text. un: archivist.

[question]

A moment of your time, if I may. I only just arrived, so I'm endeavoring to answer all the requisite stupid questions — I've never been in space before, I don't remember coming here, I want to go home, and so on. But I understand that we're all in the same boat, so I'll spare you the crisis.

However. I looked over the staff positions, and after some exploration through this filthy maze of a place, I have come to the conclusion that offering to play librarian is pointless when I cannot find the damn library. Has anybody come across it? If not, have we managed to open anywhere that's locked off? Several of the crew floors have recreational facilities, but not the 5th, so that's my best guess for our missing library.

Finally. I'm actually recording this from spoken word to text as I appear to have superglued my fingers together with this- this space glue-gun. Does anyone know how to dissolve the stuff? Or should I resign myself to losing the skin of my fingertips?

Message ends.

Comments

un:burton; text

[tumang]

this stuff is made to resist against the vacuum of space and also an inferno taking over the whole station.

don't use it without gloves

[question]

Right. Fantastic. Glad to be made fully aware of the properties of the substance that is already on my skin. Thank you.

[tumang]

you're welcome
at least now you know
and you're shit out of luck, really
should have asked before you started slathering it all over your hands like it's lube

how bad is it?

[question]

Slathering is not the word I would use. I was simply interested in what the fluid was, and discovered it was an adhesive by sticking three of my fingers together on my dominant hand. Is there really nothing that can dissolve this? Seems like poor safety regulations if you ask me.

un: martink

[corkscrewed]

Do you have acetone? Like nail polish remover? That might help.

[ literally why would he have that, martin. ]

[question]

I don't think it's actual superglue, Martin. And no. I do not just happen to have nail-polish remover.

[ automatically exasperated with all martins by proxy forever. ]

[corkscrewed]

[ how did he know his name? and then he remembers to look at the actual username, and-

uh. ]

Jon?

[question]

Yes?

Wait, sorry, what? Martin? I mean, obviously Martin, but, Martin Blackwood?

text. un: velvet

[thieving]

How many fingers?

[question]

Stuck? Three, dominant hand. Very inconvenient.

[thieving]

Could have been the whole hand. Lucky lucky you.

Have you considered a knife? Something sharp to perhaps separate it? Are they stuck skin to skin or is there some visible gluey substance in between that you could at least try to sever?

[question]

There's a little bit of the substance between them, varying by positioning of the fingers. I did make some attempts with some broken glass, but I came very close to simply cutting myself. I don't have an actual knife, and if I did, I'm not ambidextrous enough for precision work.

[sospita]

Your answer to everything is "a knife".

@gamoras

[recce]

I was going to suggest the same thing.

[ if brute force didn't work. ]

And I have a dagger.

[luciformis]

Have you considered soap and warm water? Both should available in your quarters. If not, rocking the affected area against itself should weaken the bond over time.

Try these first. If none of these works, I'll have other suggestions.

[question]

You mean just moving my fingers? I did try washing it. Looking for oil, now, thought maybe that would get in better. No idea how I'm going to find any.

text; un: aphrodite

[wingstosee]

oh jeez.
one time i superglued my fingers together?
i think nail polish remover worked. i'm not really sure where you'd find any though
maybe alcohol would work?
we've still got plenty of that at least.

also i don't think the questions are stupid, but i get you.
i haven't seen a library either.

[question]

Well.

Thank you, I suppose.

[ for not thinking his questions are stupid. and for sharing that thing about the superglue, since right now he feels like an idiot. ]

I could try to find some alcohol. There's a bar, isn't there? If it doesn't unstick me at least I'll have something to drink.

[wingstosee]

yeah! it's on floor 4.
deck 4? i'm not really used to the whole space thing yet.
so as long as you can find something strong enough, you can just pop that open and

oh. actually
are you still able to open a bottle...
if you need help i can find you?

@gamoras

[recce]

I could try to pull your fingers apart.

[ but it might hurt... ]

[question]

That sounds potentially very painful.

[recce]

Depending on your species' pain threshold.
Are you Terran?

un: brightness_kholin

[veristitalian]

I haven't seen research on how to dissolve it, but I'll second alcohol, and also suggest oil, if it can be found. Unfortunately that's not a certainty.

I've been searching for the library too, but none of the doors that will open seem to lead to it. I have found several books the last two days, but only in my own quarters, and only texts from my planet.

[question]

While so appreciate the advice on the finger situation, I think it's being handled.

[ by people with knives. ]

But I am much, much more interested in these books of yours. How many did you find? Is your planet Earth? Or somewhere else?

[ he's only just learned about the possibility of Somewhere Else and is quite excited to be applying that knowledge so immediately. ]

[veristitalian]

There are exactly three, each one from different kingdoms of the planet Roshar. One history, one text on logic, and a study of the Unmade- not a concept that's relevant to any other worlds that I've found.

[And, because the peculiar combination honestly amuses her;]

One I've read a dozen times, one I had just acquired myself after considerable effort, and a last that scholars had believed was lost, but which turns out to be utterly insipid and not worth all the time spent searching after all.