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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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[stimulations]

And now you've gone and jinxed us. Thank you.

[deagle]

That's a little superstitious for being on a spaceship.

I'll be sure to knock on wood if I pass by any.

[stimulations]

If everything here obeyed the laws of science, I would agree with you. However, very little of it does, and in that I will willingly let myself fall to a little superstition, if only to make it slightly easier to soothe myself to sleep at night.

And there's plenty of wood down here. Trees, they're wonderful things.

[deagle]

I'm going to have to agree with that approach. Though you might the first science-type to ever say that.

[ though honestly most of chris' life is superstitions come to life so it's hardly a stretch for him. ]

I'll take my chances where it feels a bit less like swamp.

[stimulations]

I prefer to mush my sciences together. Hard and soft. Gives a better view of the world overall, I've found.

[deagle]

Probably best, all things considered.

Though this whole place is starting to feel like more science than fiction the longer I'm here.