WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[Well, this is...happening. This is a thing. This is your life now. The Commander is expecting you to just up and kill one another, and then try to get away with it. No big deal, right? You guys can handle this. You won't fall for what she has. She's clearly an idiot. A loud idiot, but still an idiot. She's not going to get one over you.

...Right?

In any case, the Commander's quarters are now open for anyone who decides they can actually stand to be in the same room as her, but beware - any favor you might ask of her is going to come at a price, and who knows what she'll ask you to do if you decide to gain a boon from her. Unless you're a suck-up like Baku - then she'll apparently be flattered. Maybe that's a good tactic to use?


Whatever you do, try not to murder the bread again. The Bread Did Nothing Wrong.


There are fifteen strangers in this place.]



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Comments

[earietale]

Any chance you could make one for the girls bathroom too?

[Look. The sole teenage girl here has gone too long without a shower, and she’d prefer asking about these new ones than immediately going to the Commander and asking her.]

[crouching_sin]

[He just sighs.]

If you get me another hose from one of the spacesuits. Otherwise I can make sure no one comes in while you're in there.

[earietale]

[Looks at the back of her own suit.

Just...sighs and turns around.]

I don’t think I’m going to need it, so you can go ahead.

[She just needs a shower.]

[crouching_sin]

[He nods and carefully disconnects the hose from her back.]

We'll need to head to the cafeteria to gather a few things to finish this. And the water will get on the floor.

[Just... fair warning.]

[earietale]

It’s better than having to deal with her.

[Obviously.]

What do we need? Plastic wrap? Duct tape?

[crouching_sin]

I haven't found any duct tape, so I've been using wrappers from the rations to stuff in the holes and one with some cut holes to use as a showerhead. You have to hold it, but like you said, it's better than dealing with her.

[earietale]

Well, it’s probably gonna be difficult, but it doesn’t look like anything here will be easy.

Do you want to walk with me or should I just go and grab the stuff?

[She sort of wants to properly introduce herself, but he doesn’t seem like the most sociable, so...*shrug*]

[crouching_sin]

I'll walk with you. Let's go.

[Not like he's going to be able to do much else around here right now. He's too prone to a headache right now to do hacking.]

[earietale]

I’m Barbara, by the way. Barbara Finch.

[Maybe if she introduces herself they won’t go into awkward silence.]

[crouching_sin]

[He's fine with awkward silence, but if they're going that route... maybe he can get some information.]

Naoya. ... You're American, I'm guessing?

[earietale]

Um, sort of? I’m from America, but both my parents are from Norway. I think that still counts, though.

Are you...not from America, then?

[Part of her assumed most people were. Everyone else was from various other English speaking countries.]

[crouching_sin]

It's just the name, it sounded American. And you look like you're Western, at least.

I was living in Japan before this, though I've really lived all over.

[earietale]

Yeah, that’s fair. My mom and dad decided to just have more American names for their kids, like Molly or Calvin or Sam.

[She blinks in surprise. She wasn’t expecting that as an answer!]

Japan? Wow. I didn’t think we’d be from all over the world.

[crouching_sin]

Hm? Oh, yes. There's at least one other person here I know for sure is from Japan. At least, I'm reasonably sure.

[earietale]

Do you think you can translate for them then? Or can they speak English too?

[‘Cause clearly that’s what language is being said right now.]

[crouching_sin]

Well, I could. But I'm not speaking English right now. I assume you are?

[earietale]

[...blink...]

I’m...sorry? You’re...you are speaking English right now. You’re speaking in as much English as I am.

[crouching_sin]

And to me, you're speaking Japanese. It just seems to be a function of this place.

[earietale]

...okay, then I can at least say the normal future doesn't have...universal translators or anything.

[Even though that would be incredibly more helpful than lasers]

[crouching_sin]

Mine doesn't either. ... Well, somewhat. The internet is made of the same universal language no matter where you go, but that's a bit more of an abstract common language.

[earietale]

...okay, this might be sort of hard for you to explain, but I have to ask...what's the internet?

[She said, completely straight-faced.]

[crouching_sin]

[Oh boy.]

... What year are you from? That will help me break it down for you.

[earietale]

1960.

[Just soon enough to know about computers, but far enough away to have never heard of the internet.]

[crouching_sin]

Ah. All right. So... imagine a computer. You can see things on it, run programs, and all of that. Now hook it up to another computer, and you can get information from the second computer and run information back and forth between them. Now hook it up to a third, a fourth, and so on. Thousands of computers all together... and that makes up the internet. It's not a specific place so much as a concept of all of those computers interacting and talking together. You can look at websites with information, chat with people over long distances, and play games with other people, among other things.

[earietale]

...that's...wow.

[So the regular future seems nice. Good to know.]

So, basically...you could communicate with someone...all the way across the world...if you wanted.