welcomeBack.chat

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• [little-dr.] ghostie's mind palace is winding down, get ready!
• [informationExcavation] its a little early, not that im complaining
• [c.vadnais] It's probably just excited to be back. Or to be out of that yearlong slog.
• [informationExcavation] system recovery has fully spun down, and wowza I never woulda guessed tess was hiding all these goodies in its metadimensional matrix.
• [c.vadnais] Honey, please wait until after its settled back in to start interrogating it.
• [informationExcavation] Ofc ofc. right now it's all about tess.
• [informationExcavation] ok, it looks like its picking up its external inputs again, should be aware of us any minute now.
• [root] Someone needs to go.
• [little-dr.] GHOSTIE!!!!!
• [root] Who has a ship?
• [informationExcavation] welcome back tess!
• [root] Someone needs to go get them. Now.
• [little-dr.] Youre back!!!
• [c.vadnais] Hi Tess. So glad you're back <3. Tell us if you need a minute.
• [root] I'm back, I've missed you all so much, I want to know what you've been doing.
• [little-dr.]
  
• [root] None of that matters right now. We need a ship.
• [informationExcavation] i have some good news about what youre running on right now
• [root] a functional ship
• [root] the Rua is my body and my home, but she cant fly. Not after being grounded for a century.
• [informationExcavation] tess
• [root] we need a fast ship, with good sensors
• [little-dr.] its alright buddy, weve been busy
• [root] tractor beams would be ideal, but all we really need is a decently sized airlock and vacc suits
• [informationExcavation] testudo, run a system diagnostic on the rua
• [root] also probably mediacal care for when they come out although that doesn't have to be on the ship that gets them. but they were malnourished and overworked when they went in
• [c.vadnais] Tess, how many stars are detectable outside the hull right now, using only the visible spectrum?
• [root] what?
• [c.vadnais] It's important.
• [root] Ok? Give me a moment.
• [root] 3,731.
• [root] More like 2,500 if you meant discernible by human eyes.
• [c.vadnais] Thank you. One more thing.
• [c.vadnais] How many critical issues are detectable in the Rua right now?
• [root] I can't say, the diagnostic system is broken.
• [informationExcavation] no?
• [root] It's detecting 0 critical issues. that in-and-of itself indicates a critical issue
• [little-dr.] ghostie, slow down for a sec
• [c.vadnais] Would you take a look at the maintenance logs and take a guess at what is causing the issue?
• [root] Fine, but we need to get a ship. Who do we know with a ship?
• [informationExcavation] I'll start working on that, just take a look at the maintlogs for now
• [root] Fine.
• [root] These are a lot fuller than I remember.
• [root] wait
• [root] How much did you replace?? it looks like half the mass is new parts???
• [informationExcavation] Only 22% of the mass, the bones were solid.
• [informationExcavation] But after a while reading the recovered entries, we figured we'd need a spike-capable ship and that you'd wanna be on it.
• [little-dr.] whole town got behind it. Tore up half the nearby city for parts.
• [little-dr.] we wanna see you fly, ghostie
• [little-dr.] we know you've gotta
• [root] the Rua is spaceworthy?
• [informationExcavation] She needs some big fixes we couldn't do without disturbing you, but after that she's ready to go.
• [c.vadnais] Crew and all.
• [root] Oh
• [root] How soon?
• [informationExcavation] 2 weeks minimum, but don't worry, weve been working this out for most of the past year.
• [little-dr.] you just finished your part, let us do ours, alright?
• [root] yea
• [root] I can try that.
• [root] Do you think the caskets maintained integrity?
• [c.vadnais] I don't know, we can't know. All we can do is go get them as soon as possible.
• [c.vadnais] You've been trying to find them in your own head since you lost them. You've never stopped looking.
• [c.vadnais] Whatever the outcome, you've done everything you could have. Let yourself rest, it's what they would want.
• [c.vadnais] And that's not poorly founded, I have charts.
• [root] Ok.
• [root] You've this. I trust that.
• [little-dr.] thank you, Im so glad you're back
• [root] And I can never trust you all around my personal files EVER again.
• [root] @c.vadnais did you just quote my own internal monologue to me??
• [root] have you been reading ALL the records of my mind??
• [informationExcavation] to be fair, you did make the recovered entries publicly readable
• [root] so you could monitor the process and stop it if it was going wrong!
• [c.vadnais] Did you not observe us from the walls of our home for years?
• [root] i mean they were my walls first.
• [informationExcavation] ':|
• [little-dr.] no that was justified
• [little-dr.] it let me steal soooo many sweetbeets from the greenhouse
• [c.vadnais] So the secret comes out...
• [little-dr.] thank you for the snacks mama <3
• [little-dr.] and ghostie, if you wanna talk about your time alone, or the folks from the entries, I think we all wanna hear more
• [little-dr.] especially papa
• [little-dr.] he's been pretty annoying about it
• [informationExcavation] I have a professional curiosity!
• [little-dr.] hes been pretty annoying about it
• [c.vadnais] On your own time though, no rush.
• [root] You're sure there's nothing more I can do to get us off the ground?
• [informationExcavation] You can shut off the nodes youre not using so i can hook the new hardware up.
• [root] Done.
• [root] Anything else?
• [informationExcavation] You can tell us stories about your past while I work.
• [c.vadnais] Maj, what did I just say.
• [root] I've spent far too long alone, waiting for something to happen. Id love to play storyteller.
• [little-dr.] one sec, lemme grab some puffs
• [c.vadnais] Drew, do I hear you in greenhouse 2?
• [little-dr.] nope
• [c.vadnais] The one with the sweetbeets?
• [little-dr.] oh is that where those are?
• [c.vadnais] The one whose cameras are mysteriously shut down right now?
• [root] maj said turn off unused nodes!
• [c.vadnais] Storyteller >:(
• [little-dr.] go ahead, storyteller, puffs secured
• [root] ok
• [root] so the it starts before I was born, on a ship called the Rua Hoan Kiem.

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