Day 26 - After Poll Appears (Audio Only)

[wewillwewill]

I would like to ask after the nature of this poll.

Is it a regular occurrence? Is the inquiry intended to be abstract or does it have an specific origin and purpose unknown to those who might have become passengers since the last platform?

Comments

[miseris_socios]

I don't want to bother everyone on the train until I find the right person.

[dyingpro]

Well then they've got the Quiet Car if they don't want to be bothered. That's what they're for.

[He doesn't understand the problem?? Just asking shouldn't bother people?? Aren't they all friends??]

[miseris_socios]

The quiet car is not for a science lab... that's not what it was designed for.

Also he just really wants a lab. ... And I want him to be happy...

[dyingpro]

... well I'm not sure any of this was designed specifically for anything, but I meant the people that might be bothered by you calling the other cars. Why would anyone be bothered by that? You're just asking a question.

[Oh. That... hurts, a lot. Zagreus doesn't say anything for a second, but he tries to sound cheerful when he finally answers.]

I hope he gets his lab, then. Although I don't know what a lab is.

[miseris_socios]

It's a place designed for people to do science in. Like experiments and stuff.

[dyingpro]

... I understood up to "science". What's that? And what's an experiment?

[HOO BOY KEN. Good luck.]

[thawed_pride]

[Oh boy. Someone looks physically pained.]

Science is, at its most fundamental level, discovering new things based upon theorizing and testing those theories in a controlled environment. Those tests are called experiments, although the term can broadly be used for any action undertaken with the express purpose of learning what results it will produce.

[dyingpro]

So, throwing yourself at a horde of various creatures with murderous intent until you eventually succeed is an experiment? As a completely random example.

[thawed_pride]

[What. What.]

What? No, that-that is just an extreme form of recklessness! Experiments are undertaken to discover the unknown, not to simply brute force a desired result!

[dyingpro]

But I am discovering the unknown! I'm learning the attack patterns, movements, and strengths and weaknesses of various Underworld denizens, as well as what strategies work and what strategies don't to defeat each of them!

[See? Science!]