Rabbit 17; video [Memory share discussion!]

[blitzcheer]

Hey.

[ There's none of Tidus's usual cheer as he speaks today, face showing on the screen of the ICP consoles, his call coming from the room he shares with Inigo. ]

I know some of us are still thinking about the people we've lost, but a bunch of us went through those caves to help the train find its memories. I figure now's as good time as any we talk about what we saw so we can get it down and make sense of it. What did the rest of you see?

[ OOC: Feel free to share and talk amongst one another, threadjack, etc! This is an open call. ]

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[blitzcheer]

Do we have any notes about what the people looked like in the last memories we saw of the old crew? I saw a memory with two girls. It looked like they were from Blue and Orange, and the name Xe came up? I think her name's come up before.

[ At some point. ]

They were by the engine wall. One of them had a flute, and these markings up her arms... [ He mimics what he means, hands moving up his forearms. ] And she had this flute. She was about to play it, but I didn't see what happened next.

[rolltoavoidpossession]

I saw Xe too. [It's Ryou, chipping in with the bit of memory he got.] There was a group of Orange team members, and they were talking about doing something that Xe said she shouldn't do. She said she could, but only if a Blue member named Vian gave the order. I don't think she wanted to do it.

[He thinks for a moment about anything else important.]

Some Red members were there too, but they looked upset.

[controlsthedie]

[ Tidus isn't the only one who's low energy. Thanatos looks at his notebook. He has jotted down all he could once he got the memory. It's not much. ]

I think I saw Xe with a group in orange. She had silver web markings on her arms. She said she was the only one left, and they, or maybe just the man, wanted her to do something that was against the rules. She didn't want to go back or retreat to where they've already been. Not even for a catastrophe. She was adamant on that.

[jingyeets]

Vian gave that order later, so whatever memory I saw came after the one you saw, at least.

[truesmiles]

I saw a man and a woman speaking. I believe they were taking about evacuating a world because they were talking about tethering stations and there not being enough.

I also know their names were Kiel and Vian. Seemed like they wanted to save everyone, but there talked implied they might not be able to do that.

[flatteries]

[ .. oh, wait! ]

I think we saw different parts of that same memory. Maybe?

[ Inigo isn't entirely sure it were the same two people, but Vian was definitely there, and the topic is the same, so-- ]

They wanted to save the people from the same place as someone named Xe. And if you saw them talking about how there weren't enough tethering stations-- they said they instead wanted to try and tether those people directly to them, rather than using the stations, even though it was dangerous.

[truesmiles]

I never heard mention of Xe, but there were a couple of I assume world names mentioned. Enrara was the one they said they would focus on of the two.

[zigajoule]

The train was in the stars. A battle happened outside with small metal ships fighting large metal people and some kind of floating metal castle.

[ He means small spaceships fighting large robots around a space station. He's from Briar Valley. He's doing his best. ]

The Red Team prepared to leave, but they didn't know if others would believe them. I didn't see or hear what they were trying to get others to believe. Or who they were going to warn.

[blitzcheer]

[ There was still a fight happening? Or- no, Tidus will try and figure that out in a second. Or maybe as more people speak up. ]

What I saw - that Xe girl said something about Red Team only thinking with their fists. A name came up... [ He looks down, where he jotted a vaguely helpful line about the memory. ] Keel? Keely? Something like that.

[zigajoule]

The train only mentioned the Red Team, and they didn't use any names with each other in what I saw.

[tactlesstantei]

I saw the train shooting upwards as people did something on their SCAs. A man on Red team told Vi - probably Vian - that they think whatever they just did worked, then they decided to go to Thistea first before bringing anyone.

Then there was a flash of colour outside the train, and the people on the train reacted like it was new, asking if they saw that.

[Masumi says this as she writes in her notebook, apparently writing down what everyone else saw to try to put together a timeline of what happened that day.]

[flatteries]

If all or most of these memories are connected [ and that is a big, big if, and Inigo knows it ] maybe the thing they were trying to do was tethering people? That's what they talked about in the memory I saw..

[tactlesstantei]

Hm. That would makes sense for an attempt at saving their world. Maybe they were trying to tether people up like what we did for Osiga?

[It makes sense. But just why did it go wrong, and what happened to the people?]

[catti]

Did anyone say aught about Enrara? I witnessed a group what mentioned sending a portion of their crew to Thistea and that area.

[tactlesstantei]

Trying to save both worlds? They mentioned going to Thistea first in mine, so I assume Enrara would have been the other location they were going to hit later.

[happyends]

Um.. I saw a memory, but it was.. strange. I'm not so sure if it's as useful as everyone else's here..

[ But sharing can't hurt, right? Even though the girl struggles to describe it. It was so strange. ]

The memory was just.. nothing. Feeling like nothing.. being nothing, maybe? But then there were suddenly these lights in the distance.. I think there were ten of them, but my count could be off. [ Again - it was weird! She was confused! ] And then the memory-- the person the memory belonged to.. the train, maybe? It saw those lights as theirs, and started to pull.

[weifinder]

Miss Madoka, how many people were first brought to the train after the Voidtrecker Express's crew went missing, do you recall?

[sizedoesntmatter]

The memory I found really wasn't much sorry to say. It seemed like they were arriving in System #1015. It was a call for Orange team.

Someone speaking over the SCA saying well explain everything and good luck and Orange and some Blues leaving the train.

[blitzcheer]

Hmm, that's odd though... I wonder where it fits? We know that everyone left saw Enrara get completely destroyed, but it sounds like some parts have people going places.

It has to be before, right? Maybe...

[renegadeprince]

I saw members of an Orange and Blue team approaching buildings via a courtyard. They seemed concerned about a thunderstorm that was approaching. The lightning was not typical to that I have seen before, it was colored similar to the colors of the void. [Vegeta added his piece to the call, unsure how useful it will be, but to help with those puzzle pieces they had.]

They were clearly on a mission, but did not state what it was, only that they were in a hurry to do so. One seemed surprised by how the sky was acting.

[happyends]

Mister Vegeta.. Do you think that would've been a normal mission..?

[ It's not like Madoka knows. But she can't help but think about the stuff he's mentioning here, humming softly to herself as she does so. ]

I mean, I guess it could've been, since we've seen a lot of danger.. But you probably wouldn't have seen that memory unless it was important somehow, right? Maybe it was some special mission.. [ Even if Madoka has no idea what exactly it could be. ]

[jingyeets]

Not like any of this is nicely straightforward...

( he exhales sharply, more out of longstanding irritation than anything else. running a hand along a horn, his tail flicks visibly behind him before he straightens a touch: this is delivery mode, for someone used to making reports to superiors, all his life. )

A woman wearing blue stood in the middle of a crowd of people in uniforms belonging to the Voidtrecker Express. I think that was Vian, and she's been in the Voidtrecker's shared memories? Logs? Those recordings and those witnessed memories written down from the past.

The woman spoke after closing her eyes, stating, "Do it." No one spoke afterward, people avoided looking each other in the face, or looking at the woman who spoke. She glared at them, and a woman in orange glared back. She looked like she felt sick. The woman in blue turned and walks away.

When she's left, another person in the orange uniform approaches the glaring woman, calling her Xe. They ask what she needs, and after a moment of shaking her head, the woman called Xe says, "I need to do some maths."

( holding up his hands, as the terminology doesn't ping to him as arithmetic right off. )

Either way, two of the people I'm hearing others here saw, for what that's worth. Anyone have a running idea of which events fall where in the line of things happening? Vian didn't say what "it" was, but given what there's been before, "it" likely was the attempt to fix the whatever to save their homes. That needed Xe to do something to the engines, but was Vian what, the captain?

[blitzcheer]

[ Oh, wait. If he remembers... ]

There's a memory, I've got a copy here. [ Now, and he's flicking through the pages of his book not on screen. He came somewhat prepared!! ] Everyone had a meeting after those sky shaped took out everything, and they... here.

[ Aha, found it. But he's squinting, looking down as the edges of the paper he used to photocopy the book show on screen. ]

--It ends with Vian saying "Do it". They'd been talking about going back, but someone else said it was dangerous. Xela. [ Ah, just like who Jingyi said. ] Yeah, Vian held the highest rank, so she got the say about them doing what they did.

[ He looks at the screen. ] You want me to read this out?

[weifinder]

Grand plan! Anyone keeping track of what comes up here to put in an order of what may have happened when?

( wei wuxian smiles, though it's a fleeting thing, and he sits back, evidently in one of the carriages rather than his own cabin. )

Now usually I'd stress how terrible my memory is, but for the sake of what we're doing here, it's been having a few good weeks. In the mess of what I did see in those caves, the only memory related to the Voidtrecker Express was... hm.

( he waves a hand, since it's about talking those memories through, and now he needs to construct a narrative to share. )

Based on what others are saying, I saw Xe sitting where you did, at the engine wall. Spiderwebs up her arms, yes? She was playing a small flute, metal sounding, very mournful. I can recreate the tune if you'd like.

( can to the T nail it, as it were, but that's not usually what... okay, maybe on this voidtrain he's been making more music than really has any sense in his world, but that's part of its delight, isn't it? the senseless expansion of their lives, gaining meaning. )

I suspect the one who approached while Xe played was Vian, a woman in blue team's uniform. Mostly for what they say to each other, and what else people are sharing here, or we've seen or heard in the past. Vian joined Xe in sitting down and leaning against the wall while Xe played. Once the song ended, Xe told her she wasn't angry at her. Vian replied she knew.

( here, holding up his hands again. )

Neither of them named each other, and I didn't see anything other than the logs shared by the Voidtrecker Express before, and read the recorded memories from months past like you showed me before, but those are the people I suspect I was seeing. Follows up on what you had started to see.

[blitzcheer]

Thanks for sharing, [ Tidus says with a nod to the screen. thanks, wuxiian. ] Yeah, that sounds like your memory came right after mine. You wanna record that tune later? I'll show you how; we'll find something so we can save it somewhere.

[ That might be better, so other people can listen. Maybe they can even share it out. ]