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ataraxion2013-10-25 08:16 am
andblockbuster) wrote in ataraxion2013-10-25 08:16 am
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010; (VIDEO) forward-dated to late on the 25th
[What you are seeing is Topher. Topher looks a little like hell. Someone may or may not have been avoiding dealing with one of his empathy links for SCIENCE (the first one worked out fine- that's how he knows enough to figure this out, but the second one...) ... Also, it's possible he's been occupied running scans and trying to figure out if he's wrong, which... he's still not convinced he's not.]
I've been working.... [He pauses, plants a palm on his forehead, and sucks in a breath.] I've been working on a theory. It's not entirely sound yet, but I was trying to run through every logical possibility before entertaining the notion that it might actually be... that, and... no dice. None. And it was bad enough when it was just memories, but now- now. Oh, it's much worse.
Whatever this is, it's on a synaptic level- whatever one person feels, the other person feels too. Observe. [He picks up something sharp and pricks himself, which makes him hiss in pain.] Now someone out there felt that. That means that we are doing some serious groupthink weirdness without the whole "all of us are Borg" BS- SO FAR. Who knows what it'll be in a few weeks. Or days. And what was the last thing 90% of us experienced that involved groupthink? Anyone?
[YEAH, TOPHER'S HAVING A BAD DAY. HOW ARE YOU?] I think we might be in trouble.
[He rubs his face.] And is anyone who was fully assimilated on Strela even still around? 'Cause that'd be a start to maybe possibly proving me wrong. Or right. But let's err on the side of blind optimism and assume my fancy medical degrees in neurology mean nothing and I'm just talking out of my... bottom area. Whatever.
[Maybe you should deal with your link first, Topher. MAYBE. There's science to do, okay.]
I've been working.... [He pauses, plants a palm on his forehead, and sucks in a breath.] I've been working on a theory. It's not entirely sound yet, but I was trying to run through every logical possibility before entertaining the notion that it might actually be... that, and... no dice. None. And it was bad enough when it was just memories, but now- now. Oh, it's much worse.
Whatever this is, it's on a synaptic level- whatever one person feels, the other person feels too. Observe. [He picks up something sharp and pricks himself, which makes him hiss in pain.] Now someone out there felt that. That means that we are doing some serious groupthink weirdness without the whole "all of us are Borg" BS- SO FAR. Who knows what it'll be in a few weeks. Or days. And what was the last thing 90% of us experienced that involved groupthink? Anyone?
[YEAH, TOPHER'S HAVING A BAD DAY. HOW ARE YOU?] I think we might be in trouble.
[He rubs his face.] And is anyone who was fully assimilated on Strela even still around? 'Cause that'd be a start to maybe possibly proving me wrong. Or right. But let's err on the side of blind optimism and assume my fancy medical degrees in neurology mean nothing and I'm just talking out of my... bottom area. Whatever.
[Maybe you should deal with your link first, Topher. MAYBE. There's science to do, okay.]
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Whoah, whoah, lot of information there, but some of us need to go back a step or two. What's a Borg and a Strela?
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Can, uh... Sorry. What was the question?
[HE'S GONNA DIE. HE'S GONNA DIE SO HARD...]
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Uh... what's this about Strela and Borg? For those of us just joining.
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And really if it was Alpha, then how hadn't anything happened before now?
Still. He's wary.]
Uh... The Borg's a reference. Don't worry about it. Strela, on the other hand, was a space station we visited over a year ago where we were all almost assimilated into their creepy cultish hivemind.
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It's the best theory I've come up with so far.
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[He lives on a spaceship. He still fails to see how that is relevant.]
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Or was that Chinese. I have a hard time telling.
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[Slowly beginning to think you're not Alpha, dude. FINALLY...]
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One of the main languages when we went into space.
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Not to go off on a tangent, but did you get assaulted by a chick in covert ops gear on your first day here?
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[Wash gives him a puzzled look. What kind of question was that?]
Does that happen a lot?
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Still not making a terrible lot of sense here.
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