3. [VIDEO] Good at paranoia, not diagnosis

[no_fastolfe]

[Vasilia's bundled up in a robe; her face is waxy-pale with heat-reddened cheeks; she's reached the point where she's stopped sweating. She is having obvious difficulty breathing]

This is becoming intolerable.

For the last three days I have said nothing, assuming that the basic decency of our captors would see this rectified. I have no more patience!

Why does nobody else noticed the increased gravitational pull? Why hasn't this been corrected? Are the life support systems malfunctioning? It would explain how inhumanely cold it is. The food's quality is steeply declining day by day; it offers neither savor (which I hardly expect!) or the nutritional content to provide basic energy. This is-

[She breaks off into a wet cough, diving offscreen to muffle it in something that she can burn later. Phlegm. Disgusting.]

How can I fail to mention the quality of the air! Some large molecular contaminant-- pollution from poorly maintained equipment, I can only assume-- is making breathing more and more of a labor. I could tolerate it, perhaps, if these beds could provide restful sleep, but they do not!

The rest of you may ignore this campaign to weaken and exhaust the inmates of the vessel, but I demand better treatment.

Comments

[timesbureaucrat]

Gravity has been at Earth standard 9.806 meters per second for the last ten and a half months without deviation.

I have to agree about the food, however. No offense to the hardworking kitchen staff, who must work with what materials are provided to them, but natural food is quite disgusting.

[no_fastolfe]

So you say? Yet I distinctly feel a greater gravitational force; it is fatiguing. It makes my muscles ache.

As for the food-- it tastes like food-- like Earther's idea of food-- but there is something very wrong with it.

[timesbureaucrat]

So I know. My senses are superior to a human's. I could no more mistake the local gravitational force than a typical human could mistake the taste of sugar for salt. Whatever you're feeling, it's purely idiopathic, not external.

[no_fastolfe]

What could cause such a response, though?

Unless--

Unless I am ill.

[DNW face]

[timesbureaucrat]

It's been known to happen to people from time to time.

[no_fastolfe]

Not to Spacers.

[They're not immunocompromised. They're advaaaaanced.]