Not so Hostile After All

[myimmunesystem]

[Video]

--Oh! Oh is THAT how it works! It has an actual "on" button... That's kind of cute.

[The voice is light, female, accented in a way that can only be described as "Ukraine by way of Mars," and sounds as though it's run through some kind of filter... Though the last part makes perfect sense when one looks at the face--or rather, mask--accompanying it. Said mask peers into the camera curiously, two eyes JUST barely visible though the refractive glass.]

Those... scientists at the Lab told me that I should call the others and introduce myself. My name is Tali... aaand I don't know much more than that.

If you're wondering about the suit, it seems I can't take it off. The environment here is "hostile" for me... though I don't remember all the details of what they told me, exactly. That was a lot of information to take in when you're running a high fever. It's not as though it's uncomfortable I guess; in fact it feels like I've always worn it.

[She lets out a small breath, respirator lighting up.] I'm rambling. They've given me room 408 of Ermis Suites... wherever that is. I'm sure I'll be getting to know a few of you very soon.

[Action]

[The top floor of Ermis Suites has rooms mostly uninhabited... with one of the empty ones now being paced about on the inside by the same blue-swathed girl as before. The strange articulation of her legs and two fingers to each tailored suit glove make it obvious that she isn't human, though other characteristics affirm that whatever she is, she's definitely female. The door is open, and she looks a little... overwhelmed.]

All this space, for just one person...?

Comments

[myimmunesystem]

[Wow. Someone else who isn't human!]

You mean the communicator? Well, yes! It's funny, I can't even remember my last name, but I can still tell...

Tier-built operating systems with applications just floating on top are nice and modular, but unstable. This hard plastic? Clunky, easy to lose and easy to break. Lithium-ion batteries? Haven't they heard of spin-potential charge yet? And an actual power converter built into it? All that does is take up space and dump heat! If they could just make up their mind on the method and frequencies for power transmission, it would save them trillions of power units a day.

[She'd been walking during the whole tirade, and now she stops, suddenly realizing something.] ...But ah, maybe I should focus less on changing the world right now, and more on not getting lost in it.

[very_model_of]

Yes, have migrated most functions to personal device. Don't like dealing with hardware. Distracting from real problems.

Mordin. Local doctor. Have no treatment for retrograde amnesia, unfortunately.

[myimmunesystem]

That's a shame, but I could have guessed anyway. If there were a treatment then there wouldn't be hundreds of people still with anmesia. The only thing they mentioned to me were these things, these... anemoi? How do they work? Do you know?

[very_model_of]

Anemoi still a mystery. Not a drug treatment, not actually encoded with individual memories.

Everything here frustratingly imprecise.

[myimmunesystem]

Are you saying that they don't even know? Ngh, Keelah...

[She stops in mid-maskpalm, and shakes her head. The word came so easily that she must've used it a lot, but she has no idea what it meant. A mystery for another time.]

So... you're a doctor. Do you specialize in humans? There... seem to be a lot of them around here.

[The last sentence carries... excitement? Worry? It's hard to tell which without the context of a facial expression.]

[very_model_of]

Know how to treat humans, yes. Also turians. Probably other species.

[myimmunesystem]

[Turian? That jangles a few synaptic analogues, but not enough in synchronicity to be actual recognition.]

What species are you?

[very_model_of]

Salarian.

[myimmunesystem]

[And a completely different disorganized jumble of cell connections fire with the same effect.]

...Medical training is a lot to remember. How long have you been here for it to come back to you?

[very_model_of]

Three months. Many skills remembered, very few actual events. Ran clinic on asteroid base.

[myimmunesystem]

That's good!

--I mean, it's good that you've remembered skills you can use. I guess you can say it gives hope for people like me who have no idea what to expect.

But then again... three months seems like a long time.

[very_model_of]

It was. Trying to keep busy, but not enough happens here.

[myimmunesystem]

Is it really that boring here?

[very_model_of]

Long periods of quiet interspersed by short bouts of hysteria.

[myimmunesystem]

And the purpose for that hysteria would be...?