experiment 001

[fotofoto]

Who: Honey Lemon and You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Caprine
When: Not too long after shuffle

Oooo, look at this communicator!

[ Hello, fleet! Have an enthusiastic blonde latina grinning and waving at you ]

Hi! Wow, this is so great, isn't this just fascinating? And these augments, they put information into your brain, does that mean they cracked the code of how to create specific impulses and connections between your neurons? It's amazing, I wish I could take it out and poke at it.

I wonder if it's electrically or chemically based.

[ ponder ]

Oh! Right, I completely forgot, hiiii! I'm new around here, and I just got so distracted by all this new information in my head and this new place we're in! I really should go home if I can, I know, but think of the learning opportunities!

Comments

[fotofoto]

Yes, they have. [ She's actually serious for a moment ] We've all been dragged away from our homes and had this place inflicted on us. And if I could do anything about that right now, I would.

Buuuuut I can't, so what good is getting angry going to do? I'd rather learn about the tech and this place so that maybe I can protect myself or someone else at some point.

[ Just because she's bubbly and optimistic doesn't mean she's stupid, obviously.

She shrugs, and beams at him ]

Anyway, Hiro and Tadashi are here, so I'm not alone. And we're not being attacked or anything. It could be so much worse!

[wolfuncaged]

Perhaps that is exactly what they want you to do. Become dependent on their own technology.

[He does not smile back. At all. ]

Yes. It could be so much worse.

[Nothing is ok after Exsilium. Nothing.]

[fotofoto]

[ she huffs a little ]

Well, you can continue being pessimistic and grumpy if you want, but I am going to learn as much as I can about where we are and the technology they have as I can, and I'm going to enjoy learning, because I'm a scientist and a student and I really do like it.

You should try it sometime. Enjoying learning, even in a bad situation. Maybe it'd cheer you up.

[wolfuncaged]

You can enjoy it all you like. It will likely spell your doom, but that is your choice.

I learn plenty without embracing the ways of this world, thank you very much. It will not cheer me up.

[fotofoto]

Wow, doom? Really, that's kind of... fatalistic, don't you think?

And anyway, I'm not "embracing the ways of this world", I'm using my skills and knowledge from my world to understand this one. There's a difference.

Not that I think the ways here are automatically bad, like you.

[wolfuncaged]

I am a very fatalistic person. [He says, in the most fatalistic tone possible.]

They kidnapped us. There is no good in such things.

[fotofoto]

I can kinda tell.

And they might've kidnapped us, but I can think of one good thing, and that's getting to see a friend I didn't think I'd ever have the chance to see again, so you can be depressing and pessimistic and I will try to find the good in this situation until I can find a way home.

[wolfuncaged]

You will likely return home with no memory, if this place works like the other I was taken to previously. So it will ultimately not matter. You will not remember seeing him again.

But if you wish to remain in denial, do not let me stop you.

[fotofoto]

So I'm supposed to not be glad that for a little while I can see him again? That's just silly, and not how friendship works.

You're absolutely infuriating, has anyone ever told you that?

[wolfuncaged]

You can be glad all you like, but be prepared for it to be torn away from you at any moment. Do not allow it to make you complacent.

Often. Yes.