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One New Notification!

[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!]

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[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.

Jane?

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

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

...Well, that's not good.

[understatement of the millennium]

[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.

...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...]

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

That's not what I'm getting at, Ushiromiya-san. If we let something slip that never made it to air to try and jog someone's memory, or to try to hint that it's really us? The network will know right away.

So we don't mention that.

They'd still know who we are... Though it might be a problem if they recognize us as well.

The network could mess with their memories enough to make it only aired things is what they remember... So a conversation you might have had in your room with them? What if that's erased because they can't air it? There's no cameras in the rooms.

The network probably knows already. They knew things about our lives that shouldn't be possible. I don't see how they wouldn't know what happened in their fake world as well.

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[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

[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.

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???

[hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

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

[Did you pick up on their nicknames Jaycee]

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

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.

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

[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.

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