Phone (R2)

[bathymetric]

Thanks to the wonders of technology, you can make direct contact with The Captain through both the text or audio features on your devices. Please list IC week and day in the subject line.

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Late Sunday/Early Monday after the theater meeting

[sharddrive]

hey did you know these things can text

did you

hey captain did you know

captain

did you know there was text

did you

[bathymetric]

hey cool you know about the text feature and you're already trying to annoy me
gold star

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week 1 | tuesday

[dokkalfheimr]

[A text will come in some time late at night, at that sort of time that maybe makes it very technically Wednesday; however, everyone knows the day does not change until after you have slept, and Freyja hasn't slept yet.]

q

[...There is a pause.]

this is lady freyja who is this going to

[WELL, NOW THAT WE'VE VERIFIED HOW THAT WORKS]

Week 1 --- Wednesday

[ahelpingpaw]

[Time to write. Enough time has passed for Filbo to start getting over the obvious distrust towards the Captain. Of course he still doesn't trust the Captain at all, but now he's willing to at least try to reach out to him]

Hello, Cap! I hope you haven't been spending the entire day locked somewhere inside the ship -- it's sunny outside!

[A suspicious person would think that was Filbo's way of getting him to step outside to everyone else can go and beat the Captain up, but no, it's just a greeting]

Have you reconsidered the whole part about us killing each other?

[sharddrive]

oh cool you did know

was that part your idea too, giving us a way to bug you directly seems pretty "you"

[bathymetric]

[A reply doesn't come until some point well into Wednesday. Potentially due to the fact that it was late and other people decided to start a new day with sleep.]

Q.

This is your captain speaking. So, what? Are we playing a game here?

[dokkalfheimr]

i am not used to the machine but if we are playing a new game i am not aware of it

[bathymetric]

[The reply comes quickly.]

No.

This is about the you killing each other part, not the sun thing.
I've actually been working on my tan.

[bathymetric]

I just thought that since you sent me a 'q' that it was some kinda weird possibly interesting game from your homeworld. But it seems I'm completely wrong.

[bathymetric]

Nah that was so you could contact me in the case of something incredibly dire and/or funny.
Like one of you guys somehow set the buffet table on fire.

[dokkalfheimr]

it would not send things it took me several tries

i do have a few questions though are you a human

you do not need to tell me much of anything else about yourself but i have been wanting to know that much

[bathymetric]

What, you don't want to hear your captain's life story? Ah well, maybe next time.

I'm 100% human. 110% awesome, too.

[ahelpingpaw]

Well that's...great. I guess there's not much to do in here other than getting a tan.

[What even is a tan? Furred creatures wonder.

Well, what did Filbo expect, really. The whole thing is too much effort to just undo for no reason. Sunk cost fallacy, you know]

I suppose that means we're going to stay here for a long time. I dunno if I'm being too forward by asking something like this, but there's a couple things I haven't found around here that I'd like to ask for? If that's fine? It's not really anything big.

It's so I don't die from causes other than, you know, getting murdered?

[Looks like Filbo has something in mind. Perhaps if it was a more devious person that'd be cause of concern, but, well, it's Filbo]

week 1 thursday.

[onlyyoucan]

[She shouldn't call, of course. But Sara Werec has done a lot of things she shouldn't do from the sheer force of needing to do anything and know whatever she can about her unfortunate circumstances.]

You know everything, don't you? I don't know how, but it is more than what's in the profiles.

[sharddrive]

aw and here i thought you were watching us 24/7

i feel lonely now

[bathymetric]

You think my life revolves around all of you? Come on.

Plenty of other crap to do on this boat.

[bathymetric]

[The call comes through just as strange-sounding as their initial meeting in the theater, but it is definitely him.]

What? Oh. Yeah, of course I know more than what's on those profiles. How do you think they were filled out in the first place?

[bathymetric]

Yeah, the digs you've got right now aren't all that great. They're not even the best stuff on this boat. Trust me, if you live a little longer, you're not going to believe the kind of crap my boat's got!

Well, I don't really want you dropping for just any old reason. What's your request, buddy?

And don't just say "a way out of here".

[ahelpingpaw]

That'd be too easy.

[Alas, if only it was as easy as asking the Captain for a way out. End of the murdergame, everyone out]

So, I, I'm sure you know this since you're the Captain, but there's this whole issue called...scurvy? It's pretty horrible stuff. So I was thinking to ask if you could give me a few lemons?

[......]

G-Grumpuses are very vulnerable to scurvy. It's the leading cause of death in seafaring grumps, so if I'm too busy dying of scurvy I won't be able to kill anyone, and I probably will die before anyone kills me. It's really bad.

[He's completely lying. Filbo doesn't feel he can be straightforward about this to the Captain, even if it is for something as simple and mundane as a bunch of lemons]

[onlyyoucan]

I thought so. But how? I can't be the only one you know things about that shouldn't be out there.

week 1 | friday night

[scythegun]

[Oh right, he probably should thank the Captain for the suits. It's really the first excuse Yeager has to talk to the Captain, so might as well try to make a decent first impression. After some debate, he eventually opts for texting. He'll be a bit slower with responses as he learns how to do this, but he doesn't want anyone to overhear him.]

Captain! I hope I'm not interrupting you. Or waking you up!

[ah yes, good start yeager.]

[sharddrive]

evidence does kind of suggest we're a pretty significant part of your life, yeah

[bathymetric]

Uhhh, it's a little thing called research? It's a learning thing. Were you ever taught that?

[bathymetric]

Well, best case scenario, you won't be. Not for very long.

[sharddrive]

totally agree there

if you let us go now I can give a soft maybe on only beating you up a little bit