One New Notification!

[airlockedmods]

[About a day after Cece's message arrives, another small blip! cuts its way through whatever conversations the Airlocked! survivors might be having. But it isn't happening in the space limo this time - it's on the Temerity proper. Some of you are more acquainted with the computer system here, so you should know what that sound means.

You have new Spitter messages!]

Comments

[cyan_maid]

It's complicated.
But now I feel foolish for not keeping up! I kept up with the last "season" so closely...maybe I've just been worn out.

[Yeah no maybe don't tell him we have R2's survivor pool just yet...later, once they're okay with someone else knowing.]

If they were JUST unplugged, would they survive? It has to be more of a process than that.
Max's body alone probably thinks he's been dead for, what, almost two years??
Ugh I don't know.
I'm so mad now.
But thank you, Jaycee, thank you SO much for tipping us off.

[airlockedmods]

Oh hey don't worry about it!
You've got a lot of stuff going on!
I don't mind recapping if you need it
God that sounds like an ad for my videos but I don't think you should watch those probably it's sort of a different tone?

[There's a bit of a pause.]

I don't know
I mean I found some stuff on cryogenics and VR but it's all really theoretical and scientific and I'm not a scientist even a little bit
But they'd have to keep them alive if they wanted to do anything so there's that much?




I have another idea too but you're not gonna like it

[cyan_maid]

Jaycee, I already watch your videos and it's fine. I understand. Public personas and all.

If you could forward us that cryogenics and VR stuff - if there's website links or whatever - I bet the Doctor could make heads and tails out of it.
What's your other idea? I want to hear it.

[airlockedmods]

Yeah sure let me put together all the stuff that's public access
Lots of it is only accessible to universities or if you pay them
Scientific journals and that

[But for the moment:]

Well I mean
Max, I could see. Maybe Bolton
But Lightning's scary and Finn's a soldier
They'd fight back like hell if they woke up like that even if they had guns or whatever on them, they're bad choices when they could've got people like Chitanda or Lee who weren't fighters to begin with
Unless they maybe fucked around with their memories like they did when they put you all in the show to begin with???

[cyan_maid]

[She's saving the public access links for later, for the Doctor - and for herself, just to learn. But she sucks in a harsh breath when she reads that last bit.]

...
The possibility hadn't escaped me.
But I'll argue that Bolton and Max have got to be a force to be reckoned with too. Bolton would fight. And Max...is incredibly not okay.
Even if they're just humans, just civilians? They would wreck some shit if precautions weren't taken.
Pardon my French, but...fuck.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Jane?

[What's got her so upset? Can he see?]

[cyan_maid]

[He can see, she's not hiding the screen or anything]

[scourgingstars]

...Well, that's not good.

[understatement of the millennium]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He holds his own breath as he reads, then lets it out with a hiss and a sinking heart.]

Shit. I hadn't considered that. ...Still, in that case, we still need to confirm for ourselves that it's them. That they're alive.

[cyan_maid]

...Agreed.

[But seriously...if Xander or Jamie get close enough, and Light and Bolton don't recognize...

It...

What if it breaks them? What if it breaks her boys? She can't let them break anymore...]

[everylittlesecret]

Uhm... Quick thing... If they wiped their memories, I don't think it'd do any of us good to mention personal things about them. Can we agree on that before we do this? Not until we know the extent.

[cyan_maid]

R-Right. Yes, that'd be...that'd be foolish.

[Her boys, don't let them shatter, please]

[everylittlesecret]

Good. I've... Been around my share of amnesiacs before this mess. They don't tend to like people knowing more about them than they know about themselves. It'll put them in guard and fight or flight will be guaranteed.

[cyan_maid]

Yeah. I. I don't want them to be scared, if...that's the case.

[scourgingstars]

Agreed. If they can't remember, we'll need to be as cautious as possible. We can work out a solution for any flawed memories once we're out of immediate danger.

[ratherdoweddings]

Right. Saying something only they would know won't work when the network knows all we went through too.

[refusedtoleave]

Wouldn't they have to know about us to make it convincing that they were 'actors'?

[airlockedmods]

Kestrel, S. and Starke, I. "Simulating Perception in the Mammalian Brain using Electrical Signals." Emerging Virtual Technologies, vol. 6, no. 6, 6965, pp. 595-600, www.evt.space/eid/article/6/6/00-0607_article.

Hrathkar, Y. "Effects of Artificially-Stimulated Brain Activity on the Body." Studies in Simulation, vol. 3, no. 1, 6965, pp. 40-55, www.sstudies.space/eid/article/3/1/00-0607_article.

Soong, D., Calvin, S., and Ein, Y. "Consciousness in the Digital World." Digital Consciousness, vol. 4, no. 3, 6968, pp. 4-35, wwwc.dc.space/eid/article/4/3/00-0607_article.

Dyson, M.B. "Cryogenic Stasis over Time." Technologies for Prolonging Life, vol. 6, no. 6, 6970, pp. 566-600, www.tpl.space/eid/article/6/6/00-0607_article.

[You asked for this.

But once he's done regurgitating a list of dense journal articles over Spitter DM:]

Fuck is right
You're right about Bolton top
He used to punch nasty humans a lot? He talked about it some in the first season
Don't know about Max he was always pretty pacifistic but he used to be a lot more functional too

[cyan_maid]

[She did. Thank you so much.]

Well, Jamie had to learn how to punch a man somehow.
And Max is...definitely not okay from observation? That's risky in itself.
But I guess in space...literally anything is possible.

[airlockedmods]

They could make him forget he's not okay
Which is not really the same thing as making him better is it
Who the fuck is this other person talking to me is that one of the season 3 people???

[cyan_maid]

[hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

...That's Peter Parker.
You know.
With.
With the arm.

[Did you pick up on their nicknames Jaycee]

[airlockedmods]

Oh neat! How the fuck did you find them so fast?

[cyan_maid]

I have no idea.
It was way too weird to be coincidence, but all the same, I'm so grateful it happened.
Bit of a tight squeeze in here now, as you can imagine.

[airlockedmods]

God yeah
Sorry but I don't have any suggestions for that
You all wouldn't fit in my apartment either

[cyan_maid]

[God damn it this lizard alien man with an Irish accent is too good for this universe, too pure. Please be safe, Jaycee.]

That's alright. But thank you for thinking of us. :B
We'll figure something out soon, I'm sure.