➢ 004 [video]

[looksfine]

I was...human.

[There is a genuine confusion behind her soft-spoken, neutral tone.  Though her face betrays nothing, the eyes tell it all.  For the duration of the breach, a sentient robot who had previously known no other existence had been able to smell...to taste...to touch.]

...how?

[Confused Aya is confused.]

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[twoheadsofcabbage]

Get used to it.

[Scrad snorts.]

We were six of us.

[Charlie complains.]

[looksfine]

I do not understand.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

That makes...

[Scrad thinks for an almost excruciatingly long time.]

...three of us.

[technophilic]

It is not uncommon for the barge to make mental and physical changes during flood events.

[looksfine]

Such a thing should, logically, be impossible.

[technophilic]

Why? It is no stranger than other things that occur here regularly.

[video] So sorry bb!bot

[fuckingvisions]

[ He's only half focused into the image and he cant event stay still. He's sitting but swaying his jacket half off and hair a wreak. The communicator is proped up on the table beside his bed which is the only reason he can even pull it off anyway. In very slurred words he spoke in the wrong language.]

Tá tú ar... cheann ceart go leor beag...?

[ooc;used google translate.]

[video]

[looksfine]

[She stares for a moment, unblinking.]

[This was Francis. No, Doyle. He had been her brother. ...no, that was inaccurate as well. But only in reality. During the breach, he had been a friend, confidant, and family member.]

...there appears to be a malfunction in my universal translator. [Which was supposed to translate all spoken words with ease. Then again, Aya was supposed to be nothing more than an AI Nav Com] Could you repeat that?

[video]

[fuckingvisions]

[ He put both hands into his hair rubbing at it wildly a moment as if he felt something crawl across his skin. Which he didn't but he was drunk so he thought he had. Hearing her words he nodded a second before his eyes widened some.]

Asked if Yer okay, little one. [ The Doyle in her video feed was a shadow to the Francis she had been living with the past few days, his hair cropped shorter no real care to it, drunk and missing something the breach version had.] ya sounded pretty....upset and all.

Video:

[childhood_surgery]

A situation I find entirely undesirable...

Video:

[looksfine]

[She is cautious this time. VERY cautious.]

...then you are not directly responsible?

Re: Video:

[childhood_surgery]

Why would you accuse me of that?

[buildindreemz]

Yeah, that's one of the big ones that never gets answered.

[looksfine]

I do not understand; how can no one identify the process through which our very existence is altered?

[Memories, she could accept. It was far too easy to reprogram both an organic and inorganic mind. But to take something inorganic and suddenly make it organic?]

Will this become a regular occurrence?

[buildindreemz]

I don't know; the same way no one knows how or why our bodies are altered in other ways, or our personalities. [Ariadne shrugs. It's all Greek to her, really.]

Depends on your definition of 'regular'. Will it happen again? Yeah, probably. Do we have any idea how often it'll happen? Nope.

[demigoddess]

Sorry to say you're probably not going to hear the kind of answer you want. Are you alright? [ Just confused she hopes. ]

[looksfine]

I am...

[Still processing]

...undamaged.

[demigoddess]

That's good to hear. First breach always throws you off. And that's putting it lightly.

video

[trenchcoatedly]

We briefly brushed up deep enough to another dimension for all of us to be altered in a similar manner. I was also human, and have been on several occasions.

video

[looksfine]

With respect, you have always been of an organic nature.

My situation is different.

Re: video

[trenchcoatedly]

Of course, though by true form being a wavelength and not a carbon-based form might suggest a situation independent from both.

Regardless, such a thing is not all that uncommon on the barge.

[peektuttut]

Was it bad?

[looksfine]

[Tim. Friend. They had been close during the breach, even. But that was another life.]

It was...different.

[darknessb4me]

Breach.

[looksfine]

That explain the why, not the how.