☠ 2. voice

[beforearcadia]

Apologies, room three-eight. The violent hacking's coming from this computer. The...language settings changed while I was clicking around, I think. Not exactly sure how coughing would translate well into conversation, but...

[more to himself:] So, last thing I tried was that...And before then was--[a sputtering cough, like an old person with

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[astrum_matris]

That doesn't sound good at all.

[beforearcadia]

Eh. Could be worse.

[astrum_matris]

Is it going to be okay, though? It sounds like it's very sick...

[beforearcadia]

Sick? No. It's not really ill. It was just a setting I stumbled across. Nobody's dying--as far as I know.

[astrum_matris]

...Oh, I see. Well, that's good to hear.

But that's a rather odd setting for a computer to have, isn't it?

[beforearcadia]

As far as my experience goes, but I'm not very on top of what's new in this sort of thing. I figured people turning into penguins was odd, but I'm hearing this stuff happens a lot around here, yeah?

[astrum_matris]

I'm afraid I wouldn't know about that. I've only been here for a few weeks, myself. But the penguin experience was certainly quite interesting.

[beforearcadia]

I seem to have stumbled in just at the...ah, tail-end of that little incident. What the hell was that about, anyway?

[astrum_matris]

Hm, I'm not entirely sure. From what I've gathered so far, however, it seems we recently jumped to a moon, but during the process something went wrong with the device powering the engines of the ship.

...And everything became rather reminiscent of a polar icecap.

[beforearcadia]

[beat.]

Now, I'm not much of an engineer, but...I can't think of any reason for a space-jump drive to turn a ship's interior into a zoo.

[astrum_matris]

Hm, I wouldn't think it's so far-fetched, myself. Not all energy generators work like they should.

But I hear tell there is a device here called an Infinite Improbability Drive. This thing seems to work off of measurements of improbability in relation to any given thing or concept...quite amazing, actually. But it would seem such a thing could easily go wrong.

[beforearcadia]

...Huh. That's something new. Where'd you hear about this?

[astrum_matris]

Someone found a book about it and posted an excerpt sometime back. Ah...I believe it could be found here.

The concept is incredible, really. To harness the mass that is improbability itself...I still find it quite strange that no one else ever thought of it before.

[beforearcadia]

Rather, it's more incredible somebody figured out how. Wrapping your brain around things that are probable is a task enough half the time.

[astrum_matris]

It would require some suspension of disbelief, yes. It would take a very open-minded individual to concieve such a concept.

I still wonder whether this form of energy could applied to other ships somehow...

[beforearcadia]

If other crews would want it, hah.