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Not exhaustive, but a note to myself anyway:
Arthur Lester
John Crichton
Oswald Wuthridge
Oda Nobunaga
Skulduggery Pleasant
Erin Peters
Deputy Pratt
Flan ofc
Victor ig

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Hostile Giles chief suspect in murder of Ossie at Hurikane. Should be considered armed and dangerous. Please contact myself and Dimitri if you spot him. He has refused harmony with the ship and will be killed as many times as it takes.

Hey do you take constructive criticism? Because I can't think of a more terrifying thing to read rn than 'refused harmony with the ship and will be killed as many times as it takes', even if context is about a guy in a skinsuit murdering our mutual acquaintance in the guise of his lover. Otherwise right on I'll keep you posted. 👍

You know what fair enough but keep in mind that I am ten feet away from my dead friend right now and the rage in me is fit to gut God and hang the world from his intestines. Thank you for your help April.

Fair enough for your fair enough. Good luck hunting him down.

Still feel like I should apologize for forgetting this long but I guess this is how it goes. Finally got my ribs seen to. Lost track of you in the chaos like fucking immediately. How are you holding up? Are you hurt?

Hey, losing track of me means the system is working. By that I mean I made myself stealth the second the chaos happened, so no one else noticed me either. I'm completely fine, the only damage came from the fall through the floor, but a few days in a sling and I'll be fine 👍👍 Still riding the adrenaline high otherwise, how are you?

Well. I lived. Given how good Ossie had it dying twice I am reconsidering living as an option the next time someone is selling dying but I lived. There are a lot of folks I need to help take care of right now so I will be busy the next few days but we should catch up when everyone can breathe. Weirdly enough despite the terror at the prospect I could use some karaoke. Also had a shower thought to ask you but it is in no way urgent. Personal favor sort of question. Zero additional horrors.

Hey, congrats on surviving when everyone else was doing their best to kill or die last night! But yea jotting that down for when I next need to scream into a mic then.

[Personal favour? Colour them curious.]

Perhaps, depends on the question. Shoot?

Well. Spotting your photos was how I found you and I got hit recently by the slow-rolling realization that you therefore make photos that I can see. I was wondering if you might be able to create some I could keep. I miss having memories up on the wall. If there was anything I could provide in exchange? Friends don't ask friends to work for free.

[Hm... Now that's an interesting request, and one that's going to require some explanation about themselves to turn down. But hey, they just lived through a Halloween party together, and April's feeling really good about themselves after committing a murder, so hell, why not?]

I'm not sure I can do that for you, if you're seeing them for the reasons I think you are. To put this in a tasteful and vague way, I don't do Good Things to photos, and people seeing my photos don't have a great time with them typically. Not saying I'm not curious if this works or not, but you should be aware of this if you want to ask about it.

Hhhuh. Interesting. Maybe not unworkable but interesting.

Not to pry but if it is not too personal is the bad time an attack or just the usual result of your alterations? My people have some access to attacks rooted in supernatural terror which cause fear even in situations that are not fearful so I am familiar with that as an idea. However even if I decide my metaphorical dick is that long scaring my guests and friends might be rude to them.

[Well, what do you know!]

Honestly that sounds close to it. Granted, the worst of it has to be targeted to a person specifically, but even broadly not many people like fucked up looking photos to begin with. I don't know how specifically you're seeing my photos but if it's based on my interference we're looking at something I tampered with directly which would produce something... ... You know what. I never thought to see if I could tamper with something and have it NOT come out fucked up. Might be fun to see if THAT'S even possible.

I can see the images. This should not normally be possible but I would have to like describe them to you for you to have any idea of if I am seeing what you meant to put there. My best guess is that they are part of you somehow like the way a treasured doll is part of a child or else that you are using them to feed and I see them on the basis of the link. I am again not trying to pry but I do own a working brain sometimes. Would be delighted to experiment if you want to. Being here has brought out an interest in magical theory that I did not know that I had. Worst case it does not work and I can tape them up in the bathroom or something if you need to earn some spooky back for the effort.

There's a difference between prying and having a working brain and to be honest, I prefer the latter. Which is to say one of your guesses there is right and I think you can guess from how much I ooze sentimentality which one it is. I'll call satiating my curiosity payment enough upfront, we can figure out more when I know what the amount of effort is going to look like.

Excellent. I await your pleasure with the warning in advance that my mornings are spoken for until ten and my Thursdays are spoken for in the stupid early hours. Thank you again.

One day, Erin vows to herself. One day she will master the speech-to-text comma and stop sounding like this.

Well it only took half a month of nightly gossip sessions but I finally remembered I need to give you the news. Guessing game time. What is the two nickels situation created by the presence of my new roommate?

Oh christ Erin don't do this to me.

[April says, and yet:]

Ok well passing observation on some of the cap's other assignments: 1) Someone else steeped in the Fair World 2) someone else with a blindfold 3) someone diametrically opposite to you in beliefs, interests, personality, species, or all of the above.

Both are close in their own way. New roommate is Helena Adams. Ordinary mortal very polite and kind. Sharper than she lets off. Studies poetry and to cap it off she too is blind.

Oh, another one. That's like, three of you so far, right? Think that's enough for legal action if this ship isn't accommodating enough?

[April's takeaway from various HR contracts has been... Well, pick and choose, let's say.]

If you can summon enforcement for the ADA into this dimension and cause it to come to pass I will give you the kidney of your choice. But yeah three nickels. I have not told her about you because I suspect you prefer to make your own introductions but.

A good solid minute passes.

She has severe nightmares. Try to keep that in mind if you do introduce yourself?

I was thinking ACA but this ship IS annoying American and no amount of CanCon standards has had any affect on that, so ADA it is. Not that I think Friday would put up a fight or anything if you guys wanted something, idk Anyway, that's very thoughtful of you. I'll let you in on a little secret with some good news: unless she also has some way of visually perceiving things without her eyeballs, she'll be fine. I'm an image-based terror, at worst maybe I'll be a bit of a memory hole in casual conversation but going by some of my previous stints in offices that's normal enough not to really notice as weird.

[how do you think they became such good friends with Arthur? Well, other than the appeal of the bit. unless Erin doesn't know that somehow? eh, April will catch her up sometime probably]

April please you've told Erin basically nothing about any of your friendships and she's starting to worry she might be your literal only friend here.

Duly noted. Enjoy your inevitable recurring jump scares. If we can get the materials we want to try and teach braille to the ship so keep an ear out for that. Hope you are keeping well.

I'll try to start stomping my feet for you guys or something, don't worry. I'm fine, hope you're well too etc etc

[rejoice! April almost added 'and that it's been more than a few days since you last offered people a chance to kill you' but realized that might come off as a dig and not a genuine(???) statement. boy, April misses the level of 'normal' they had in the bunker sometimes.]

Honestly yeah? Things went better than I could have dared to dream. Big feels but I think I might be okay. Ended up invited to a fact finding expedition into the infinite store reconnected with some people caused intense psychic damage via jokes. Also there is a new god aboard? Trying to grant wishes but like he has to do it by hand so godspeed to that poor bastard.

hey quick q when theyd make your drink at timms did it need to taste good or just TASTE?

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