PT 015.5 Sage Duo/Rahab

July 6, 2020

Sage07/06/2020

((So I think Sage was going to look for Duo))

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Ok, you head off in search of Duo.  You find him in one of the terminal rooms.

[9:06 PM]

He's looking over some data.

Sage07/06/2020

Duo?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo turns to face you and he seems...a lot flatter.  His look's a bit distant.

[9:08 PM]

Duo: "Mr. Sage.  Hello.  I am...I was...are we fighting?  Not you Sage.  Sorry, I just...I don't feel quite myself."

Sage07/06/2020

Wa sit during the jump?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "...maybe.  It's...I...hm...I feel like One is still there...but he seems to not be interested in talking."

Sage07/06/2020

Has that happened before?

[9:12 PM]

((Just for the record he appears to have not switched))

USS Adventure07/06/2020

((This does seem to be Duo, or someone who believes themselves to be Duo))

[9:12 PM]

Duo: "...no.  No.  Like...when we were separated it was sharp and harsh and awful.  But this is like...there's suddenly a barrier where before there--HOT DOG!"

[9:14 PM]

Duo: "Sorry just...memories have been so...mixed."

Sage07/06/2020

((What is the data he is looking at?))

USS Adventure07/06/2020

((It seems to be just archived record data.  The past code for jumps, operations, etc.  Day to day of the ship from at least a few jumps back.))

Sage07/06/2020

I am sorry about the memory and the barrier

[9:16 PM]

Were you in this room when we jumped?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "No I...I was...um...I was in the kitchen...or was I...I think I was in the kitchen."

[9:17 PM]

Duo: "Why would I be in the kitchen?"

Sage07/06/2020

Getting food? Or maybe talking to someone there?

[9:19 PM]

Let’s try and retrace your steps it might help your memory

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "Yes!  I was talking to someone!"

[9:19 PM]

Duo: "I was...I was talking to...huh...I...remember talking to Duo.  To me.  But that...I...I don't."

Sage07/06/2020

Do you remember who you were when talking to Duo?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "I have always been Duo...haven't I?  ...I...magic.  This magic is weird."

[9:21 PM]

Duo: "...I am Duo...but I am not Duo.  Oh no!"

Sage07/06/2020

Let’s not panic we can work this out

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "I wasn't supposed to tell anyone.  This is a lot younger!"

[9:23 PM]

Duo: "I am younger than I am.  Or, no.  It is younger than I...what will...oh this is bad."

Sage07/06/2020

Can you explain it To me? Maybe I can help?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "I'm Duo, but I'm not Dalarei.  I don't...I want to tell you but I don't.  I...oh."

[9:26 PM]

Duo: "Real Duo was never like this.  I always knew what to do and went for it."(edited)

Sage07/06/2020

Maybe if you start at the beginning if you are comfortable enough

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "...I'm not supposed to tell you who I am or where I ended up."

[9:29 PM]

Duo: "It's a secret."

Sage07/06/2020

According to who?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "My organic self.  No, that's Dalarei.  My...the one in my organic self.  Oh, this is hard.  I have a stomach ache.  Is it ALWAYS like this?"

Sage07/06/2020

And I have kept secrets in the past even been disassembled over them

[9:31 PM]

Everyone switched why do you need it to be a secret?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "I don't.  He does.  Or I do, but not--Just let me tell him!"

[9:32 PM]

Duo: "He was given orders not to reveal his--NO!"

[9:32 PM]

Duo clamps his hands over his mouth.

Sage07/06/2020

Viktor?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "...gods dammit.  Cat's outta the bag now."

[9:33 PM]

Duo: "...oh...oh no.  I'm so sorry!"

[9:34 PM]

Duo starts crying.

Sage07/06/2020

It’s not your fault and if you want I won’t tell Anyone even after we switch back

[9:35 PM]

pats him on the back

[9:36 PM]

((Sage is not generally a hugger because of the oven))

USS Adventure07/06/2020

He slowly starts to recover.  "This one...he feels a lot more.  I'm not used to it.  We're not...am I Duo now?  Like...am I REALLY Duo now?"

Sage07/06/2020

Maybe, who do you feel like you are?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "...conflicted.  Ok, I just...we need to separate so we can--That's not how we work!  It can be--but it isn't.  This is wrong.  How is my body?"

[9:40 PM]

Duo: "How is Viktor's body?"

Sage07/06/2020

Doing fine last I saw and being very convincing that the jump didn’t alter him at all

[9:42 PM]

I think we should all talk if you are comfortable with that because you don’t seem to be handling this well

[9:43 PM]

Or at least both of you should talk

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "Ugh, we need Ava here.  Or another Joined.  One who knows the right techniques."

Sage07/06/2020

I am sure Ava would say that you  have everything you need here already

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "She would.  She can be infuriating."

[9:47 PM]

Duo: "....IS DALAREI DEAD?!?  Can we do that?  I don't think so.  He wouldn't kill hi--he might.  I don't like him, he's not at all like the Legion.  I also don't care about him."

Sage07/06/2020

Ok I think we need to get both of you together before you rip yourself apart.

[9:50 PM]

I assume you would like to meet somewhere out of the way?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "VIKTOR HAS A ONE INSIDE HIM!"

[9:51 PM]

Duo: "ONE!"

Sage07/06/2020

Yes we established that earlier calm down please

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "...we did?"

Sage07/06/2020

Not in so many words but your hints were pretty strong

[9:55 PM]

I assume by how you have been acting Viktor and Dalarei switched but the ones stayed the same

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "...yep.  Ok, on the same page, mostly."

[9:56 PM]

Duo: "Viktor's one is...not like mine, though.  They're not Joined."

Sage07/06/2020

You can do that?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "Apparently!  I...there's a lot about us, apparently."

Sage07/06/2020

So you think viktor’s one is suppressing Dalarei?(edited)

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "Yes."

[9:59 PM]

Duo: "He probably has locked Dalarei in the back, somewhere."

Sage07/06/2020

If I get them and bring them to you will you all talk?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "Yes."

Sage07/06/2020

You want to do that here or somewhere where no one will wander in?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "The latter."

Sage07/06/2020

I know a place

[10:03 PM]

will lead Duos body to sages room which is completely empty “ apparently it’s regulations that everyone has a room but I have never used it so no one will come here”

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Ok, I assume you also grab "Viktor" along the way.

Sage07/06/2020

((I was going to do that separately  once I had “Duo” somewhere, but it’s easier if I don’t have to try and convince him))

USS Adventure07/06/2020

((If you tell him you know, he will come.))

Sage07/06/2020

(( ok ))

[10:08 PM]

will also grab tea some baked goods and two folding chairs and a folding table

[10:08 PM]

(( also were Mir and Arti still in the cafeteria?))

USS Adventure07/06/2020

((ARTI was, Mir was not.  ARTI would inform you that, by now, he'd returned Mir to his cell and released Targal.))

[10:10 PM]

Viktor: "...well, this has gone absolutely tits up."

[10:10 PM]

Viktor has kept the mask on.

Sage07/06/2020

(( ok))

[10:11 PM]

Not necessarily

[10:12 PM]

I think you all just need to talk this out more than you did initially

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "I know, but don't know what's happening and that's making my stomach hurt."

[10:13 PM]

Viktor: "Honestly, I was able to wrangle this other half easily.  I thought you were trained in this."

Sage07/06/2020

What do you mean exactly by wrangle this other half?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Viktor: "The half of Duo called Dalarei is currently separated from the faculties of this body.  He'll be fine.  If I could tolerate it for weeks, I'm sure he'll manage."

[10:15 PM]

Viktor: "For the sake of simplicity, let's call me Rahab."

Sage07/06/2020

And you chose that option rather than talking to Dalarei?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "My being was meant to be a secret until I could safely speak to your higher ups.  If he revealed he was in here, that would be over with."(edited)

Sage07/06/2020

So why didn’t “viktor” do that with the other half?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "We don't know how.  We weren't separate to begin with, but already Joined.  And we had no way to disentangle."

Sage07/06/2020

Rahab how are you in with Viktor and not joined?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "The Oni witch knew the old ways.  When we might overtake, rather than communicate.  And I am no ordinary One, as you call them."

Sage07/06/2020

Well that seems obvious from talking to you

[10:26 PM]

When did you go into Viktor? And did he have a choice?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "I chose.  He chose.  It was part of the mission I was on when I jumped on your ship to escape the Bureaucracy."

Sage07/06/2020

Can you release Dalarei so we can hear that he is fine?

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "...must I?"

[10:31 PM]

Rahab: "I worry he'll be whiny."

Sage07/06/2020

It would make Duos one feel better at least let them talk for a little

[10:33 PM]

Dalarei didn’t ask for this

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab groans and nods.  After a moment, Viktor's body lurches violently forward.  "Cassandra?  What--IS THAT ME?!?"

[10:34 PM]

Duo: "Dalarei...hold on...we can explain."

Sage07/06/2020

It’s ok Dalarei

[10:35 PM]

We had another jump that went weird

[10:35 PM]

And everyone seems to have switched bodies

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "Including us...sort of."

[10:37 PM]

Rahab: "Oh....oh wow...oh this is a lot."

[10:37 PM]

Rahab: "Wait...where am I?"

Sage07/06/2020

In the only other person who apparently had a One in them

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahad: "...what?"

Sage07/06/2020

Viktor but .. apparently it’s supposed to be a secret so the one has kept you locked in your own body for hours

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo fills him in.

[10:40 PM]

Rahab: ".....this is bull--!"

[10:40 PM]

Rahab: "I think that's enough of that."

Sage07/06/2020

I think you will find this attitude isn’t going to help once you both switch back.

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "Ok, fine...so I'm now fighting with someone else for control of a body after being separated...again!  Now what?"

Sage07/06/2020

Ow we work out how we move forward and what everyone wants

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "Viktor will be happy to give up this body and go back to his.  We want to be Duo again.  Proper Duo."

[10:45 PM]

Rahab: "And I will happily go back to sleep and wait for you all to finally stop screwing this up."

[10:45 PM]

Duo: "...he's a prick."

[10:45 PM]

Rahab: "We do not talk like that.  I do."

Sage07/06/2020

Fair enough of everyone agrees and this knowledge doesn’t jeopardize the ship we won’t notify any of the crew of Rahabs presence

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "...this is Dalarei speaking...I worry that'll be hard to maintain."

Sage07/06/2020

We switch back hopefully in a couple hours

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "Shouldn't the Captain and Commander know, at least."

[10:50 PM]

Rahab: "The commander is a hostile.  She will likely not appreciate my presence."

[10:51 PM]

Duo: "...is this how we normally sound from the outside?"

Sage07/06/2020

Pretty much

[10:52 PM]

A little more verbose usually but

[10:53 PM]

If we get caught  out just put the blame on me.

[10:54 PM]

Rahab is technically following orders and other than submerging your personality hasn’t done anything else to harm anyone

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo: "...we are willing to remain silent if no other threats will come to us."

Sage07/06/2020

And rahab is going to apologize for that as well

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "I am?"

Sage07/06/2020

((Tried to insight rahab and got a 10))

[10:58 PM]

If Dalarei viktor and the other One agree the apology and no further action against anyone on the ship is what this agreement of not going straight to the captain takes

USS Adventure07/06/2020

The two look at each other.  You sense Dalarei is looking at him from within too.  Eventually Rahab sighs.

[10:58 PM]

Rahab: "I am sorry that I jumped to suppressing you.  It won't happen again."

[10:59 PM]

There's a handshake

[10:59 PM]

With himself.

[11:00 PM]

So...he kind of just clasps his hands together.

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[11:01 PM]

Duo: "Ok...so we just...wait until the change back."

Sage07/06/2020

Right and probably not that many people should find that Duo didn’t switch or they might connect it to Viktor not switching

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Rahab: "That could also be bad.  I would recommend you make yourself scarce.  You are not currently an active crew member, so this should be easy."

Sage07/06/2020

Staying here would probably be your best shot

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo nods.  "Not ideal, but...Viktor is used to hiding out...I'll manage."

[11:06 PM]

Duo twitches noticeably.

Sage07/06/2020

Look it will be fine and after the switch back we can discuss again if you want to.

USS Adventure07/06/2020

Duo nods.  Rahab, even under the mask...seems dubious but will go along.

[11:08 PM]

Rahab: "We will hide here with them.  Keep it company, so to speak."

Sage07/06/2020

As long as everyone remembers our agreement

[11:10 PM]

will head out

USS Adventure07/06/2020

All nod