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That Time They All Met in the CQ
[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?
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?
statue update
[All of your info was so cool. But what can he do.]
Marinette, Adrien and I investigated the statues in the middle of the room. Not entirely enlightening, but they give some good color. May as well recite some poetry while I'm at it.
The first statue, of Pygmalion and his would be bride, I must presume, has the inscription:
There's also a complementary poem:
Then we've the other statue. Woman with scales for legs and rather in a state of undress, holding up a portion of the sky.
Inscription reads:
And the accompanying prose, which Adrien was so good as to translate from the Chinese:
So! It's no video telling us we ought to fight the aliens, but it's a bit of insight into how the creators of this place saw themselves, yes? On the one hand, creating life. Not out of nothing, note the plaque. A statue of a statue of a statue. The Pygmalion story is of a statue brought to life, but here we have copies of that initial effort.
Then, on the other hand, we have our dear Nüwa, mending the sky for us. Fits with the post-apocalyptic theme. Rebuilding what was thought broken and making a space habitable.
Of course, I'd welcome input from anyone more schooled in the mythology or the art.
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Nüwa was said to have created life in ancient Chinese mythology, so it makes sense for them to have her as a symbol if that's what the Cradle Project is really about. [and now, theory time!!!] We're always going back to creating life or mending it, and with what the Admiral said about how she'd never meant to worsen our lives... We've talked about how Alice-- or, I guess, River? How she could've been reprogrammed, and I think she was... by the Admiral, before she...
[killed herself. yuck.]
The point is, the Admiral wanted us to kill the aliens more than anything, but the only way to truly get them is with those "executions". And I don't know why "River" is the only one who can separate the aliens from their... their hosts, but if this game is the only way to trigger it... Maybe I'm wrong, but the way she spoke, it sounded like something in the project could fix all of this. She didn't seem to have killed herself out of desperation, but to... do something?
[he deflates a bit, shaking his head]
I know that sounds insane. It's basically saying the only way out of this is to let those-- those things kill again and figure them out. There's got to be another way than just wait for them to make their move.
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No man left behind, she said. No man left behind, and when this is done, we'll be well. The playing God referred to - we assumed creating life, but I wonder if it isn't also averting death.
1/2
It's not completely outside the realm of possibility. Bringing people back from the dead isn't an easy affair, but with enough power at your disposal... Well, this ship has plenty of that.
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Um. Alright. Why, though? If Alice-- River-- if she had the power to get rid of the aliens from the start, why make us go through this insane game in the first place? That's what I don't understand.
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I take it you've experience, then. Typically, it is out of the realm of possibility for we mortals, or at least, advisable possibility. But if the Admiral believed it to be possible - do recall that the Furry Passing message we received included a man doing testing with his own dead wife, and the Admiral herself expressed hope she wouldn't be cross with him.
As for River, it seems they evade her notice somehow. She can kill them, but somehow only within the confines of this program. Maybe the program itself was set up to show River how to find them? Otherwise, as we've seen, they can survive even the death of the body they inhabit.
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Maybe for your mortals. Your magic does seem to be on the weak side. Adrien, I'm hungry, when is this meeting over?
[he is a shitty cat through and through]
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[anyway]
Can they survive? It took a lot to get him, I've heard, but the way people described that fight... whatever was possessing Rhys wasn't doing so well in his corpse.
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Does it seem that way to you? To me it seems that you can only use yours once per day.
[He should probably not be picking fights with the demon cat back, and yet he is.]
Typically sacrifice is how it would be done. Blood magic. But that's what we've been practicing here, after all. [Adding a slightly sheepish afterthought.] Well. Speaking only for myself, among present company.
I do think they believe us able to kill them. Bull was told to kill one to achieve a pardon, so presumably it can be done. But maybe this is the only way to extract them without the death of the host.
1/2
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All that aside, if reviving people is so easy, then why does it need to be specifically catching them post-murder? There's something that doesn't add up, but I don't think we know enough about the aliens or however this project work to guess.
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[He wants. To know more. About its magic. But that's a discussion for later.]
No, I'm not sure either. The concept of just. Reviving anyone is too easy. Whatever your friend says, death isn't a matter of flicking a switch. But I think we're dealing with something with Alice's limitations. What she perceives her role here to be.
1/3
[Plagg then decides to stop being lazy and flies in close to Dorian, glaring at him. according to all laws of aviation there is no way a plagg could fly]
I already said it wasn't easy. You could at least try to listen when others know more than you. [he zips back to hover next to Adrien] Undoing death is a pain and not worth all the cheese in the world, but humans desperate enough have always found ways around their problems.
i meant 1/2 why do i try. this is 2/2 fuck me
Do you think if we asked her about her role and what the captain assigned her to do according to what she knows, Alice would be able to tell us anything? Or even want to.
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It's a thought. Immortality is a very god-like thing to do. Even if it's not really immortality, avoiding death is pretty close to it. But on the other hand, Alice has offered me proof at least once. If you can really call it proof.
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She offered the Bull proof as well. If you can really call it proof.
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