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[truth_is_cold]

[Public | Audio]

I'm completely certain that this will be ignored, but with a flood on I would recommend that people refrain from extremely intimate activities or brazen murders until it's over with. We've all seen the worst case scenarios more than once.

...I am noticing that certain things don't seem to... line-up, properly, at the moment. Has anyone else noticed this?

[Private to Ben | Audio]

I should speak with you.


OOC: Rhade is affected. His Barge memories are spotty; he may remember someone as their original self or their alternate self. He vaguely remembers being an inmate even though with his history he has no reason to ever have been. He managed to warn Dylan of the Nietzschean insurrection and both ended up weathering the Long Night together. Now he's actually closer to an inmate than he ever has been in this timeline, because he's never properly dealt with his rationalizing the Battle of Witchhead (where he had to participate in the destruction of thousands of his own people) and starting to act a little bizarrely towards Magog-infested Dylan. Canon point is early Season 2 AU.

Comments

[hunt4commonwealth]

How about brazen activities? [He won't add "intimate murders" even as a joke. On the ship there are people who might take the idea seriously.]

Threadjack of SOCIALLY AWKWARD

[itstopped]

Or intimate m-- [He realizes the same implication halfway through his own joke and cuts off with a cough.] Never mind.

[truth_is_cold]

[And he just takes the time to snort, because he sees the thought process that happened there.]

[truth_is_cold]

Brazen activities should be fine if you don't mind feeling like a fool later. And only slightly compromised.

[Private]

How are you feeling today?

[hunt4commonwealth]

You know I never mind feeling like a fool.

[Private]

A little squirmy, but still alive.

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

Do you think the infirmary here will have suitable technology to get them out? Though they weren't able to for-

[His expression goes confused again, and he jostles his head. Harper wasn't infested. Tyr and Dylan were taken by the Magog. Harper helped reclaim the ship with Beka from the Engine Room.]

[Private]

[hunt4commonwealth]

I don't think they've got anything much better here than we had on Andromeda. I'm stuck with my little unwanted passengers unless a doctor with some awesome equipment comes on board.

[Dylan notices that unfinished sentence. He doesn't have memories of the other timeline, so Rhade's statement is baffling.]

Are you feeling okay, Gaheris? You're acting a little weird.

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

I think...

I think we may be the-

Nevermind. May I come see you? [Because there's another terrible memory in there, one of Dylan laying dead on a floor. And it just hit him like a ton of bricks.]

[itstopped]

What's not lining up? [Lieutenant Gaeta is new-ish, a polite and eager young warden who showed up apparently from his own death seven weeks ago. He's a little awkward, a little stiff -- he doesn't seem to drink or smoke or go out, well, at all -- but he's enthusiastic and healthy and positively brimming with positive energy and idealism.

Or is he, Rhade?]

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

...Do you remember us playing cards and you attempting to not flirt with a young man?

[Private]

[itstopped]

Cards? I haven't really had the time since I was assigned to Narvin... [He looks a little sheepish, absently adjusting his collar.] Um, which young man?

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

Dean Winchester.

Narvin is-

[Oh, there's obviously a crossing of wires there. He knows something is off, something is wrong.] What is his history with Pandora? Was she ever on the ship?

[Private]

[itstopped]

I'm sorry, Commander Rhade, but I'm not going to discuss my inmate's history with you.

[worldofviolentlyinsane]

Does that kind of warning usually work where you're from?

[wormintheglass]

Does it work anywhere?

Besides, I can assure you I'm lining up just wonderfully, thank you.

[IT'S EVERYONE ELSE THAT'S WEIRD AND WRONG.]

[truth_is_cold]

Not always, but the ones that don't take it usually come out with their own problems. It's no issue to me either way except that I intend to keep my inmate safe.

[worldofviolentlyinsane]

Congratulations and good luck.

audio;

[hetrustsme]

What is it that doesn't exactly 'line up'?

audio;

[truth_is_cold]

I have a picture of a daughter that I don't have on my desk. And when I look at it, I remember the agreement that led to her creation.

[And there's a scarf there, and his heart hurts for no good reason when he sees it, and he can hear the voice of a beautiful woman that he's trying to dig out of his memory.]

audio;

[hetrustsme]

[Kal takes a second to glance around his room, making sure there isn't anytihng there he can't recall, or pictures of someone he doesn't know. And nope, to his relief everything is as it should be.]

The flood seems to be playing with our memories somehow. I wouldn't do anything rash until it's over, just in case.

[ Private : Audio ]

[warisart]

Yessir.

[Immediate and succinct; no frills, no curiosity, no wariness, just acknowledgement.]

[ Private : Audio ]

[truth_is_cold]

[There's something wrong with that, he knows. It doesn't sound like Ben.]

How are you feeling?

[ Private : Audio ]

[warisart]

[Who is Ben?]

I am fully functional and ready for duty, sir.

[ Private : Audio ]

[truth_is_cold]

Duty....

Ben, tell me what you know about Mozart?

[Something is starting to turn in his stomach.]

[ Private : Audio ]

[warisart]

My designation is X5-493,sir.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. You have assigned me several texts discussing his life in detail and charged me with learning a number of his works, which I have done to the best of my ability, sir.