text » id: nightingale

[ettersberg]

It may simply be an impression with no basis in reality, but it seems to me that since the Natha have left, more people have returned to stasis.

[ he doesn't add "what do others think?" but the question is implied. ]

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text; un: R

[winecasks]

I find that few beliefs here have basis in reality. Dragons and the dead being ripped from their slumber, for instance, but they happen here all the same, no matter how deeply I find myself wishing that they did not.

I have never been good with numbers. People have often returned to stasis. Do you imply that there has been an increase since the departure of the Natha?

[ettersberg]

Wishing and believing strike me as two different matters.

But yes, that is my impression.

[winecasks]

Indeed, they are! And dreaming is far different still. I, for one, dream of a time when I did not have to wish not to believe in the ridiculous things that I have seen in this place.

You have clearly kept your eyes keener than I have. If you think more have returned to stasis, what do you make of those who are waking? Are there fewer, or more, or the same?

un: flashgordon

[deadthenred]

Have they?

[ It's not that he's questioning Nightingale, it's just that ]

I've been away for a while.

[ettersberg]

[ he remembers that username. well, it rings a bell, a vague notion of recognition. between that and the "i've been away for a while", nightingale figures it's someone he has talked to before.

he almost knows who, but not quite. ]

I can't say for certain, but that is my impression.

[deadthenred]

[ Bucky doesn't immediately remember his conversation with Nightingale— it's been decades for him, but give him a few minutes and maybe something will spark. ]

You think the way they wake people up is slowing down without them?

text | un: janeway

[directives]

I haven't been here long enough to judge that for myself, but that doesn't mean you're not on to something with that. It could very well be a strong contributing factor.

[ettersberg]

I rather hope to be wrong about it.

text; un: onceandfuturescot

[givingback]

It does feel like a lot of people have left, for better lack of wording.

I haven't been awake that long myself, but even I think it's a lot.

[ Especially when it affected her directly. ]

[ettersberg]

I have been awake for over a year now. People have always gone back into stasis, but it seems to me to have picked up.

[givingback]

How many usually go back at a time? If it seems like an unusual amount now, the number must have been pretty low.

[baldesion]

[There's no way for him to know how slowly and heavily she types a response, is there?]

I find myself in agreement, even if all my evidence is completely anecdotal. More people of my direct acquaintance have returned to stasis than before.

[ettersberg]

[ no, there isn't. he isn't the fastest typer, either. ]

The same is true in my case as well. [ anecdotal evidence. he's reasonably sure that david, peter and abdul alike would lecture him on that if they were here. ]

text | un: J.SHEPPARD

[impavid]

I find it hard to judge that properly. I mean, there are a lot of refugees coming and going -- right? They seem to pretty much wake up all the time, and we have no proper way to track how many wake up. People who I know have been going back into stasis pretty much since I woke up, but I have no idea how many
people I don't know are at the same time. Maybe there's a way to get the station to give us some statistics? Though I don't know what that would tell us. It's supposed to be something to do with the storm, right?

[ettersberg]

I cannot judge it either. [ precisely why he's made this network post. hoping someone would refute his point, really. that he's wrong about this, because he doesn't like the implications if he isn't. ]

That is the explanation I have heard as well, but why it would befall those who've been awake for long over a year is beyond me.

text | un: ROCKET

[beatupgrass]

I think we're due for another batch of people waking up soon so it might be status quo, but who's to say if it'll even happen without them around.

[ettersberg]

Something to look out for, then. Have you been keeping track of arrivals?

text, un: WrightLawyer4U

[objectionattorney]

I actually had this exact same conversation with someone about two weeks ago. We're pretty sure that the Nathas disappearance is definitely holding a direct impact over... Well, Us.

Me and him were talking about compiling a growing list of those who have vanished in case anyone was curious about someone but... Since then I have lost contact with him as well.

[It was extremely worrying actually.]

[ettersberg]

Are you suggesting his disappearance is not a coincidence?

text | un: colt.saa

[shashka]

Seems like it. Or, at least some of the people who'd been awake the longest have gone back.

[ though he wouldn't admit it, he did miss losing one of his oldest... friends here. ]

[ettersberg]

[ it's the same for nightingale. ]

That has been my impression as well. I know there was an attempt, in the beginning, to keep a list of those who have gone back. I do not know whether it has been kept up to date over the months.

[ especially now that the man who started the initiative is back in stasis himself. ]

voice - to - text : un: priorly

[priorly]

Uh huh.

[ettersberg]

Pardon?

text. un: scotty.

[kludging]

haven't been awake long enough to take stock of the possibility, but i don't like the implication. still, i can't tell if it's better or worse than coincidence.

probably worse.

[ettersberg]

I've been trying to come to a conclusion on that same question. The advantage of it not being coincidence would be that minds can be changed. Coincidence, I have been told, is cold and uncaring.