of attracting unwanted attention, whether it's hostile forces from people's worlds, the captain's former "masters" or just about anyone who'd love to get their hands on a jinn. Natsuno is 100% behind the launch, but they should be prepared for a possible fight if it goes wrong.
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The Meeting [CLOSED]
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