Poi 05 - Voice

[firewalled]

...It's Rich.

[Might as well not bother with preamble, though that's certainly odd for him. Odder still that he has the video off, even if there's still the faint strumming of guitar suggesting that he's nervously plucking at strings as he often does.]

I'm 18 now, according to the roster. Guess I missed my birthday. I knew it was coming up, but I was kinda distracted with stuff.

[Like having a mental crisis for the better part of two months at least.]

Anyways, was just wondering like... what's the longest someone's been stuck here before they got to go back home? Maybe, uh, maybe it was wishful thinking? But I was kinda thinking with the whole Ministry investigation and how fucking useless I am on the missions that the train would boot me off by now.

[He's really trying to laugh, trying to make that sound like a joke.]

Just. Was thinking about it. At this point, my friends back home probably assume my dad stabbed me or shit... maybe they'll believe those messages we got to send at that river, but more likely they'll think I'm nuts.

[Just another certified Rich Goranski Comedy Routine. He'll be here all week, folks.]

Comments

[firewalled]

I know. It's just that a lot of people have problems going on at home. I'm definitely not the only one stuck here and being antsy about it.

[Though he probably is one of the few more likely to measure his problems against someone else's and deem them unimportant.]

[gundamofthedesert]

[Quatre nodded] Yeah. I've talked to a lot of people who want to go home. I've looked into it as much as I can, but there is not much that I have been able to come up with. It seems most of the controls are not accessible.

[firewalled]

Yeah, they're all kind of locked away, so until we can figure out a way to break open the metal that they seem to have covering the engine room, we're trapped. Talking to the computer running this thing definitely doesn't help.

[And the face he makes implies that he isn't very trusting of AI in general.]

[gundamofthedesert]

[Quatre nodded]

I agree. Talking to the computer doesn't help and we don't seem to have many options for how to take control ourselves. I don't like it.

[firewalled]

None of us really like it. I don't even think the ones who don't want to go home like it very much. It'd be a lot easier if we could just explain some of this...

[gundamofthedesert]

[He nodded]

An explanation would be nice. I think at the very least, they owe us that. Since we have been living here for so long and deal withing all of this.

[He sighed]

I'd really just like to see my friends again. They were here but they have been gone for a while now.