☠ 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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[choppinurdogz]

[...can't even pretend to know what's going on]

Hurm.

[beforearcadia]

[beat.]

Huh?

[choppinurdogz]

Never heard computer make sound like that before.

[beforearcadia]

Never been abducted into a ship that had a computer that made that sound before, but that's just me.

[cleaningkosmos]

What did you do to it? Really - you have your own ship, but you can't manage a computer?

[beforearcadia]

Hey. My ship doesn't have a setting called "hostile voice mode", alright?

[beat. muttering:]

I navigate, I strategize, I fight, but I don't sit in front of a computer panel all day.

[cleaningkosmos]

Well, if you can't fix something so simple, maybe you should.

[beforearcadia]

Hey, now, I--[fFFF. slightly exasperated:] How's something with buttons labelled with...[audible shrug.] I don't even know what those are...How's that simple?

[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.

[sneaksinbed]

Sounds useless.

[beforearcadia]

That's what I figured at first, but then I remember the aliens a couple levels below, and I wonder if there's more to this than I think.

[sneaksinbed]

Did you not get a fish.

[beforearcadia]

...Pardon?