[.002 -- VIDEO//SPAM]

[systmadmin]

 ((Rageee, LJ won't let me upload pictures.  Here's one in here instead:))

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[strangehstorian]

Hello, sir. My name is Chromie, I'm a warden. This is a flood, and I'm afraid it can't be undone at the present time. It'll wear off in a few days.

[systmadmin]

[There's a lengthy pause.]

So I'm forced to spend the next few days like this.

[Then his tone sounds puzzled, if not slightly disconcerted.]

...What am I, exactly?

[strangehstorian]

Yes. It's inconvenient, but we've had worse. I think you're a fox. Or a wolf, perhaps, I don't know if foxes can be black. I might not be the exact person to ask, I've never been good with animals.

[systmadmin]

Ahh. [Fox or wolf. CLU can recognize the User terms on a superficial level, but the labels are mostly meaningless to a computer program with no prior experience with animals.]

Incredibly inconvenient. [And what can be worse--or more irritating--than being small and fluffy and unable to properly use his hands.] What have other floods done to make them worse?

[strangehstorian]

Well, I for one am always relieved when a flood seems to leave us with our minds and memories intact. Such is not always the case.

[systmadmin]

Sounds unfortunate [and not something to look forward to at all].

Is this flood type common?

[strangehstorian]

Which?

As far as I can tell, we have been turned into animals before, but I hadn't arrived then. We have also had several floods that effected either mind or body just in the time I've been here.

[systmadmin]

[Another long pause; then the calm attitude has dropped somewhat, and there's an edge to his tone.]

Are these floods, these anomalies, not preventable?

[strangehstorian]

I've made attempts, but it doesn't seem as though they are. It's ...extremely frustrating.

[systmadmin]

Hm. What did you attempt? [And what could CLU conceivably do different.]

[strangehstorian]

Temporal isolation. It's a bit difficult to describe.

[systmadmin]

I'm willing to listen.

[strangehstorian]

Normally both organiforms and mechaniforms exist in a linear four-dimensional space - or we assume and perceive it to be four dimensions, in reality there may be more - but can only travel back and forth in three of the axes, the fourth being time. Since floods seem to subscribe to the same such concept, having a definite "beginning" and "end" points in the fourth dimension, one would think that you could not only move forward on the fourth axis to predict the floods, but could also circumvent the period of four-dimensional space they occupy altogether. There are spells that would allow for such at home but here the it isn't allowing me to.

It's very frustrating.

[systmadmin]

Aha. [He sounds intrigued.] Do you have an idea why it isn't allowing you to?

And yes. This incident, itself, is bad enough as it is.