[046]

[shortsghtedlove]

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[uberwaldian]

[Her text is written, in a sure but slightly messy hand.]

I didn't realize this wasn't all normal, to be honest.

If I can be of any help to the investigation, please let me know. I have quite a nose knack for this sort of thing.

-Cpt. Angua

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[shortsghtedlove]

As far as I know the water changes on the deck, but nothing else. Though two years ago there was some incident with mirrors and a demonic invasion, apparently. I wasn't here then, so I don't know all the details.

And right now I think gathering new information and either verifying or disproving the current theories -- and formulating new ones in the latter case -- is what should be done.

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[uberwaldian]

Unfortunately, I don't have anything to compare the current goings-on to... but I'll try to take note of anything that seems suspicious, shall I?

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[shortsghtedlove]

It would be appreciated, Captain.

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[justareverie]

I hadn't heard yet of those invasions.Have you lived through one, or know someone who has?

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[shortsghtedlove]

The Aztec invasion happened only a few days after I arrived. The ship started to take on the characteristics of an Aztec temple, soon after their... gods started possessing some of us and their soldiers rounded people up to cut their hearts out as a sacrifice. Apparently Coyolxauqhi called her family and wanted to use us to pay back her blood debt. It didn't work , but she has since left the Barge.

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[justareverie]

[ The reply is a few seconds delayed. ]

So... she essentially tried to take over the Barge by leaking her world into it. How do we know that isn't happening again?

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[shortsghtedlove]

She's not here any more. But it may very well be someone else this time.

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[nicebluehat]

[she's done the equivalent of /right-clicks /saves on this whole post]

I might be able to forward you further data if I could have a copy of that recording for analysis. It's as yet the one gap in my observations.

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[shortsghtedlove]

[Thank his bureaucratic soul that he likes making files so much.] I see. I shall send it to you.

[Private]

[And he sends her a version of the first message here, with his talking at the beginning and end cut.]

[nicebluehat]

[private]

[have a text file sent over, almost the same as she sent on to Una and possible a few others off-screen; a compilation of other people's public comments and the commonalities between them, her observations of the phenomena above decks, and a short account of this thread. All speculation has been cut, as have her experiments on the haze, because she's not entirely sure about Rassilon from everything she knows and doesn't want questions asked she doesn't care to answer.]

As requested. I hope you find it of use.

[shortsghtedlove]

[Beautiful.] I am sure I will. Thank you, Miss Shirogane. [He is totally trustworthy! Just see how polite he is!]

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[timesbureaucrat]

[On the one hand, bureaucracy and organization draw him like a moth to the flame. On the other hand, it's Rassilon. And he fears working *with* Rassilon could end up feeling a lot like working *for* Rassilon and make him slide back into habits he'd rather not slide back into. So he compromises and keeps his reply brusk.]

I've taken quite a few chronon readings. The chances of this being a time anomaly are slim.

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[shortsghtedlove]

[He'll be nice as long as Narvin is nice! The fiancé gets ever so cross whenever he's mean to Narvin.]

I see. Do you have any more information? Or theories?

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[timesbureaucrat]

At this point there's as much evidence for ghosts as anything else. [He says mordantly. It's not that he thinks that ghosts are likely, but that their evidence for *anything* is basically nonexistent.]

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[shortsghtedlove]

How annoying. I almost wish they'd do something new, just so we'd get new information.

[most_feared]

[Hates you. Hates you so much, Rassilon.]

I'm inclined toward the other Barge theory, myself. It could be more than one of the above though. One theory shouldn't be secluded to itself.

[shortsghtedlove]

[Does so not care about you. Except for the part where you said he'd manipulate Omega, you loathsome little wretch.]

I agree. Your fiancé [See? He can totally deal with it.] -- or husband now, I wouldn't know -- said he couldn't find anything with his equipment regarding a time anomaly, so that one has become more unlikely. But for the rest, we have yet to find out any information prove or disprove them.

[most_feared]

[You are a manipulative sack of shit.]

Fiancée. Calling him Narvin will be fine. [He'll keep it publicly professional, because they have a job here.] Invasion and Degradation seem likely. As does psychological torture.

[shortsghtedlove]

[But not towards Omega, you alien worm.]

I see. And torture? Done by the Admiral or something that wishes the Admiral harm?