The Casting Call

[morphitudinous]

Everyone,

I've completed a successful negotiation with one of the Time Dragons. For a small favor, he will destroy the Melting Clock and save our friends.

...unfortunately, what I've negotiated is a fairly difficult request to pull off under the circumstances, but I'm hoping you'll be able to help me out. I will of course return the favor at a later date.

He's agreed to destroy the clock on the condition that we stage a live performance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for him. It's a famous English-language work on Earth, but for those who aren't familiar with it: it's about two families in a perpetual feud with each other. A son and daughter from the two families, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love, but a series of violent conflicts and misunderstandings lead the events to a tragic end. That's why they're referred to as star-crossed lovers in the opening narration.

We'd have about two days to read through the play and rehearse. Fortunately, it's not a very long production, and we can use the Sensoriums for costuming and scenery, so that should save some time. I'll be directing and playing one of the minor male parts.

Would anyone have the time and interest to lend their voice? It doesn't matter if your species or gender or age doesn't quite match the script, the key thing Metronome seems to want from his actors is emotion. If you can do that, we'll be fine.

My friends mean more than anything to me. If you help me save them, I'll help you down the line. I promise.

-Billy

((attached file: R&J character sheet and script))

Moot

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So, I've been thinking about this kind of thing and the community on the ship. haven't been really active but i was thinking about organizing a moot.

back home, a moot is sort of a party, but it's more about coming together as a community and exchanging stories of past deeds and remembering who's been lost and all that. i know that we're in the middle of a crisis kind of thing, but i think it might be good to start thinking about this and putting it together.

what do you guys think?

[PUBLIC, and backdated to a couple of days after Trojan Horse]

[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

[every single omnicomm on the ship is getting some sort of noticeable alert for this message]

Hello, fellow friends and crewmates, and thank you for taking the time to view this message. For those who have not yet personally met me, I am Dhianeila Y Leisha Altoria Ol Yunos, one of the elected council members aboard this ship.

During our recent mission just outside of the planet NiSaris, both myself and Setsuna F. Seiei were able to accomplish a very brief, personal encounter with the Ohm. I would like to share with all of you what we have learned from this encounter, although I much apologize if your curiosities, as frustrating as they are, are not completely satiated from this information, due to the very small window of opportunity that was presented to us. But I believe any further information is a great thing for us who are still lost, and not completely sure of our own circumstances.

Many of us on board have voiced fears of the Ohm being an emotionless, violent hive mind. What we learned from our encounter is that they are, in fact, not any of those things. Each of them possessed their own thoughts and feelings. And though not a hive mind of any sort, they communicate with each other in such a way ... where their entire race has developed a mental connection between one another. And together they speak, deliberate and act as a result of this unique form of communication. Some were surprised, frightened at our alleged intrusion -- our attempt to speak with them. Though they do not communicate and speak the same way many of us on board this ship do, what they conveyed was still understandable to a very general extent. As unfortunate and heartbreaking as our losses have been, they do not simply seem to be acting on unexplainable violence. For a reason, some reason we still have yet to discover, they relayed a strange feeling of sadness, wrapped in an opinion and view of us ... as having done something terrible. There is a reason for their actions, and it is my strongest hope that we can discover this reason and more as soon as we possibly can, for the benefit of all.

Our limit of opportunity to learn these things was very short-- a few moments at most, before we were pushed away and swept back into the battle ensuing around us. So I do not have any more information aside from what I have just explained. Still, do not hesitate to speak to me, other council members, and each other about anything regarding this. Together we all wish for the same thing; for the Ohm to stop their actions, to save those in danger of losing their homes and to somehow find a way for us to restore our own. And it is only working with and trusting in one another that can get us there. Please wish Setsuna a quick recovery, as if it were not for him and his help, this would not have occurred. I thank you for your time.

[directed to General Trudy Chacon]

[8wings.livejournal.com]

General –

I have been working with Skull Squadron pilot Kanoe Zouichi to create an extract of data he captured during the battle with the Ohm at NiSaris. This data included not only what he directly observed, but also tactical intelligence generated by his internal systems. With the help of Ms. Takamachi, I have uploaded several files to the Media Library, which I hope you will find useful:

NiSaris_pov.vid – A simple 'point of view' recording, with video and audio only.
NiSaris_fullsim.vid – An extrapolation of the entire battle, merging simulation projections and Zouichi's data.
NiSaris_fullsim_plus.vid - An extrapolation of the entire battle, merging simulation projections and Zouichi's data, appended with tactical data such as behavioral analysis, capabilities projections, and damage reports.
NiSaris_raw.data – Raw data only, not encoded for a visual presentation.

All of these downloadable files were created to be as cross-platform as I could make them, and are available to the Sensoriums for large-scale review or tactical simulations. If any of your pilots have data that they would like to add to these files, I would be happy to assist them.