video & text;

[akito]

Genesis is gone now too.

[ he pauses, then adds the same message in text format for those who can't see him for lack of belief. ]

The Winds can't find her at all.

[ which might explain any sudden breezes that Pepper, Jack, Elissa, and Christine may have been wrapped with momentarily shortly before his announcement. just checking in on his friends and important people. ]

So many of the friends I've made are disappearing. I'm sad they're not still here, even if it's selfish.


[ he ends the video feed and switches entirely to text. ]

I think I would like more things to fill my time with.
All I've been doing lately is training and training
But it gets tiring after a while.
Are there any good books or movies here people can recommend?
Or small mechanical items that need fixing?
Or anyone that would like a drawing of something?

Comments

[Text]

[nodavinci]

Her communicator's still active.

[Text]

[akito]

Yet she's not here anymore.

[Text]

[nodavinci]

No, she's not where you can find her in, what? A couple hours?

[Text]

[akito]

The only way I couldn't find her is if she's not on the planet anymore.

[ or if she traveled very, very far away before he noticed she left. in which case it would take much longer for the wind to give him an answer... but he doesn't think that's the case. ]

[Text]

[nodavinci]

Yeah? Where am I standing at this exact moment?

[It's not, for the record, anywhere accessible to the wind.]

[Text]

[akito]

If I've never met you before I can't identify you.

video.

[femshep]

You'll get used to it. [ The 'friends disappearing' thing. Akito, meet Commander Killjoy. ]

text.

[akito]

I only just got used to having friends.
I don't want to have to get used to losing them all, too.

text.

[femshep]

[ ...She hates to say it, but she can really really relate to that.

Shepard hates it when she can relate. ]

could be worse. they aren't dead. the ship might spit em back out one day.

it did to me, anyway.

text.

[akito]

It would be better if they didn't come back.
They weren't really happy here.

text.

[femshep]

then suck it up. they're better off now.

[ You could assume, anyway. A pause, then a second reply: ]

you said you're a mechanic? got something you could take a look at.

[ Shepard may be a little 'tough love', but she gets it, and she'll see if she can't toss the kid a distraction or two. ]

text.

[akito]

Hopefully.

I am to some degree.
What is it that you have?

Text Only

[djinnigenie]

I am sorry, Akito.

[The winds had easily found Elissa at Koz's house - the front door was wide open and the young woman was curled up, fully clothed, in Koz's bed in the loft.]

text.

[akito]

It's okay.
She was sad here.

Text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

[Well that was one of the stranger video messages he's seen in his time]

It's always hard losing someone, no matter what the circumstances.

Have you asked the ship people if they might have something you can help with?

text

[akito]

I never had people to lose before.

I don't like the ship very much.
It feels like a graveyard.
If I could be of use there though I wouldn't say no to helping.

text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

It might help to have a project to keep your mind off it. Sometimes you just need to keep busy, when you lose people.

text

[akito]

I had a collar put on me after a friend left for the first time.
It was a good distraction
But I don't want to be human again so soon.

Re: text

[kettchmeifyoucan]

That sounds a bit extreme. Changing who you are.

[And no one seems to terribly like the collars]

text

[akito]

I wanted to see what it was like to not be invisible for a while.
It was nice.

[genoshas_general]

They're not gone. Just hibernating.

Eventually, we'll figure out how to wake them.

[akito]

The part of them that counts the most is back at home.

[ he has to believe that, otherwise he doesn't think he could handle his friends leaving at all. ]

[genoshas_general]

What evidence do you have of that? What proof?

[akito]

Apparently our bodies are in some kind of stasis while in those pods??
But I was at home until I woke up here
Which makes no sense if my body had been in there for a long time right??
So there is no proof
But it would make sense if it was the mind that was freed while the body remained trapped.
Kind of like astral projection?

[genoshas_general]

Mental projection to another universe would require massive amounts of power. Not to mention the amount of equipment needed for anyone who wasn't naturally psychic. And I can't imagine much of a benefit from the perspective of the people who designed the ship.

It's more likely it's some kind of simulated reality to keep the people in stasis from causing trouble.