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SQUIGGLY_LOGGER
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SQUIGGLER: 2M
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Don't judge me! I'm just trying to see what else I can change, damn it.
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I know people outside of this ship can read these, through the QEC. As such, I
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should probably explain some things. You already know I'm a programmer aboard
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the MSS Endereon, a ship with many purposes. We're flying through various star
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systems to find extraterrestrial life. The bio-guys and the astronaut explorer
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fellows go down to each planet, collect samples and data, then leave. I try to
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follow along with the daily happenings. We reach new places almost every cycle
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thanks to our mysterious (to me, at least) FTL technology. During my off-time,
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I'm allowed to wander around the ship and view the samples that are being
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stored in bio-containment.
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There's some really, really weird stuff in bio-containment.
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Apparently, a few kilocycles ago, they found a plant on some planet that
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reminded them of Earth, the birthplace of humanity as we know it. I don't
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remember much about the incident - I'm only 9, after all - but the plant is
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still in bio-containment. It's surrounded by soundproofing material. Why, you
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might ask, does a plant need soundproofing? Is it sensitive to loud noises?
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No. It's not for the plant, it's for us.
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The plant screams.
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It's just constantly screaming. I hate the thing. Sometimes my boss asks me to
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help out by refilling the auto-waterer, and every time I get close, I can hear
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it scream. I feel like the biologist dudes only put it in containment in the
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first place as a prank, or maybe as the world's funniest / least funny alarm
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clock. It's not even a weird or interesting plant to look at, either, it looks
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similar to the snapdragon flowers in the Mental Wellness Garden. I think the
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plant has a tongue, but I'm no biologist.
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I'll keep whoever reads these updated on the stuff that's going on as I tinker
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with this old-as-balls logging software. Who in their right mind would make
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software that works like this? I still hate it!
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END LOG
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