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[hellismyself]

Who: Daria Morgendorffer + you
Broadcast: Fleetwide; video
Action: Marsiva; hospitality deck to start
When: Nowish ...

[From where she's stretched out on the cot in the hospitality deck, Daria holds her comm device up over her head, staring up at the camera with a look of subdued exasperation.]

Oh, brother.

[She rolls her eyes and sighs, loudly, like this is the single most tiresome thing of - well, the past five minutes, at least.]

Great. What kind of stupid prank do we have to be subjected to now?

[She sighs again, just as loud and tired as before, and the camera shuts off halfway through its trajectory back down to the surface of the cot.]

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[wolfuncaged]

[Fenris is probably in one of the bars, sitting in a dark shadowy corner, hating everyone. Same old. He's clearly bored enough to be answering the communicator, though. There's that. ]

This is no prank. You have been kidnapped.

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[hellismyself]

So - par for the course.

[Clearly this isn't her first kidnapping.]

I'm guessing this isn't New Moore anymore.

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[wolfuncaged]

...Ah. You have been in a situation like this before?

[Stroma, you got to stop kidnapping people who've already been kidnapped. It isn't okay. ]

No. You are in space, part of a [even months of knowing what they are, he still voices the word carefully] television show. From what I understand, some people find watching us constantly entertaining.

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[hellismyself]

Yup. One day I'm minding my own business at college, the next I'm living on an island full of wacky hijinks. For six months.

[She sighs.]

Great. At least tell me the show isn't called Sick Sad World. That would just be too weird.

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[wolfuncaged]

It seems Atroma has a penchant for such things. There are a few of us who have had similar situations. Though the places we were taken from differ.

...We visit multiple worlds. Their sickness and sadness varies. [Sorry, Daria, he doesn't get it.] The show is called Drift Fleet.

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[hellismyself]

Um ... that sounds sufficiently ominous.

["Drift Fleet." Like they might all just float off into space and never be seen or heard from again.]

What's Atroma?

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[wolfuncaged]

Hm. Though nothing terrible has happened yet, I am certain it is just a matter of time.

They are the people who run the show. On occasion, you may hear them make announcements, but they never respond to us.

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[thebestseller]

You want the truth, or someting that sounds more fun?

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[hellismyself]

I'm allergic to fun. So I guess truth it is - if that's actually what you're going to tell me.

[Which she doubts. Big time.]

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[thebestseller]

OK. You've been kidnapped to be a reality TV star.

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[hellismyself]

[Siiigh. That's about as stupid as she expected, believe it or not.]

This has to be the most boring show in the history of TV, then.

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[thebestseller]

Oh, believe me, we're just in a lull right now. When I first got here, there were aliens everywhere.

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[hellismyself]

That's not so unusual. You can visit a sci-fi convention for that.

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[experiencepoints]

Do you want the short version, or the full introduction guidebook?

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[hellismyself]

You're going to actually give me a choice?

[experiencepoints]

Would you prefer I didn't?

[hellismyself]

No ... I'm just a little surprised. It's unusual for people to be so straightforward.

[experiencepoints]

[She shrugs.]

This is my second interdimensional shithole. At this point, not being straightforward just gets annoying fast.

... But it seems like you already got the short version, so...

[She starts fiddling with her communicator, sending over a document. In purple font, because of course it is.]

[hellismyself]

[Daria squints at the purple text.]

You're not another one of the trolls, are you?

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[child_of_bhaal]

[Syeira gets this feeling. At least, she thinks she does.]

This happen to you a lot too?

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[hellismyself]

... Define "a lot."

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[child_of_bhaal]

Once a tenday. Every other tenday if it's a good month.

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[hellismyself]

Ah. I see. Well, no, not that often. But I have been through this kind of thing before. Last time, they told me I was a fictional character.

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[child_of_bhaal]

What? How rude! Clearly you're not.

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[hellismyself]

Well, that's what I always thought. But if that was true, it sure would explain a few things.