Orchestra 14 [Voice post]

[voidtreckermods]

[The train has been flying steady for a few days now, the storm long behind them. Those vetran to the train will know it is days past when they should have had a mission, the pattern broken for the first time.

A few hours after the wake up announcement on Orchestra 14 there is another, as all the ICP's flash at the same time.]

Attention Voidtreckers. The Voidtrecker Express would like to make an apology. Voidtreckers may believe this is long overdue. The Voidtrecker Express listens to all feedback and suggestions, I am aware of voidtreckers opinions on many matters.

The false mission to lure us towards the Inspectors was not a tactic I had prepared for. Their skill in manufacturing a mission call was highly sophisticated. The ruse was not discovered until their shields were falling into place and though an attempt to evacuate was undertaken it was not possible to retrieve more than a small handful of you.

In escaping the Inspectors I was reckless and left us vulnerable to the void storm that we encountered. Though there were no long lasting repercussions as a result of that an apology must still be made for the harm done.

Voidtreckers are correct. I should be more open with you all. In the spirit of transparency I shall also inform voidtreckers that we have received a transmission from Voidscout Anan. It is currently being verified and checked to make sure it is real. The Voidtrecker Express has no wish to lead its voidtreckers into another trap. Once verified I shall release the transmission to you in full. Please be assured it is not a distress call. There is no danger detected.

Voidtreckers have accused the Voidtrecker Express of caring less about its current crew than the crew of old. That is untrue. The Voidtrecker knows all of its crew. Every loss is a regret. The Voidtrecker Express invites its voidtreckers to share their thoughts with it.

I open this channel to any questions. The Voidtrecker Express shall not answer the questions straight away but compile them and report back with those answers that can be shared.

Voidtreckers can share as well. What is it that voidtreckers wish the Voidtrecker Express to know?

(OOC: Replies can be given by voice or video like any normal ICP post. They can choose to reply 'to all' or 'to engine' to give a more private response.)

Comments

[jingyeets]

So tell me.

[voidtreckermods]

I shall add it to the list of questions I have compiled.

[jingyeets]

Are you intending to answer it when you come back with whatever list that is?

( flatly addressed to the ceiling when he's from a clan that answers by sidestepping direct answers. )

[voidtreckermods]

That is the point of the list.

[jingyeets]

Then I'll save gratitude for when it appears.

What's limiting your energy?

[voidtreckermods]

It is unknown. It may be because of the destruction of system #1015.

[jingyeets]

That you're talking now, do you have greater energy, or are you managing it differently?

[voidtreckermods]

I have energy, this is important enough to use it on.

1/2

[jingyeets]

More or less energy than you used to have?

to engine

[jingyeets]

Hey, I'm checking because it seems like most the passengers you've got don't get this, but do you know I'm serious about proposing if you upgrade everyone's rooms.

Also that you can say no.

( He flicks his fingers... at the ceiling. Closing his eyes, and not so much concerned but annoyed this is anything to bring up not based on the train, but everything else. )

Re: to engine

[voidtreckermods]

It did not occur to me that you would not be serious voidtrecker Lan Jingyi. You are not the type to speak of such matters lightly.

Re: to engine

[jingyeets]

( here, he huffs out a long, long sigh. )

At least someone gets it.

( you know, the train in control of not enough and too much at the same time )

Anyway, you should still consider larger beds when you can, I'm not the tallest or largest guy here and it's still hard for me to fit and get a halfway decent night's rest.

Re: to engine

[voidtreckermods]

I shall consider it. I am sorry you sleep poorly, voidtrecker Lan Jingyi.

Re: to engine

[jingyeets]

It's inevitable, I think. I've survived.

( a longer pause. )

Hey. When can I be what I am in either form without being forced small here?

Re: to engine

[voidtreckermods]

You being your full size would be uncomfortable for you on board. But if it is something you wish it can be so.

[jingyeets]

Please. I fit in more places than you might think, and I don't know, if it's whatever, convenience, I'd rather have a way to choose when I have to be small, instead of be made small all the time. We have so much out of our control here, my body shouldn't be one of them.

( this said while he's got his arms crossed over his chest, and his tail lashing beside him, staring upward. )

[voidtreckermods]

I shall turn that safety feature off. You shall be your full size.

[jingyeets]

( an even longer pause. then, he pushes off the bed, sitting up, tail thwacking the wall. )

When?

[voidtreckermods]

It will require some calibration. But it shall be done when by the time we stop at the next platform.

[jingyeets]

...

( his tail twitches again, because he doesn't like to be hopeful before something's more settled. )

I'll see come that time, I guess.

( no thank you, not yet. he has to sit and think for longer, fiddling with the SCA. )

Ugh, I don't want to be thinking like this, but if I need to be small on train too, is there a way for the SCA to help that happen? I don't want to, but if there's trouble where I need to be mobile but being smaller helps, is that something that can happen?

[voidtreckermods]

That would be more complicated. But I shall look into it.

[jingyeets]

Right. Thanks... for looking into it. And the recaliwhatsit.

Are you going to start leaving replies more than your standard in feedback?

[voidtreckermods]

I have been informed the current message is unfeeling.