[Video] Sam, Stop Being High Maintenance

[namisan]

Who:  Nami and anyone
Broadcast:  Fleetwide
Action:  SS Bloodsport
When:  24th Feb

[Well, it's been two days.  Pretty sure she can rule out roofies by this point, and other potential illnesses given nothing changes.  Pulse is still fine, breathing's regular, all that jazz.  That leaves one likely possibility she can think of, given they've already proven Fleet passengers can be turned on and off at will.

Which irritates her.  But who knows.  Maybe the space orgy was just too much for their delicate viewers.  HAH.]

Hey, so question.  I know the augments are known to malfunction sometimes.  What kind of malfunctions are we talking about?  Have they ever... dropped anyone into a coma without warning?

...is there any way of countering it, if so?

[She bets this question has probably been asked a million times, but she can't find anything recent.  Save her some reading material, guys.]

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[grounds]

[Octavia's face pops on the feed, brows furrowed, partly curious, partly concerned.]

Did something happen to someone?

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[namisan]

[Oh hey, familiar face. If only because Nami spent a lot of time snickering at all the shit Sam copped over his recent adventures in space sex, ahaha.]

Yeah. One of my friends passed out two days ago, and he hasn't woken up again. He's not getting worse or anything, just... dead to the world.

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[grounds]

[She subconsciously reaches her hand to the back of her neck, feeling it lightly.]

No signs before that anything was weird?

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[namisan]

Well, he was drinking. But it was his first drink for the night, and nobody else had any problems. He kinda just... fell off his chair, mid-speech.

[Kind of glad he fell without his glass in tow, all things considered.]

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[grounds]

That sounds even weirder to me. [Someone's feeling a little uneasy.]

Hey, let me know if he wakes up or something soon okay?

I'm Octavia, by the way.

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[bigvessel]

[Well. That is definitely disturbing news. He might look like he wants to punch someone.]

Wait. They haven't worked out the kinks in this shit they've shoved in our heads?

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[namisan]

[Wow, they're slacking on telling the new people this stuff, then.]

It's electronic in nature. I guess it's just as prone to the possibility of shorting out as anything else on your ship. [Sorry to be the bearer of bad news and all. She can't even say it's rare, because--] When I first got here, the whole fleet had just been through a nebula and a whole bunch of different systems were glitching. Including augments.

I haven't heard of anything since then, if it helps. [At all.]

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[bigvessel]

Oh good. We've got the Apple of augments in our heads. That's just-just great.

So people just get an electrical shortage and go comatose? That's a thing?

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[namisan]

I don't know, that's what I'm trying to find out. [She's a little short, because you know, comatose friends and all.] I've got a friend down for the count, but he's not sick and he's not injured. The augments seemed like the next thing.

...also I don't get that reference. What's wrong with apples?

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[bigvessel]

[Oh right. There was some purpose to this other than informing him of the second-rate crap they have rolling around in their skulls. But he sure as hell doesn't have an answer to any of that.]

So, what kind of malfunctions are you aware of?

And Apple, the-the brand...They make cellphones...comm devices...and they glitch all the damn time. Dropped calls. Accidental face-time. That sort of thing.

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[killedwithlove]

[There's no face, just the ceiling of a cockpit, probably.]

Varric once went to sleep for a month. I don't know why, but he didn't get sick or anything.

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[namisan]

[Huh. He did? At least there's precedent for it, but is it the same thing?

...a month? Jesus, Sam.]

Nothing changed? Nothing to indicate he'd come into contact with anything weird, or... [Well, he said he didn't know, so.] Thanks, Cole. At least I know it's happened before.

[killedwithlove]

Nooo... he just went to sleep and didn't wake up. Other people have done it, I hear them talk about it.

Sometimes, they wake up with new memories. Updating.

[Don't mind that fourth wall there. Cole gives a peek behind it sometimes.]

[namisan]

Updating...?

[Wait what-- she has no idea what that means. New memories?] Fabricated ones? Or something they've forgotten?

[Updating. Future memories? That shouldn't be right, there'd be changes surely--]

[killedwithlove]

New memories. They... remember living. In their world. Longer. Beyond the moment they left.

[He peeks into the camera, upside down.]

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[notmutantbutmiracle]

The glitches... some are more extreme than others.

As for how to counter them, everyone is looking for the answer to that question, but I do not think anyone has made much progress yet.

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[namisan]

No, I'd gathered as much.

What kind of extreme glitches are you talking about?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda pauses for a moment, looking very serious and even a little ashamed. Even a few months later, it was still hard for her to talk about what had happened to her.]

Nightmares. Sleep deprivation. Headaches...

[There clearly seems to be more that Wanda is not saying.]

[namisan]

[...speaking from personal experience, this girl is. Nami watches her over the feed for a moment, and her smile is rueful.]

That all sounds like a pain in the ass. I hope it was temporary.

[If there is more, she's not sure she has the right to demand more information. Not from someone who's had such issues.]

[notmutantbutmiracle]

It was, mercifully. But the memories of it all... they linger.

[Again, she doesn't sound so much haunted, as she does guilty or perhaps ashamed of something.]

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[stefanged]

Off the top of my head, we're usually talking things like the common cold and mood swings.

[Stefan's suddenly glad that he's kept a daily diary since he arrived, because it means he can answer this with the utmost confidence. Well, kind of. Even he hasn't seen everything the augments were capable of.]

Is the person alright? Other than suddenly being in a coma?

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[namisan]

Yeah, that's all I'd heard of, too.

[Comas weren't on the list, though, so...] Ah-- yeah. He just... fell. And now it's like he's sleeping and won't wake up. Nothing else has changed.

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[stefanged]

Hm. [That doesn't sound good.] That's definitely augment-related.

Do you want me to take a look? Or do you already have a lab tech where you are?

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[namisan]

There's a lab tech on his ship, yeah, though I haven't met him. I assume he's taken a look. My friend's on the Red Fish and I'm on the Bloodsport.

[She smiles a little.] So I guess it'd probably be rude to invite you onto someone else's ship. But I appreciate the offer.

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[stefanged]

Don't worry about it. Not every ship has a med bay, so I figured I'd ask. [Just in case.]

I wish I could help more, but we haven't had many of those. Unless you count the fact that one of my crew went missing for like a solid month.