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Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

You know that I whine hardest about things that make surviving here trapped in small spaces we can't navigate without you is about keeping people comfortable enough to want to help, right? Give us a good bed, it's amazing what good sleep does for making even abducted people feel like working with their abductor.

Time travel, that's what the silver crew did, wasn't it? Try to time travel to what, get back? Before the shapes in the sky, the ones that eat worlds and systems. The ones that made you a legend and made Chaos whatever Chaos counts as being called. Chaotic? World-creating? Extremely loud and petulant like a grieving child?

I'm just saying, speak up if there's a way to deal with tethering that makes it a choice. Help us find answers, and we'll help you. Most of us are exactly that brand of moron, so lean into it, okay?

Frustrated and ready for bed,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

It is incredibly annoying how much people fail to get we're all weird from each other's perspectives. You included! You're super weird! You're a thinking vessel thing that moves between whole, whole, systems!

Also teenagers are a menace and that needs to be noted somewhere by someone not a teenager talking to someone else probably not a teenager, unless you are, in which case, Voidtrecker, you are also a menace. More than usual. Because you're also just a menace in other ways.

Noting food growing resources is still a great plan, but today I'm yearning for the cold spring. It's really lovely, you know? In Gusu, that's my clan's home, we're up in the mountains. You head to the back part of them, where all the waterfalls cascade down from the taller peaks and the plateaus really high up, great places for sunbathing and sightseeing if you wondered. You get to the back of the mountain and follow this path down through the trees, past the bamboo, past the rabbits, you'll see the creek, and the cold spring where it gets deep. It's cold, really cold, so cold the surface looks like it's steaming, but that's because the air's that much warmer, and you stand in there and the cold is soothing? It really gets into your flesh and muscle and bone and it's so spiritually rich in energy you meditate and you forget normal people would shiver, and you breathe.

It's great for healing. I think a place like that is one we can use here. More than the kind of fun I know Tidus longs for, something that heals by its nature. That's what I want.

Goodnight, Voidtrecker Express,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

I woke up unhappy and you get to hear about it! One nightmare after the next and almost all of them had to do with losing copies of the precepts I'd just finished making that were turning into birds and flying out the open windows?! I chased after them but then they were all getting collected in your doors and there were shadows of people inside babbling on in nonsense languages and some guy I've never met stepped out and tilted his head back and shouted out Disappointed.

I'm even more tired waking up then when I went to bed! On my too small bed. It's so small. Ignore that I sleep in tiny, too small dragon form, which makes the bed long enough, but not wide enough. Please rectify this. Give me a bed to sleep comfortably on as a human form dragon souled, please. I promise not to propose? Then you won't have to panic.

Also we need more tea. We need tea good for sleeping and just, how do I order all the teas without remembering off the top of my head what they all are? We need more tea variety, that's what it comes down to, okay, thank you.

I'm this far, this very small distance of my fingers held up in front of the monitor far away from buying myself a double room in your brothel for a week just to sleep. Better.

Supremely irritated,
Lan Jingyi

if youre talking back to us how do you tether us and do you do anything to us

like are our bodies somewhere else or our spirits

do you move them

i dont know how tethering works its confusing

i just want to know where everyone is that disappears

is that really them on the platform when they leave

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Can we talk about the particular shade of purple today? As in, why can't we get a nice lilac. A nice, lovely lilac, that doesn't scream "I fell into a vat of black currant juice." Is it so hard to ask for some variety? Maybe shades of purple? Give us some variation, that's still in the whole recognised as one colour thing? Imagine, you can do this for Reds, given them some nice shades of pink. Give Blues a spectrum! Oranges can look like they're yellows, let them have that too! It's not like people stick to a colour team on missions anyway.

Besides, what about the names. Why are they literally colours names. What if someone can't see colour differences. What if someone sees in shadows and light. Why don't we have symbols, huh? Not sure how you handle people who are blind either, none of this is helpful.

Colours were bothering me today, and here's another reminder: nicer beds. Better rest. More cooperative golden crew! Or whatever it is we are to you.

With a deepseated longing for spectrum nuance in colour,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Hey, did all your silver crew's stuff disappear when they did? Are you only able to grow and change as a voidcraft based on the crew you have at the time? Did you lose all of that, is that why you grow through the whole voting every so often?

Here, ideas for extra carriages, we've been over this before:

Cold Spring or add it on to Tidus's happy Pool space
A carriage that's nothing but grass you can lay down on and some kind of illusion sky overhead
Chicken carriage (this would have space to grow more things too okay)
Distillery carriage
Carriage that displays memories from us on our choosing

Or improvements for carriages:

Second scaffolding like level for greenhouse or garden, for more growing of things
Longer and wider beds for the sleeper carriages
Larger spaces in the rooms of the sleeper carriages so the rooms are more useful
Foldout for making one of the gyms into a pool for Tidus and all the other people who like swimming

Those are the thoughts in my head tonight and so now they're in yours too, you're welcome.

Fitfully yours,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

What, no rest, only work? You never even said please.

We'll do the thing but you owe us, okay, get thinking on that whole thing about giving everyone something nice for a treat with a little note saying thank you or something, put effort into communication! Like I do!

Heading out,
Lan Jingyi

are the people we see leave on the platform actually them

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Troubling you to talk with me. This is total shit! Eighteen of us were held in some stupid interrogation called an interview for the last few days, six of us a day, by two people acting as investigators for the stupid void ministry!

They don't understand anything about the shit you're doing or why you're not registered, they barely acknowledge what went on with Chaos and Diagad, they were definitely looking to paint us all as poor lost confused fools being held by an unstable train, and I defended you! For all this stupid shit we deal with, because it's messed up what you're doing, but I don't know how much control you have over it, and whatever the hell is destroying whole systems is way more messed up!

If I can't pretend there's some sense of shitty scale in all this, I'd be doing myself and everyone who trained me the kind of disservice I can't live with. Maybe it's just because unlike so many people here it doesn't matter if I'm here or at home, my world doesn't hinge on anything I do, and I'm not dead, I'm living. You're not my lifeline. You haven't resurrected me yet, you don't have a claim to manipulating my spirit.

One thing, and please, answer on this. As far as you know, are any of us onboard from a system that's no longer recorded?

( for the first, and perhaps the only time, he does not sign off with his name. he's just standing there with his tail lashing, blank forms from the ministry clutched in his hands again and practically all but shoved up next to the ICP screen. )

The next time the Ministry comes for us, I want us to be able to help ourselves. Whether it's dealing with their machines or getting our powers back or knowing why we lost them in the first place.

It would be easier if you gave us the resources to figure that out.

[Midnight conversation? Midnight conversation. He's tired, but he can only imagine how the train feels right now. (He's pretty sure the train feels - pretty sure - so he's trying to be gentle.)]

Are you okay? I mean- I heard what happened out there, and...that can't have been easy.

[And the sun is slightly warm. Sometimes, life just sucks.]

If there's anything we can do to help you, let us know, okay? Find your crew, yes, but anything more immediate.

...I don't know if you rest, but if you do, rest well tonight.

[Murderbot will be attempting to use its wireless connection capabilities to- well. It's not stupid enough to try and hack the train, not by any means, but it's going to try and reach out some very basic handshake protocols?

~~pleasedontsquishitlikeabug~~]

Query; system status

Hey buddy, just wanted to make a quick note here: Is there any way you can maybe consider changing the emergency evac protocol? Because the luggage car with all those hard and pointy suitcases is kinda not a good place for us to be suddenly dumped on top of each other, and I have the bruises to prove it. Or...had. Thanks, Ryo bud. How about some alternate choices, like standard? Or one of the gyms? Or dining? Bonus, we can get food and we're probably starving. And about the other thing...I know it might've been stupid of me to ask the ministry to help us, but I thought I should show them that we're willing to try if they are. Nobody wants the worlds to keep being erased here. -Jakey P.

Look, I'm pretty pissed off that for all I know you are running a kidnapping ring, but I do appreciate that it's given me what I have wanted for so long. If you could have asked me, I probably would have said yes.

Just thought you should know that. Since you're supposed to be a person, not just a vehicle.

If there actually is a Voidtrecker Express II or a III that existed at one point, that's not just a fictional thing, then could you give us some info on them. If there were people from worlds that still out there for contact that crewed them. If there might be veterans we can call on or journalists who covered missions in the past. I don't know what to ask for and we might need someone to advocate for us one day.

[And for all his urge to be cagey, he's just asking outright. If he can't use it maybe someone else can.]

Hello, Voidtrecker Express! This might seem trivial, but after that last platform a lot of people were dripping wet because of the rain. Would it be possible for you to give us a weather update before we pull up at the platforms? That way, we'd know what kind of weather to dress for.

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

So it's fine by you when we fuck each other over. Good to know.

Regardless,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Breakdown: you run scared, don't speak with us. We need words. If it's in the stories you share of your earlier crew's logs, if it's you speaking over the speakers, if it's taking questions from us, talk. Do you have any idea how frightening you are?

You run scared from the Ministry. Fine. Whatever. We don't even have the choice to run scared from you. Missing your crew, wanting them back, being desperate for it, fine.

You're scary. People pulled onboard are also scary. And we can't escape either one of you.

Keep that in mind,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Can we work out a system. If you won't respond directly, can we work out an indirect system.

No response means yes.

Standard response means no.

Waiting with the exact same sense of expectation I have as when I'm listening to the rice cooker play,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Is part of why you don't help outfit us for success against the dangers that shoot or need shielding against because our tethers to you mean you resurrect us in your bowels, so it doesn't matter to you if we die?

Wondering,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Second level for the greenhouse carriage. Please give us places to grow more things. I'm not saying this because I'm a great grower or gardener or farmer or anything, but we have training with greens and gardens, and the vegetarians by preference or need is important.

Chickens would be good too. Eggs, and all. So only hens, no roosters, unless you want more chickens, and I think the hens need to be young to be good layers.

Why do you have a store, anyway? How does that functionally work? What do points mean? Where do those trade that you can create or summon these things 'ordered' and have them show up when you restock? None of these are important, but it bothers me, the not knowing.

Here's a real question. Have we ever run out of water?

With less than restful thoughts,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

Either the last or next to last day of the month? You're weird, all these thirty or thirty one day months, is that a lunar cycle somewhere in the systems? Was it one back in yours? Must have a wonky moon involved.

Your last crew believed in you and did something dangerous. You're looking for them even now.

Is someone in the engine room?

Thinking because that's all we have time for like this,
Lan Jingyi

Greetings, Voidtrecker Express, I'll be troubling you.

System numbers. Can we get system numbers, can you tell us if they exist for you or for everyone? You realise that's what the Ministry Investigator people offered to me that they reneged on like jackasses, the ability to scan us for systems so we could see what they were or if they existed, okay.

I want to know this version of my best friend didn't leave to be nothing, in a place only we remember. We all want to know the people we care about are okay. If you don't know, and that's what Inigo's said you told him, then say that too. But find some way to check those system numbers, find some way to figure out if your tether's still connected in a way to say these people are out there, because they're our crew, not just your disposable one trying to get the right crew back. And this all feels like we're disposable to you.

Anyway, rejoice, I'm putting my points where my mouth is and getting myself a whole larger bed for a week. I repeat, everyone deserves more space on their bunks. Doesn't need to be this big for one person, but longer, a little wider. Larger rooms since you keep rearranging spaces without talking to anyone anyway. You're redesigning yourself all the time. Consider making it more than barely passing to those of us trapped in here.

Also, still no sweets on pillows. Also, we were all soaking with that downpour. Please try adding weather warnings to our stops? Or at the least hold the doors for long enough we can get coats, it's not like the people leaving notice, not like Wen Sizhui noticed, but the rest of us sure as hell did. You want us being your heroes? Finding your crew? Then help keep us healthy. Cold platforms and rainstorms and things like that don't help when we're all underprepared.

To whatever thoughts strike you,
Lan Jingyi

can voidtrains get buttons that you press and take you to a different car

storm is sending us to different cars out or order. kitchen to spa to games to gym etc etc

can we get that but you know, choose it

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If you can't let us go home and can't let us speak directly with people back home, can you find a way to at least see that they're okay? Like when we got to send messages home, a place where we can get the chance to see how people back home are doing. Even a glimpse would be okay.

[She's a little desperate to know her family's alright.]

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