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From:

tarakan

It seems we have been paired.

[ Which is...nice? Honestly, Crozier seemed like a decent man in the breach. If this Crozier is even halfway a decent dude, Hilbert isn't worried. ]

How do you wish to do this?

From:

goingtobeunwell

[Oh. How...industrious of his new inmate.]

It would seem so. Let's meet; where are you most comfortable?

From:

tarakan

My cabin. I will turn off gravity for ease of talk.

From:

goingtobeunwell

[Turn off gravity?]

Do I need to prepare in any way for that?

From:

tarakan

[ Surprise Frank, it's spaceship bullshit. Hilbert makes a little noise of dismissal before. ]

Do not worry. It is simple as flipping switch.

From:

goingtobeunwell

Well.

Could you perhaps switch it the other way when we're done? I'd quite like to see what conditions are like without gravity.

From:

tarakan

Oh. Really?

In that case, please wear trousers.

[ let's NOT see his warden's bunghole right off the bat. ]

From:

goingtobeunwell

Well, obviously. Wouldn't want to get that close.

I'll see you shortly.

[He'll make his way down, leaving behind the file on the small, flip-top desk in his berth.]

From:

tarakan

[ Hilbert's room is cold and clinical. There aren't any signs of personality, just the cold steel of a spaceship. There also aren't any signs of personality because everything is tied down or stowed away, as he's used to no gravity. The only thing out in the open are two books from the library: a nonfiction book on botany and a fiction book of HP Lovecraft.

Hilbert's leaning against the wall as there isn't much place to sit. There's his bed and that's about it. His door is unlocked as he lingers and waits. ]

From:

goingtobeunwell

[There's nothing particularly unsettling about an undecorated bunk, although Crozier had expected a little more character considering how long Hilbert's been on the Barge. He surveys the books briefly - two topics oddly relevant to him - and nods to Hilbert.]

Good afternoon.

From:

tarakan

Good afternoon as well, [ Hilbert says, with a nod. ] Apologies for lack of seating. But area is more private than anything else on ship.

From:

goingtobeunwell

I don't mind meeting on familiar ground, even if we do just stand. [He steps inside and claps his hands - or rather, grabs his wrist - behind his back.]

I assume you usually just float about in here though.

From:

tarakan

[ Hilbert nods. ]

I strap myself down when it is time to sleep. Otherwise? Am used to floating around.

From:

goingtobeunwell

I imagine there's a sort of trial period when you first experience zero-gravity. One needs to find their sea-legs, as it were.

[But enough of the small talk. He addresses Hilbert with a nod of his own.]

How are you occupying yourself aboard the ship?

From:

tarakan

I have my hobbies, [ Hilbert shrugs. ] I work in greenhouse. Tutor Mandrake in science and whatever else he wishes to learn. Read. Study. Keep myself busy. Watch movies if I have free time.

[ Stay under the radar enough in the hopes that someone will let him work in the infirmary. Make himself seem useful and trustworthy in the hopes that he gets more opportunities. ]

It is useless to be idle.

From:

goingtobeunwell

It's healthy to have hobbies. [So he's been told.] What do you study?

[He nods towards the books.]

From:

tarakan

Medicine, botany, virology...have recently been thinking about starting up AI research again.

From:

goingtobeunwell

[Virology. AI research. Damn, that's a little beyond his scope.]

Mn. And how would you go about that?

From:

tarakan

The same way you go about most hobbies. Learn about something, obtain necessary materials, practice. Of course, due to Inmate status, I am usually stuck at 'learning.'

[ which he's not even bothering to hide his irritation at. ]

From:

goingtobeunwell

Mhm. It can be a fairly large barrier to doing whatever the hell you want. [There's a bit of sympathy there; he knows what it was like after all.]

So. Why do you think you're an inmate? [Judging how much awareness we may have here.]

From:

tarakan

I know why others think I am an inmate, [ he shrugs. ] I have used other people as trials and test subjects in my research, often without their consent. Results were...poor. People died.

[ He lets out an annoyed 'hmmph' of irritation before, ] And because I am heartless mad scientist willing to overlook that for the greater good, I am bad guy in need of redemption.