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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    It began with an alert in his email inbox- somebody had altered some code he wrote.
    Not a particularly unusual notification for Grant to get, considering he had been a computer scientist for more than three decades. It was slightly more unusual, however, considering the notification said that the code had been modified by Grant himself- something he had definitely not done- and also considering the system being altered had been shut down more than eighteen years ago.

    From: C&A - LOCAL [HQ]
    ALERT !
    [1337 /usr/ai/agent/caine] DELETED.

    ...What the hell.

    Or: Six people have been living their normal lives, entirely unaware of the copies of their consciousness trapped in a brightly-coloured digital hellscape. That is, at least, until said copies escape the Circus, and six people wake up with both sets of memories, determined that the family they formed in a very different reality is one they will find again.

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    07 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    She’s gone. Kinger tries to grasp reality. It’s hard. he’s the last one left in the digital prison, grieving someone he can't even remember.

     

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    Kinger starts to descend into madness being all alone and Caine does NOT know what to do. Like at all.

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    07 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    He can't remember how to build a pillow fort. He can't remember a lot of things, it seems.

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    07 May 2026

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    “Friend Grace, question?”

    Rocky’s melodious voice is quiet, uncertain.

    He probably can’t tell if I’m awake or asleep.

    And, honestly, neither can I. The hallucinations and psychosis are almost impossible for me to decipher from reality. Rocky might not even be here at all.

    Just in case, I offer a weak hum. Just in case Rocky is here. Just in case I’m not dead.

    Am I dead?

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    25 Apr 2026

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    The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).

    Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.

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    25 Apr 2026

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    Sometimes I'd forget

     

    Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.

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    Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors

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    25 Apr 2026

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    The people of Erid understand discoveries and science can take time, but there is only so much hope they can grasp onto after so many years. There are only so many prayers to be said and only so many scenarios that can be dreamed.

    They are expecting a dejected crew -if anyone returns at all, not an alien ship and an even more alien person, supported by the only Eridian survivor, an antisocial engineer who knows nothing but facts and how to make anything he wants tick.

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    25 Apr 2026

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    8 months after Grace and Rocky arrive on Erid, Adrian and Grace have an important talk. Without Rocky.

    That’s on purpose.

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    25 Apr 2026

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    On their way to Erid, Rocky has to encourage Grace to eat instead of rationing his food so much. Grace is not looking good.

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    25 Apr 2026

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    Everything was too soft. I wanted pressure. The last time I'd felt that had been when I'd been squeezed in between my chair and the monitors, and that hadn't exactly been pleasant. I wanted someone, on purpose, to press against my skin and muscle, and I wanted to feel it.

    Just the thought of it made me want to weep.

    God, I was pathetic.

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    Grace gets a hug (after being very dramatic about it.)

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Grace and Rocky arrive at Erid. Grace is starving, sick, and trying his darndest to make a good impression. The Eridians are equally curious and concerned for their new alien friend.

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    24 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 63

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    Grace knew slowly starving to death was gonna suck, but man was this lamer than he’d anticipated…

    My first fanfic! Ever! Please be nice to me I’m learning :,)

    This may not be 100% accurate since Andy Weir is so goated when it comes to realistic world building and I am not science brained enough to understand half of what he writes. I’m mainly basing things off the book but Rocky and Grace act more like they do in the movie in my interpretation. I kinda just rolled with it from there. Also, I haven’t researched a ton into human starvation so some of the info may not be super accurate, but hey I can always change it later if not! (I think… Idk man I’ve never posted anything here before). Anyways, I hope you enjoy! Apologies in advance for subjecting you to my ADD fueled angst brain, but at least we can suffer together! :D

    And no, he doesn’t die! Though he may wish he had at some point…

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Grace starves on his way to Erid.

    All Rocky can do is make him comfortable when he goes.

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    24 Apr 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 86

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    In this moment, from the second Marissa had told me during that fateful dinner about the Petrova line, the return of the ArcLight probe from Venus, through the whole Petrova task force, Stratts betrayal, the horrific first moments on the Hail Mary. Nearly dying a hundred times both from the planet Adrian and general space travel, my choice of saving Rocky instead of myself, abandoning all hope from ever seeing Earth again. Getting here half starved, working out how to survive a landscape that was inherently inhospitable for me, but right now. It was so fucking worth it.

    The weight receded and I lunged after a breath, only to heave out more sobs, oh god i felt pathetic, and happy and everything. I couldn't talk, I couldn't breathe. All my grief, all my decisions, everything that led to this moment. “We did it Grace,” I heard Rocky, who was still half curled around me, “we saved Erid!”

    They had a future.

    And that meant that it was legitimate and unfaltering hope that Sol would be saved and Earth too. And that made me sob even harder.

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    The story of Ryland Grace’s stay on Erid and how to become an Eridian (as a human)

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Grace thought choosing Rocky over home was the easiest decision he ever made.

    Coming back to Earth is harder.

    As old memories resurface and the people around them begin to question the bond that kept them alive, Grace and Rocky find themselves fighting for something neither of them has ever had before: a future.

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    24 Apr 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 31

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    When I first woke up, I couldn’t see anything. It took several long seconds to realize that the reason I couldn’t see wasn’t because I’d gone blind, but because there was a black bag on my head.
    Which. Was not reassuring.
    While starving to death on Erid, Grace remembers some things that he’d really rather forget.

    BTHB: captivity

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    24 Apr 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 31

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    The Hail Mary was always intended to be a one-way trip. Grace should have known that fate was going to fight to keep it that way. Saving Rocky meant more to him than going back to Earth, only now his survival has a far shorter clock. Starving and suffering, Grace and Rocky have to figure out how to keep each other alive long enough to save Erid.

    Or, the long trip to get to Erid, and all the pain that comes with it.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    ‘The irony of finding it near impossible to warm himself up on a planet whose boiling temperatures would kill him the moment he stepped outside wasn’t lost on him. Heck, he had thrown out a joke about it to Rocky during one of his many visits to the ailing human soon after he was first moved into his biodome.

    Of course, Rocky didn’t find it funny. Not that Grace could necessarily blame him.’

     

    Or: Rocky visits Grace in his biodome as he continues to recover from his brush with severe malnutrition following their arrival to Erid.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    The elevator's receiver array picks up a garbage signal beamed in from deep space. No matter their attempts, Eridian scientists cannot make top or bottom of it. A misfire, or an echo of that long lost crew's final transmission, most likely. It is recorded, but never publicized.

    And then it happens again.

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    24 Apr 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 32

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    The journey to Erid will take approximately three years in Earth time. Rocky is determined to get both Grace and himself there, safe and sound. No matter what.

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    24 Apr 2026

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