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[stimulations]

[Guess who doesn't deal well with uncomfortable changes in his environment? This guy. Temper frayed to the last strand, it's time for a grumpy rant.]

Yes, it's bloody hot. We all know it's bloody hot. Considering the Agriculture staff are now stuck working in what's turned into the equivalent of the Australian rainforest, you don't have to keep coming and telling us.

I'd also appreciate a stop in the more direct complaints about it, please. I can't fix a problem if the ship isn't registering it as a problem. I've been checking the climate controls here & in engineering regularly since this started, and they are still cheerfully informing me that we're at a comfortable twenty degrees Celsius. And yes, I've gone through the system several times over. There are no errors.

[A pause, because maybe that was information he should have kept to himself. Or taken to one of the ship's more leader-type figures. Or just had a little more tact in sharing.

But then he decides he's just too overheated to summon up any care about it.]

I'm sure I should be taking that as unsettling, but I'm honestly too hot to summon up the energy to get spooked by it right now.

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[nightblogs]

i bet the ship has become sentient
this is some terminator shit
it wants to kill us through heat
our blood is gonna boil and were gonna melt into sweaty flubber puddles of goo
nelly didnt predict any of this in his song man :(

[stimulations]

I'm sure you meant for there to be some sense in there, but I'm truly not sure if I can be bothered to decipher it.

[nightblogs]

??
wat didnt u get
r u from the land of no tv too
because nelly used to be pretty hot on mtv (no pun intended)
so did terminator i guess

[stimulations]

I'm happy to go with that answer if it will save me from experiencing any more of your inability to use the full range of letters available to you on your keyboard.

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[redhotsummers]

Wish my powers were ice based instead of heat.

You want to go down to the pool later? It's still hot down there, but the water is still pretty cool.

[Or he's going to drag you out of there for a cold shower. Because Josias needs something to help him cool off.]

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[stimulations]

Between attempting to keep an eye on the overall temperature of the ship and trying to keep the crop beds from boiling, I'm not sure I'll have the time.

[Why is there no one else tech inclined in the agriculture staff: another complaint to add to the list.]

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[redhotsummers]

Damn.

Can I help at all? I mean, I don't know the technical stuff, but I can do some grunt work for you, so you can focus on other things.

[Whatever he could do, really.]

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[stimulations]

We have enough staff covering the general maintenance and harvesting. When they're not resting to prevent heat exhaustion.

It's fine, Alex, really. And I'm hardly the best company right now.

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[needsheadphones]

australian specifically?

it is quite happy to make it look like we're wasting our time, isn't it? funny little thing.

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[stimulations]

It was the first one to come to mind. I'm hardly in the mood for picking at word choice. You know, due to the "funny little thing".

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[needsheadphones]

well everything there does try to kill people and i've heard this ship is like that. totally works.

is everyone usually this happy to just complain? because i am pretty sure i almost tried to slap a teenage boy through my space phone for it and i'm usually pretty relaxed.

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[stimulations]

If I were in a more forgiving mood I might explain something about how it's the only outlet for the frustration of being unable to control anything that we go through here.

But I'm not feeling particularly forgiving. Though I prefer simply walking away over slapping anyone.

[deagle]

I take it the ship doesn't normally throw you inexplicable curveballs.

[ except, from what chris has read/heard, that's all it does. ]

[stimulations]

Oh, no, please don't get the wrong impression. It's always pulling some new bit of nonsense. It's just near to impossible to build up any tolerance to it beyond the acceptance that yes, yet again something ridiculous and slightly terrifying is happening.

[deagle]

A little heat isn't all that terrifying.

...Don't feel obligated to elaborate on what ship malfunction have been.

[stimulations]

A little heat? Have you never heard of heat exhaustion? Dehydration? We have no idea what's causing this and therefore no idea when or even if it might stop.

Perhaps you prefer to save 'terrifying' for more present threats, but I'm afraid I believe the possibility of slowly being cooked alive deserves the word just as much.

[mansuetus]

it did the opposite once, I remember. A little after my arrival it was so cold I could barely breathe.

[stimulations]

That was when the power failed, I believe. At least if that happened we'd have some idea of a cause, and a previous course of action to fall back on. Though perhaps we will still receive something creepy again after a few days.

[mansuetus]

the ship presents us with many challenges, it would seem. perhaps the one who smiles knows the answer.

[conspiracytheory]

People love complaining. Till someone fixes it, it's all we're gonna hear about.

[stimulations]

Till someone fixes it, they can bloody well take their complaints elsewhere.

[conspiracytheory]

We gotta make a sign, man. Put it on the outside of Engineering or whatever.

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[mathematically]

I would have gone for Amazon, but Australian works just as well.

It could just be the instruments being off. Which is— less unsettling and more annoying than anything else.

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[stimulations]

I'm so glad you approve of my choice in rainforests.

I would know if the 'instruments' were off. Which there are none of, by the way. That isn't how the systems work here. We're not a weather station.

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[mathematically]

Does the heat always make you this testy or was it everyone whining that finally did you in?

The entire system isn't broken, or else we'd be dead, right? Which means something in the massive mess everything is here has to be sending the wrong signal to everything saying it's completely fine when it's not.