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Kelan (kelan_) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2018-06-26 12:13:00

Entry tags:

!open, kelan, sookie sully

hello

I like ~~Cuban~~ Cuba. It is very warm.

When ~~must I do the working now?~~ should I look for work?

Tommy ~~helps~~ is helping me with English words. I hope you ~~know my words~~ understand me ~~best~~ better now. I speak and read the language on the walls of the station.

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ourmutualfriend
2018-06-27 05:06 pm UTC (link)

[Hello, Kelan.

Some time ago, I was accidentally or rather unwillingly recruited by something called the DHARMA initiative. In the line of my duties there, I had a sort of an accident that involved a sudden exposure to high levels of radiation and electromagnetism. As a result, I became unstuck in time. I developed a condition they called 'temporal sickness' which involved memory problems and bleeding on the brain. I was lucky enough to find a sort of a cure before it was too late.

This is all part of a much bigger and more complicated story, but that's really the crux of the matter I think. You can ask questions, of course.

Since I arrived on the station I am starting to show symptoms of temporal sickness again, I keep losing an hour or a week, or repeating an afternoon a few times. My theory is that something about the station is keeping me from 'sticking', and I was wondering if this was a clue to what that might be.

I realise after writing all this I probably should have just said 'I was wondering if it was making me sick.'

Bloody hell, I hope this all actually translates.]

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kelan_
2018-06-27 05:55 pm UTC (link)

[I am sorry you are sick. I hope I am not making it worse. It translated very well.

The mining was for four different ores. I was never told their names, but I would know them on sight. One was shiny-gray, and didn't make dust. One was a dull dark gray, and it was volatile. If you hit it the wrong way, it would spark and explode, but it was only found in small lumps and never in a vein. There was a red-gold one that we couldn't get wet or it would give off fumes. And there was a yellow-gold one that was very shiny and it was very hard.

It was the same with the chemicals, they never told us their names. There were five different mixes, because the dark gray ore needed two processes. They were used in the refining of the ores. Their fumes were bad enough on their own but when they mixed with the rocks, it was poisonous to most lifeforms. Once the ores were processed, they were sent to the manufacturing sector to make components. I am sorry that I don't know more details than that. Sookie and Tom might know more. Does that help?]

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ourmutualfriend
2018-06-27 08:46 pm UTC (link)

[Why would you be making it worse? No, it'll be a a bit of tech or something like that, not a person. Not you. Don't worry about that.

Thank you, it helps massively. There are plenty of good people here, with a lot of expertise. I'm sure this new information will help us figure out the cause a lot more quickly.

Did you stay here on the station? Is the mine here, or near here?]

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	kelan_ 2018-06-27 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	[I thought maybe the ores or the chemicals would be hurting you and since I was close to them before I was brought here, I might have made you ill. My Gods brought me here from the Factory. I don't know where here is, but I think that it is very far from the Factory and its mine.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ourmutualfriend 2018-06-27 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	[When did you arrive? I can put your mind at rest, because I think I was sick before you arrived. Well. That probably would've been a better question for me to ask first, I think.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kelan_ 2018-06-27 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	[Fifteen days ago.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ourmutualfriend 2018-06-28 07:46 am UTC (link)
	[It's definitely not you. Thank you for your help. ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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