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[cargojet]

Communications will be a building zone over the next few few weeks while we integrate the systems from the Scylla into a workable network. We'll be occupying a number of empty rooms on 001 in the meantime, at least until things get back to normal, although if things work out we may link the rooms into Comms anyway. Things got uncomfortable last month sleeping on the floor; I think we're all agreed on that one, at least.

[ Nathan rubs his chin, considering for once just leaving it there. But then it would get very Invasion of the Body Snatchers around here. ]

For those of you that have forgotten, we have a service every seventh day - that's tomorrow - in the chapel in the Oxygen Gardens. Anyone is welcome to speak, sing, pray or otherwise sit in silence. Practically any faith is welcome. No blood sacrifices though, huh? The gardens is also where we keep our memorial wall. If you have people you miss, and you want them to be remembered, come down and make sure they're there. There's also a book where you can leave messages to loved ones past and future. Give me a call if someone's missing.

Also I need to talk to someone with a mind for the ethics of artificial intelligence, regarding the line where something's sentient. They need to be patient and keep their temper, no matter how ignorant on the subject I am. I also need to know if anyone around here does ironwork. I'm in the market for a deadbolt, so that in an emergency I don't have to barricade the door to lock it from the inside.

If anyone has questions about the Tranquility, about how things work around here, or regarding what happened last month, I'm here to answer them for you. Orientation for those who want to join Comms is tomorrow, and yes, any help with setting up the new control room would be more than welcome. That's your lot. Petrelli out.

Comments

[lostkings]

Y'know, maybe the guy couldn't find any.

[testgasm]

didn't look hard enough i bet

[lostkings]

How much hunting around would've been good enough for you?

[testgasm]

well i mean my research laboratory was a little bit out of the way

but we were there

[lostkings]

Where was your lab?

[testgasm]

michigan

upper michigan to be specific

[lostkings]

Now there's a state I haven't gotten to spend nearly enough time in.

[testgasm]

don't worry you're not missing much

[lostkings]

But isn't that what everyone says?

I mean, I know everyone in Iowa says that, but out of all the places i've been, still haven't heard anyone say that i'm missing out on a whole new world of possibilites. Unless they want to sell me something.

[testgasm]

oh i wouldn't know

i mean aside from all the science things were pretty boring

[lostkings]

What kind of science-y things did you work on?

[testgasm]

oh lots

quantum tunnels that sort of thing

[lostkings]

I probably know less about quantum entanglement than I should, but that's just how it goes sometimes.

[testgasm]

i could show you if you want

[lostkings]

[ is this the point where he's supposed to get really terrified about the potential loss of his life? probably. ]

You know what? Why not. Not sure if I can say no to that one.

[testgasm]

yeah most people can't

the portal device is pretty impressive

[lostkings]

[ did you just. ]

The portal device? Portal to what?

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[testgasm]

[So there is this guy and he's slamming a really weird-looking white gun onto the table in front of the communicator.

Enjoy that.]

To...wherever? I mean, it's--it makes a tunnel, so you can put either end wherever you like, provided the surface can--can hold a portal.

video

[lostkings]

[ ..... awesome. that's just.... awesome. Peter requires a second to process, where he goes stone-cold and all linefacey, and then he gets over it. Or so he'd like to pretend. ]

Any side-effects to using it?

[testgasm]

Haha, well, uh. If you put a portal on the ceiling, and a portal on the floor, it's probably not going to end well for you if you step through it without the, ah. Proper equipment. But no side effects from the portals themselves, if that's what you mean.

[lostkings]

So I take it you've done extensive testing. Or at least enough to figure out that it works without ending in complete and utter atomic degradation.

[testgasm]

Oh! Yes. Extensive testing.

[Extensive

testing]

It's perfectly safe, as long as you use it correctly.

[lostkings]

[ ..... yeaaaaaaahhhhh. ]

And if they don't, you've gotta pay someone to clean up the mess they left behind.

[testgasm]

Okay, just--just don't look into the operational end of the device and have a little common sense, and you'll be fine. Here.

[With that, he leans into the communicator to make sure it stays upright, then backs up to reveal his room, the walls of which seem to be covered in some kind of white paint. He levels the gun-like device at one wall, pulls the trigger, and a glowing blue oval blossoms on the surface in a shower of sparks. Next, the orange on the opposite wall, and soon he's sticking his arm in the blue oval and waving through the orange one on the other side of the room.]

See? Perfectly safe.

[lostkings]

[ Well. Huh. Peter watches and doesn't really say much during the whole exhibit, but the eyebrow raising he does might give away his feelings when the guy's arm waves through the other side. He's gotten used to some astonishing things but... he's still never seen anything like that before. Which is concerning and fascinating all at once, considering what Peter has seen. ]

All right, you got me. I'm impressed.