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thisavrou2016-04-01 10:02 pm
keelahselai) wrote in thisavrou2016-04-01 10:02 pm
video; 01/04
[It's basically the middle of the night cycle when you might notice - or be woken up by - the sound of the engines starting to fade down to almost nothing. Machinery usually powerful enough to reverberate - albeit very softly - throughout the ship goes still. It's just about completely silent when the MID broadcast goes out.
Tali's isn't a face - or mask, right now - that's seen on the network much, but here she is anyway. There's a slight air to her of having prepared this in her head.]
If you just noticed the engines shutting down, don't be alarmed. They're just in standby so I can do some maintenance. [Her eyes are only just visible as glowing points behind the opaque visor, but her whole head moves to pay attention to something below the MID - and there's the sound of her keying in commands one-handed.] I'd like to tell you it's routine maintenance, but tiny bots eating into the manifolds isn't routine in most places I've been.
It'll be done in a couple of hours. [...Pause.] I don't think I need to tell you that life support's still running... Do I?
[Well, she just did. She's about to sign off when--] Oh! Almost forgot.
I asked the captains a while back if I could start doing some research into the Ingress. How it works, what's wrong with it... Anything we can use, anything that might help us repair it, or...or something. [This is clearly not rehearsed.]
It'll be slower work on my own, so I'd really appreciate some help looking into it - and anybody who works with the Ingress probably knows it better than I do right now, too.
Let me know.
Tali's isn't a face - or mask, right now - that's seen on the network much, but here she is anyway. There's a slight air to her of having prepared this in her head.]
If you just noticed the engines shutting down, don't be alarmed. They're just in standby so I can do some maintenance. [Her eyes are only just visible as glowing points behind the opaque visor, but her whole head moves to pay attention to something below the MID - and there's the sound of her keying in commands one-handed.] I'd like to tell you it's routine maintenance, but tiny bots eating into the manifolds isn't routine in most places I've been.
It'll be done in a couple of hours. [...Pause.] I don't think I need to tell you that life support's still running... Do I?
[Well, she just did. She's about to sign off when--] Oh! Almost forgot.
I asked the captains a while back if I could start doing some research into the Ingress. How it works, what's wrong with it... Anything we can use, anything that might help us repair it, or...or something. [This is clearly not rehearsed.]
It'll be slower work on my own, so I'd really appreciate some help looking into it - and anybody who works with the Ingress probably knows it better than I do right now, too.
Let me know.
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Anyway, I'm not very good at taking it easy these days. I start thinking too much. [She's still keeping her voice light, like it's somehow gotten easy to laugh off her demons - then, suddenly:] Oh! Remember the ah, the Twinkies you left for me? I only got to eat them a few days ago.
They're the weirdest things I've ever eaten. [But she's laughing - not weird in a bad way.]
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Then try something fun instead of work. Taking it easy doesn't have to mean sitting around, doing nothing.
[Oh, the cakes. He'd forgotten he's sent her some. He smiles wide, laughing himself.]
Weird? I was hoping you'd like them. They're the best snack Earth has to offer.
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And because she's not about to tell Peter at this juncture that her idea of fun got incredibly boring, bordering on non-existent since she left home:] OK, Peter, what do you do when you're not working?
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[He laughs again, tossing his head back. He was hardly ever working.] Games. I play games. I have a few a friend left me. And I swim, listen to music, hang out. You know, fun stuff.
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[Tali totally knows fun! She had fun once.] Sometimes I'm not even sure I do know nowadays. I used to watch vids and mess around on the extranet a lot back home, but I've been gone so long I don't even have the withdrawal anymore. [She is truly of the modern generation.] I used to keep trying to check forums and vlogs and then remembering I wasn't connected anymore.
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Extranet? [Forums? Vlogs? Ugh, future stuff.] I don't know what you're talking about. But if you need something to do, you could always come to the lounge and watch the movies that are lying around.