[text | UN: S1R3N] enhance your online experience today!

[r3f4c70r3d]

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that today I come to you with a new option for your cellular devices! While the default chat program is...charming, in its simplicity, I have taken it upon myself to begin programming helpful extensions that will streamline and modernize the system. This update is on the small side, think of it more like an open beta:

Introducing EMOJIS and the easy to use EMOJI KEYBOARD Once you click on the download link below, your device will be updated to have a keyboard consisting of cute little faces and objects, for when you don't have the words to get your point across, or want to add some flare to your conversation.

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Please report any issues you may have to S1R3N, and thank you for your time.

-A.G.

((OOC: Angels emoiji extension comes with an added bonus, very well hidden and encrypted spyware. This will, if you allow it, give Angel access to your characters chat history and any hidden profile features as well as an ability to keep track of your character in a database. Don't worry, your information will not be sold for profit. Probably. You can post some of what she might find HERE If you don't want her to be able to spy on and have access to your characters phone history or want to discuss access terms but still want your character to be able to download her extension just leave an ooc note in your comment.))

((OOC EDIT for clarity: Angel uses the monikers A.G., Angie, or simply A. (as its listed in her network biopage) with no indication about her looks, age or gender. Unless someone has met her in person and exchanged contact information she's effectively anonymous.))

Comments

[rhygret]

Ugh yeah. That asshole was the whole reason we went on that trip in the first place which...I guess technically means I should thank but he was such an ASS you know?

Anyway he's dead now so it doesn't matter.

[ ....ACTUALLY LET HIM AMEND THAT AND SEND THIS A SECOND LATER: ]I didn't kill him. Just so you know.

[r3f4c70r3d]

It...isn't as though many of the deaths at Hyperion are undeserved. Even Helios falling, [ Something she still can't quite believe ] many would see it as an act of karma.

This may sound a little existential, but do you think we were brought back because we did something right? That we will be able to redeem ourselves?

[rhygret]

What do you mean brought back? Jack's the only one who's supposed to be dead remember? I was totally alive before I got here.

[ AGAINST ALL ODDS Rhys somehow pulled through that entire journey. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Oh shoot, Angel had just been musing out loud. Right, not everyone here had been dead before they awoke, and Rhys can't know otherwise about her. ]


I meant as in "woke up." From being in cryostasis.

[rhygret]

Ohhhh. Right yeah okay that makes more sense.
I don't think redemption or doing something good has anything to do with it? I'm not exactly a great person even after leaving Hyperion. I started out as pretty much the bad guy as far as most people are concerned.

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Nice save, Angel. Phew. ]

Why do you say that? What is it that you did after Hyperion's fall?

[ Because there wasn't an after for Angel, not until now. How did someone who escaped Jack keep going in a world so densely saturated by him? ]

[rhygret]

[ Still got it! ]

Well I did crash the whole place and that...killed a lot of people. Like a lot. Don't feel too great about that. And at the time I thought my friends had left me behind, so it was a lot of being alone, fixing myself up... Getting a new haircut instead of trying to go find my best bro.

I'm a pretty crappy person in general

[ Rhys deletes that last line, and then sends. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ That's rough, buddy.

Rhys's guilt over the accidental and indirect death of so many resonates with Angel- She knows what it is. To be a murderer. To obliterate swaths of people into bloody dust. And it may have all been indirect for her too, but it was never an accident. For a moment the guilt overwhelms her so she addresses the second half of Rhys's message ]


Those certainly are...

[ She could be pretty brutal here. She's thinking about it. "Jack was at leas proactive" "Are you sure you're not still the bad guy?"

But this is the smoothest conversation the two have had so far, she has to keep in mind that Rhys is an important ally, and another part of her mind which she won't address knows without him she'll be alone. Rhys remains the only other person from their galaxy that has woken, who may ever wake. Play nice. ]

Unusual priorities.


[ And then after a moment, thinks about it all and goes back to the first part ]

How do you live with it?

[rhygret]

Honestly? I try not to think about it most days. I'm not trying to pretend it didn't happen but just obsessing over it isn't going to help either. I just need to be better than that going forward I guess is what I'm saying? I don't know what Atlas was going to be but it definitely wasn't going to be another Hyperion.

[ ...Oh, right. ]

I own Atlas now by the way. Or did. The universe ending kind of closed the lid on that whole...thing.

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Wow that is...surprisingly poignant.



Hold on. ]


Atlus? As in the defunct company that Hyperion left in both a literal and metaphorical smoldering pile.

How?

[rhygret]

I sort of stole the deed for it from the remains of Jack's office after everything crashed. Which sounds bad but I needed something to take away from all that, and I was just lying there...so.

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Huh. Angel, if not a little impressed right now at least is taking some joy in the thought of someone not only up and taking Jack's "hard won" Atlus deeds but using them to restart the company. That it was the same person who brought down Helios makes it twice as sweet. ]


You said there were no more surprises. 😪🚫

[ And she's joking but only partially. Seems a this pint like Rhys could tell her Jack's AI nearly made a robot army of himself or that the survivors of Helios's fall became a cult and she wouldn't be shocked. At least not as shocked as she had been at the first few info drops. ]

[rhygret]

I forgot about it okay? The universe ended and it's gone anyway it doesn't matter anymore.

[ Rhys is still sore about that, but more than anything he's glad that his friends made it out okay. If they hadn't then all the money in the world wouldn't have mattered a lick; he can replace a company. He can't replace the people he cares about. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

I suppose that's true...

Do you think if someone like Jack could be brought back, there is a chance good people [ Or companion animals ] could have been resurrected as well?

[rhygret]

I feel like anyone has a good a chance as coming back honestly. I mean I'm not a great person and you're kind of an asshole? We're not the best examples of "good people" out there and we still somehow wound up here.

[ Rhys doesn't mean that as an insult either. Yes he could probably have phrased that better but he was trying to be factual rather than spiteful for once. ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ WOW Angel considers herself a lot of things, and no, a good person is not one of them but she's also not an asshole. And considering those were the last words to Jack? Not appreciated. ]

I am not an as

[ Sent but unfinished, half a second later ]

I am not.

[rhygret]

[ The half-finished reply has Thys lifting a hand there and wondering if perhaps Angie accidentally hit enter there, so he waits until her final message makes its way over before he responds. ]

You kind of are a little. But I feel like that's a basic job requirement for working at Hyperion. Sink or swim you know? It was the best way to get ahead there.

I'm really glad it's gone.

--Not the crashing and killing people part I mean. Just that it's...you know. Not around anymore.

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Angel sighs to herself, she can't exactly fault Rhys for things he doesn't know. But still, a nerve has been hit, and her next response remains terse and once again more formal. ]

You really do not know anything about me, or my role at Hyperion.


Or how much relief it brings me to know that it's gone for good.

[rhygret]

[ Rhys notices the formality and how quick she is to reaffirm that he knows nothing about her, but Rhys doesn't let it stop him: ]

Well then why don't you tell me something about yourself? You drilled me earlier. How about something in return?

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Now there's a subject Angel did not take after her father in. She doesn't even know where to begin, where would be safe. ]

What would you like to know?

[rhygret]

Well...how about what you did at Hyperion? Since I got that wrong.

[ That should be easy enough, right? ]

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ She isn't surprised, that that's the first place that Rhys decided to go to. Still. Complicated question. ]


I...worked for a special division, highly classified. When I said you wouldn't know who I was, I meant it.

[rhygret]

Well it's not classified now is it? I mean the whole universe is gone. You can pretty much say whatever you want at this point.

[r3f4c70r3d]

[ Angel chooses her words carefully. In some ways, Rhys is right. Even though Jack remains alive and present, conscious or not their universe and all the clout he had built up in it is gone. But Angel isn't ready to trust Rhys and show her hand, unfair she knows for all she's asked him to reveal to her, but the information of who and what she was did no one any favors back in their world. ]


It's more complicated than that. Only the highest of the upper echelon knew about my department. It's information that could put both of us in danger, even here.


All I can tell you is that there was heavy involvement when it came to the vaults.

[rhygret]

[ She says it like it's super top-secret and cool, and in another circumstance entirely Rhys might buy it. But as it turns out their universe is only one of hundreds, and it currently doesn't exist. Only he and Angie are awake now, and Jack remains firmly placed in stasis, so unless revealing whatever it is that she did would somehow upset the Natha Orbiters who already seem to know everything about them anyway....well. ]

Yeah yeah super top-secret burn after reading, I know. You know that besides you and me and the people on the station literally every other person from our world is dead right? I think you're good.