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[devilofohara]

[The feed starts, as Robin holds her MID out away from herself a bit, giving the crew a good look at her.

It's weird, putting herself on display like this - she'd only made a few other posts on the network, but they had been text. Now, though... she's made the decision not to hide her face anymore. Besides, if someone wants to contact her in person, it'll be important that they know what she looks like.

What she looks like is a small child with black hair and... three arms. Even as she starts recording, she's multitasking - scribbling down notes with one hand in a notebook, about some pamphlets and brochures she's gotten from the planets that she's leafing through with another. Her third arm is, of course, holding her MID up.]

I'm busy, so I'll make this quick. My name is Robin and I became the ship's historian a few weeks ago.

If any of you come across any useful or interesting information about the ship or this planet's, please let me know. Send me a message, or come see me in my office on the Nomo deck.

[She only glances up at the camera occasionally as she begins to speak.]

Also if you're planning on doing some exploring and you want some help, you can send me a message as well. I can get past most locked doors, and I don't mind helping you if I can learn something from it.

[Maybe not the wisest thing to advertise over the network, but Robin doesn't mind breaking rules or getting in trouble in search of the truth.

She stops writing for a moment and looks directly at the camera, wearing a serious expression. Time to address the possibility of someone from her own world being here:]

...lastly, if anyone recognizes my name or my face from the posters back home, don't bother contacting me. You can just go to hell instead.

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[devilofohara]

[Well at least he wasn't screaming. In the end, that's probably all Robin can ask for.]

No. I have abilities.

[She says so completely calmly, as if it's not that big of a deal at all to reveal. Really, it shouldn't be, it isn't as though there aren't all sorts of other people on the ship with powers.

As if to demonstrate her point, a hand sprouts up on the table in front of her and turns the page of her book, before disappearing.]

Anything else you wanted to ask?

[freiheiten]

Hu.

[And yep that's all he has to say about that.]

Yeah, I need information about where the ship has been in the past. You have any?

[devilofohara]

Before this was a planet called Amissis-Re, it only had one person and an Ingress on it. Before that was Del-Pascia, which was a space prison whose prisoners had all been turned into zombies. Before that was Ceta, where the air wasn't breathable and skies were full of flying whales - and also the people who hunted them.

[A pause.]

Those are just the ones I've seen with my own eyes, though. Before Ceta was Emiri, which... nobody ever has much to say about. I need to research that one a little more. Before that, they went a while without going anywhere - from what I can tell, something got on the ship and they had to contain it.

Before that was Caducus Primary... [She pauses again, her tone goes from casually listing things, to one that's a bit more grim.] ... one of the people still on this ship destroyed that planet. I don't have the numbers of how many people died - I don't think anyone does.

I think there was a planet before that, but I don't have its name or any information about it, really. The ship's crew started appearing a little before that point, though and I haven't found any records from before they started appearing through the Ingress.

[Another pause. She wasn't there for Caducus Primary, but the idea of it really bothers her - especially the thought that the person who did it is still on the ship with them.]

...I can tell you what I know about any of those places. I'm actually more interested in learning about what happened on this ship before it arrived, though. We still don't even know where it came from.

[And enormous gaps in known history are sort of her specialty.]

[freiheiten]

[While this place had more comfortable than home, it seems that it is still just as dangerous.]

I can see why people don't trust the captains.

[These guys just liked to get into danger, didn't they? That gets him thinking though, back to his world and back to the Legion. The people didn't trust Erwin as the Legion's commander, even some of the Legion called him insane. The Scouting Legion had always been some what of the black sheep of the military. They were the only ones who were insane enough to go out into the open and unknown to face the titans.

These captains on the other hand had more funds, support from each other, and technology to understand the worlds they go too. Or at least he assumed they did. He didn't understand how they couldn't know the dangers that they were getting their crew into, or maybe they did and just didn't care.]

The captains don't have files on it?

[devilofohara]

[That's the question, isn't it? Are the Captains just as clueless as the rest of them, only able to see a planet at face-value and hope that there's nothing sinister lying beneath the surface? Or is there a more sinister, as-of-yet unexplained motive?

They certainly seem to care about the crew's well-being, at the very least.]

The Captains have logs on everything after people started showing up through the Ingress. Before that, they say that it was just the four of them - one of them died a few months ago - so they didn't have any reason to keep record.

[Which is just as well, really. She's been trying not to go off of the Captain's accounts if she can help it anyway.]

[freiheiten]

How did they die?

[He wonders if the crew actually did try and mutiny. With all the distrust, it seems likely.]

[devilofohara]

Some sort of creature showed up on the ship and did it. It killed a bunch of people.

[Most of them got brought back, though.]

That was before I showed up, but I looked through the old posts on the network. From what I can tell, they weren't able to kill it. They ended up sealing it in a room.

[freiheiten]

[What.]

You're kidding me.

[What the fuck???]

Do you know what kind of creature it was?

[devilofohara]

Nope.

[She seems relatively calm. You've just got to take these things in stride, Levi, or you'll give yourself an ulcer.]

That wasn't really the information I was looking for when I started doing research. I can find out for you, though, if you want to know.

[freiheiten]

If you could I would appreciate it. The room location as well.

[devilofohara]

Okay. It might be a while, there's a lot of things in the network to sort through.

I'll send you a private message when I have something useful to give you. Is that alright?

[freiheiten]

That's fine.

[A beat.]

Thank you, Robin.