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SGT. CHIRON ([personal profile] byhand) wrote in [community profile] agoge2017-12-17 04:45 pm

>>@SGT | TO: @ALL.

For the curious, we have finally found the source of the coolant shortages.

You may have noticed a certain oddity with your dreams as of late, and a greater and greater difficulty in waking from them. I can confirm that you have regrettably-- and entirely accidentally-- stumbled into the dreams of your neighbors and comrades. To those whose privacy has been invaded: we ask for your understanding and kindness. This was the fault of no member of COST.

A trans-dimensional creature known as the Oneiroi, the Telpharan, or more commonly, shapers, have invaded our ship. Colonies of the creature are known to invade ships and BASE models, consuming coolant while distracting their enemies with dreams and visions. These creatures currently live in our walls.


[Attached is an image of a rather exasperated Commander Grothia, flanked by several DACTYL droids, standing before a hole ripped in the wall of BASE's many hallways. She holds a shaper up to the camera, while several DACTYL droids chase more of the creatures escaping out of the walls behind her.]

I have been studying the creatures, and reading up on what histories and zoological studies have been written about them. Debate rages over their sentience-- some believe them to be pests. Others think them intelligent, sentient, sapient creatures who, while incapable of spoken language, communicate nonetheless through the language of dreaming. It is believed by some that the choices they make, of whose dreams to invade, whose to link, and how those connections are made, are an attempt to welcome other sentient creatures into their colonies, to make connections and be understood.

Debate has also continued amongst your command on how to best handle these creatures. Because their intelligence and self awareness is currently unknown, debated even now in scientific communities across the multiverse, we are ourselves unsure how to best deal with this problem. We leave it up to you.

In two days time, I shall put up a poll on the BCE network, and I encourage all to vote in favor of how these creatures should be dealt with: eradication, or (as my comrade has termed it) catch-and-release. Both posit their own risks: the possibility of a mass slaughter of sentient lifeforms, or the possibility of a resurgence of this infection. For myself, I shall not argue with the results, or argue either side. It is your choice to make, my poor fellow-soldiers.

For now: I ask you to consider the matter carefully. You may, of course, ask me any questions you like. I encourage you to debate this matter as thuroughly as you are able.

And in two days' time, I urge you: vote.


[ooc Yep, let's talk about the shaper infection. Characters can ICly debate here (threadjacking encouraged!); there will be an IC vote on the 19th, with results on the 21st. Ask any OOC questions you might have over here.]
fessus: (Asteroids)

[personal profile] fessus 2017-12-19 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
They named a tendon after you. Wow.
chariotry: (pic#11768544)

1/2

[personal profile] chariotry 2017-12-19 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Your amazement doesn't seem sincere.
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[personal profile] chariotry 2017-12-19 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's laughable, I know. A great, invulnerable hero brought down by an arrow to the heel.

It's not quite a glorious way to go, is it?
fessus: (Legend of Link)

[personal profile] fessus 2017-12-19 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's sincere. [ Just not for the right reasons. ]

You're back and mostly invulnerable again though so I guess they didn't do a good enough job keeping you down and out.
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[personal profile] chariotry 2017-12-19 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
I told you that I'm a Heroic Spirit, didn't I? I exist only by magic.

I don't know if I could say that I really am back.
[ Which is only made worse by Sargent Chiron and his mother not believing him to be *their* Achilles. But hey, he's trying not to dwell or have an existential crisis. ]

Was it Ryuji who told you about my heel?
fessus: (Halo: Combat Evolved)

[personal profile] fessus 2017-12-19 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
That still counts, unless you wanna say they beat you. Seems to me like you're still here, anyway.

No, it was Midnighter. He wants to watch our fight too, I told him it was okay.
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[personal profile] chariotry 2017-12-19 03:10 am (UTC)(link)


Who the hell is Midnighter?
fessus: (Asteroids)

[personal profile] fessus 2017-12-19 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
@TRENTCOAT? Burly, pretty funny, acts tough.
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[personal profile] chariotry 2017-12-19 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
?

I don't know who that is.

Why would he be telling you about my weakness.


[ Bich were you talking shit. ]
fessus: (Katamari Damacy)

[personal profile] fessus 2017-12-19 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
So message him and find out, he just started talking about it. I don't know how he knew. Are you pinning this on me too?
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NOCTIS YOU FUCKING LIAR

[personal profile] chariotry 2017-12-19 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I could, if I believed you were seeking advice on how to beat me in what's supposed to be a fair battle.

You wouldn't be able to reach my heel anyway.
fessus: (Legend of Link)

[personal profile] fessus 2017-12-21 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not. Already learned hitting you hard in the face works for me. Nice try.