[NOT THE RUST. EVERYONE HERE IS SO DAMN RUSTY. Dahut's not rusting for now, at least. He smiles at the mention of getting cut up, though it's a little wry.]
We've already run this on Monsieur Scien and his head is still on his shoulders, so you most likely won't have anything to worry about. And we won't go poking around for things unrelated to our stay here, of course!
[DON'T JUST YAY. He'll reach out for Vash's hand if it's not rusty so they can walk to the fucking operating theater together. This operating theater where people (Scien) have died.]
[scien does not yay. he knows so little joy in life. this is not one of them.
but they make it back to the operating theater and goes to open their stupid little biometric access closet. he wheels out their memory machine, setting it up and gesturing for vash to take a seat on the operating table.]
Dahut, begin the preparation for memory viewing.
[task for the assistant!]
First Callisto, you will be given a headset. Following that, all three of us will be able to view your memories on the screen. We'll rewind as far back as we can get, starting with seeing if we can find how you died. After that, we'll rewind further to determine what can be seen from the previous tour.
Don't forget that you can tell us to stop at any time!
[Letting sweet Vash's prosthetic paw go so he can make a big X with his arms when he says "stop", before he scurries off to start preparing things. i hate fake science bullshit so much]
[He's just waiting for Vash's signal! THE BEST PATIENT... JUST A SWEET LIL PACIFIST. Whenever he's comfortable and starts the countdown, he'll wait until zero before launching operations from his end.]
150 years of clear canon memories with some spotty ones during winter tour, but there are some that are clear: - early confusion about eight of them not signing contracts but are here - the founding of their call signs by Ganymede for kidnapped solidarity - mundane interaction with Everan, Gavin, and Kieran and semi-wilder things like below - taking down a crime syndicate branch called the Cokie Ring with Everan and Europa - events around Gavin's death, including sights of flesh
There are more blank spaces here before it's clear again with prepping the Eudora for new crew with the other senior officers, blank again before showing up alone in the Helly Belly. ]
[are those results all in chronological order, hei
but hmmmm. scien will be trying to focus on that blank spot between prepping for new crew and then showing up in helly belly. he rewinds and replays a few time, watching the memory skip.]
... well, I suppose it couldn't be that easy.
But this confirms that your memory seems to be reliant on information that we collect.
[Also watching this happen with a little hum and then a soft sigh. NOT THE VOID...]
I'm curious about the spaces just before they started prepping for our arrival, too... Seems to be a likely point where the memories of your arrival and tour may have been lost.
[ No, because Vash interacts with those people in several different timestamps in a timeline and i'm too lazy to map that all out. One can imagine it's scattered around, but it's noticeable that it's these specific people. ]
I was thinking that since I started to remember when Eunhyuk was telling me some names, their jobs, and how they died. Then Sidon showed me my journal and helped me along for Kieran.
[ Anyway, he nods at Dahut since that seems plausible? ]
Would be weird to have your memories and decide to welcome new people after a big storm...
[scien turns to dahut] Prepare the program for a memory backup.
[he turns back to vash] In a typical procedure, this would simply create a copy of memory data to be uploaded into the next Reliver body. However, since we are made of memory, you might disappear entirely. If you do, we'll eject you from the machine shortly after.
If you don't, that means you're not made of memory.
[He hopes that's going well too but he's also like Lucien's just out here doing whatever the fuck, so who knows how the body hunt is going, honestly. GOD.
He'll give Vash's hand one last pat before he moves to start preparations for Part Two. YAY...]
Ooh! Congratulations! We don't need to go on a corpse hunt after all, probably!
[PROBABLY. He pats Vash's hand again.]
But I wonder how in the world it's possible for you to interact with the rest of us, in that case...? If we're memory data presumably stored somewhere, then why are you just here. [HELP. He asks this but it's clear he's not expecting an answer so much as pondering aloud.] Like the flesh wall or the Grinder, maybe?
You said that you were examining the trash chute before you fell down here... right?
[did i make this up? well,]
If Beans was able to send us items through that, then it can stand to reason that we are essentially in the trash. That would also reflect why it was such a mess when we all first arrived.
Though it is odd that trash is where the heart and memories are also stored.
It's possible that there is a connection... though it's only a theory. Do you know what the structure of the ship is like? The distance from that waste disposal point to this endpoint?
[he tilts his head]
Have you been injured here? Do you know if you are affected by the same healing that we are?
... I don't think there's a direct, direct path through the disposal to here because I do remember opening it up way before and it's really just a science trash can. Some of the garbage at the grinder is definitely not from the Eudora. Maybe there's some kind of connection, but I think there's no way it's a slip and slide.
If that is a way for you to get here, then it is a possible way out. Though if your composition is different from ours, that also makes me wonder how we're meant to retrieve you.
[but scien will hold his hand out for vash's non-prosthetic arm. cut time. paw please]
I'm going to bank on that! I'm sure it'll be fine and now I don't need to worry about my body, but the waste disposal does seem to be some kind of lead. We can keep it in mind.
[ He will offer his flesh hand. ]
Wait. I should tell Lucien to stop looking, right?
[Unless sweet Vash is just a normal lifey in this den of hell, in which case he'll just be stuck with regular slow healing. Shufflin off to go get some antiseptic and cotton wipes and a lil bandage with kitties on it.]
[Reaching out to touch the healed area where the injury used to be with some curiosity.]
You can borrow one of mine if you need to, too!
[All he had to do this week was let Gregor know a rat sent him a love letter probably... GOOD QUESTION, THOUGH!! FASCINATING.]
Oh, it's a bit like the flesh from the walls and other rooms too, then... Regenerative biomatter! Surely there's at least one of the mean, bite-y rats left from one of those tears in space.
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W5 WEDNESDAY
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Not lost to the void today? [just say hello?] Do you consent to joining us for an experiment?
[ok
that was. kind of a greeting]
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But then he just looks back toward Vash and raises a hand in cheery greeting.]
Hello, hello! It isn't going to be a harmful one!
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Hey, guys. [ He will finish tuning this screw in his arm first. ] What were you guys thinking?
I'd also prefer not to get cut up, if that's okay...
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[scien is curious about this test but not so much that he'll override vash's will for it]
I'd like to see what we can find in your memories, and verify if you're made of memories as we are.
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We've already run this on Monsieur Scien and his head is still on his shoulders, so you most likely won't have anything to worry about. And we won't go poking around for things unrelated to our stay here, of course!
[Even if he is perhaps curious...]
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[ He really doesn't know what this entails because that's kind of beyond him in terms of technology despite being what he is. ]
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starts walking toward the operating theater then]
Let's go.
[that's all the agreement he needed]
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[DON'T JUST YAY. He'll reach out for Vash's hand if it's not rusty so they can walk to the fucking operating theater together. This operating theater where people (Scien) have died.]
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[ Vash will let Dahut take his prosthetic hand since that's fine. He'll follow along. ]
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but they make it back to the operating theater and goes to open their stupid little biometric access closet. he wheels out their memory machine, setting it up and gesturing for vash to take a seat on the operating table.]
Dahut, begin the preparation for memory viewing.
[task for the assistant!]
First Callisto, you will be given a headset. Following that, all three of us will be able to view your memories on the screen. We'll rewind as far back as we can get, starting with seeing if we can find how you died. After that, we'll rewind further to determine what can be seen from the previous tour.
Acceptable?
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[Letting sweet Vash's prosthetic paw go so he can make a big X with his arms when he says "stop", before he scurries off to start preparing things. i hate fake science bullshit so much]
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[ He will sit on the table as instructed and wait for the equipment which Dahut I guess is applying for him. Vash's a good little patient. ]
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[that's afterward though. one thing at a time. scien will just turn the machine so they can easily see the screen that'll show vash's memories.
scien will wait until he's all hooked up and ready.]
We will begin at your count. Count down from three when you're comfortable to begin.
[this is... consideration?]
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[ I'll just give results.
150 years of clear canon memories with some spotty ones during winter tour, but there are some that are clear:
- early confusion about eight of them not signing contracts but are here
- the founding of their call signs by Ganymede for kidnapped solidarity
- mundane interaction with Everan, Gavin, and Kieran and semi-wilder things like below
- taking down a crime syndicate branch called the Cokie Ring with Everan and Europa
- events around Gavin's death, including sights of flesh
There are more blank spaces here before it's clear again with prepping the Eudora for new crew with the other senior officers, blank again before showing up alone in the Helly Belly. ]
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but hmmmm. scien will be trying to focus on that blank spot between prepping for new crew and then showing up in helly belly. he rewinds and replays a few time, watching the memory skip.]
... well, I suppose it couldn't be that easy.
But this confirms that your memory seems to be reliant on information that we collect.
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I'm curious about the spaces just before they started prepping for our arrival, too... Seems to be a likely point where the memories of your arrival and tour may have been lost.
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I was thinking that since I started to remember when Eunhyuk was telling me some names, their jobs, and how they died. Then Sidon showed me my journal and helped me along for Kieran.
[ Anyway, he nods at Dahut since that seems plausible? ]
Would be weird to have your memories and decide to welcome new people after a big storm...
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I suppose that you'll find out what goes there around the same time that we do.
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We'll find your body yet! If you have one to find, anyway, which... presumably you do? Maybe.
[Unless Vash isn't made of memory or his corpse has already been vored by a flesh wall somewhere, in which case, rest in pieces.]
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[ He'd grateful for the pats. ]
Thanks! I've asked Lucien on the other side to keep a look out for me, too. I... Hope that's going well. [ Anyway, ] There's another test after this?
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[scien turns to dahut] Prepare the program for a memory backup.
[he turns back to vash] In a typical procedure, this would simply create a copy of memory data to be uploaded into the next Reliver body. However, since we are made of memory, you might disappear entirely. If you do, we'll eject you from the machine shortly after.
If you don't, that means you're not made of memory.
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[He hopes that's going well too but he's also like Lucien's just out here doing whatever the fuck, so who knows how the body hunt is going, honestly. GOD.
He'll give Vash's hand one last pat before he moves to start preparations for Part Two. YAY...]
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You get a copy of whatever limit of years possible in there.
He's blinking slowly. ]
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This is most likely your body, then.
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[PROBABLY. He pats Vash's hand again.]
But I wonder how in the world it's possible for you to interact with the rest of us, in that case...? If we're memory data presumably stored somewhere, then why are you just here. [HELP. He asks this but it's clear he's not expecting an answer so much as pondering aloud.] Like the flesh wall or the Grinder, maybe?
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I... Guess... I must have came here a different way?! If that's true?!
[ ??? PATS HIMSELF ]
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[did i make this up? well,]
If Beans was able to send us items through that, then it can stand to reason that we are essentially in the trash. That would also reflect why it was such a mess when we all first arrived.
Though it is odd that trash is where the heart and memories are also stored.
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Hm. It's pretty impressive you survived the fall, if that's the case! But I guess it would make the most sense from the information we currently have.
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Wouldn't my body be really injured if it's physical, though...? And I... Fell?
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[he tilts his head]
Have you been injured here? Do you know if you are affected by the same healing that we are?
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[They are in the operating theater, after all.]
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[ ??? ]
I also try not to get hurt...?!
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But there must be another way for you to be here and not dead or made of memory.
[scien will look around for a scalpel.]
We can give you a small papercut in a non-intrusive area to test if you're affected by the healing effect.
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Is that alright, Monsieur Vash?
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[ It's time for the cutting, I guess. ]
... Sure? If it's just a small cut...
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[but scien will hold his hand out for vash's non-prosthetic arm. cut time. paw please]
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[He is (mostly) joking.]
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I'm going to bank on that! I'm sure it'll be fine and now I don't need to worry about my body, but the waste disposal does seem to be some kind of lead. We can keep it in mind.
[ He will offer his flesh hand. ]
Wait. I should tell Lucien to stop looking, right?
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[but scien will just make a light incision at the back of vash's hand. it's really no deeper than a papercut.]
Dahut, you said it takes five minutes for small injuries to heal? Prepare an antiseptic and bandage just in case.
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Five to ten, yep! Not long at all!
[Unless sweet Vash is just a normal lifey in this den of hell, in which case he'll just be stuck with regular slow healing. Shufflin off to go get some antiseptic and cotton wipes and a lil bandage with kitties on it.]
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... I do need to be very sneaky with HER-MES.
[ watches himself heal at the GY rate and looks at them like they will know what the answers are because he sure doesn't understand ]
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[but also he watches vash heal more quickly and just
starts laughing what the hell is happening]
Oh? Interesting. So the healing might only partially have to do with memory. It could be that anything here might regenerate.
Should we try to cut a rat?
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You can borrow one of mine if you need to, too!
[All he had to do this week was let Gregor know a rat sent him a love letter probably... GOOD QUESTION, THOUGH!! FASCINATING.]
Oh, it's a bit like the flesh from the walls and other rooms too, then... Regenerative biomatter! Surely there's at least one of the mean, bite-y rats left from one of those tears in space.
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We'll share our findings with you when we have them, First Callisto.
Congratulations on being corporeal.
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Thank you very much for your cooperation, we appreciate it!