Video 01

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and anyone
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Marvisa
When: Now until the next shuffle?

[Cole doesn't usually sleep, so waking up is very unfamiliar. He doesn't usually feel the cold or heat much, so the deep coldness in his bones is alien.

He jerks upright with a gasp, hands scrabbling at the back of his neck and then he vanishes in a puff of black-green smoke and reappears in the corner of the room, pressing himself back into it, staring around with wide eyes.]

Whispering, watchful, wakeful, wondering, where?

[He then spends a while patting things around him like the floor and wall, whispering under his breath.

In all honesty, he'll stay in that room until someone convinces him to leave and go elsewhere. It's not like he has to leave for any reason.]

Comments

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Ah. That I can understand.

[he will let you have this one, weird little spirit buddy.]

[killedwithlove]

Personnel Augment has told me a lot of things I know now. That's good. That's good, right?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

That's very good. What it's taught you are things you'll need to know to survive out here, and not put your crew in danger.

Though it malfunctioned once, for many people, so it's not wrong to also be a little cautious.

[killedwithlove]

... I don't understand.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Which part?

[killedwithlove]

Malfunction. What that... how does Personnel Augment do that?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Well, according to the people who speak to us for Atroma... These ships passed through some kind of a field that upset the way the augments communicate with our brains and bodies. So, some people were acting very strangely because their augment was adjusting things in them it doesn't normally touch.

It was fixed for everyone, but it may happen again someday.

[killedwithlove]

[Cole stares, clearly listening and not understanding what he means.]

All right.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[...a soft sigh.]

You'll get it eventually, Cole.

[killedwithlove]

All right, I believe you.