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[notzubats]

Who: Sora
Broadcast: Video
Action: SS Golden
When: Today?

[The broadcast opens up with Sora who looks like he's sitting on the cargo bay floor of the Golden, surrounded with a few cleaning droids. When he speaks, he seems awfully cheerful]

You know, it occurs to me that I've almost been here two months- and I haven't really said hi to everybody!

So...Hiya! [He gives a wave to the camera] I'm Sora! I'm the maintenance guy on the SS Golden! Nice to meetcha all! Even if we've...already met!

[Yeah!]

Which, speaking of maintenance...! [He rubs the back of his neck] Ha, I'm pretty new at the job, so I was wondering if anyone knew, just out of curiosity...

What do you do when the smoke detector's smoking?

[Oops]

Comments

[huaaaaagh]

[oh dear.]

...Need an engineer?

[notzubats]

Well, I dunno. Dezel and Pinkie brought up good points, so I'm thinking of throwing it out the airlock!

[huaaaaagh]

[OH DEAR]

You realize that if you do that, your ship won't have a smoke detector anymore, right?

[notzubats]

Yeah, but I'll find a replacement!

In the meantime, one of my crewmates is really good at picking up things like smoke.

[huaaaaagh]

Really. You're going to stake your life on maybe finding a replacement and maybe that particular crewmate staying on board any time you might have a fire.

[notzubats]

Hey, I trust Dezel. He's gruff, but I know he wouldn't let us burn.

I mean, unless you a better idea Kirito.

[huaaaaagh]

Like I said, an engineer. It's probably not that hard to fix.

[notzubats]

Yeah?

Oh that's right, you build robots, don't you? Do you think you could fix it?

[huaaaaagh]

Only if you don't throw it out the airlock.

[notzubats]

Okay, okay- I get it. I won't throw it out.

[huaaaaagh]

Good.

[What a total waste of perfectly good electronics!]

I'll get my tools and swing by soon. Whether it's fixable or not, we can at least salvage something out of it.

[notzubats]

Okay. I'll be here.

Thanks Kirito.

[huaaaaagh]

S'what engineers are for, I assume.

[He'll be along within the hour, either way. Who wouldn't want to take stuff apart, right!?]

[notzubats]

Yeah. Too bad the Golden doesn't have one.

[huaaaaagh]

Well, consider this an open invitation to have one on lease.