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☠ VIDEO (dated october 15)
[Normally, Sans prefers text. It helped him sidestep the inevitable set of questions that arose when most humans got a look at him. Of course, text had its limitations. There was something about the old book that couldn't be directly translated through a roughshod filter of comic sans.
Lack of experience translates to poor focus when the video starts streaming, but aside from that blurriness the feed is notably steady. No gaps, no garbled words, no sudden disconnects. A nice change of pace for anyone who attempted network communication in the past couple weeks.]
Testing, one, two. [The video is focused on an old book, open to a few blurry pages.] Seems like the Nerd Herd came through, so here's hoping I am too. [Anyway.] These last few weeks I've been pretty booked checking out the library. There're some racy tomes in there, fyi, for those of you into that kinda thing.
[He flips the page. And, while blurry, the hand doing the flipping is definitely... fleshless. The page itself is hard to pick out specifics, but a lot of it appears to be annotated with handwritten notes.]
This one's a bit on the dry side, but for all the former Thisavrou residents... Well, looks like whoever survived came up with a nifty name for what went down with Mother. The Great Catastrophe. Catchy, right?
I'm gonna upload some pages. I get the feeling people who lived through it might be able to speak to its accuracy more than me. [The pages come in later, thankfully much more readable than the video.] Reason I'm wondering is, uh...
[He uploads another page. This one mentioning a passage of light. It bluntly details how several crew members walked into, but did not return.]
Look, I get the Ingress's been gone for three hundred years, but... sound familiar to anyone else?
Lack of experience translates to poor focus when the video starts streaming, but aside from that blurriness the feed is notably steady. No gaps, no garbled words, no sudden disconnects. A nice change of pace for anyone who attempted network communication in the past couple weeks.]
Testing, one, two. [The video is focused on an old book, open to a few blurry pages.] Seems like the Nerd Herd came through, so here's hoping I am too. [Anyway.] These last few weeks I've been pretty booked checking out the library. There're some racy tomes in there, fyi, for those of you into that kinda thing.
[He flips the page. And, while blurry, the hand doing the flipping is definitely... fleshless. The page itself is hard to pick out specifics, but a lot of it appears to be annotated with handwritten notes.]
This one's a bit on the dry side, but for all the former Thisavrou residents... Well, looks like whoever survived came up with a nifty name for what went down with Mother. The Great Catastrophe. Catchy, right?
I'm gonna upload some pages. I get the feeling people who lived through it might be able to speak to its accuracy more than me. [The pages come in later, thankfully much more readable than the video.] Reason I'm wondering is, uh...
[He uploads another page. This one mentioning a passage of light. It bluntly details how several crew members walked into, but did not return.]
Look, I get the Ingress's been gone for three hundred years, but... sound familiar to anyone else?
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... and... it means some people survived back there.
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Then what... happened to the people on this station? All the ones who evacuated here.
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The record here ends without much fanfare. Might as well have been midsentence, for all the sense it makes to end it on an unfinished inventory list. I gotta assume they wouldn't pack up and leave without taking this with them.
[He sighs, rubbing a hand over his skull.]
Maybe they heard the voices, too.
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[But it doesn't explain why there aren't any personal effects left behind. Or food spoils. Residue. Something. The place is just empty.]
Any chance it's not actually just an inventory list? I'm probably going out on a limb here, but -- when something doesn't make sense as is, we should probably check another angle.
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... Really dark bedtime stories, but still.
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I'll ask one of my teammates to look it over. She's good with finding patterns. Like I said -- I could just be reading too much into things.
But weird, unfinished lists left in a library for someone to find? Either we're in a video game, or ... ?
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[Sans doesn't finish Shiro's thought. Whatever possibility he could slot in didn't bode too well for their merry band of lost souls.]
Yeah, well, hopefully it's the tutorial, amiright? [Heh...] What's your friend's name?
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Here's hoping. [He shakes his head.] Pidge. Her name is Pidge. And... don't be fooled by how she looks.
She's the most brilliant person I know.
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[You're an alien, right, skele-man?] Yeah, she's been here as long as I have.
I'll let her know.
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[Not quite, bub.]
How about you?
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[Wait. What.]
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Originally, huh? Counting Avagi as home, now?
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It's more complicated than that. But... not something everybody needs to hear about.
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An offer, in so few words.]
Yeah well, from one it's complicated to another, buy me a drink sometime and we'll not talk about it in person.
'Sides, I still wanna meet that girl of yours. She drinking age?
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Buying drinks, sure. Drinking them... you're on your own there man, sorry.
[He shakes his head.]
No. Not even close.
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And plenty more who probably thought he should join their ranks, but. Details.] You can buy me a nutrition block, instead. Kid'll have more fun with that, anyway.
[The joke is that nobody's buying anything, but y'know. Still. Normalcy's fun, even if it's pretend.]
She your daughter?
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I think we've got some pepper hiding somewhere if you want a little kick with it.
[That's not even funny either. But still--]
[Wait.]
[What.]
My -- my what now?
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She's... not. No. She's fifteen.
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I'm guessing older brother isn't the right answer, either?
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[Not by blood, anyway. But that's... actually fairly close to the truth, these days, isn't it?]
She's my teammate.
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But something in the way he spoke of her told a deeper story than that. Something from a time before this one, back where ever the complicated home Shiro mentioned was.]
Sounds like a pretty good team.
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[So he just nods.]
They are. All of them.