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Ray had a fairly disquieting thought earlier today and wound up spending most of the afternoon in his room. He comes downstairs in search of food and actual conversation, since let's face it, it's a mess up there.

[Summary: Martin Miggs comes around and talks to Ray about food. Because, well- FOOD. But not pixy sticks.

Scribble the baby raptor comes by with her toy! There is tug-of-war and then the rope is torn to bits, so Ray deploys one of his flashyballs and gets himself some protection against pointy bits, and then there is feeding time for the ickle Mesozoic deathbringer.

Lysistrata also pops up, and there is some discussion of things like rings and faked deaths and Spartan idiocy, and on the idiocy theme Ray reveals that he's currently having an envy/jealousy problem, and can't quite seem to get over it. Even though he knows it's stupid.

Scary scary Tim Hunter comes by to ask about borrowing a PKE meter. Ray is somewhat reluctant at first, but when he hears what happened to Ace, he hands the meter over without a quibble.

Hurley comes around to ask Ray what he knows about freakydeaky numbers and good / bad fortune combinations. Ray adds another item to his research queue as a result.

And finally, Akito turns up, and there is discussion of ID cards and communications gaps before Ray boggles a little at the name of Nergal Heavy Industries. Give the man a break, he's been studying Sumerian for the past week...]

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Akito nods and looks... it's hard to tell. Relieved, maybe. Pleased that he's not going to run into anyone visibly bleeding and not going to run into any gooey and made of jello.

"No, the Jovians... we think they're from around Jupiter, or maybe one of the moons, but we don't know for sure. They could be past the moons." He sighs. "Mostly we know that their ships look like bugs, and the UEAF says they're lizards. Nobody on board has ever seen one."

He listens with great interest to the summary, and looks kind of amused. "The Bar keeps giving you books on Sumerian history? That's kind of cool. And it came in handy here!" He taps his fingers and thinks about that, "But evil gods... That doesn't sound like it'd be too applicable. Ruri said the name had some relation to Mars... which I guess is the god of war connection?"

~~Not unless somebody decides to app Slimer, no.~~

"Ah, I see. That's gotta make things difficult."

"Not so much the history as the language. The, um, first really huge foe my friends and I ever faced was a Sumerian god with a real attitude problem, so I'm wondering if this might have something to do with that... anyway. Yeah, it does, sorta. The Babylonians called the red planet 'Nergal', and he was a war god in their estimation, so that's probably it."

[OOC: It's 2 AM where I am. Slowtime?]

[OOC: Probably a good idea, it is getting late and I'm getting slow. Prod me on an IM next time you turn up, or the like?]

Akito tucks his head in his palms and thinks about it for a few moments. "Sumerian gods? The god of war..." he pauses. Could there be some mystical reason behind all the fighting back home? He stares at the pilot's mark on his hand again.

"I'm just a freakin' cook. I'm not equipped to deal with that kind of thing!"