teenrebellion | space 🎶 scien

I wouldn't be surprised.

It's for the best to assume that nothing that you do on board this ship is truly private.

[ a wisp of distaste. ]

I hate that. Some things aren't meant to be public.

A corporation that abducted its new hires and conjured up fake contracts to suggest our compliance probably cares very little for true consent.

No shit. That doesn't mean I have to like it.

And so? Will you simply endure and complain?

We don't exactly have a way to stop it.

Oh? What measures have you taken to try?

I'm a musician, not some kind of hacker, dude.

So the answer is nothing, despite the fact that you have all your senses and a brain between your ears.

Information collecting is a skill even a musician can possess.

[ there's a wave of hot anger coming from kazuki now. ]

Do you always make baseless assumptions about people you don't know? I said I'm not a hacker, not that I'm planning to sit around and wait forever. I have things to get back to just like anyone else.

[scien continues to go girl give us nothing

but when the anger comes in from kazuki - scien's own emotional processing doesn't seem to entirely register it. before the emotion is fully formed, it dissipates before it truly manifests as a full emotion]

You're the one who assumed I expected you to hack anything.

[he didn't make the first baseless assumption kazuki]

[ what the fuck was that. he stares at scien for a long moment, eyes narrowed in confusion. but without knowing how to address it, he'll just. leave it for now. ]

Because we were talking about their weird technology. I'm not stupid. I know I can learn about other stuff.

There's nothing stopping you from learning about technology, unless disinterest is enough reason.

But so be it. It's your life.

...It's more that stuff like that really isn't my forte. I have other skills.

[ he is just a musician, man. ]

Then may those skills carry you well through the rest of this job.

[kazuki don't get murdered]

They'll do just fine, thanks.

[ the problem here is that it's emotionshare and there's a low ripple of anxiety in the air but it's fine if he doesn't acknowledge it right! ]

[help

when scien gets that ripple of anxiety, he makes a face and there is his own answering feeling of annoyance - though not directed at kazuki, and also still not manifested quite right]

If you're worried about your survivability, you could always ask Dahut.

He's somehow still here, even despite the environment we work in.

[ ?????? ]

What the hell does that mean?

He's the Deputy Director at a National Research Institute, where power is concentrated in our country as lives hang in the balance of our work.

It's not a peaceful place.