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[groupiedrifter]

[Newt comes shuffling into view on the screen, holding a cup of coffee in his hand with a bag of what seems to be Sour Patch Kids harrowingly hanging out from beneath the pinky finger of the very same hand. Disheveled but more than happy to provide his services after dragging himself out of bed, he taps his knuckle on the chalkboard beside him — one that used to be Hermann Gottlieb's, may he rest in peace (in a not dead way — may he rest in peace on a beach or something while wholly alive and thriving).]

Noticed an influx of new and kinda-new faces over the last few days or weeks or whatever.

So here's my handy dandy welcome board! Recently updated, to keep with the times.

Read it over and get a feel for how this place goes; I'm gonna finish off this coffee before I take any questions.

[As he takes the world's most obnoxious-sounding sip and burns his tongue, here's the board in question:]



[And then, after a bit of time, he turns the board over to the other side:]



[No worries, current crew, if you can't get one of those introduction papers in person!

Because he's attached them in file format, too.]



[And in case you wanted a text format copy:

Name:
Age:
Birthday:
Favorite color:
Favorite food:
Favorite subject:
Favorite toy:
Favorite animal:
Favorite candy:
Favorite activity:
Favorite place:
Favorite book:
Favorite TV show:
Favorite movie:
I am good at:
I want to learn:
Least favorite subject:
Place I want to go:
If I could make one wish, it would be:
If I could have one superpower, it would be:
This is what I want my teacher to know about me:

(Have at it — threadjacking is encouraged).]

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[coordination]

He doesn't remember.

[ Text means you can't tell that he's sad! ]

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[groupiedrifter]

I know, I know. Just like Hermann.
It's cool, I'm cool. Toootally not sad about it.

[Newton is not as subtle about being sad, as you can see.]

[coordination]

There better be some way to amend that, once this is all over.

[groupiedrifter]

That's one of the things that freaks me out most.
Not remembering any of you guys, when it's over.

[coordination]

I don't like the idea very much, either. [ His own way of agreeing. ]

Though it seems that for the former team, it was less of a choice or a chance thing upon their revival.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not quite the fan of that.

If it came down to someone else making a choice like that, I absolutely wouldn't want something so important taken from me.

[groupiedrifter]

Yeah...
There's gotta be a way to stop that from happening.
Like, if I go home without completing my goals and the precursors still exist (which would suck a lot, ftr), I could tell the PPDC to put me on lockdown or something, you know? If I could really remember everything.

[coordination]

I understand the example there.

Viveca did say it wasn't an assured thing, to not remember. Still, it had better come down to choice or at the very least, chance. And not the choice of someone else changing their own regret, because my memories have jack shit to do with someone else, especially someone who would ever even consider that I'd ever want that.

Still, working toward ensuring something like that doesn't happen on top of our mission is a bit obnoxious. It's as if we're meant to struggle to keep these things that shouldn't be threatened away from us.

[groupiedrifter]

... I guess that is a point to think about.

People knowing the existence of the orbs. Seems to backfire plenty.

[coordination]

And yet us on this station are far from the only ones who know of their existence.

Welford. Remy and Aurelia are traveling from world to world. I spoke of our true intentions to Entr'i, as many of our comrades have to plenty of others over the last two years. It's not exactly of much use to use desperate means to hide knowledge when it already spans as far as it does.

In either case, you'd better remember everything.