Poi 5

[yondu]

[As a mission should be coming up, he should say something about this. Or at least put this out there so that if something happens to him there'll still be people willing to leave and keep this information. Have people know that they're not lost yet.]

This is Yondu Udonta with Blue Team. I know this whole tetherin' information threw us for a loop. And it's hard for us to pull our heads together right now. But soon we'll have a mission and for the most part I figure when some of y'all have a focus it'll help. For others it might be a little harder.

I asked the train if the original crew had any abilities like ours, and she said no. I asked her if I'd be correct in assumin' that it was significant that we got a history of changin' worlds. Buildin' 'em, destroyin' 'em, savin' 'em. She said yeah. We got experience and skills and resourcefulness that don't just extend to savin' worlds but I would wager would extend to savin' ourselves. But sometimes even people with as many credentials as we got gotta reach out for help.

I cain't offer much help in the way of the short term sense but I can say thinkin' long term, if people pitch in and keep searchin' for a solution then we'll all end up figurin' somethin' out. Even the people we seen wander off already will end whole and livin' the way they need to be. And if we end up walkin' off into the fog, the inertia from what gets started'll carry us and whoever comes after can finish what we started. And if the Ministry ends up fuckin' us over, then I believe the lot of us got the skills to do it our damn selves if we need to. [Even if that takes longer.] We got time travellers. People that can make whole ass bodies. People that can raise the dead or find items that'll do it for 'em. People that can heal situationally unfortunate individuals back from nigh on the worst-case scenario.

Sayin' this now 'cause I don't want anyone goin' out an' fightin' with an empty heart. At the very least ya need a real solid possibility of gettin' what you want in mind. Because more'n likely there'll be a fight durin' this mission.

I told Anan we'd leave 'em information on who was tethered and who was gone. So if you got a spare moment before next platform? [Which this train can have a hell of a lot of downtime so quite possibly.] If you left and came back, if you've flickered out and came back. If you've witnessed someone leave, write it out, put it in somethin' weatherproof, leave it on the platform where the Ministry can find it when they come through to the liminal stations. We can keep a copy of it here for own minds. Just don't let it hold ya back when somethin's comin' at ya. Know you can still do somethin'.

Comments

[blue_ice]

I'll give what I can. I didn't keep perfect records...but if there are enough of us, and we keep asking for exhaustive information on our former allies. Maybe there's a way out of this.

[subcircuits]

There's always something to do. No matter how bleak or hopeless this shit with the train and the ministry gets, no matter how it resolves, there's always something each and every one of us can do to make forward progress.

[Honestly he's saying this more for whoever else is listening in at the moment than for Yondu specifically. What follows is for Yondu, though:]

We should start a running ledger somewhere. Maybe that computer in Stanndard? Record when people arrive, when-if they depart-- when anyone who "goes to see the conductor", too, I would love to know more about that shit.

[herarrows]

How very eloquent a way of saying that. [Which is. Surprising, but she's had enough Court experience not to say that out loud or let that be betrayed in her voice.]

It's interesting to hear that the prior voyagers didn't have Gifts the same way many of us seem to. That could indicate several fascinating things.

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[azrthmtrnznthos]

Very inspiring, and very you, Yondu. Wanna help me find a weatherproof thing? I left before, and came back--I can write my experiences down.