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What the hell happened back there?

[Even without any video feed to give an idea of her expression, Ashley's obviously agitated, and three days in what is apparently an entirely new timestream hasn't done anything to help things make sense.]

Not the basics - I get it. Most of you were off time traveling. But where? How scattered were we all? What started it? Did everyone make it back, or are we still missing people?

[She already knows "back in one piece" is too much to ask for.]

I don't know about anyone else, but I really don't want to be caught with my pants down next time.

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I don't know about everyone, but several of us ended up in what I'm assuming is the future of this place, if we don't figure out how to get the ship working again.

[At his desk in the Outer Authorities' offices-- ironic, that-- Lyall goes for a slightly distracted-sounding reply while he jots down notes.]

As far as I've been able to gather from people, there were at least four groups-- one from the time when the domes were just in the planning stages during the war with Antiqua, one from even earlier than that before the war, one from the far future as Commander Shepard just said, and one from the ship itself before it crashed. There were I believe twelve of us in the wartime version of Hyperion, and I know at least one hasn't made it back. She vanished sometime before we were pulled back here.

[Details. He likes them, and he did at least try to keep tabs on the rest of the group from his timeline.]

As for what caused it-- I haven't the foggiest. If anyone does, I would love to hear about it. I can't figure anything that might serve as a warning for it happening again, either, except I suppose to pay attention to the ship.

[He also likes to talk. He's done now, though, he promises.]

My first thought is to blame the Ship for sending us to different times. I was one of the people who was on the Ship when we disappeared for a day and didn't realize it. It's possible it's putting out some form of energy that we can read with instruments.

We were in Verdana's past - way back in the past, before they had the domes or anything. They were even still on good terms with Antiqua. And you ain't the only one that wants to know what in Lakik's name is going on.

[Briar paused for a moment]

Sigyn's gone. But I don't know when she disappeared - last time I saw her was before all this happened. She might have gone back to the ship. [Or he hoped she had. That was better than her getting lost in time or anything, at least]

Tell me that's not the one with the tentacles.

Who? And what circumstances did she disappear under?

[Does she sound suspicious? Hell yes.]

I could tell you that, but I'd be lying.

I doubt it, unless we want to wait for it to happen again.

Why do you think it has something to do with the ship? I don't know much about it, except that it spat a bunch of dead people out into Limbo.

I sure don't, that's for sure.

[Dying was not fun.]

Do you know if anyone saw her while everything was going down?

Me neither. I've already had enough existential crises for two lifetimes.

[They should drink to that.]

[Briar shook his head] No idea. I know she definitely wasn't in my timeline, but with all the other timelines we had...not to mention that weird place...

Natasha Romanoff, and I am under the impression she was captured by the local authorities. Either that, or she abandoned us. I couldn't track her scent very far-- I didn't know her very well, I'm afraid, and had very little to work with for knowing where she might have hidden.

We did lose two people since, under much more certain circumstances, but they returned to this timeline without any trouble, it seems.

I didn't see her there. But there was a lot of ground to cover.

What even is that place? It wasn't the past of the future. It wasn't even...that place was just dead.

That seems to be the one constant in a lot of these timelines, and it was in that... void. Plus, it's the thing that brought us here in the first place, and most of us aren't even from the same universes.

We've found some data on energy tracking and things that are over my head, but I think a lot of it points to us needing that ship to work so we can fix whatever's broken. Or at least try to figure it out.

If she abandoned you, there's no reason she shouldn't have shown back up with the rest of us. I get the feeling the radius of whatever happened is a lot further than anyone could get on foot.

I really miss the days when the thing causing trouble was something I could shoot.

Some kind of Limbo, I think. I was there the whole time, and I still can't figure it out.

[Briar's jaw drops, and he looks at Ashley with horror]

You...you were there the whole time?! Lakik's teeth, that would be horrible!

Agreed. Whatever pulled us into that place-that-wasn't even pulled in my aethographer-- this thing I am speaking to you on, the communicator from the ship. I didn't even have it on me at the time, it was downstairs in my room.

So. Either she did not make it back, or she made it back and into her pod again. Someone perhaps ought to make a list of who is missing and go check the ship for them.

Tall order. If no one knows where their pod's supposed to be, there are thousands to check. You'd need a whole team.

[And it's the last that she sounds dubious on - the people from the ship aren't really all that great at working together, in her opinion.]

[Ashley shrugs, which hitches the video a little, since she has the communicator in her hand.]

I've been through worse.

[Blatant lies ahoy.]

Their friends might know. I do believe in Miss Romanoff's case, there are several people here from her version of Earth. But you're right, in general, it would be quite an undertaking.

There are people set to work on the ship itself, though, in this time. Perhaps a deal could be worked out with them.

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