The Harrogate return apparently had a separate network for Investigators who either began or ended the Jaunt dead, but that's the only other example I can see right offhand.
[Not that that's entirely relevant now.]
Things on the station are... not great. Humanity mostly lives on space stations and moon bases now because Earth is almost completely ravaged - and the only reason I can say 'almost' is because they've terraformed a couple of spots, one of which the other group is living in. Everything's regimented and micromanaged right to hell, education is streamlined, everybody follows a computer-generated schedule at all times, education's planned to the job you're best "suited" for... that kind of thing. That said, entertainment is big up here, and there's a surprising amount of time budgeted into people's schedules for it. Probably because it's one of their few joys in life - I don't know.
You can probably see where this is going - the settlement with the "Mythics" - that's the beastfolk group - is basically a really long-running reality show to the people up here. Like, four centuries long-running. I'm not sure how many of the people here even realize the people they're watching are real. Right now, the company that owns the... show... is running a month-long extravaganza thing where the winners of a contest they ran just before the Jaunt get to watch unedited live feeds of the Mythics, sample the kinds of food they eat, and answer a bunch of surveys. There's talk of some kind of interactive features that'll be unveiled at some point, too - I'm hoping that'll at least give us a way to communicate.
Traveler-wise, there aren't a whole lot of people up here. I think there's maybe six of us total? And half of us are Infiltrating.
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The Harrogate return apparently had a separate network for Investigators who either began or ended the Jaunt dead, but that's the only other example I can see right offhand.
[Not that that's entirely relevant now.]
Things on the station are... not great. Humanity mostly lives on space stations and moon bases now because Earth is almost completely ravaged - and the only reason I can say 'almost' is because they've terraformed a couple of spots, one of which the other group is living in. Everything's regimented and micromanaged right to hell, education is streamlined, everybody follows a computer-generated schedule at all times, education's planned to the job you're best "suited" for... that kind of thing. That said, entertainment is big up here, and there's a surprising amount of time budgeted into people's schedules for it. Probably because it's one of their few joys in life - I don't know.
You can probably see where this is going - the settlement with the "Mythics" - that's the beastfolk group - is basically a really long-running reality show to the people up here. Like, four centuries long-running. I'm not sure how many of the people here even realize the people they're watching are real. Right now, the company that owns the... show... is running a month-long extravaganza thing where the winners of a contest they ran just before the Jaunt get to watch unedited live feeds of the Mythics, sample the kinds of food they eat, and answer a bunch of surveys. There's talk of some kind of interactive features that'll be unveiled at some point, too - I'm hoping that'll at least give us a way to communicate.
Traveler-wise, there aren't a whole lot of people up here. I think there's maybe six of us total? And half of us are Infiltrating.