19centconstable | Case #43: Audio (Those still on board + Repomen)

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Case #43: Audio (Those still on board + Repomen)

[George sounds suitably distraught by the few transmission trickling back to the Barge.]

What on Earth is going on out there? Everyone is making very little sense, and there was a very disturbing broadcast made. There have been very few check-ins as well. How many went to port? Has something happened to them?

Detective Hoffman, please check in!

I'm beginning to fear the worst.

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Well...

I can't say it's entirely...

It doesn't happen every time.

[There is a dark frown in his voice.]

This Admiral seems worse and worse. I don't understand how getting off a ship can make you lose your memories, but if it can then docking should not be an option. Do people often regain their memories after coming aboard once again?

Oh, no: it isn't his fault. One only loses one's memory if one falls overboard. And they do always regain it once they've returned.

[He catches himself before he can argue. Any reasons he has to distrust the Admiral probably shouldn't be spoken of.]

So all of the transmission we have heard are from those who fell off? Then everyone who disembarked voluntarily must have a reason not to want to return. But surely they don't want to be in a world full of murderers, at least not all of them...

It would seem so.

It may also be that they're unable to return. My inmate doesn't appear to be on board any longer, but now I'm unable to disembark to look for him.

[That is... very distressing. People could be out there in terrible danger from these murders, with no way to return.]

Is your inmate able to take care of himself when in danger?

[Not that there's much they can do.]

He is fairly...resourceful.

[More than possibly deadly, but that's not something George likes to think about.]

[He can hear the hesitance in those words, though he can't really tell any more than that. But if someone is on a prison ship, they're bound to have been in violent situations before, or at least he hopes.]

Were you unaware that he fell off the ship until after the gates to shore were closed?

Unfortunately, yes. I can only hope he's able to get in touch.

Those who have been able to broadcast to us have all lost their memories, yes? Then perhaps it's only the people who have fallen overboard. Your inmate may be one of their number. Can you try to communicate with him specifically?

I'm afraid I'm not sure what I can do beyond asking that he check in. I do my best, but the technology at work here is a bit beyond my time.

[Like more than 100 years.]

I know the feeling, I'm afraid. I have been taught how to use it more than once and I can still barely wrap my mind around it...

But perhaps it is best to try and ask him to check in, if only to know if he can.

When is it you're from, Mr.-...?

Po, just Po. And I came here from the twenty-ninth year of Ror City, though I doubt that means much to you. And may I have your name?

I'm afraid it doesn't, but it's a pleasure nonetheless.

I'm Constable Crabtree; Constable George Crabtree.

It is good to meet you, Constable, even in these circumstances.

[It might not be apparent yet, but George might find soon that Po won't call him by any name but "Constable". He's never heard the title; he thinks it's his new acquaintance's name.]

Hopefully they'll soon improve.

[Unfortunately, being from the 19th century, George may never notice as everyone back home calls him "Constable" all of the time too.]

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Case #43: Audio (Those still on board + Repomen)

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