#tma 033

[red-archivist]

TIM Well, someone noticed.

ARCHIVIST Who?

TIM Er, Josh Cole – uh, great guy – he’s one of the students using our resources for a dissertation?

students would probably be more likely to use the library rather than the archives but the image of some hapless harried masters student walking down to the archives and seeing a pest problem, a man living in document storage and a head archivist who looks like he hasn’t slept in 3 years is v funny

[red-archivist]

TIM (cheery demeanor wearing thin) Oh, it’s, it’s not a complaint! I just noticed, actually.

as an aside, i really like how tim’s introduction is his correction of consistency errors, it foreshadows his background in editing

[red-archivist]

I looked around to see that the place was now completely empty. Even the bartender was nowhere to be seen, and the only sound was the whir of the ceiling fans above us. The captain was still staring at me, so I swallowed my unease and began to explain my situation to him.

did peter throw an entire bar of people into the lonely just because he had to have one (1) conversation??

[red-archivist]

ARCHIVIST (more quietly) …is fine. It’s… fine, I just haven’t been sleeping much these last few months, what with all this… worm business. Which reminds me, if you do see Elias, tell him thanks for the extra extinguishers.

pull yourself together, you’re still in charge, you have to act like it, you’re fine, you have to be fine

[red-archivist]

Um, look, okay. I know you’ve been under a lot of pressure… it’s not a big deal, I just think it might be worth re-recording these statements.

tim’s not wrong, if this was a real archive accuracy in the records would be important because the purpose is to preserve them and errors would have to be corrected

[red-archivist]

Oh, and don’t get me started on the other case numbers around the Hill Top hauntings, they’re a mess –

everything about hilltop road is a mess!

[red-archivist]

After that night, the atmosphere on board changed. People talked, and you’d occasionally hear actual laughter. Games were played, people drank, and there was this sense of relief to it all.

i wonder how long some of the crew have been on board, how many have seen sacrifices been made and thanked whatever they believe in that it wasn’t them

[red-archivist]

The shipping containers, all of them, were rusted in place. How could this have happened, though, if they were being changed over at port? How long had the Tundra been sailing with the same cargo?

the containers aren’t the cargo