James Tiberius Kirk (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
universal_charm) wrote2013-05-08 09:32 pm
universal_charm) wrote2013-05-08 09:32 pm
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Let's Try This Again [ Action + Locked Voice ]
[ Locked to Arya, Spock, and Emil - 90% Unhackable ]
Okay, so, seems Luceti doesn't want us hanging out at a camp site, but screw that, we're going this weekend. I still have all the stuff, so we're pretty much set. But, uh, Spock you're going to have to get yourself some other clothes. I still only have the ones we picked for your bitty self...
[ Locked to Spock, 100% Unhackable ]
Hey, I want to talk to you about something. Let me know when you got time, we can go down to Buffy's or something, get a drink, and talk there.
[ All of that done, it was time to go and run some errands and fill up his day - which suddenly seemed a bit harder than it should.
He could at least start by really getting back into his workout. It had kind of gone wonky the last few weeks. Don't even get him started on the last weekend. He could still hear that odd speech pattern in his head and it made him wince. How? How had anyone put up with that? And he had been posing, hadn't he? He was sure he had, because he remembered looking at himself in the mirror... and no. Nope. Not going there. He was going to the battle dome now and he was going to make use of it. He spent the morning working out against simulations and doing resistance training, the release of exercise endorphines sending a nice, happy tingle through him.
Eventually, he had to stop though and get some real errands done - which basically meant the grocery story because somehow that had become his job when it came to feeding two grown adults, a teenage girl, and a wolf the size of a pony. Seriously, you try telling that thing what it can and cannot eat. If it wants to eat, it eats. Which meant grocery shopping and hauling it all back.
But even with doing that, it left an afternoon partially open, and he wanted to do something new. And what might that be? Well... why not go to the barn? He knew they had one and had horses (it made sense since they had ponies, right?), and while he had never really been much of an animal person, it might not be a bad idea to become acquainted with another potential forms of transportation after all. That in mind, he headed that way, with a pocket full of carrots. Horses like carrots, right? ]
Okay, so, seems Luceti doesn't want us hanging out at a camp site, but screw that, we're going this weekend. I still have all the stuff, so we're pretty much set. But, uh, Spock you're going to have to get yourself some other clothes. I still only have the ones we picked for your bitty self...
[ Locked to Spock, 100% Unhackable ]
Hey, I want to talk to you about something. Let me know when you got time, we can go down to Buffy's or something, get a drink, and talk there.
[ All of that done, it was time to go and run some errands and fill up his day - which suddenly seemed a bit harder than it should.
He could at least start by really getting back into his workout. It had kind of gone wonky the last few weeks. Don't even get him started on the last weekend. He could still hear that odd speech pattern in his head and it made him wince. How? How had anyone put up with that? And he had been posing, hadn't he? He was sure he had, because he remembered looking at himself in the mirror... and no. Nope. Not going there. He was going to the battle dome now and he was going to make use of it. He spent the morning working out against simulations and doing resistance training, the release of exercise endorphines sending a nice, happy tingle through him.
Eventually, he had to stop though and get some real errands done - which basically meant the grocery story because somehow that had become his job when it came to feeding two grown adults, a teenage girl, and a wolf the size of a pony. Seriously, you try telling that thing what it can and cannot eat. If it wants to eat, it eats. Which meant grocery shopping and hauling it all back.
But even with doing that, it left an afternoon partially open, and he wanted to do something new. And what might that be? Well... why not go to the barn? He knew they had one and had horses (it made sense since they had ponies, right?), and while he had never really been much of an animal person, it might not be a bad idea to become acquainted with another potential forms of transportation after all. That in mind, he headed that way, with a pocket full of carrots. Horses like carrots, right? ]
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[ He comes in about thirty minutes later as well, stops by the bar to snag a glass of water, and comes to sit with Spock. ]
Hey. You feeling okay?
[ Since, you know, he was no back to normal and just in time for that crazy soap opera stuff. ]
Re: [Action]
... abhorrent during the previous shift.
I did not mean to publicly humiliate you Jim. I hope you can forgive me.
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[ He snorted and shook his head.]
It's fine. Neither of us was exactly ourselves. I mean... god, the way I was talking. How did nobody punch me?
[ Because listening to it in his head he wanted to punch himself. He glanced at Spock, sipping his water. ]
But yeah, you're forgiven Spock. No hard feelings. Not what I wanted to really talk about though.
Re: [Action]
Thank you.
[Spock looked at Jim warmly for a moment... then nodded.]
Please, proceed. What do you wish to talk about?
Re: [Action]
[ Another sip of water, a considering as he gazed at the glass in the transparent liquid.]
You did some research on the barrier, didn't you?
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What do you wish to know?
[Spock's eyes were bright. It's been awhile since he got to talk science... and he really really missed it.]
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[ He could see the look in his eye and his mouth quirked, a tiny bit. But he smoothed it out, being serious. ]
As much as you can tell me, everything you found out or even theorized about it.
[ He could have done it over the journals, but then the Malnosso might here. This, at least, he thought had less chance of being overheard or monitored. ]
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A few more taps on the table showed a projected image of the barrier and the surrounding map of Luceti.
Spock indicated the map...]
Many tests that I had conducted came out inconclusive. It is made of a material that we have not yet encountered, yet resembles many we have dealt with.
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[ Kirk bit his lip, looking at that, rubbing his jaw pensively. ]
And what would those be? Electro-fields? The shields of our ships?
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[Spock hesitated....]
I had attempted to mind meld with it....
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[ Kirk pauses, glaring at him. ]
We need to put a curve on that, you know. What if you meld with something or someone and they aren't happy or nice about it? You could get brain damaged or worse.
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Captain? I was under the impression that you were concerned for...
...the other individual. Not myself.
And as your First Officer it is my duty to keep you safe and get you out of Luceti...
...melding with the barrier was the last test...to no avail. It cannot be communicated with.
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I'm concerned for both. Who wants someone else rooting around in their head without permission? It's creepy.
But I need you functioning too, and I can't do that when some barrier is making soup of your brain.
[ He sipped his drink, tapping his finger on the table. ]
So it's more organic than anything. Does that mean it needs a power source or no?
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...upset by his Captain's words.
Creepy...so that's what he was? Illogical.]
You are correct Captain, it does indeed need a power source. However, you may be disappointed to find out what that power source is.
...it is this world. The barrier is an extension of this world. My theory is that it was placed here whether consciously or unconsciously to keep every individual in.
It is also my theory that the barrier is involved in bringing individuals here for other universes in the first place.
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Well that's... not what I was expecting.
[ He frowned, wrapping his knuckles on the table as he thought. ]
Throws a bit of a wrench in it, doesn't it? What else do you have to back up that theory?
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Also, on a recent mission, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the leaders of the Malnosso... I believe they are using the wrong method against the barrier...
However... you may not wish to hear my theories Captain... They are rather... disturbing.
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You mean when we went up to the sky fortress, right? Yeah, I talked to one of them too. He... said some things. It doesn't change my mind about them, not really, but maybe this isn't all it's cracked up to be.
[ He sighed, giving Spock a look. ]
Spock, we've both been kidnapped and experimented on, and that's disturbing enough. Your theories won't be much more.
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Sir...I have reason to believe that this place... is not real.
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[ He gave the other a very bland sort of look. ]
If I cannot understand the first two sentences of this theory, I'm quitting, you realize that, right?
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Consider if you will, a manipulative force... which could manifest in various different ways...
Such as a virus...
...an anomaly...perhaps even a being...
Luceti functions in such a way that is very suspect... We lose no time while we are here, and are returned to our respective universes with no memory or evidence of our visit. What if our minds are being effected in such a way that we, right at this very moment, are suspended in time and space...with no control over what we do because we are not actually present.
The functions of this universe seem to be more related to that of a simulator or computer program... with a biological component of course.
[Spock paused... hoping his Captain understood what he was trying to say. Jim wanted to hear theories... and this is what Spock has.]
/clings to you, misses you so much ;;
[ He followed that well enough, biting his lip. He didn't want to say it made sense, but perhaps indeed some of it did. It would explain why there were no traces of people left when they were sent home - if indeed they were sent home at all. The wings, the other worlds, the weird shit - was it all figments of the imagination? Or were they in some sort of collective consciousness induced my slumber or some other method?
It was a bit wacky, admittedly, but it also had some teeth. ]
It's not a bad theory. It makes more sense than a lot of stuff does, but... we need more proof than that. Without really know what's happening, we can't exactly break out, you know?
I miss you too darling~
That is why I suggest... [Spock mentally braces himself for the impact.]
... we do nothing.
Re: I miss you too darling~
[ He stares at him like he's lost his Vulcan mind. ]
Are you out of your Vulcan mind? Since when as anything gotten done by doing nothing?
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My first two weeks here in Luceti, I was approached by several scientists asking me to aid them in a study. They had hypothesized that this world changes the residents so much so that their very nature becomes altered. Unfortunately, I am now the last one conducting the theory as the rest were 'sent home'...
... I have gleaned from this study that there is simply nothing we can do.
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That sounds a whole lot like giving up to me, Spock.
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