[Fortuna]: Luck depends on no one....right? (4/3)

Maybe Slate's sanity is low enough to gain the power to talk to inanimate objects now.

That would require talking.


But now he's lost his marbles, his personality is kind of a clean slate. There's plenty of time to Cea what we can wh-edel out out of him, but for now he needs some rest and a good meal.

...I can't think of any acceptable synonyms for "Cleo" and I'm not even going to touch "Athena" and "Apollo." I vote Cleo to be the honorary disposable crewmate.

Does Cleo have to fix the lights in Slate's room now?

You're assuming quite a bit. We don't know what Slate's original sanity was so we can't know what his current is. Also I don't think that's how insanity works.

Also, I don't think it's a good idea to think of any of our crew is disposable. We lack any sort of redundancy, meaning losing any one of them means the loss of important functions. Cleo is especially important since our ship is currently falling apart and she's the only one who can fix it.

EDIT: BTW, we should probably try to get some level of redundancy going amongst our crew.

/it was a joke, based on the earlier play on words. I tried to fit all the crewmember's names into a couple sentences, but had to resort to tacking on a homonym at the end for Cleo.

As it was, Slate was stable but not really developing well. Now, he's probably been effectively broken, and much more receptive to Marble's guiding. He may never have a baseline personality, but Marble should be able to guide him to be able to better socialize with other people without resorting to mind control. Although his sanity is unknown, Based on the Cosmodex entries for the other crewmembers it seems that 100 sanity is the normal max. Unless Slate had some sort of hypersanity he's in the negatives with Cea now. And if he already was, he'd be below -130 now which is still a major jump. He's not going to be right as rain immediately after that.

Or maybe I just have a hankering for some drama and character development. maybe we can squeeze a little bit in among the more important stuff.