MarQuid
Inactive Member
Author:MissingNo
Query: system status
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Return: system status = 89%
Note: system failure accelerating.
Query: system lifetime
Return: estimated system lifetime = 0001:03:08:21:06:12.2864212
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Tweak put down the wrench after giving the flow regulator one last twist and slid out from under the large bit of machinery she had been working on for the last few days.
At least, that’s what her journal said. She had found the entry and searched the machine shops on board for the partly-started device before finding it up on a shelf. Not that she remembered that at all. All she knew was that there was a growing tangle of pipes, wires, and circuits in the machine room and a loose blueprint drawn with a lot of notes in her notebook. The blueprints seemed to document only what she had already done and had nothing detailing what she intended the machine to do.
I need to be more organized about these things, thought Tweak, getting to her feet and looking over the drawings again before adding a note where she had installed the flow regulator. Especially if I can’t ever remember what I’m doing. Taking a step back, she held up the book and looked back and forth between the sketch and the real thing.
“I’ll find a use for you, don’t worry,” she said to her creation. The machine replied by venting a cloud of steam with a high-pitched whistle that dropped to a low hum as the pressure was released. Tweak twisted her mouth to one side and furrowed her brow in mild concern.
“Just…don’t blow up before I do.”
