(inside sim, local PUBLIC server)

[forcevisions]

This is Kira Solo.

I heard people have spotted Ricky Ling. THE Ricky Ling. If you hear anything or see him yourself, will you let me know? I've already got my friends at Riverstone keeping an eye out.

Or if you've got ideas on how else we might find him ...

Someone told me that we're probably here for a reason. Maybe Ling has something to do with that.

[ she notes her name only to give the reminder that this is public. she's not rey to anyone but the displaced anymore. hopefully they'll bear in mind that the other citizens of new amsterdam are on this too. ]

Comments

[strove]

When you say "the," do you mean the or a version that exists here?

[forcevisions]

That's exactly what I'm wondering.
If we were brought here, who's to say it's not the real one?
And if it's not the real one, then why bother writing him in at all?

[ it hasn't missed her that mentioning judas could be bad for (a) everyone in new amsterdam seeing this reasons, (b) judas could be seeing this reasons. she's slowly but surely getting better at the subtle approach. ]

[strove]

[Talking in vague terms in public is going to get old fast.

For example:]

Specify the "we." As well as you can, anyway.

[forcevisions]

All of us. From New Amsterdam.
But especially those of us who are different, who've seen this kind of thing before.

[ zerzura is clue enough, right? there had been clues in zerzura. spinetail. maybe this was the same, but with ling. ]

[strove]

[It is a clue, but Clarke rejects it.]

I saw something like this before we saw something like this together.

[That is so damn vague.]

It feels different, Kira.

[forcevisions]

I know it's different.
This isn't real.
But it's constructed from real parts, and by a real person. I just think if we could talk to Ling, we might learn something. But all I keep hearing are whispers that people have seen him.

@quentin.coldwater

[filloryfanatic]

I've been spreading it among the messengers and like domestic folks here, in case anyone sees him.

[forcevisions]

I got everybody I know from Riverstone and in agriculture.

[filloryfanatic]

People on curfew would be good too, as they'd know people coming in and out regularly.

[forcevisions]

Good thinking. If no one ever sees him return to the dormitories ...

[ he's probably not real, right? ]

[filloryfanatic]

Or if they see him leaving to go somewhere outside of this area. We'd know. We can track him down.

@liuqi.wu

[kill7]

who

[forcevisions]

Ricky Ling.
He was in charge of Riverstone around the war.

@cassandra.cain

[lucubrare]

how is this person important

[forcevisions]

They're the only person who doesn't seem like they were brought here with us. He would have actually been alive during this time.

[lucubrare]

Oh. The person from the posters?

[ Now she's making the connection. ]

What if he's like...one of those people who is very interested in doing what we're supposed to?

[ She doesn't know how else to put it, but those not really people give her the creeps. To have one in charge makes sense to her, honestly, but this kid lives in a town with the Joker so...

Take her perspective with the grain of salt it deserves. ]

[forcevisions]

It'd be weird for one of them to be so recognizable, isn't it?

[lucubrare]

Maybe, but there's a lot of them. I dunno.

@catra

[purrsistence]

[ She doesn't know that Kira Solo is Rey's alternate name. If she did, there's no way she would have replied to this post. Or if she did, the response would probably be quite a bit different. ]

... Sounds like an urban legend if you ask me. The guy's like, a billion years dead or whatever. Even if he was here, it's not like he'd be real. And if he was, then why's he hiding? Some hero.

People will make anything up when they need something positive to cling to.

[forcevisions]

Maybe.
But if there's even a chance that's not true, then finding out why he's in here could be a step towards figuring out a way to get out. Unless you've got a better lead.

[purrsistence]

... It's probably some tech or magic or magic-tech bullcrap.

Neither of which I'm any good at.

[forcevisions]

Then we should accept it's possible that he's a part of it, somehow.

[purrsistence]

It smells like a diversion at best and a trap at worst, if you ask me. Dangling some obvious false hope for you to latch onto and go on a wild goose chase after.

... At least that's what I'd do. If I were in charge.

[northerndragon]

Daenerys has set me to finding him.

[Possibly, he realizes, to decrease the likelihood of further catastrophic injury.]

It can’t just be a fool’s chase, can it?

— Jon Snow

[forcevisions]

He could just be an urban legend, I guess ... something people are using to give themselves hope or something.
But I don't think that's true. I think he's real.