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[littletonoidea]

"This is the audio log of Communications Officer Doug Eiffel of the-- previously of the U.S.S Hephaestus, leave a message and I'll see if I can bear to drag myself away from whatever utterly engaging task I must be doing to not notice my comms--"

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[cactusy]

I know what happens to wardens who hurt inmates. I'm not going to hurt him.

[littletonoidea]

[He's not gonna correct her that it's 'kill', not 'harm', because he doesn't want to actually be complicit in getting Hilbert literally tortured.]

Look, I'm totally down with covering any questions the file can answer. But you're not getting it off of me. And if you wanna get an interview out of Hilbert, you gotta go through his warden.

[cactusy]

[UuUuUuUuUUUUUUUGH

His argument makes sense. Decima Technologies doesn't own the name Decima; it's something from mythology, right? She vaguely remembers Root and Finch talking about that, once.

But that's assuming that this is real. And even if it is, that's assuming that coincidences are always just that.]

Can you run a keyword search on that file of yours?

[littletonoidea]

Easy peasy, Coleshlaw. What're we googling?

[cactusy]

It's a long list.

[But here goes.]

Decima Technologies
Samaritan
John Greer
Jeremy Lambert
Martine Rousseau
Harold Finch
John Reese
Sameen Shaw
Samantha Groves
Root

[littletonoidea]

[His tone takes on a bit more sobriety as he actually focuses on the task at hand, keyboard taps and computer beeps punctuating his words.]

I've got some false positives on Lambert - same name as a previous crew member Hilbert worked on, first name Samuel - also... root and John, since- they're common words, obviously, but apart from Decima itself I'm not getting any hits.

Look, if you haven't heard of Goddard, we're not from the same world. I know it's possible to have, like, two things be the exact same even across different universes, but this Decima isn't one of them. Promise.

[cactusy]

Root is a proper noun, so if it's not showing up in that context then you can discard it.

You're from the future, right? Relative to me.

[littletonoidea]

The year of our lord 2015. But I couldn't tell you what happened the last two years back on Earth, I spent them on the other side of the universe.

[cactusy]

Seriously?

[He's from the same year as her? That... huh. That changes things. Possibly. Maybe. Probably.

She'd assumed he was several decades ahead at least, giving Decima time to morph and expand. But if they're both from 2015, and their worlds look this different... alternate universes sound a lot more plausible (for a certain definition of plausible).]

[littletonoidea]

Oh yeah.

Look, when your cartoonishly evil Globex Corporation corners the tech market and starts making A.I. that are so smart they can actually think for themselves? Your standards are gonna be a bit different from the rest of the 2015s out there.

[cactusy]

Already done.

Minus the space travel.

[littletonoidea]

Oh yeah, the space travel's critical. These guys bought out NASA.

[cactusy]

Something to look forward to where I come from, I guess.

That's sarcasm.

[She could just switch to audio herself, but ehhhhhhh]

[littletonoidea]

Honestly I'm just assuming that you're never not sarcastic unless you want something. Seems like the best way to work with you.

Plus that happened in like, 2000-something, I dunno. I was busy.

[cactusy]

2001 for us.

[littletonoidea]

Huh.

[A pause.]

But you definitely haven't heard of Goddard Futuristics?

[cactusy]

Nope. My theory was that it came before your time but after mine, but if we're from the same year, that's not it.

[littletonoidea]

Yeah, it kinda just sounds like a case of weird multi-dimensional mistaken identity.

Good to know that if you hear Decima in any universe, you should probably run in the opposite direction as fast as you can.

[cactusy]

Good plan.

Thanks.

Also, Cole-shlaw was a reach.

[littletonoidea]

Okay but you know you just gave me permission to keep trying, right? This nickname train is stopping all stations!

[You became friends with Eiffel. Eiffel will now die for you]

[cactusy]

Ew.

[Which is the response that she's required by law to give to this nonsense: even though it kinda-sorta reminds her of Fusco, who she kinda-sorta might start to miss if she ends up being here for months or years.]

[littletonoidea]

Too late, Shawshank, there's no escaping me now!