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

[cepicorpus]

Now and again the train asks us what we want, generally for our own comfort and morale. It seems to be picking things it believes will make us happiest. Relaxation, games, toys. It's happened a few times in my experience, and usually what it says on the label is what it is. Think of it as ... say, one of the examples is 'art'.

If everyone were to select art, there would be a new train car dedicated to art. Whether this would be art WE make or merely an intergalactic art gallery would be seen when it appeared, but it would indeed, be 'art'.

[miseris_socios]

Someone already explained exactly what's going on - but please vote for lab so that the scientists have their explosions contained.

[mustknow]

Such optimism.

[miseris_socios]

Not really my style, but also I keep bugging the train for it so Dad will stop it. Also so I don't have to chase him down to feed him.

[mustknow]

There's that optimism again! It's really quite charming, you know. But there is no stopping science, or containing it.

[wewillwewill]

I see. So it is thus far a poll meant to provide additional diversions or living space, though what it defines this space to be may well be open for interpretation.

This may explain an option of plants, though there is already a garden.

I am also aware some success has been made in... remodeling a carriage to suit a secondary function. Should the new poll result in a carriage, I trust it can be similarly repurposed?

[cepicorpus]

A new carriage; we the passengers do the repurposing. Such as the rock garden, which will, in time, become a car suitable for crocodiles.

[wewillwewill]

So is your argument for this lab, should it be a laboratory as you expect, to give the scientists a means to conduct their research, the intent to mandate they be confined to one location or your personal convenience with regards to your father?

[There doesn't appear to be malice behind the words. Elidibus seems to want to know.]

[miseris_socios]

Yeah, yeah, I know. You get what I mean.

[Buddy, you're starting to edge towards the 'mad scientist' category by a few points...]

[miseris_socios]

He's one of the local scientists - so his work would be more contained. He also forgets to eat, which means I have to run the entire damn train looking for him so he makes sure to eat something.

And no, nutrient paste is not food, I know he's going to argue this.

[mustknow]

[Xehanort is a perfectly sane, stable scientist!]

I don't, really. You're the second person to voice the adorably foolish notion that providing a lab will .. one, be outfitted for the interests of very specific scientists, such as your father, and two, that if it IS tailored to specific interests, it will in any way lead to containment and not merely making it easier to get the science all over everything else due to having more to work with.

Honestly, it could be a weapons lab and then only Entrapta gets to make use of it.

[blitzcheer]

Soo, now that you know what they're about - you interested in any?

[ He's feeling nosy, why not. ]

[miseris_socios]

If it's a lab o any kind I'm sure you guys will retrofit it.

... Is retrofit the right word? Now I need to look it up.

A - anyway, it's going to at least keep all of the stuff contained for the most part. And then you all can have your scientist meetings or whatever.

Booping in here

[dyingpro]

... I mean, it technically is, I healed myself eating the stuff on our second-to-last mission. That means it must be food.

[Duh, Ken.]

Can you not just call him on your SCA and remind him to eat?

[miseris_socios]

It's got nutrients but it's not food. It's like a supplement or whatever - we have food, it's not hard to eat something tasty as well as giving you nutrients.

And also you have to take breaks at some point.

The SCA doesn't work like that when we're on the train.

[mustknow]

And then who loses out on their interests? My areas of study aren't necessarily Even's, or Entrapta's, or Handsome Jack, and each one takes up quite a bit of space.

Given what happened over the previous request, we should perhaps consider the possibility the train is not offering a laboratory at all, but a dog.

[thawed_pride]

Finally, someone is being reasonable.

[miseris_socios]

I mean, they got their rooms, right?

[He also wants it contained so he can just avoid it, but that's not something he's going to express to someone he doesn't really know.]

[mustknow]

A few did. Not really much to the benefit of all though, is it.

[dyingpro]

Well then the ICPs should let you call between cars, right? So just call around until you find him. Unless I'm missing something here.

[wewillwewill]

Yes, I had inferred your father's profession from your statements. Yet it does not answer what you personally seek.

Since you have brought up your needs to travel in search of him, shall I presume your argument is largely to save you time in this search, regardless of other benefits it may or may not provide for the sake of others?

[Sorry Ken. You are talking to the guy whose LITERAL JOB is to sort out opinions and find the best one to recommend go forward with. He tends to be obsessive thorough about this.]

[miseris_socios]

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

[miseris_socios]

It wasn't a car designed to benefit everyone. Just the couples.

[dyingpro]

... you know, I don't think anybody has called me reasonable before.

[Bad sign for you, Vexen buddy.]

[miseris_socios]

For me, not for them. I'm sure one of the scientist will tell you abut some big project they're working on and only need the space for it.

That's not what I'd get out of it. I'm sure they'd get more out of it than me.