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un: killjoy

[motivation]

[ the smoothest opener: ] hey pretty boy

[willrevile]

Hey feisty

[ Shut up Jim. ]

You in one piece?

un: r.lutece

[originallutece]

How do you feel about being a guinea pig, Captain?

[willrevile]

Initially skeptical. What are you up to?

[motivation]

[ so dutch may or may not have just found out that someone she's come to care about here has gone back into stasis. shouldn't ever do that, care. her own damn fault.

so it's totally neutral information she's passing on, not informed by the drink(s) she's had or emotion or any bullshit like that at all, that has her text jim - ]

people go back in stasis sometimes

[willrevile]

That's what it said on the brochure

[ Not funny. These are the words of a man pretending he's not bothered by the fact that all of his people are still asleep and the transporters to the station are still busted. ]

Somebody go back?

un: eggsy

[tailorable]

hey spaceman
saw you on the dispatch list for the rescue missions
feeling alright?

[willrevile]

I'm feeling not abducted by lunatics. Seems like you're good to go as well, huh?

un: carter | post-kidnappings

[revlon]

I hope you've had a better week than we have up north.

[willrevile]

Nope.

Everybody back in one piece?

april 1st misfire » un: nightingale

[ettersberg]

I'm afraid I forgot to send this earlier.

[ IMAGE ATTACHED ]

[willrevile]

I'm glad, because the network was actually working properly earlier, and that's amazing. Your dog?

Apr 1 misfire | un: CherylBombshell

[sweetwater]

[ image ]

Thoughts?

[willrevile]

[ With mild relief it's not a NSFW picture, ]

A little much for me personally, but I can appreciate the craftsmanship.

text | s.trevor | misfire

[dianano]

Feel like a ride later? I've been thinking about it all day.

[ This is about a pegasus only... ]

[willrevile]

[ Jim is approx 10000% sure this is not meant for him, but does he even hesitate before responding??? no of course not ]

You sure got over that trepidation quick. You must be a 'jerk off while looking in a mirror' guy, huh? Kinky. ;)

un: swan (misfire)

[sheriffing]

At least there aren't any ogres. I keep waiting for ogres.

thanks for not being a sext, mom!!!

[willrevile]

[ Is an actual bird texting him, one never knows. ]

They're probably out there in the wilds, along with everything else, given dragons are already a proper staple.

misfire; un: s.rogers

[america]

Hey. I think we're out of shampoo. I could go to the market to get more.

Promise I won't get kidnapped again.

[ Beat. ]

Bad joke, I know.

[willrevile]

[ Audio misfire's a new one. Unfamiliar number and voice, huh. Well-- ]

Hey babe, I didn't know you moved in.

[ For sanity's sake we'll say him only sort of sounds like his doppelganger. Cadence is way different, in any event. ]

text | foster | misfire

[beknight]

Odds on this being a cosmic practical joke.

[ as soon as he knows what's going on, might as well send something sensible out into the wild and go talk to his friends over tea like a normal person. ]

[willrevile]

Come on, Alan, you don't want to accidentally confess your deepest darkest boners to me?

the day of misfires | text | un: zevran

[agradecido]

[You are now privy to a conversation in progress.]

Also, the first thing he asked me was how one would go about bedding a shark woman, take that for what you will.

[willrevile]

I'll take it as important research. What'd you say?

[ Hi. ]

[motivation]

are you going to the thing

[willrevile]

No. ... Sort of. No, but I'll kind of be there.

Are you going to the thing?

day of the council

[motivation]

[ IMAGE ATTACHMENT. ]

[willrevile]

[ The reply takes a minute or two, and is in the form of an image I don't have a handy link to, but it's the outpost viewed from curiously high up. ]

text | un: carter

[revlon]

Would you consider yourself a diplomat, Captain Kirk?

[willrevile]

You're the second person to ask me that and it's slightly worrying. I do regularly act as a diplomat in my work, yes.

audio | encrypted | un: carter

[revlon]

[ And after the initial greetings, pleasantries, and whatever small talk has happened: ]

I was wondering what you might be able to tell me about the Volkkran shamans in Wyver.

∞

[willrevile]

[ Jim may, at a later date, remark on the encryption; he hasn't really been bothering, but he's had a few conversations with people where he's noticed them in use. Almost-engineer that he is, maybe he should join the party.

Anyway, ]

They're dicks.

audio | un: teaboy — backdated to the night of the coalition...

[torchwoodteaboy]

[Damn it, he really doesn’t want to be making this call. He’s just gotta cross his fingers and hope that Jim is the understanding sort.]

Jim. Hallo.

Listen. About meeting up later...

∞

[willrevile]

Hey, Ianto. [ He sounds in good humor, perhaps outside somewhere, walking over uneven terrain, faint background sound that might be a breeze against the mic pickup. He can hear a certain tone in the other man's voice and thinks-- oops? So he makes sure to sound as casual and normal as he ever does. ] If the invite made you uncomfortable, I apologize. You can totally ignore it.

text | foster | backdated

[beknight]

Watson's in stasis?

[willrevile]

Is he? [ Jim doesn't keep track of your contacts, Spooky, he only talked to the guy once and then never heard b- oh. ] It'd explain the radio silence.

text | un: J.SHEPPARD

[impavid]

[ Little bit after This, before the escort mission-- ]

You've been up to the Natha ship.

[ Statement, not a question.

After a few seconds, John pings over an audio file -- it's... something all right. It was probably a person saying something at some point, but it doesn't really resemble any of the Natha and it's incoherently noisy. ]

I'd definitely put us higher up the scale than a 1. This is what I'm getting out of pretty much every interactive panel I could get to respond. Well, variations on it. Which means it's not the speakers that are broken, it's something in the system that's corrupted. Which could be a result of the power going up and down, but the question really is how many systems are damaged and if it's getting worse every time the power drops. Sure, we're not going to drop out of the sky in an orbit this steady and the stasis and life support seem like they have back up power, but not knowing what's causing systems to spit out noise makes me uneasy.

[ Two takeaways: one, John Sheppard is indeed taking something seriously. Two: how... did he get this noise out of the ship? Didn't really explain.

Honestly he just wants to talk to someone about it who understands how a spaceship works on some level. Someone who wouldn't instantly panic. ]

[willrevile]

The takeaway from my responses there was supposed to be 'non-alarmist'.

[ Just getting that out there first thing, because the last thing Jim wants to do is send a bunch of people who don't know the first thing about spacecraft into a panic. Yeah, he realizes the situation is more serious, but riling people up isn't going to help. ]

Can you explain to me how you're getting this audio? For the record, I'm a captain in Starfleet, which is the humanitarian and defense force of the United Federation of Planets. My standing post is to command a ~500 crew member deep space exploration and military vessel. About thirty percent of my crew is non-human, and my XO is telepathic.

[ So John doesn't have to dumb it down, no matter what the issue is. ]

group text // starfleet encryption.

[willrevile]

Alright, here's what we know:

• The evening of Darma's message, Voss and his acolytes observed a flickering then dimming of the moon's luminescence, and saw dark points manifest on the surface, followed by patterns which they theorized to be meteorites. The moon has continued to appear dimmer ever since. That translates to an abrupt change in power mode at the station, and the Natha entering individual spacecraft and leaving.
  
• There's no sign of a struggle, no violence, no busted doors or evidence of forced entry, no damage to the outside of the station. The Natha left voluntarily.
  
• There is, however, superficial damage to the station's mechanics itself, in the form of overloaded circuits, the audio glitch with Darma's last transmission, the inconsistent power feed. After spending a couple days with the problem, I've come to the conclusion that it's due to a forced power-down that didn't follow proper protocol. They threw the main switch instead of taking the time to do it like they should have, suggesting they were in an unavoidable rush.
  
• They left their radars on, which are scanning non-stop, looking for something.

My working hypothesis is that the Natha detected an incoming threat, slammed the station into something akin to stealth mode while Darma tried to get a warning out under the wire, and ran off to meet it. The immediate dilemma: while we can absolutely hotfix most of the hiccups that the shut-down caused (and have done a lot of that so far), it doesn't completely restore smooth power. There are backup generators, but we don't know how much power is too much power. Backup generators by design aren't as powerful and aren't going to boot up as many draining functions as the normal power core, but do we want to risk lighting this place up even the slightest bit more? My instinct right now is: no, we don't. The safety of the stasis chambers has to be priority, and I'm not sure the refugee population has the capability to collectively manage a fight up here and down there at the same time. But we may have to be ready to power it up in a hurry to get defenses going.

Ideas, input, overlooked details?

[ Sent to: revlon, braidedwonder, sparsity, beknight, thunderblight, motivation. Replies should default @all unless you want to specify responding to just Jim. THIS IS PROBABLY A LITTLE BACKDATED idk man. ]

[braidedwonder]

Wouldn't risk lighting the place up.

Sounds like it make make trouble for our people back in the tubes and there's no good reason to risk it at this point.. monitoring power supply to that area probably wouldn't go astray, though, and I wouldn't be opposed to busting in to their power systems to jerry rig if need be.

My hesitation is if they come back with anyone major tailing them we're gonna be up shit's creek so far as how to defend since.. well. Tandem ship bullshit. Barbatos and Deathscythe can only handle so much by themselves, too, but I think that goes without saying.

I wouldn't think it would go astray to continue operations as if we're expecting an attack even if it never happens. Going in to it assuming the Natha will keep everything neat and tidy is gonna wind up biting everyone in the ass.... would rather be 'paranoid' than taken unassuming.

(ring, ring); audio — hopefully jim answers this...

[torchwoodteaboy]

Hey. I saw your network post. About the station.

[Maybe you've seen his by now as well, who knows what the timeline is here...]

How are you holding up out there?

((ooc: i just turned on my ipad after it dead for a long time and found my tag to our other audio thread open. so i thought i would start a new one to make up for that — ianto needs to check in on jim, he’s worried about what’s coming :c))

♥

[willrevile]

[ Of course he picks up - not immediately, but he isn't saving it from going to voicemail, either. ]

Hey, [ Jim greets. His voice is slightly tinny, as if he's in an enclosed space. ] I'm doing just fine. The station is stable and the emergency protocol opening up certain chambers has solved a lot of potential problems we thought we had a week ago. You doing alright?

text | c.fraser | who needs sleep?

[nineteenfortyfive]

When the foot doctor was stranded on the side of the highway, he had to call a toe truck driver for help.

[willrevile]

So this is my punishment for bleeding on you.