text, un: lunettes ( dated before the holiday mingle i.e. today )

[allweather]

[Reim understands absolutely nothing about... outer space, even after the initial orientation, so there's only one solution: writing himself a report about it. It's a force of habit, and he doesn't intend to share it at first (hence the strange heading) but he figures he might as well use it to present his various inquiries. He's going to be writing it anyway, so...

Well, it's better than looking out any windows and getting ulcers from space.]

CONFIDENTIAL/FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY
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Report 1 (Rough draft) | Month X/Day X | Author: Reim Lunettes

We appear to be in outer space.

The author (hereafter "I/me") is unfamiliar with the concept of "space" as it has been presented here (more accurate word: the Heavens? This lacks the atmosphere of something heavenly...) but has taken up the task of organizing the information presented haphazardly during "Orientation."

I was able to speak with the attendant upon (...) waking, but unable to ascertain any pertinent information. The conversation began as follows:

Q. (to attendant) What is going on here?
A. All of your questions will be answered in a moment at Orientation.

While perhaps my demeanor had been more frantic than can be accurately portrayed here in words, all manner of simple questions were regarded in this fashion. Then, proceeding into the next room to watch a moving picture that continued to make absolutely no logical sense, followed by being presented with the following and left to my own devices:

• An uncomfortably small uniform. I do not think it will fit me.
• Some kind of pendant.
• This device.
• Additional information that still has yet to explain in full what a "starship" is but does at least provide some helpful rules and regulations to adjust to living aboard one. Whatever it may be.
• The stars are outside. I will have to ask someone for medication to eliminate vertigo.
• A transcription of the moving picture that still does not make an ounce of sense.

To this end, being left to my own devices as I am, I am currently making arrangements to seek additional counsel about what is actually going on here and why this bag has been referred to as a "duffel." Interviews with those who have been here longer than I will be conducted in the following format:

Respondent:
Time:
Place:
Notes:

Q. Hello. My name is Reim Lunettes and I would like to have a moment of your time. What is your name?

Q. Have you ever been to "space" before?

Q. How familiar are you with the items found aboard this "starship"?

Q. What items were packed inside your "duffel"?

With these questions, I believe I will be able to report back with a more thorough understanding of the situation.

[Anyway, hope everyone enjoys this report that is half serious and half fed up with not understanding why everything glows and the pictures move. This is probably deserving of ridicule, but only a little.]

Comments

un: red tulip

[finethanks]

[He hasn't been here long at all, but this is amusing anyway.]

Hello! My name is Eichi Tenshouin. I've never been to space before, nor have I ever been on a starship, so there's a lot that's different. My duffel had a uniform, this device, and two dog tags. ♪

Fufufu... You're so uptight, it reminds me of someone. How nostalgic... I almost feel at home. Just from this, I can tell who you are immediately.

[allweather]

[...Well, at least he answered the interview questions. Give Reim a moment to, like, learn how to and then successfully archive the actual information in this answer. He's keeping records as of right now.]

I did tell you my name.

There's nothing uptight about gathering information! Thank you for replying somewhat seriously.

What is a "fufufu"?

[finethanks]

Fufufu. ♪♪♪ You don't know? Fufu, that's amusing by itself.

What I meant to say was that you must be the tall man with the glasses. After all, you were so stern the whole time, I thought you'd stare holes in the workers helping us. It was so scary, the whole room shivered.

Your last name, Lunettes, is also the French word for glasses, so I probably could have guessed that much even if I didn't see that. You're like the perfect secretary~ Yay.

un: v-nikiforov

[genice]

Are you asking for a survey, or did you mean to keep this to yourself to ask later?

[allweather]

Both. Either. If you choose not to answer now, I will ask you later.

I am keeping a list.

[genice]

For just those of us who arrive here through these anomalies with the ship's engines?

un: blackbird

[tenkofan]

Your report needs paring down.

Would you like answers to your questions now?

[allweather]

It's a rough draft. A very, very rough draft...

Yes, please.

[tenkofan]

It is better to practice efficient delivery of information.

I have not been to space before.
Barely. Technology is much more advanced here.
1 suit. 2 sets of "dog tags". This "communicator".

un: ◰

[existentialcrisis]

I can get you something for that vertigo, if you want! I'm a doctor.

[ Just walk into the med bay with him and help him be a general nuisance, it's fine. ]

[allweather]

[Surely there is nothing suspicious about a doctor! How helpful.]

Can you also answer the questions?

What is that symbol?

[existentialcrisis]

Oh, it didn't work! It was cute before. Oh well. I guess I'm a rectangle. [ He'll never make friends, now. ]

Anyway, Ni/no/be more specific please/same as yours, I think.

un: cpt andor

[ouzel]

I have not been here longer than you, would my answers be of any help to your survey?

[ This person must be from a pre-spaceflight planet. They do exist or so Cassian is told. ]

[allweather]

I'm beginning to think everyone here is at least somewhat better off than I am at understanding everything, so you might as well.

[ouzel]

Q. Hello. My name is Reim Lunettes and I would like to have a moment of your time. What is your name?
A. C Andor

Q. Have you ever been to "space" before?
A. Yes

Q. How familiar are you with the items found aboard this "starship"?
A. You will need to be more specific; I am familiar with many of the concepts that are in use on this starship while I am not familiar with the particulars of their design at this time.

Q. What items were packed inside your "duffel"?
A pair of dog tags, which I am told are meant to be used as keys and to monitor vital signs. I suspect they are also a method of tracking our movements.

There is also the fact that there are locksmiths, so perhaps the ability to use them to gain entry to places can be modified or removed completely.

A uniform. It is small, though it does 'fit'. I just don't like it in general.

The device, as you did.

The manual, as you did.

TEXT, UN: ░░░░░░

[doxing]

(because this is the most important thing:)

Hey someone else who dislikes the uniforms ... They need a serious overhaul on the design. It needs layers

[allweather]

[what kind of username is that, is his weird bracelet broken??]

Oh. Yes, it does. I'm not a fan of the color, either.

( un: apollo )

[aploun]

It's a starship because it's a ship that navigates through the stars, so to speak. More appropriately, this vessel is more akin to a battleship due to the artillery mounted outside.

[allweather]

Like a warship? Are we anticipating some kind of "space" warfare?

un: just.marco

[brightline]

[This is one of the weirdest things he's ever seen on the internet, and that's saying something. But hey, why not? There was a point where he didn't know anything about space himself, so...]

my name is marco. I've been in space for a while and I'm pretty familiar with most of the stuff around here. I got the same things in my duffel you did.

Q. what kind of a name is reim lunettes?? are you french or something?

[allweather]

[It's either this or breathe into a paper bag for a week, Reim's compromising with himself a lot here.]

Hello. Thank you.

A. No. I am aware of the similarities to other languages, but no. Is that important?

un: washington

[sixth]

Name's Washington.
1. Yeah. Plenty of times.
2. Very. Some of it's a little different from what I'm used to but it's comparable I guess.
3. Same stuff you got.

You ever been on a ship before? The kind that sails in the ocean? That's what this is like. Except it doesn't travel in water between continents. It travels in space between stars and planets.

[allweather]

Thank you for answering.

I have been on a rowboat, but I know what a seafaring ship is, yes. I'm having trouble comprehending how this all works... I've never heard of anything flying like this.

un: aximili (hey buddy want some starbucks)

[canadese]

[This guy! This guy is a sensible guy! Ax is so happy to see someone sensible that he forgets he is supposed to be pretending to be a human and that the network isn't private.]

my name is aximili esgarrouth isthill i have been to space many times in the service of my military this starship is unfamiliar to me in model but is largely standard in design overall in my duffel was useless human clothing and this communicator

[Sorry, he thinks punctuation is "inefficient."]

what is starbucks,

[allweather]

[Lord have mercy, that is a lot of... a lot. At once.]

Are you unfamiliar with the written word, as well?

And also, do you have a... nickname, of sorts...?