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[wallcrawler]

Who: Peter Parker
Broadcast: Video
Action: SS Huntress
When: Now!

[Good evening flooters, have a clearly distressed yet refreshingly well-rested teenager looking anxiously at the network for some sort of reassurance.]

So, is it normal for people to just black out around here? Last thing I remember, we were all stuck on that big welcome ship.

I mean, I know occasionally people go to sleep for a while, but don't they come back feeling like they spent a bunch of time back home? I've got squat.

[You know, aside from the lingering embarrassment and a strong desire to forget that people were in his head.]

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[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

I couldn't tell you if it was normal or not I'm afraid but it's been a little time since Calibrations. I'm sorry you didn't get a glimpse of home while you were out?

[video]

[wallcrawler]

That's what they're called? Why? What are they calibrating?

[He doesn't actually expect Tim to have the answers here, but, well...intentionally or not Tim sort of laid a mystery at his feet, so now it's going to be bugging him forever.]

You think it's some way for them to keep the augments in check? I mean, sure, they let us do our assigned jobs, but I've seen a few glitch out and do some preeeetty weird things. Though maybe we've just been assuming they're glitches this whole time...

[This might go on for a while, judging by how Pete's up and pacing around his bunk trying to talk himself through this. Even though there's absolutely no chance he'll be able to figure anything out- he's got an inquisitive mind, but lacks the sort of experience and know-how to actually puzzle something like this out.]

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[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim actually waits and lets Peter rant and wind himself down a little

I'm sorry, I don't have answers for you. The idea that it's to do with the augments is a good idea but I feel like perhaps there's a lot that we learn and assume and nothing we actually know.

I hate the idea that these things might be glitching in our head. I mean they're attached to our brains. That's really dangerous.

[wallcrawler]

It's not just our brains. Or at least, that by itself wouldn't explain some of the things they do. One of our pilots had his act up a while back, and whenever he got wet it turned him into a mermaid. Er, merman, I guess.

Some people have even gotten aged back a few years. Some of them many years. I know it sounds weird, but waking up to find somebody in the Fleet's going through grade school again's not as unlikely as you'd think.

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

But do we know if that was done through the augments or simply an ability these Atroma have? There's so much that we just don't know. Even the things we're told, we can't be sure if they're true or not or simply theories passed down from other fleeters that have now been taken as fact.