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Lieutenant Ari Tayrey ([personal profile] astrogator) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2023-10-29 01:46 pm

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:
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!]
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[personal profile] mistertwister 2023-11-06 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okie's greatest challenge in coming up with a message to send is thinking of where to send it. There's no one back home waiting to hear from him, and he still can't bring himself to imagine being somewhere that isn't here. Eventually, he remembers the note that came with the jacket he got from sundries. The names he feels like he should know.]

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.