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voidtreckerexpress2020-04-21 08:40 pm
mimidaeia) wrote in voidtreckerexpress2020-04-21 08:40 pm
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BACKDATED: Egret 17-20
Who: SXT-2 and open
What: SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good ol' delinquency.
Where: Stores cabin and Sleeper 5A
When: BACKDATED to just after mission 1, Egret 17-20
Warning: Possibly mild wound descriptions?
Stores L2
[Occasionally, about a few hours every day or so, there is a rattling and rustling on the second floor of the Stores carriage. SXT-2, with battered feathers poking out of her orange team sweater, has wedged herself in the highest corner possible and stays there making unhappy chirping noises. The issue is most obvious in the illogically organic parts that's taken root in her head and back- chunks of the plumage is gone and the gaps are shedding powdery debris. She's been dinged up from the previous mission, basically, and unlike other things she doesn't have a way to naturally repair damage.
She would also much rather have stayed in the system with its decent network and is a little unhappy about being herded back here, but that's secondary. Either way, SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good old delinquency- so she's holing up here, and carefully scratching out a part of the train wall for parts. Whatever upholstery or metal panels she loosens, she slides into the damaged parts of her feathers- seeming to act on some half-formed preening instinct.]
Sleeper 5A
[This exact same thing happens in Cabin 5A. In fact she usually moves to the stores after the others kick her out of 5A, presumably. It can’t be easy to relax with a monster-under-the-bed situation.... but over the bed. ]
What: SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good ol' delinquency.
Where: Stores cabin and Sleeper 5A
When: BACKDATED to just after mission 1, Egret 17-20
Warning: Possibly mild wound descriptions?
Stores L2
[Occasionally, about a few hours every day or so, there is a rattling and rustling on the second floor of the Stores carriage. SXT-2, with battered feathers poking out of her orange team sweater, has wedged herself in the highest corner possible and stays there making unhappy chirping noises. The issue is most obvious in the illogically organic parts that's taken root in her head and back- chunks of the plumage is gone and the gaps are shedding powdery debris. She's been dinged up from the previous mission, basically, and unlike other things she doesn't have a way to naturally repair damage.
She would also much rather have stayed in the system with its decent network and is a little unhappy about being herded back here, but that's secondary. Either way, SXT-2 is dealing with her issues with some good old delinquency- so she's holing up here, and carefully scratching out a part of the train wall for parts. Whatever upholstery or metal panels she loosens, she slides into the damaged parts of her feathers- seeming to act on some half-formed preening instinct.]
Sleeper 5A
[This exact same thing happens in Cabin 5A. In fact she usually moves to the stores after the others kick her out of 5A, presumably. It can’t be easy to relax with a monster-under-the-bed situation.... but over the bed. ]
no subject
Especially if it might render her more able to sleep again at night rather than have to endure these strange noises.. ]
Was anything about your surroundings different from before after your restart? Other than the fact that you couldn't find those humans?
no subject
[She looks down for a moment. The words aren't coming- well, they're not there at all, she doesn't have the vocabulary to say these things- and she's irritated about it.]
-many things were different. I'm not sure how. I wasn't built to sense those things. But there were no humans. Before I came to the train, I hadn't seen any humans in 259 days.
no subject
[ Although she doesn't really know the full extent of it. Honestly, Alice doesn't have the faintest idea how much machinery works, let alone something that seems as odd as SXT-2. But something has to be off. Especially considering those strange circumstances. ]
Perhaps someone or something messed with you while you were shut down. Maybe the same thing as what caused all those humans to disappear. [ Whatever that could be. There's too many possibilities.
And honestly, maybe Alice shouldn't be thinking about this so deeply. It's technically none of her business, other than this ruining some peace and quiet. But it's the hero complex within her playing up, causing her to try and help (even if just by thinking along) before she consciously realises it. ]
no subject
Whatever the problem is, I don’t know how to fix it. For now I can just go somewhere else as you said.
no subject
[ So Alice can.. you know. Maybe actually sleep for once. It's still up in the air, considering she has a hard time sleeping even under the ideal circumstances..
There's a slight pause, some hesitation, but then she adds: ]
You should really look into whether there is someone present on the train who does know how to fix it. Or who could get it figured out. [ Of course that comes much too close to openly caring, so Alice quickly covers it up with: ] So no one will have to deal with the train falling apart thanks to you clawing at it.
[ Yes, clearly that's the only reason. ]