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Tweak says, "Call me on your 21st birthday"

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-10-31 12:41:00

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:mary wesson, :mingle, aidan reilly, aigis, charlotte charles, felix gaeta, ianto jones, jack harkness, jezebel mephistopheles, jim kirk, john constatine, kanji tatsumi, kitty pryde (aoa), lelouch vi britannia, malcolm reynolds, martha jones, nico di angelo, pavel chekov (au), peter parker (stnas), ryou kurokiba, sarah williams, spencer reid, spike, suzaku kururugi, the doctor (ten), ton phanan, wade wilson

Day 400 — Spooky Anniversary Mingle

(( OOC: Happy Halloween - sort of! EVENT INFO ))

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	thisiscalm 2016-12-08 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks, but I think for the time being it's a two person job. I'll get back to you if I need a consult, though. [ See? They can still be nerd bros, even if Chekov is shacking up with Reid's ex not that awfully long after their messy breakup. It's all good. It's not like he's the kind of guy who holds childish grudges for months and months or anything. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2016-12-10 12:11 am UTC (link)
	Good, thank you. [Now that you bracket it, it's kind of remarkable that things are as okay as they are. Chekov hasn't been pushing anything because he is too cautious to push, but he's definitely encouraging things along. Actively. Enthusiastically, even.] May I ask who your second person is? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2016-12-11 05:59 am UTC (link)
	Rebecca? She used to be on dispatch at the Defence Force. She's, uhm... she's programmed the tech we're using. [ She's also his best friend in the entire world and the only person left here he'd trust with his delicate cognitive patterns. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2016-12-12 12:26 am UTC (link)
	Oh, yes, Rebecca Crane. [He knows her just well enough to think that Reid has extremely sensible taste in experiment buddies.] I can think of no other two people who are as likely to find a way out of the simulation. [Well. They might want to add Kirk to their team. He might not be as qualified, but he does have an uncanny talent for getting out of things.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2016-12-12 03:16 pm UTC (link)
	But no pressure, right? [ Should probably add the Doctor in there too but he doesn't want to complicate the operation more than it already is. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2016-12-13 10:45 pm UTC (link)

Only the smallest amount. [Teasing. But really, there isn't too much pressure. There are a lot of geniuses, space travelers, and people with ridiculously fantastic luck here; even if Reid and Rebecca fail to learn anything, someone's bound to figure something out eventually.

And not teasing:] Please be careful. Our real bodies may be immune to injury here, but our minds are not.

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	thisiscalm 2016-12-16 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	I know. Believe me, I'm extremely aware of that. [ And kind of worried about it if he's perfectly honest, considering his mental health history. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2016-12-17 12:16 am UTC (link)

Yes, of course. [Chekov is worried, too. He also isn't going to suggest that these experiments be put on hold since, if he was in Reid's position, no one would be able to talk him out of pushing on. Sure would be nice if there were expendable minds to practice with, though.]

If we had access to more sophisticated technology here, I would suggest that we store your pattern so that you could be restored if something were to go wrong.

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thisiscalm
2016-12-17 05:01 am UTC (link)

[ Although he understands where Chekov is coming from, that's a whole different kind of disturbing. It's one thing that Rebecca might get a peek inside his brain, but storing a pattern of it? Yeah, that's a little scary. That said... ]

There's nothing to suggest that such a pattern doesn't already exist. After all, if this truly is a virtual environment — and it seems like it is — and people can return with no memory of it but still remember their lives back home, many times past the point of when they originally entered the prison, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume the Wardens have a backup somewhere.

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candothat
2016-12-17 11:02 pm UTC (link)

[Reid should probably avoid the twenty-third century... or at least transporters. Definitely transporters.]

I would be unwilling to stake your mind on that assumption. [Even if Reid is willing to do just that.] There is also nothing but hope to suggest that we could reach the physical prison so that we would be in a position to access that backup and that we could make use of it if it does exist.

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	thisiscalm 2016-12-18 04:46 am UTC (link)
	You're right, there's a lot of unknown variables here, regardless of what we're dealing with. [ And still... ] I put my life on the line every time I go to work back home. If I can't do the same here, then I really don't know what there's left to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2016-12-18 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	[He sighs because there's nothing he can say to protest.] I don't like this, but I understand and I trust that you and Rebecca will be as cautious as possible. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2016-12-20 12:22 pm UTC (link)
	[ He nods, solemnly. ] I don't like it either, but what can you do? Nothing else has worked. I'd rather it be me than anyone else. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2017-01-16 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	Something will as we continue learning and trying. [He understands that, too--wanting to be the one to take the risks. Standing by and watching others put themselves in danger is worse, in some ways, than being the one in peril.] Please tell me if I can help, Doctor Reid, even in a... less technical capacity. [Moral support?] I mean that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2017-01-17 07:38 am UTC (link)
	[ He nods, agreeing to that without really agreeing to it. Then again, if he was going to ask anyone for help it'd probably be Chekov. ] I'll remember that... and I'll let you know if I need anything. Your input is always valued. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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