voice;

[whethertheyshould]

I'm sure you're all aware, ah, of the perilous nature of the situation we're all in here. The question becomes, if we're unable to do anything but comply, what is the nature of our compliance? Does Jorgmund really think we're going to give everything our all at all times with the methods they use for securing our compliance?

I'm not good at doing that.

In any case, I suppose some introductions are in order. I'm Ian Malcolm. I'm your local chaotician, which means I am pretty good at predicting when things are about to go wrong.

I'm sure I just painted a big red target on my back but at this point I'm finding it hard to care.

Comments

Re: Video

[scavengineer]

It's all a little new to me too. Well, before I got here I mean. Humans usually can't understand me back home. Or any other animal for that matter.

What got you interested in chaos theory, if you don't mind me asking?

Re: Video

[whethertheyshould]

Oh, well, I got my master's degree in mathematics, but somehow chaos theory just kept coming up, and it intrigued me. I looked into it and wanted to learn more, so I pursued my PhD in the subject.

Re: Video

[scavengineer]

Now that you say it, that's a really obvious answer. I'm not sure why I expected anything else.

Re: Video

[whethertheyshould]

Hey, for all you knew I was going to say my mother made me do it.

Re: Video

[scavengineer]

Honestly, so far you don't really strike me as the kind of person who would do all the work necessary to achieve a PhD simply because your mother told you to.

But you do have a point.

[whethertheyshould]

My mother can be very persuasive.

However, ah, it really was just my own curiosity, in this case.

[scavengineer]

I can definitely understand curiosity as a motivator. I became an inventor and joined a detective agency for a reason, after all.

Well, a few reasons anyways. Curiosity was definitely one of them, though.

[whethertheyshould]

Detective agency, huh? What kind of cases did you take?

[ He's barely just learned that mice can be inventors, much less detectives. ]

[scavengineer]

Golly, all sorts of things, really. Missing persons, missing animals, missing hermit crab shells, burglaries, robberies, hijackings, cults, scams...no case too big, no case too small, y'know?

[whethertheyshould]

[ He's honestly a bit surprised to learn the mouse world struggles with these kinds of things, but it's also not outside the realm of what he might consider possible to learn. ]

It sounds like it! Was it something you enjoyed doing?