WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1


[So, once Zero has said his peace, everything is quiet as the week dawns. A new Game. Nonary, Decision, Murder. All three. It doesn't matter. Everyone is here to kill or die. The coin has been tossed, the die is cast. The rules are set; the watches are active.

The question now is, why? Why is this happening? Why you? Surely no one is so desperate to kill on this ship, right? Not when the people onboard are so interesting and varied. Perhaps everyone can get along; perhaps there's a way off the ship without bloodshed. Of course, if there is, it might be be best to be prepared for a long stay-there's no doubt Zero won't make it that easy to escape. Then there's the matter that-apparently-people have new powers they did not possess before, while those the strangers once had are gone. Perhaps it's time to test those out and see what they can do if you're not Kira.

So, let's see what happens this week. Hopefully it will be a peaceful one.

There are currently 19 strangers on this ship.]

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[leaderoftheresistance]

[ Baum is staring at the group, looking at everyone and frowning. He was standing there a hint earlier. He frowns, eying the group, and intros himself as The electrical power guy. ]

"My name is General John Connor, Leader of the Human Resistance against Skynet."

The man stands solid and fearless.

"I fight an artificial intelligence named Skynet in 2018 with my forces named Tech-Com",

[somuchshipping]

Skynet? Hermes hasn't heard of any Skynet units before.

"What gen is the Skynet that you fight against? And what did the Skynet do to have to be fought against?"

Of course the AI present would ask questions about the other AI.

[leaderoftheresistance]

John frowned, keeping the talk casual without bringing up a sensitive topic to him.

"What do you mean? Generation? There's no generation of Skynet I know of."

He and Skynet signed a peace treaty earlier after war straight for 30 years. "

Skynet shot the missiles from our country and killed 3,000,000,000,000 humans and became sentient. Not all machines are bad.

[somuchshipping]

"You said Skynet's an AI, like I am. I've never heard of a Skynet unit before, but maaaaaaybe it's because I'm from 2017 if we go by real world time and 8249 if we go by ingame time."

Three trillion people, huh? That sure is... a lot. Most likely just a huge exaggeration, though.

"Why didn't you just trap Skynet when it went to kill all those humans? I mean disabling the shells of AIs isn't all that hard to do!"

[leaderoftheresistance]

"No, I never created Skynet. I spent my life trying to stop Skynet in multiple timelines. I don't control the Government, and the person who controlled it was dead due to a Terminator Skynet sent back in time.

Instead, I helped many humans fight back against Terminators.

Yet I have also had a few of machinekind help me as well.

[valkavian]

...okay, what the fuck? I do not remember the before times being this insane.

[leaderoftheresistance]

"Simply put, multiple timelines."

"Not only multiple worlds, multiple timelines of events that happened over time. Time travel exists in my Earth and timeline."

[yesorwoof]

"Multiverse quantum theory"... Just like that note said.

[Makima glancing at the different sides of the table because it's going to be a pain if she has to go back and forth between facing John and the actual note but oh well.]

One timeline where devils walk the earth and Chainsaw Man rises up against them. One where they do not. A third plentiful in vampires. It's far from simple, but if we're to trust each other entirely at face value, it all adds up.

[valkavian]

See, I knew about multiple timelines and parallel universes existing, but actual-factual time travel was some made for TV bullshit unless wizards got up to something I don't know about.

So very good chance a wizard got us in here.

[yesorwoof]

You know, quantum multiverse theory as studied in mundane physics departments is often about extremely minute differences, or even simply collections of galaxies that are too far away for astrology to observe. Wizardry might make more sense for the dramatic historical and biological changes we're looking at.

[valkavian]

Sounds like hell, normally I'm hooked up to like. A hivemind.

We've got every Malkavian that has or ever will exist across the multiverse.

[yesorwoof]

That seems rather vulnerable to psychic attacks spreading through the system.

[valkavian]

The entire network is just one big psychic attack.

Constantly.

It's like a big table at family holidays where your cousins who are kinda cool are there, but then there's your racist uncle who will not shut up and keeps telling you to buy gold.

And no one gets any gravy.

Except grandpa, who keeps telling you he's gonna eat all of you.

[leaderoftheresistance]

"What you said is true. Each of our timelines could have had someone or something go into that world or timeline and change something or someone to change events in that future."

"Butterfly effect. Something little could have changed anything or everything in one of our worlds or all of them."

[yesorwoof]

Didn't Zero say something like that? About the butterfly effect? Perhaps he brought us here from such different backgrounds to show us.

[leaderoftheresistance]

"But that doesn't explain why they stole from us exact points and areas. There's something about all of us they know somewhat.

[yesorwoof]

Something we all have in common? Or something unique about all of us? It's already plain to see that we haven't interacted before for the most part...

[valkavian]

I was going to make a crack about you missing out on the dumpster fire of 2020,this is almost boring.

[leaderoftheresistance]

Oddly enough, whatever happened in 2020 never happened in my timeline.

[valkavian]

Yeah, consider yourself lucky, that shit was fucked.

[leaderoftheresistance]

I'm not sure what I got in return was any better.

[valkavian]

Okay, it was probably less stupid.

Probably.