two days after the event [video]

[blue_ice]

[ Kaiba looks tired and frustrated, as usual, but he's loud and clear here. ]

If anyone wants to review the 'rogue void train' message we received immediately before the ICPs crashed, I managed to transcribe a copy. You should all be able to read it now. And I know at least one other person has pictures of the screen if you'd rather read the source directly.

During the chaos, I told a few of you about a myth from my world called the Tower of Babel. As the story goes, once upon a time all the people of the world spoke the same language. They decided to work together on building a tower to the heavens to reach God. God was angered by their arrogance, so he cursed their tongues so that they could no longer understand each other. This stopped the tower project and they scattered across the world.

I'm telling you this because I've been wondering if it's relevant to the situation. Given the timing of the message, the near-immediate disabling of our translator, and the convenient disappearances of a few teammates I knew to be actively investigating, I'm more concerned than I was about what we're in for.

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open to threadjacks re: asking for her photos.

[mtsilver_conquor]

I'm willing to share all pictures I have of it. Just ask for Eva Iden'no.

That said, it likely is and if they leave next platform, we'll know the answer for sure. [By the end, her voice is tight and angry.]

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[adregem]

Damn. [ He sounds and looks incredibly displeased. ] How many were taken? Are any of them back now? [ He jots this down for his own personal musings. But Roland is concerned, and more than that, on heightened alert. He wasn't actively investigating as the rest were, but he was quietly taking note of whatever he could. Would the train consider him a person of interest...? ]

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[aggressivelygood]

[Sven's face on the feed was stoic, the lack of light in his yellow eyes and the slight furrowing of his brow carrying a quiet worry. Any other day he would have been excited to hear more of Kaiba's story of towers and gods, but in context it only served as a poignant comparison.]

That is a harrowing tale given the circumstance. You may be right that something wants to keep us from finding the truth about why we're here. I'm striving to keep an open mind, but I'll confess that I'm worried.

[He hoped Nita was safe, wherever she might be...]

I made note of the characters in the alphabets used on the passenger list and in the Void-specific books from the library. Nita and I believed there are a few different alphabets being used that may or may not be part of the same language...I doubt it'll be of any practical use to us for now, since we have no way of decoding the language now that all text is translating itself to the reader again, and the list of characters might not even be complete, but I can put copies out there if anybody wants them for posterity.

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[maxwellsdaemon]

Or, y'know, could just be the cops throwing a jamming device at us to try and stop us? Looks like the consensus is we're a bunch of criminals. [Which amuses him SO MUCH, especially since he'd taken to calling them all Inmates.]

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[sizedoesntmatter]

[As much as Yugi would like to keep up his usual demeanor and try and be positive... He wasn't sure if he actually could at this moment. Considering the message the fact that a couple of people have disappeared it seems while investigating... It was really worrying.]

At this point even I am admittedly a little worried about what all this could mean.

[dredefulchilde]

The Tower of Babel was my first thought as well. Our captors had an interest in controlling our access to information and keeping us distracted.

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[flatteries]

[ .. Convenient disappearances, huh. Inigo's checked the roster, and he's got an idea of at least one person Kaiba is talking about. ]

Do.. you really think those disappearances weren't random? [ He's trying to keep the worst of his worries under wraps - and pretty succesfully, at that - but it's still obvious that he seems at least vaguely concerned as he asks that. ]

[nutkrusher]

Disappearances, huh? Shit.

[She pauses, thinking it over for a moment.]

A small part of me hoped that maybe these were the good guys. Come to un-kidnap us and send us home. Still could be, but...yeah.

[so_dark_a_road]

There are currently ten names in gold on the roster. Two of them are my friends NIta and Webmind. I suspect the same thing as you seem to, that some of them might have been taken because they were investigating.

I do wonder if the train pulled the plug on the translator to keep us distracted. Or if the Ministry of Void Travel managed to do it, for the same reason? [ Small laugh. ] The Ministry seems to think we Void Warriors may be part of a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION! Shame on us! [ He makes his face look criminal, for the sake of humor. ]

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[faithfulson]

[ Luke sounds a little distant when he responds. ]

Communication means the spread of information; information that can be used against you. Cut off the ability to communicate, and the masses are easier to keep in line.

[ He let out a breath after a moment, his face scrunching up in annoyance. ]

...it's a tactic the Empire back home uses to maintain control over so many different worlds and cultures. Cut off the communication lines, and everything crumbles; makes it really easy to sweep up insurgents.