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[entirelybonkers]

...

How peculiar.

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[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Find sometin' Alice?

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Did you know, Kevas, that there is a deck that is home to a species of rodent far larger than normal size? And that they are surrounding a rather odd statue with a most curious sign?

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Oh dat t'ing. Yeah I been down dere to see it a couple times. I t'ink curious be a good word fuh it.

[autodidacticone.livejournal.com]

What is?

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

What is it for, do you think? IS someone truly feeding a statue every two weeks?

[brb getting an UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL LOOK at it.]

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Well, several things, really - I find the size of these rodents to be particularly strange and a tad alarming, and not to mention this statue that proclaims the need to be fed every two weeks. I have never heard of a statue needing food before, but I Suppose that anything is possible, really.

[autodidacticone.livejournal.com]

I think that's code for something.

A while ago, the crew stopped looking after it and it began emitting gamma radiation at fatal levels.

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

[gamma WHAT?

She takes a step back B|]

How positively odd - though I'm afraid I must ask: has it stopped doing such a thing?

[autodidacticone.livejournal.com]

Yes. I checked it, earlier this month. Seems to be back to normal.

Why, how long have you spent with it?

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

[Ffff Alice be careful.]

Gotta be since notin' exploded or sometin' yet.

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

[Careful? Is that a word?]

How long has it been here?

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Well, not terribly long, I was just doing a bit of exploring, you see - sometimes one can find out quite a bit if they just look around them instead of just aimlessly staring, really - people are quite silly sometimes!

But not long, perhaps a few minutes or so, the rodents were a bit more distracting, I think.

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Fuh awhile now. Since dat whole Jennifuh t'ing. Why?

[Voice]

[bossfedora.livejournal.com]

Could I convince you to be more specific?

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Oh, simple curiosity, I suppose.

I wonder what would happen if it weren't fed.

[Voice]

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen a rodent that is the size of a small wagon?

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Who knows when it be comin' to dis boat. Might all get turned into chickens until it be gettin' fed. Den again it probably be much worse den dat.

[Voice]

[bossfedora.livejournal.com]

The ones on Deck 18? [Not sleeping means lots of exploring time.]

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Well now, that's a quite interesting though - though I rather think I would very much dislike being a chicken. I much prefer being myself, even if I am sometimes to small or too tall.

[Voice]

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Yes, those are precisely the ones I am speaking of! Have you been up here to see them? It's rather remarkable.

[Voice]

[bossfedora.livejournal.com]

I saw them, but I didn't get too close. I wasn't sure if they were docile or not.

[Voice]

[entirelybonkers.livejournal.com]

Hm.

[That is a very valid point, you know. Perhaps Alice should have thought this through a bit more.]

Well, they most certainly seem to be rather docile.

[Voice]

[bossfedora.livejournal.com]

All the same, please keep me on the line until you leave. That way if something happens you don't have to worry about losing contact.