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[candothat]

Enterprise? Do you read?

[A curly-headed boy, almost certainly not out of his teens, frowns at the screen. His words are rendered somewhat incomprehensible by a thick Eastern European accent in spite of his obvious attempts to annunciate.]

Ensign Chekov to bridge. Uhura? Sulu? …Mr. Spock? Chekov to engineering. Mr. Scott, can you hear me? There may have been a... ah, a malfunction with the teleporter.

Can anyone hear me?

[He sighs and fiddles with something on his device. The video feed distorts momentarily before returning to normal. When the teenager speaks again, his tone is low and words less painstakingly produced as if he’s speaking himself.]

Ai, what is this? There shouldn’t be interference this far out from the magnetic anomaly. Eto piz`dets…

Comments

[dropkick]

Anomalies works. I think that's the best term so far. Though they're not very scientific, which is probably why they just call them curses.

It's like...magic, more than science.

[ Pause. ]

Well, the last time it happened, it was. Not sure I'd always count on it being the same.

[candothat]

I think that magic is often something science has not yet explained.

These curses--are they always different, or are they sometimes the same? Like the weather is?

[dropkick]

Think I'd prefer to think of it that way, myself.

Sometimes they repeat. Pretty regularly - each month, there's a weekend where a bunch of curses happen at once.

Though I've noticed people tend to only get hit with one at a time. So if I'm cursed into doing one thing, I'm safe from another. In theory.

[candothat]

That is a relief. I know I would rather have a snowstorm followed by an earthquake than both at once.