You are Not Alone: Comms

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For the third option, a list of passengers appears and names can be searched for by letter. Anyone who has been working to try and make communications happen on their own devices will find those linked in to this network- though it is still only possible to use voice. If they have headphones from the music room they can make it so they work like earpieces.

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Symphony 9, evening

[unrecovered]

[There's a deep sigh before he starts. He's heard some things, and as one of the few people with experience on the topic at hand...well, he needs to say something.]

Evidently not everyone here knows about space travel, so as someone literally used to live on a spaceship, I figured it's time for a PSA. And that PSA is: if you're not in a spaceship, don't fucking go into space.

It's a bad idea! It doesn't have things like oxygen, or an atmosphere, or, basically, air! And holding your breath won't work, because no air means no air pressure, so if you try to go into space without any protection, your lungs will explode. And then you'll either get radiation burns from the sun or freeze to death, because again, no atmosphere. It's not fun. Don't do it.

If you really want to go up and live out your starship captain dreams, that's fine! Just do it in an actual ship. That's what they're for. And if you're not using a ship, then I don't care how good Tim Curry makes it sound, you're not going to space.

[There's a beat - how do you end a PSA? He can only think of one way, and- ah, fuck it, why not.]

And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

[monkeyinthewrench]

...I guess not all of us are from worlds where spacey science is a thing, so...yeah, good call.

It's a pretty terrible way to die, from what I've heard!

[dyingpro]

Worse than death by stepping in lava, or death by being repeatedly run over by a chariot, or death by satyr poison, or death by beating from a magical oar?

[Charon is terrifying when he's angry, okay. Don't ask how he knows this.]

[unrecovered]

[Look. Listen. When you spend a lot of time with the same people in the middle of nowhere, you get into a lot of conversations about bullshit hypotheticals. Terrible Ways To Die is just another Reds and Blues conversation, and he slips into the cadence easily.]

Probably not, yes, yes, and keep it in the bedroom, Zagreus. There are kids listening.

[...maybe a little too easily. Hopefully he doesn't have to explain that to any of said kids.]

[dyingpro]

Oh, well, that's something at least. Even for me, lava still hurts a lot.

[There's a pause, and then--]

Why would Charon be in my bedroom? He rarely, if ever, leaves his boat. He's a busy ferryman, you know, got a lot of Shades to deliver to the Underworld.

[unrecovered]

[You know, after that slip, Wash was preparing to have to explain himself to a kid, or at least redirect. He was not prepared to have to explain it to Zagreus - a weirdo, but still ostensibly an adult.]

[(To say nothing about having to hard pivot from "Charon Industries" to "Charon, the actual god" in his mind. This conversation has gotten very stupid very quickly.)]

[So, he punts.]

You know what? Doesn't matter. Point still stands: if you're not in a spaceship, don't go into space.

[strings_theory]

Hey, hey.

You wanna know why Charon would be in your bedroom? Because I gotcha covered, bro. [No.]

[unrecovered]

Jolyne.

Take it to private.

[strings_theory]

It wasn't gonna be that explicit, god.

[unrecovered]

Take it. To private.

[monkeyinthewrench]

Whoa...okay, your life sounds pretty metal. And also disturbing.

Have you done all those things?

[dyingpro]

Dying in oddly specific ways which are increasingly violent and/or farcical the further I go down the list? Yes, that's... my only power as a god, really, I can't stay dead.

More disturbing is the fact that my Father is the one that's usually responsible for my death, except for the few times I've killed him before he could kill me, which I can count on both hands.

[WELCOME TO GREEK GODS, MY DUDE]

[monkeyinthewrench]

...yeah, that sounds pretty. Painful. And you'd definitely be the expert on telling us not to do anything stupid, right? It's gotta suck even if you can come back.

Which. I guess we all can right now.

[dyingpro]

... I didn't think about it that way. I suppose valiantly sacrificing my life to spare another's only really works when they can't also come back from the dead. Still, better me than you, right?

[There's a beat as Zag considers it some more.] Although, it gives Than extra work to do, and I don't want to overwork him when he already tends to overwork himself. So for the sake of my boyfriend, at the very least, please don't die if you can help it. I've already promised him I'll do the same.

[monkeyinthewrench]

Yeah. Haven't really talked to him, but he seems pretty stressed. Don't want to bother a guy who works so hard.

So...yeah, can we get everybody to agree on Minimal Deaths today? That sounds pretty good to me.

[unrecovered]

[Wash has some choice words about Thanatos, but he's had bad luck with airing dirty laundry, regardless of who it involves. For once, he's learned his lesson.]

[So he goes for the other half of Jake's point.]

How about minimal deaths all mission? We're kind of understaffed as it is.

[strings_theory]

[Loooool. It's fine, she survived what's essentially space that one time with the one Stand. It's fine.]

Can't say the feeling like you're gonna implode or whatever is very fun, especially if you gotta piss. [... Helpful as always.]

[unrecovered]

[If it's a Reds and Blues conversation, of course Jolyne is here. She's terminally Red Team, for everything that entails.]

...thank you for your support.

[strings_theory]

... Come to think of it, I wonder if the same techniques could be implemented out there as it was against the fucker that pulled that shit.

Since, uh, technically the Stand ability still exists here... [Let her use her brain sometimes, it's maybe helpful. But she is, distressingly, perpetually Red Team.]

[unrecovered]

[DEEP. SIGH.]

Yeah, that whole thing about not going into space without being in a spaceship? That applies to you too.

[Yeah, now it's a Red Team argument, goddammit.]

[strings_theory]

But what if you can, like, create yourself what's basically a spacesuit????

Think of the possibilities, dude! [She had a good idea and then, just like that, it's gone. Sorry, Wash, you asked for this.]

[unrecovered]

A spacesuit.

With no mobility, and no armor, so you can take it up into an active war zone and get shot out of the sky by a cloaked warship.

Not a good plan. You'll be more helpful on the ground.

[strings_theory]

I didn't... say it was during the whole active war zone thing. Or for that. But I guess. [Give her like ten minutes and she could probably figure out the mobility issue. Less so the armor issue. While she herself can take a beating and do shenanigans... year, most war weapons are a little too much.]

It was a good idea.

[seacub]

[Why yes Emporio IS here, thanks, but-]

....Is there weather in space..?

[................WELL...]

[unrecovered]

[He can do the compliment sandwich thing.]

It's a good idea under specific circumstances, but these aren't they. Maybe another time.