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[dontfeedplants]

Who: Seymour and YOU
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Red Fish
When: Late April (sorry for the late...)

[The feed opens on Seymour, obviously struggling to get the communicator to work. It takes him a few good seconds to realize he's live, and he looks a little sheepish as he speaks.]

Um, hey everyone, I have a question. So I was on one of those asteroids the other day, and I think I was talking to myself about something, I dunno. But people kept giving me money and I heard them saying that I was singing? But I wasn't singing at all.

Does singing mean something else down there? I would have just shrugged it off as someone being drunk if it was just one person, but at least five people came up to me just today.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy I have more money now, but I'm kinda freaking out about this.

...I really hope this thing is working right…

((OOC: Anyone who's been around him enough, especially though who are crew members of the Red Fish, should notice that Seymour does in fact break into song when he's talking to himself.))

Comments

[morphitudinous]

From what I've heard, there's a range of effects. People have gained and lost abilities, years of their lives, spoken language, memories...

[He shudders. That's his least favorite possibility.]

The sponsors should increase your pay for that, at the least.

[dontfeedplants]

Why didn't anyone tell me this earlier?

[Wait, what about his pay?]

... Wait, I can just ask for a raise, just like that?

[He says as if money for compensation is an unusual thing to do.]

[morphitudinous]

Well...it doesn't work like that, I don't believe, but you're paid more whenever you're more entertaining to the audience. And I believe singing counts as entertainment.

[dontfeedplants]

Oh. [That's more understandable.] I guess I can get more money at least, but I still wish there was some way to get them to get rid of... this thing.

[Points to his implant, but he just means the singing thing.]

[morphitudinous]

From what I've researched...unusual effects like that are sometimes permanent, but just as often not. You might be free of it soon enough.

[dontfeedplants]

"Permanent"?!

[Billy that's not comforting at all!]

I could just... randomly sing for the rest of my life and not even be aware of it?

[morphitudinous]

It's possible...at least, until we find a way to reverse it. Whatever the Atroma's done can be undone with the proper knowledge, it has to be. It just might take a lot to do that research.

[dontfeedplants]

[Sighs.]

I guess I can wait at least. Are you sure this doesn't bug you?

[morphitudinous]

No, it's not your fault. And it benefits us all to help each other, doesn't it?

[dontfeedplants]

[He sighs.]

You're right. I should stop feeling sorry for myself. If it really bugged you guys, I'm sure you would have brought it up before I did, right?