Grasshopper 30, Video to Everywhere from Standard, 'Afternoon'

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Sometime after lunch, the day before the next platform stop, Nita makes her next appearance on the Network.

Hey, this could become a regular thing...!]

Nita Callahan with Orange Team, here, and I just want to say: if you didn't have to deal with sharing memories while we were on Jema'grethy, you got off easy.

[Have a wry momentary glance, train.]

That said, if you weren't dealing with that, and didn't climb the mountain, there's some important things you'll want to be clued in on. And by 'important' I mean 'important to how and why the Voidtrecker Express got all kinds of screwed up.'

[So... that's a thing.]

I've got transcripts of the memories Enna, Minako, and I received, if you'd rather not experience the memories themselves. Either come see me or Eva if you want those transcripts, or just me if you want a direct memory transfer.

Those who've already seen the memories - what do you think of them, so far? It may sound kind of 'after the fact,' but how are you doing? There were some real heavy matters brought up in them, and if they're at all relevant to what we're going to be dealing with, we'll need to pull ourselves together fast.

That aside: keep what Senku and Ai said in mind when making purchases when our points roll around; one thing you can never have enough of is supplies, and it never hurts to be overprepared.

And that's what we're gonna have to be. Call it instinct, or intuition, or whatever, but it wouldn't be my first time, and I'm pretty sure that applies to a lot of you too.

Take care of each other. Nita, out.

Comments

[laurefindil]

Coherent storyline, actually. Th second memory was a single mission, based on the 'checkin.' In my opinion, of course. Rather similar to the sort of thing we do.

That third memory though...

[unfavorableinstigation]

I meant more - did the first and last memories bookend each other? Could they have connected to entirely separate instances?

[It feels more like the former, but then it wasn't as if anything else about this had been straightforward to recognize...]

Yeah. Time travel is no joke.

[And neither is losing your world.]

[laurefindil]

Ah. [He had thought they were connected, but at the same time.] In mine and CassieL's case, our first memory was of something very recent. Like just before we joined the Train. If that was the Train's state before the first passengers appeared?

I mean, all three of mine were linked, of course, though there was quite a bit of time between the third and the first in my situation.

But, it did feel, to me, like it was a result of the decision made in the third memory. I'm not sure exactly how, there is a lot of information we still don't have. But...it could be cause and effect.

[Glorfindel could not think of a worse thing. Well, he could, but the worse thing would also involve that.]

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita nods.]

The first seems to have been 'whatever we were doing before we ended up on a void platform', in any case.

[Which also gave credence to the 'this isn't actually a train to begin with' theory.]

And yeah, that's what I was thinking. Short of getting any other visions, though... Hard to verify.

[laurefindil]

We seem to be learning more about the Train bit by bit. And it about us. Even though we were not consulted about being here, it does its best to make sure we are as comfortable as possible, we earn 'currency' and can buy things we specifically want.

[He smiles, a little.] I do wonder what we will learn next.

[unfavorableinstigation]

... It doesn't solve the issue most people have with the train, though. Or assuage the worry we feel when we lose friends.

[Though she looks less sad and more thoughtful at the last part.]

Yes. We have to keep our focus forward, not just on the past.