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.]

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[monkeyinthewrench]

Oh man, real food that isn't nutri-sludge? Thank you, thank you. I will never complain about the food here again as long as I live.

[ Jake readies himself to head that-away in a minute or two. ]

...yeah, so it was a trap. The world's biggest and creepiest escape room made into a fake emergency to lure us so the Void Ministry could run some interrogations. Fun, right?

[tactlesstantei]

First, thanks for the food offer. They gave us nothing but nutrislime in the holding cell.

Second, some of us got kidnapped from the mission and forced into interviews with Void Ministry officials. I don't know what everyone was asked, but I was asked about Diagad and the train's original crew.

My favourite part was when they asked me about voidsickness after I said that Enrara was erased from memory.

[She's very irritated about the whole thing.]

[yondu]

The ones that didn't get kidnapped ended up in a hamster maze for a few days, had to make sense of a manufactured mystery where shit kept not addin' up.

My takeaways? They got a way to turn off anything special about us. Don't know if it's fiddlin' with the SCA settings or a spanning device or what, but they pretty successfully shut us down. I was expectin' that to happen sooner or later. I was just hopin' I could figure out how if it happened.

Other takeaway, they got access to some sort of cloakin' tech that leaves shit completely invisible. Not even a waver in the air. A lot better than those devices we got from Anan that once. So if they decided to slip somethin' on board it might be a good long time before its noticed.

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[jingyeets]

( Jingyi, who had just been furiously typing at the train not long before, doesn't so much stomp in as show up frowning and with paperwork still clutched in hand. He'd heard Ryo over the ICP, but bothering himself to reply when he was too keyed up seemed unwise; so he was here now, looking disgruntled, and blinking at the sight of the dining car and everything in it, per his nose's choice to inform him all at once.

thus he seats himself, placing the papers down before him in all their blank glory, and asks, )

What's the sweet smelling stuff?

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[blitzcheer]

...I think the other guys added too much water? The food was okay. It was just packaged stuff.

[ It tasted about as decent as some of the other who decide they really have to cook some days on the train. But he won't say that. ]

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[goingthroughaphase]

[ Kitty had been on her way towards the dining car anyway, and she'd never turn down some hot chocolate. When she arrives, she spots him and gives him a tired smile. ] Hey.

[firewalled]

I'm tired as hell, but I'm doing okay. Might come bug you for a meal.

[Rich rubs his face for a moment before he can come up with a response to that last question.]

The Void Ministry shoved us in a recreated space horror video game level to test us, I guess. Kidnapped some of us on the side to ask us what we knew.

[schrodingersghost]

Food? Awesome. I'm totally there.

Oh, we got kidnapped by the void equivalent of government goons. No big deal.

[agoodsoul]

Thanks for the food. You gonna need help with clean up after?

[He'd be happy to help. Have a bit of normalcy after all that weird shit.]

[jan_ken_hacking]

There's hot chocolate?

[Oh....that's very nice of this guy, honestly.] ...That's very thoughtful.

Did you know we would be back soon, somehow? ...it sounds like you have a lot prepared...

[She won't bother with 'what happened'. Everyone else seems to have that covered, and likewise, she hopes being okay is self-explanatory at this point.]

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[bakegarasu]

Otoha shows up. Eventually. He sits down in a chair and sighs, looking up at Ryo and holding his hand out obligingly. Ryo will find some hard bruises, but nothing too serious.

“… What a shitshow.”