(11:30:38 PM) ***Blueshift_North navigates the small spaceport that's basically only a layover station for people going to Sigil to get back to her ship.  She's still on edge, obviously, but better than she has been the past couple of days.  She's certainly invited Sunstar (and/or Hana, depending) and Adelinda is probably there just because she basically lives on that ship now.  She fidgets nervously, opening the door, and stepping back into The Black
(11:30:39 PM) ***Blueshift_North Serpent and despite herself, visibly relaxes.
(11:33:15 PM) Ikiryo: Hana and Dr Sunstar both decided to go with her. She might need support from them, comfort or otherwise.
(11:34:34 PM) ***Blueshift_North heads for the cockpit, sits down, takes a deep breath and locates the first file on the ship that's locked, and just.  Opens it.
(11:37:21 PM) Ikiryo: The first thing to appear up is...her own face. A video, paused right at the start.
(11:37:38 PM) ***Blueshift_North blinks, and hits play.
(11:38:11 PM) Ikiryo: Dr Sunstar reaches foward, putting a hand on North's shoulder.
(11:39:15 PM) Ikiryo: The other North (Q-33, she supposes), starts to speak. "If you are listening to this...he's likely been released." She grins. "I hope your deaths are painful for trying to lock us up like this."
(11:39:37 PM) Blueshift_North: "Oh good.  I'm a jerk."
(11:40:57 PM) Ikiryo: "They've said they'll let me leave a message for the next one of me because they'll need to delete my memories to form the barrier against the Puppeteer. So let's start simple: I hope you are not the simpering, weak willed little tart they hope you'll be."
(11:43:34 PM) Blueshift_North: "Sorry to dissapoint." She grumps.
(11:45:48 PM) Ikiryo: She grins widely. "If you are? Well, go fuck yourself. I'm sure they've got you sitting in one of thier labs where they can keep a good watch on you like a good little toy. Grow a spine, escape and get some revenge."
(11:46:45 PM) Blueshift_North: "ARe you going to get to the part where you explain who they is."
(11:46:52 PM) ***Blueshift_North throws her hands in the air.
(11:46:59 PM) Blueshift_North: "I'm arguing with a video."
(11:47:57 PM) Ikiryo: Dr Sunstar's hand grips North's shoulder.
(11:48:29 PM) Blueshift_North: "Thanks." she murmurs.
(11:50:20 PM) Ikiryo: "First one I want you to kill? That fucker Nemo. Assuming he hasn't died of old age or something. As much as he argued with the stupid scarf elf, in the end he chose to take the option that killed me."
(11:50:46 PM) Blueshift_North: "Okay good, something useful."
(11:51:37 PM) Ikiryo: North feels someone wrap her arms around her. Judging by the slight feel of static electricity it's Adelinda.
(11:52:25 PM) ***Blueshift_North leans back into it, by way of response.
(11:54:39 PM) Ikiryo: "I killed six of his fucking artificers before they got me strapped in and disabled by ability to harm them, I want you to do better than that."
(11:56:30 PM) Blueshift_North: "Please tell me you have photos as part of your "hit list""
(11:57:29 PM) Ikiryo: "Of course I fucking don't, you idiot."
(11:58:21 PM) Blueshift_North: "Wait what."
(5/16/2017 12:00:16 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh, I'm sorry. Is the future me so dumb she doesn't get how precognition works? Who's the tart hugging you?"
(12:00:34 AM) Blueshift_North: "Oh fuck off."
(12:01:35 AM) Ikiryo: "Oh hells, you ARE the weak willed little idiot I was afraid I'd end up. They really did a number on you."
(12:03:22 AM) Blueshift_North: "Yeah, well at least I'm not locked up in some lab making a video to a future self that's not happy with me.  I know you're probably not going to have time for it but try friends.  Friends are the best."
(12:03:32 AM) Blueshift_North: "Anyway you had more to say go on, get it all off your chest."
(12:03:36 AM) Blueshift_North: "I'm all ears."
(12:04:25 AM) Ikiryo: "No, you're all idiot. At this point I'm not sure I want to help you. You don't look like you've got the spine to do what needs doing."
(12:05:18 AM) Blueshift_North: "If I'm so spineless then how come you can't convince me to take revenge, maybe if I knew the full story I would."
(12:05:30 AM) Blueshift_North: "Not like you have anything better to do anyway."
(12:06:02 AM) Ikiryo: "...yeah, no. Go fuck yourself. You wouldn't do it, you're all fucked up and defective now. Go jump in the warp core."
(12:07:25 AM) FeldiPhone [[email protected]] entered the room.
(12:07:35 AM) Blueshift_North: "Okay, fine, you'll never get the chance to tell anyone your great tragedy and none of your sisters will ever know what really happened to you."
(12:08:39 AM) Ikiryo: "Hah, I saw the files. They all failed, I succeeded. What sisters?"
(12:09:39 AM) Blueshift_North: "You know what, fuck off.  I'll find this shit on my own anyway.  You're just a fuckin' terrible person.  I'm glad I'm not you.  Changed my name and everything."
(12:10:51 AM) Ikiryo: "Yeah, I can tell that now. Maybe you should have gone with yellowshift, to match the fact you seem afraid of everything."
(12:12:04 AM) Blueshift_North: "Yeah, look, I don't have to justify myself to you.  You're already gone, and clearly can't stop recording this, despite knowing that it's not going to go anywhere."
(12:15:29 AM) Ikiryo: She grins again. "You can't stop him forever. He'll get out and he'll rip you and everyone you love apart doing so and I'll be laughing."
(12:19:36 AM) Blueshift_North: "Yeah nah, that's not going to happen.  I'm done with this conversation.  Whatever information you had for me, I don't want, or need.  If that's the future I'll just fuckin' change it.  I've got a bitchin' ship, I've got the best friends I could possibly ask for, and I'm not going to have my memories ripped out of me in a lab in like ten minutes, the last thing I see knowing that despite not wanting the future I do, the person I
(12:19:36 AM) Blueshift_North: become has a way better life than I could ever have.  Fuck. Off." She stops playback.
(12:20:52 AM) Ikiryo: Q-33 North pauses part way through opening her mouth.
(12:21:20 AM) Blueshift_North: "You think I should let her finish?" She asks.
(12:22:23 AM) Ikiryo: There is silence for a moment before Blueshift realizes that it's gotten very, very hot just off to the side of her. "Fuck no, I hope there is a low spot in hell for her." That sounds like Hana...but it also sounds like a wildfire given a voice.
(12:22:45 AM) ***Blueshift_North deletes the video.  "Next."
(12:22:52 AM) ***Blueshift_North moves to the next file.
(12:24:50 AM) Ikiryo: The next video is an old, white haired man. He must be pushing ninty.
(12:25:31 AM) ***Blueshift_North hits play.
(12:26:17 AM) ***Blueshift_North side messages Hana [You going to be okay? You can take a minute or I can try the cooldown hug thing again if you want.]
(12:28:59 AM) Blueshift_North left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving).
(12:53:46 AM) Blueshift_North [[email protected]] entered the room.
(12:57:45 AM) Ikiryo: Hana frowns. The girl is glowing right now, her red tatoos almost too bright to look at. [I'll...I'll be fine. I might burn you if you hug me right now.]
(12:59:20 AM) Blueshift_North: [Alright, if you want to talk later, let me know. <3] she plays the second video
(1:03:21 AM) Ikiryo: The old man looks at the screen for a few seconds and sighs. "If this is Q-33...I am sorry."
(1:04:27 AM) Blueshift_North: "hopefully this guy is less infuriating."
(1:05:18 AM) Ikiryo: "If I had another option, I would not have done this but...the lives of the many must outweigh the lives of a single person."
(1:06:20 AM) ***Blueshift_North frowns.
(1:09:44 AM) Ikiryo: "We needed a way to seal the Puppeteer. He knew too much of our plans to simply drive away...but we only had one vessel that would work."
(1:10:28 AM) ***Blueshift_North sighs
(1:11:44 AM) Ikiryo: "If this is you, listening to this after however long...I am deeply sorry. I regret what I had to do, though I would make that decision again if I had to."
(1:15:41 AM) Blueshift_North: "I don't know if I'm actually mad at you."
(1:17:00 AM) Ikiryo: He looks down for a moment, then back up again. "I am Artificer-General Nemo...I'm the man who killed you."
(1:18:17 AM) Blueshift_North: "hrm." she looks at Sunstar. "Did he? Because without him, I'm her."
(1:19:18 AM) Ikiryo: Doctor Sunstar frowns. "That is...I cannot say. This is a very complex issue, about where one life ends and another begins. However, I would say that you are not the same person as that...distasteful young lady."
(1:22:03 AM) ***Blueshift_North nods.
(1:25:05 AM) Ikiryo: Nemo continues talking. "I cannot say more, as I cannot be sure who will decrypt it but...you deserve an explanation. If you find me, I will explain it all. I promice."
(1:27:40 AM) ***Blueshift_North adds it to the list.
(1:30:10 AM) Ikiryo: "I am sorry."
(1:30:30 AM) Blueshift_North: "I am... Not."
(1:32:52 AM) Ikiryo: The video stops
(1:34:04 AM) Blueshift_North: "well. That was better at least." She checks. How many files are left?
(1:36:28 AM) Ikiryo: A lot, though very few of them are videos.
(1:37:25 AM) ***Blueshift_North just queues up the rest of the videos. She can poke at everything else later
(1:38:10 AM) Ikiryo: The next video is...a surgery video. Watching herself being operated on during brain surgery. Adelinda retches slightly.
(1:39:44 AM) ***Blueshift_North shifts, uncomfortable, but watches it through. This would probably be harder for people without cyber brains.
(1:40:16 AM) Ikiryo: Adelinda needs to leave before long, looking green in the face. As opposed to Dr Sunstar, who is green in the face and perfectly fine.
(1:41:26 AM) ***Blueshift_North messages her. [I'm sorry you sat through that]
(1:41:46 AM) Ikiryo: [I just...eww]
(1:42:35 AM) Blueshift_North: [i know. Thanks for trying.]
(1:44:02 AM) Ikiryo: The rest of the videos seem to be surgery or engineering mostly.
(1:47:08 AM) ***Blueshift_North looks for any of the other files that look important. She makes a note to watch through all of the rest of them later.
(1:49:42 AM) Ikiryo: A lot of it seems to be the changes they made to her neural structure...including setting up her ability to interface with the Serpent. It wasn't a default part of her.
(1:49:59 AM) Ikiryo: As well as the hexogrammic wards used to contain the Puppeteer.
(1:51:12 AM) Blueshift_North: "OK so, hexogrammic, that's a good kind of ward, right?"
(1:51:49 AM) ***Blueshift_North looks for anything about the locked functionality of her ship.
(1:53:13 AM) Ikiryo: ...and runs into a required password. Seriously?
(1:54:02 AM) Blueshift_North: "Another one?"
(1:59:18 AM) Ikiryo: ...she can't get through it. It's not accepting her passwords she already has. However, she can tell...this is old. Very old. It's not using any coding language developed in the past thousand years. Which is odd, as a lot of the actual hardware of the Serpent is pretty new.
(2:00:31 AM) ***Blueshift_North sighs. "Well. That was fruitful, if frustrating."
(2:01:16 AM) Ikiryo: Hana has cooled down, physically, enough for her to replace Adelinda in the hugging
(2:42:17 AM) ***Blueshift_North hugs her back. "Thanks."
(2:43:03 AM) Ikiryo: "I'm sorry it wasn't what you wanted."
(2:43:28 AM) Blueshift_North: "What is?"
(2:45:14 AM) Ikiryo: "Good answers, I guessed."
(2:49:16 AM) Blueshift_North: "I know, but I'm getting used to getting answers that are just more questions." She messages Sunstar [I might have to call you after you guys leave. I feel like I have to watch the video she left me until the end, but I don't want Hana to literally turn into fire because of anger.]
(2:49:57 AM) Ikiryo: [Are you sure you want to do that alone?]
(2:51:47 AM) Blueshift_North: [I can do it with Adelinda when she's feeling better. I don't know, I feel like I have a responsibility to my body's previous resident. I know that if our positions were reversed, she wouldn't, but... We're not the same.]
(2:53:29 AM) Ikiryo: [You are not. You are a lovely young woman.]
(2:56:39 AM) Blueshift_North: "You going to be OK?" She asks her burning friend. "you were really mad earlier."
(2:57:10 AM) Ikiryo: Hana sighs. "I will...I just lost my temper."
(3:00:03 AM) Blueshift_North: "It's alright. To be honest, I would have been mad too, but... She's... Gone. She can't do anything new."
(3:00:26 AM) Ikiryo: "Still...you are a good friend of mine."
(3:01:16 AM) Blueshift_North: "I know, and it's mutual. You going to be OK, long term?"
(3:02:03 AM) Ikiryo: She nods. "As you said, she's gone and you are you."
(3:07:31 AM) Blueshift_North: "and... I'm glad she wasn't there when the others went to find her. She would have been... Really bad for South.
(3:11:32 AM) Ikiryo: She gives a small smile. "Or south would have beaten her over the head with a frying pan."
(3:15:11 AM) Blueshift_North: "I mean. True. Look. I'm probably going to watch the rest of the videos on my construction later. Still, I feel bad for dragging you guys off Sigil for work, again, either of you want to do something less... Heavy before you go?"
(3:16:28 AM) Ikiryo: Dr Sunstar smiles at her. "Do you have any ideas? I am happy with anything that makes you feel better."
(3:20:16 AM) Blueshift_North: "I was just going to suggest that we go get food. South is probably cooking something. Then we could, I don't know. Watch a movie. Hang out?"
(3:22:00 AM) Ikiryo: Hana grins. "I'd like that."
(3:22:16 AM) Ikiryo: Dr Sunstar shrugs. "It's been quite a while since I did anything like that. It would be nice."