tushanshu | PILOT'S LOG 1.01 ✈ VIDEO; console

[ The feed opens with Stork tapping one long green finger on the screen, looking a bit sheepish. He's not unfamiliar with the level of technology here, just the specifics. In the background, a public cafe and several irate looking kedan glaring at the Merb's back. In the foreground, some telltale purple bio-mechanical goop. ]

So... note to self: don't try dismantling these things, they melt like a bad batch of Globs. I, uh, I'm probably going to have to pay for that other one, aren't I? I've probably contracted Raztorian poisoning already. Only a matter of time before I start going blind in one eye...

Can someone tell me what passes for a crystal depot around? Someone mentioned the Earth Sector, but when I showed them the Cinder crystal I had on me, they said they'd never seen anything like it.

[ He turns his head to look over his shoulder, not at the kedan but upward, to the sky; the metal earrings move as he flicks one long ear, listening for something while looking uneasy. ]

Is the sky always this quiet here? I don't like not being able to hear even a single airship. If there's going to be a cataclysmic blast cloud coming to wipe us all out, I'd like some time to get a fresh copy of my will prepared.

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I made a few... juulan, was it? By selling some mobio-toys I put together, but it doesn't look like there's much need for a carrier pilot here, given there aren't any airships.

[ Excuse him, he's grumping. What kind of respectable civilization dosen't have airships, gosh. ]

And to build much else, I need tools.

[the same one that doesn't have decent energy generation in the first place, to say nothing of things he used to take for granted. LIKE STEEL.]

We made landfall not to long ago and were able to trade for better supplies. If you can't find what you need, let me know; I may have some I can loan to you.

[ They should commiserate over the lack of good building supplies. ]

Of course I'd miss that. [ heaving a most dramatic groan ] My terra for a polyvalence charger! ... but I'd take a decent set of torque wrenches right now.

Wait, what's your name?

[bonding through kvetching. the old standby. but he smiles, anyway.]

Robert Callaghan. And yours?

I'm Stork -- nice to meet you, assuming you're not carrying any types of infectious fungi.

[ Merb greetings, what. ]

[okay, at that? he laughs a bit, he can't help himself]

Not that I've noticed, Stork, but I doubt anything could carry over these consoles.

Oh, you wouldn't be laughing if you caught a case of Metallungia. It's a spore that requires low-level frequency as its food source.

If it infects you, it alters the chemical composition of your hemoglobin. It grows in mold on old or dirty ship instruments, like a timepulse beacon.

That's why I always take apart and clean the one on the Condor twice a month.

I'd probably be fascinated, if I wasn't busy being in pain, I presume. We don't have anything like it in San Fransokyo, which is where I'm from.

Things are different here- a lot of what you take for granted is probably scarce at best. On the other hand, things like Metallungia may well be nonexistent.

That doesn't mean there aren't a thousand other possible conta--

Wait.

I could write a infectious diseases book!

[ Look at how happy you've made him, Callaghan. ]

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[should he

shouldn't he

he's gonna do the thing]

You'll have to research all the ones here, if you want it to be relevant.

[ Callaghan no. ]

... paid test subjects?

Are you paying them?

... I'm not ruling it out.

[uh oh what has he done]

If you're going to include the local populace, you should repay them somehow.

I don't suppose you know the going rate for that?

...not offhand. You could ask around?

I think I'll do that.

Thanks.

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