[ karkat is silent for a few beats as he takes it upon himself to sit himself on one of the workbenches, pushing some stray cables aside to make room. once situated, he makes a vague gesture towards himself, his injuries. ]

Putting aside the many other migraine inducing grievances the setting presented me with, one after another, it was basically an unmitigated shower of aggravation boons -- there was one big issue with the setting we were abandoned in, which was the fact that you can't take a quiet walk along the fucking pier without a gigantic mutant shark erupting out of the water and attempting to devour you. [ he raises one shoulder in a half-shrug. ] A gigantic mutant shark that was also actually a Skrull.