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November 1st, 2009
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[ESTABLISHING CONNECTION. RESOLVING HOST. IDENTIFYING PROXY. PROXY EST--] Testing? Oh, a personal journaling implant. This is aDORable!

November 1st, 2009
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[DOWNLOADING 'LOG'...] My, but this ‘Finnras’ person is terse. If *I* had a journal, I’d go on and on and on. Hopes. Dreams. PIE RECIPIES!

November 2nd, 2009
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FRUIT PIE(!) Roll2crust. Toss600g fruit/96g sug/15ml flr&PIESPICE!. Fill btmcrust. Dot w/buttr; +topcrust/seal/slit. 10m@200?+45m@160?.

November 2nd, 2009
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Grr. The data entry buffer on this journal implant is impossibly small. Who uses this, rock-carving space-monkeys?! Also: now I’m hungry.

November 3rd, 2009
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[FILE ACCESSED] Aww, the space-monkey is looking for his daughter. That’s moderately sw– [***SCOURGE DETECTED*** CLEANSING PROTOCOL]

November 4th, 2009
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I’m on the floor, just past the scanner. Sweat and tears coat my face. The static screaming in my head is gone. A klaxon is wailing. What?

November 5th, 2009
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Deirdre’s helping me to my knees. The turret gun is pointing at us. A very stern voice orders her away from the ‘Scourge’. Again: What?

November 6th, 2009
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{{Remember when Adrift started? Now you can listen to it: Adrift, Episode 1 Podcast http://bit.ly/1WfArd (Be gentle. It’s my first time.)}}

November 6th, 2009
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Actually… Angry Computer Voice is ordering *me* away from *her*. “Clear fire lines and Scourge will be eradicated.” Oh. Well then. No.

November 9th, 2009
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The station security system isn’t making any sense: The Scourge is a myth; a Church boogeyman. It isn’t REAL. It definitely isn’t MY PILOT.

November 11th, 2009
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Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Jon has a weapon out. Won’t do much good. Behind me, Deirdre’s tensed to move. That’s even less help.

November 12th, 2009
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Angry Voice says I must stand down or be destroyed to reach the Scourge. A second voice argues. Second voice? Coming from the same speaker.

November 16th, 2009
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The second voice sounds like the “do you have pie” voice. It’s saying I should be allowed to live and find Kaetlyn because I’m… adorable.

November 17th, 2009
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The machine voices start… bickering. I’m left wondering how it knows about Kaetlyn, and why it thinks De is Scourge or I’m adorable.

November 18th, 2009
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Jon moves over to us, his eyes on the turret. He eases through the scanner arch; even armed to the teeth, he makes the red light go green.

November 19th, 2009
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I try to understand what happened. Jon says I seized when i went through the scanner. Deirdre set off alarms when she… ran to help me?

November 20th, 2009
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That explains how the system scanned her, but not what the hell happened to me. Actually, it raises more questions than it answers.

November 24th, 2009
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The main question: why’s the station think Deirdre’s the Scourge, which wiped out humanity about a thousand years ago. I mean, she’s eleven.

November 26th, 2009
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I ask Deirdre is she’s Scourge. She responds by asking if I’m all right. She’s not being evasive – it didn’t warrant an actual response.

November 30th, 2009
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Correction: the main question is actually ‘Are we about to die?’ Signs (by which I mean ‘the turret gun opening fire’) point to ‘Yes’.