text; @unchained

[hedonistic]

yo psa: station's a ghost town
natha all fucked off somewhere after their ~mysterious~ message

so tell me, on a scale from 1 to we're all gonna die, how fucked do you think we are?

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text | un: jtk

[willrevile]

Thanks for the non-alarmist announcement.

If anyone's wondering: the stasis chambers are fine, and appear to have access to uninterrupted power even without the Natha's presence.

un: CherylBombshell

[sweetwater]

Do you swear on your life that the stasis pods and everyone in them are fine?

video.

[willrevile]

[ It takes a second, but Jim switches modes - there's no view of his face, but of the stasis room. He does a pan over several rows of pods, going slow enough so that anyone watching can actually tell what it is. No alarms, no unusual blinking lights, no power flickers. ]

So far so good, [ he can be heard saying. There's no telling what tomorrow might bring, but that's true of any day in this nutty universe. ]

[hedonistic]

excuse you this is a highly scientific opinion poll i'm conducting here

i'll put you down as a 1 y/n

[willrevile]

My apologies.

1 is fine so long as the baseline of your 'fucked' scale has been balanced to account for the ongoing threat inherent to being here in the first place.

[ Jim can have a sense of humor AND provide helper dog info. ]

un: CherylBombshell

[sweetwater]

Are the pods still there?

[hedonistic]

yeah
idk for how long tho if nobody's protecting 'em

[sweetwater]

Why don't you protect them?

un: Nobody

[icingonthecake]

[After reading previous responses and ascertaining that the pods are safe--he's met Jim a few times, and trusts him at his word, if nothing else--Axel just shakes his head.]

Well that's disconcerting. As if the message wasn't troubling enough in and of itself. Does the station have escape pods or anything? Any idea where they might have gone, or how they went there?

[hedonistic]

who knows
they're basically gods, right
they could've gone anywhere

[icingonthecake]

Fair, I guess... I mean, there could be any number of other planets around here. Not sure why they'd go to all the trouble to bring us all here, save a bunch of our friends and keep them safe in stasis, just to bail as soon as any old crap hit the rotary device, though.

This is either no big deal and they're trying to psych us all out... or we're super doomed.

Text; un: j.sheppard

[impavid]

That depends what genre we're living right now. I rate my own survival rate pretty high but I've long since learned to never suggest splitting up in dark spooky hallways.

[hedonistic]

welllll
the dragons & magic would suggest high fantasy, but then again we've been through an apocalypse and were rescued by god aliens who put us in stasis for who-knows-how-many-centuries so
soft sci-fi?

[impavid]

I could buy it, there's a lot of politics and interpersonal drama going on here.

Dims the chances of a cool space battle somewhat.

text, un: endsoftheearth

[earthy]

Darma's message was interrupted. They didn't just leave, something happened to them.

And we need to do something.

[hedonistic]

question
if you think something really did happen to our literal alien overlords, who are basically gods, what chance do you think WE have of facing that same threat and not dying

[earthy]

I don't know what kind of chance we have. I don't know what kind of threat we're dealing with here.

It sounded like it got the jump on the Natha, but that doesn't mean it struck them down. It could have just captured them somehow?

text, un: sakepls

[devilcalling]

well arent you the optimist

[ Types one of those who immediately beamed up upon receiving Darma's message to check on the stasis pods and observe the state of the station. That whole fading message thing kind of negated the relative comfort of the whole "we'll continue to monitor the situation" part. ]

if i didnt know any better, id say youre own votes toward the latter and it couldnt bother you less

[hedonistic]

i mean, after you've died once, the whole thing kind of loses its crippling terror value
i'm about six months past my expiration date already, so
if it happens, it happens

[At least he'll have gotten a chance to experience real freedom before the end.]

1/ihdk

[devilcalling]

2/isdk

[devilcalling]

3/4

[devilcalling]

[ ! ]

4/4

[devilcalling]

so youre some kind of zombie?

text, un: swan

[sheriffing]

We're not gonna die.

[ they were already fucked. ]

text | un: null

[cassus]

Sounds like someone's feeling bored and trying to incite a panic!

[ Sending out a PSA to warn others one thing, but essentially waving 'The World is Ending' signs in the form of a network text and mocking the state of the situation is like adding fuel to the fire; unsettling an already nervous and paranoid group of traumatized refugees.

It's also just plain tactless. ]