[2026-08-20 23:37:20.707] Starting up round ID 263583. - ------------------------- [2026-08-20 23:58:43.770] PAPER: iamnotsmart/(Xuqmvol Quumxuqqixqrr) wrote to paper: "For your information, Common is my second lanague and if I am not in a good mood, I will be speaking slime." [2026-08-21 00:20:00.184] PAPER: lolofu/(Colton Kepplinger) wrote to paper: "Forget that I'm mute; I waaaaaaaaanted to be part of Xenoy." [2026-08-21 00:22:44.386] PAPER: mikeisinspace69/(Arianna Wigglesworth) wrote to sheet of carbon: "Plz give clown access to SEC. They need a smile. I lost my hands and can't do it myself. - - " [2026-08-21 00:36:31.534] PAPER: thejohnsmith/(Malcolm Blackmore) wrote to paper: "**Ling in Secx** - ___ - Commentaries on the August 21st incident of 2566, during which 3 seporate changelings attacked the station. Brave Bitrunner Aurora DT was quoted saying the following in the radio logs: - - [Common] Aurora DT crackles, "Ling in secx" - [Common] Jalen Unk asks, "LING SEX??" - [Common] Arcticus Cecropia flutters, "Ling in sex" - [Common] Frankie Hauberk says, "AWOOOGAAA" - [Common] Funfriend Medical Shell-22 queries, "Ling sex???"" [2026-08-21 00:40:16.007] PAPER: admiralgigatron/(Tanya Carie) wrote to paper: "haha you stink, old people. the future is now old man - - - [_____________________]" [2026-08-21 00:41:16.435] PAPER: thejohnsmith/(Malcolm Blackmore) wrote to paper: "**LING IN SECX** - *Commentaries on the August 21st Incident of 2566* - ___ - - ### A Brief Historical Note - - On the 21st of August, 2566, Space Station 13 suffered one of the more confusing multi-changeling assaults on record. Three separate changelings—operating independently rather than as a coordinated hive—infiltrated the station during a relatively quiet shift. Their presence was first publicly announced not by a carefully worded security alert, nor by a panicked cry of “Changelings in Security,” but by a single, slightly garbled radio transmission that would later become legendary among both survivors and historians of the Nanotrasen fleet. - - What follows is a reconstruction of the event, drawn from declassified radio logs, after-action reports, and the testimony of those who were present. - - ___ - - ### Chapter One: The Transmission - - At approximately 40:37 Shift Time/PT, Bitrunner Aurora DT, operating from the station’s network infrastructure, keyed into the common radio channel. The transmission that followed was short, urgent, and—through a combination of static, haste, and the peculiar acoustics of the station’s aging intercom system—catastrophically ambiguous. - - **[Common] Aurora DT** crackles, “Ling in secx” - - What Aurora DT intended was clear enough in retrospect: a warning that at least one changeling had been located inside the Security department (“sec”). What the crew heard, however, was something else entirely. - - Within seconds the channel erupted. - - **[Common] Jalen Unk** asks, “LING SEX??” - **[Common] Arcticus Cecropia** flutters, “Ling in sex” - **[Common] Frankie Hauberk** says, “AWOOOGAAA” - **[Common] Funfriend Medical Shell-22** queries, “Ling sex???” - - The phrase “Ling in secx” had, in the space of a single breath, mutated into “Ling sex.” The station’s collective imagination did the rest. - - ___ - - ### Chapter Two: Immediate Consequences - - Security officers already engaged with the first changeling found themselves suddenly answering frantic queries about the precise nature of the threat. Medical staff paused mid-surgery. Cargo technicians stopped stacking crates. Even the clown, for a brief and deeply unsettling moment, fell silent. - - The three changelings, for their part, appear to have been as confused as everyone else. One was later recovered from a maintenance tunnel muttering variations of the phrase. Another was found attempting to assume the form of a security officer while simultaneously trying to determine what “ling sex” might entail. The third simply fled into the chapel and refused to come out until the round ended. - - ___ - - ### Chapter Three: Aftermath and Legacy - - Official Nanotrasen after-action reports carefully omit the radio exchange, referring only to “a brief period of communications disruption.” Unofficial records tell a different story. For months afterward, the phrase “Ling in secx” appeared on bathroom walls, in graffiti on the arrivals shuttle, and once—inexplicably—on the Captain’s personal whiteboard. - - Bitrunner Aurora DT later clarified the original transmission in a formal statement. The clarification was widely ignored. - - To this day, veterans of that shift will, when the lights flicker or the airlocks cycle without command, lean into their headsets and murmur the same three words. Not as a warning. Not even as a joke. - - Simply as a reminder that, on Space Station 13, even the most urgent intelligence can be transformed by static, haste, and the human (or silicon) tendency to hear exactly what one least expects. - - ___ - - *Compiled from surviving radio logs and crew testimony* - *Central Command Historical Archives* - *2567*" [2026-08-21 00:43:49.731] PAPER: thejohnsmith/(Malcolm Blackmore) has printed "Ling in Secx" (id: 12302) by Malcolm Blackmore from a book management console. [2026-08-21 00:43:58.804] PAPER: thejohnsmith/(Malcolm Blackmore) has printed "Ling in Secx" (id: 12302) by Malcolm Blackmore from a book management console. [2026-08-21 00:44:16.759] PAPER: thejohnsmith/(Malcolm Blackmore) has printed "Ling in Secx" (id: 12302) by Malcolm Blackmore from a book management console. [2026-08-21 00:44:55.845] PAPER: thejohnsmith/(Malcolm Blackmore) has printed "Ling in Secx" (id: 12302) by Malcolm Blackmore from a book management console. [2026-08-21 00:45:09.122] PAPER: thejohnsmith/(Malcolm Blackmore) has printed "Ling in Secx" (id: 12302) by Malcolm Blackmore from a book management console.