That Time They All Met in the CQ

[chiseler]

[Let's be honest, nobody had time to info-share Monday what with motives going live after they came down from the top-level deck and also…you know. The whole awkward thing with the corpse. That happened.

Arrangements are made, the whiteboard's been moved and…there's a wedding.

What the fuck, Cradle.

Either way, assume that Luke found your character in person, sent a message via Furry Passing or contacted them via some other means to inform them about a group meeting up in the Captain's Quarters after the wedding to talk about their findings from the day before.

He's not a leader, and it's probably clear from the way he's leaning against the wall next to the whiteboard and dumping handfuls of space-brand Skittles into his mouth.]

All right…so this happened. [This, of course, being the top deck.] We were all up here yesterday and so we should probably start figuring stuff out. It weirds me out that Alice let us up here now after all this time. [He shrugs.] Who wants to go first?

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Well this is fine - World Snooping Results

[chiseler]

[And later, Luke will come back with various sheets of paper with the world info written on them. He'll approach the whiteboard and hold the scraps in his hand, and he kind of looks pissed but don't mind him.]

Went back to the terminal to see what I can find. There're thousands of datapoints we don't have access to. Couldn't hack into them, I'm not that good with machines. But I did find information for a lot of other things...check it out.

[Come find your papers and react, question, etc.] They've definitely been watching all of us.

[antietam]

[ He squints at his world info but Luke probably looks pissed for a reason, so... Oh.

He'll just go near him and clear his throat. ]

[chiseler]

[Seeeeethe. He's just. Wordlessly handing Adam his own paper and continuing to glare daggers at it. Fuck Percy Jackson sometimes.]

They messed up.

[antietam]

[ Well, after their most recent talk, this is particularly upsetting. He scowls, but keeps the paper away from Luke because otherwise he knows he'll keep reading it. ]

You don't look anything like Percy. Probably figured you'd be more useful in the end.

[chiseler]

[Yeah. This sure is upsetting but at least Adam's the only one who knows. He doesn't bother trying to reach for the paper either. That should say something.]

Oh yeah, real useful to a dead planet. [He rolls his eyes, but he mutters:] That makes my existence here even more confusing.

[antietam]

They must have really wanted you. Percy would have been easier to get. There's no way they took you from wherever and revived you without intending it.

[chiseler]

I dunno about that. I have a feeling Percy's probably really busy after everything. [Cleaning up after Luke's mess, mostly.] It does raise the question of why they found me and went through everything to revive me if Percy had been their goal. Who screwed up?

[He snorts though.] And at least they have a little bit of a sense of humor to appreciate the irony of all this.

[antietam]

No matter how busy, it's definitely easier to grab someone who's already alive than someone who's dead and needs to be revived. [ He looks really serious about this. ]

They could have gotten someone more fitting like a child of—Aphrodite, right? But they still wanted you more.

[chiseler]

[A short pause, and then a murmur:] Yeah, well, I helped get the head counselor of Cabin 10 killed so I'm not sure they'd go after a child of Aphrodite either. [Ughhhh. But Adam has a point (as usual.)]

...do you think they did it just to see if they could? We know Furry Passing is used to help people communicate with the dead, but maybe they wanted to see how far they could take it.

[antietam]

Maybe. A child of Hades would be more interesting in that sense, though. You mentioned zombies.

It's just a hunch, but I think they wanted you for something different. If you were trying to save your planet or your ship or whatever, wouldn't you want the hero?

[chiseler]

I did mention zombies, you're right. But there's a different between zombies and...whatever's going on here. I didn't think zombies could be intelligent so maybe I'm not one.

[Thanks Luke. But his expression softens a tiny bit as it usually does by now when Adam says something he really wants to believe, but he shrugs.] Of course I would, but. [...yeah how do you argue? He was, in fact, the hero whether it seemed that way or not.] I sort of wish we could find their other notes. They have to have done more research on how to pull us here at all.

[antietam]

[ He's tempted to make a joke about Luke's intelligence and zombies, but now's not the time. Later. ]

I don't think we're done discovering things. Apparently the captain timed these things to open for the suspense and drama. [ He's a little quieter when he asks: ] You won't worry about this too much, will you?

[baptizer]

[ LOOKS AT HER WORLD INFO. ]

...Why - why are they turned on?!

[chiseler]

[Sorry he's just...snickering. SORRY LIZ....]

Some guys like women with power. What do you expect?

[baptizer]

[ LEAVE HER ALONE... ]

I expect some tact! If you're going to do research, leave you perversion out of it.

[chiseler]

[lol no]

That might be expecting too much. Gentlemen from the 2000s aren't really known for their tact. [He's enjoying this a little too much.] Is it really perversion for someone to find something like that attractive?

[baptizer]

When they write it like that? Absolutely.

[ Little weirded out by arousal by power. ]

[chiseler]

Elizabeth, relax. They're probably dead, too, so you don't have to worry about them and their perversion or whatever. [Well he tried.]

[tevinteriscoming]

[Well. That's alarming.]

Replicate the Fade? Impossible. If they were going to break the fabric of reality, can't they have broken it about 60% more?

[chiseler]

What exactly is the Fade?

[antagonize]

[Well. None of this bodes well. Don't mind Jason as he ignores the unfortunate implications and holds up the notes relevant to his world, left glove still off and red lantern ring on after #furryweddings. He seems oddly pleased by the data they gathered on Earth-One.]

Oh, yeah. They definitely did their research. Gotta give props to them for that.

[chiseler]

[Congrats on your marriage, Jason, but:]

They really didn't think you would do well on this ship with a "low level of intelligence", did they? [He's actually fairly amused since as far as he's concerned Jason knows what he's doing more often than not.] What's with the noun/adjective thing?

[antagonize]

Good question. Do they? Maybe you should rate your experience so we can find out.

[Look. Jason knows what he's doing all the time. Most of the time. Sometimes. Hopefully. Shut up. He will, however, hum thoughtfully as if deciding whether to answer or not. Luke will get a nice shrug for his trouble.]

Let's just say you could do a lot worse than Ladybug and Chat Noir.

[It's not an answer that implicates him, so. Whatever.]

[parodeity]

[ dave snorts at the description of the medium. ]

I mean. Fair.

[muties]

Really accurate, tbqh.

[ people from homestuck barely understand homestuck either, world descriptor person ]