Nebula 24 | Video

[fivemilesdeep]

[About an hour after everyone's unceremonious return, the video feed clicks on to show Ryo in the dining car, looking serious.]

Three things:

One: Is everyone okay?

Two: There's food in the dining car, and coffee and tea and hot chocolate. Come get something to eat if you need it.

Three: What happened?

[OOC: ICP and in-person replies are great, threadjacking is great, everything is great! Go nuts.]

Comments

[jingyeets]

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( Jingyi's tail lashed. )

Keep bothering the train for answers. For better and worse we're here. It needs to deal with us just like we endure whatever its whims are, or else none of us are going to be able to get to anywhere we want to be. You hear that, huh?

( He glances over toward the ICP in the carriage, knowing the train didn't need one singular direction of address. )

[fivemilesdeep]

Just because it can hear doesn't mean it's listening.

[It's a mild delivery but a point nonetheless, and probably why it only replies (for a given value of reply) when contacted via ICP. Given that hearing but not listening can apply to just about anything with ears, why wouldn't the train fall under that umbrella.]

But you have a point. If we get enough people asking for the same thing, maybe it'll answer.

[jingyeets]

Or at least we'll annoy it with what we're thinking, so it can't turn around later to say, "I had no idea that's what you were thinking."

( Talking to a wall? He's been doing that for months at this point, he doesn't expect anything other than his message disappearing to a thanks for your feedback note. He sips the hot chocolate, a frustrated twitch traveling the length of his tail and ending with his fluffy tailtip thwapping harmlessly against the bench further down from where they sat. )

We don't have better answers, and the train's not helping because it's scared and—we don't have a choice but to be along for the whole stupid ride. Until we're not, which we also don't have a choice in. Neither does the Ministry. At least they didn't pretend otherwise about that.