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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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[And because she hasn't seen him in... Well, a while.] How've you been doing, by the way? It doesn't seem like more than a few days to me, but I haven't seen you in over a month.
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Oh, I'm, um, good, I guess. It's been-
[ He started to say 'normal' and stopped himself. He hated that he had started thinking of life on the ship as normal.]
Everything's fine. We have a new roommate now, I guess. Actually we should probably talk tomorrow instead. I don't want to wake him up. If it were just Peridot it wouldn't be a problem.
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That's fine, though. We should meet up for some more lessons anyway. I have a couple of ideas for things we could do.
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But that would be great. I'll, uh, I'll message you about it later! I'm going to go back to bed, but good luck with the engines.
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Thanks, though - and I'll talk to you later on. Have a good night.