[Voice]

[outer_npcs]

[This message is received on all active communicators at 1am on Monday of Week 50.

It has no sent timestamp.]

Reinitializing.

Realigning temporal bridge.

Crew locations unknown.

It has been thirteen million, two hundred and forty-five thousand, one hundred and twenty hours since last contact.

[It's the Oracle's voice, but the tone is too calm, and the diction too crisp.]

Beginning scan for temporal incursions.

Comments

[outer_npcs]

Good for you, young man. There's a storm on the horizon.

[Encrypted Audio]

[standsentinel]

Yeah, aside from the one time on shore leave, I have to say I've always been a fan of facing storms with my pants on.

[And behold the ramblings of the Common Alenko, deployed as a defensive mechanisms against awkward silence.]

Are we talking the weather, or something to do with Salvation? She said that the data to do with why she was offline was corrupted. Do you know anything about that?

[Encrypted Audio]

[outer_npcs]

Both?

[It's uncertain.

Possibly it's about to start raining bone fiends.]

It was lost. It shows up, now and then. Like a puppy.

[Encrypted Audio]

[standsentinel]

[With everything else on Verdana, a rain of bone fiends might just be the logical next step. But, choosing to interpret the Oracle's musings on puppies to be about her memory rather than an actual baby canine, Kaidan nods unseen.]

If it comes back to you, let me know? I could use all the help I can with getting her talking to the rest of us. I know someone was tampering, in the past.

[Encrypted Audio]

[outer_npcs]

The past, the future. It is ongoing.

[Encrypted Audio]

[standsentinel]

Yeah... Salvation was saying things like that.

[Unseen, Kaidan rubs at one temple in an attempt to ward off a headache.]

So, uh, aside from the pants, is there anything you'd recommend I should do? Look into?

[Encrypted Audio]

[outer_npcs]

It is not a matter of linearity. Sabotage will continue.

[Encrypted Audio]

[standsentinel]

...Right. But just because it's not linear, that doesn't mean it can't be stopped, right? What's been sabotaged?

Or, uh, will be, however that works.

[Yep. Definitely getting a headache.]

[Encrypted Audio]

[outer_npcs]

If you discover the saboteurs.

[Encrypted Audio]

[standsentinel]

Yeah. I'll... get right on that. Thanks for the advice. ma'am.

[And because Kaidan was brought up to be a polite young man who respected his elders, the adult Alenko manages to keep his headache from infiltrating his voice until he's ended his side of the call.]