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[Haspen]

You decide to check on the mysterious clonking sound source.

1234USY.2d/1m.0354h

You finish setting up the internal sensor link to the console, and-

*CLONK*... *CLONK CLONK*....

You disengage the link - yep, the audio ghost in Fuel Pump #7 is still there.

As your imagination fails to provide more of interesting stuff to do, you start to feel a creeping dread - that, sooner or later, you will be stranded on the station with nothing to do but wait until arrival of new client...

A) Mind and body exploration time, woo!
B) I still wonder if there are any off-list bottled liquors on board...

[Superdorf]

A

[Vector]

A

[King Zultan]

A

[Haspen]

You head to your room, undress, plug in the interface and console, and begin exploring yourself.

1234USY.2d/1m.0517h

You do diagnostic on your bio-chip which works perfectly fine. Your body was designed to look as handsome as it could, and of course it grew to look handsome. You could be fashion model, an actor, or a companion for hire, if only those things were accessible to people of low standing like you.

But good looks keep potential patrons interested in coming back too, you wager.

You decided to relive the memories of your chilldhood, teenage years, and youth just before liberation.

You fondly remember the times at your parents' school-slash-laboratory since you started gathering hard memories at the age of 4. The turbulent years of being a rebel and a fighter. Then the nearly idyllic life in the old scientist's mansion with other drones, studying finer parts of human culture.

All in all, nineteen years worth of memories.

...

You sit up, and perform diagnostic on your bio-chip.

It is working perfectly fine. It is reporting no memory loss.

So how can four plus nineteen equal twenty five? It's as if you had somewhere around two years of memories missing - and your body is telling you this is perfectly fine.

A) Plug yourself to the command console and try to use it as a very crude psi-computer interface.
B) Plug yourself to the medical station console and run a level 2 diagnostic on the bio-chip to see if it was tampered with.
C) Leave this for later.

[King Zultan]

B

[Vector]

A

[EuchreJack]

C

[Superdorf]

B

[The Canadian kitten]

B

[Haspen]

You go to the medbay and plug yourself into the medical station.

You sit down to combat the disorientation and dizziness a bit better while the medical computer scans your electronical part of the brain.

1234USY.2d/1m.0530h

That was wholly unpleasant. You pull up the medical console to check the readout...

BIO-CHIP analysis:
Neural Connectors: OK
Physical Status: OK
Wet Memory: Issue found! Subcouncious Block
Neural Charge Capacitors: OK
Auxiliary Chip: OK

Wet Memory Subcouncious Block:
Subcounciously repressing memories related to bio-chip owner's childhood, teenage or other formative periods of life due to inability to cope with traumatic event(s) that happened during any of aformentioned periods

Cause:
Psychological

Treatment:
Psychiatric therapy by certified specialist

The civil war was certainly traumatic, as any war, but why would you lose memories related to your life at laboratory, if all you were doing was sit at the desk during school hours and then play with other kids afterwards? And even better, why would you lose memories related to the idyllic life at the mansion if all your needs were taken care off there?

But at least you know what's wrong with your bio-chip - or rather, what's wrong with you.

You pull up SRC employee benefits list.

Unsurprisingly, psychological evaluation and treatment of non-Humans is not on the list.

A bit uneasy, you unplug yourself from the computers and dress up. You might not be able to fix this today... but maybe, some time in the future, there will be a chance.

1234USY.2d/1m.0601h

As you idly wipe the counter, you hear a hailing ping coming from the communications console.

It's coming from 'Most Fortunate Occurence'.

"Captain Pereres here. My pilot has woken up and we're preparing for departure. Our return trip does not take us through Aries, so this is a goodbye. Goodbye. Most Fortunate Occurence, out."

1234USY.2d/1m.0603h

True to Captain Pereres' words, the 'Most Fortunate Occurence' has pulled away from the station and is en route to the Epsilon Scorpii Jump Gate.

You're alone on the station once more.

Soon, you will be the only living being in the entirety of Aries System as well.

What to do now?

A) Start the sleep cycle early.
B) Search for bottled alcohol that might or might not be somewhere on the station.
C) Check the SRC bartending encyclopedias for additional bartender lore and stuff.
D) Find a bandana and play a hard-working mainten- actually, check repair request status. Shouldn't have SRC replied already?

[King Zultan]

D

[VoidSlayer]

Sleeping is like self therapy?  Better then literally nothing maybe.  Get to sleep early.

On the other hand premium bootleg booze?

B

[Superdorf]

D

[EuchreJack]

E. Learn Databending, because I read that wrong and wonder what else our little drone could learn by reading more things wrong.