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WHO Chris Halliwell
BROADCAST Network unfiltered video.
ACTION The SS Huntress.
WHEN Shortly after the Shuffle.

Again?

[ This is a young man circling around as he's transported to his new ship, the SS Huntress. He's mostly talking to his new crewmates but there's that unknowing broadcast going out, too. ]

Moved around twice in twenty-four hours, and this one is not nearly as nice as the first one. We're supposed to stay here while we play this stupid game? [ Psht. ] Which, by the way, I didn't sign up for. Did anyone? Because I was in the middle of something, you know, important.

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[catamite]

[more helpful voices from the network screens! this time, it's a pretty dude with pointy ears and a bunch of piercings smiling at him.]

Oh man... you got to see the big ship too? What's it like? Is it really nice?

[misconceived]

[ Chris kind of tilts his head at the image on the screen, eyes narrowing just a bit before he straightens out. ]

Not for long. It was... it was like a lobby. A really nice lobby.

[catamite]

[and Nel's mild excitement just carries on.]

Was there any food? I bet it's way better than the little ships...

[misconceived]

I'm sorry, hold on. I thought everyone ended up on that ship first.

[catamite]

They do. ...Well kinda.

I didn't. But, I think it was because I was here, like... right when it started or something.

[misconceived]

What, the show? You've been here since the beginning?

[catamite]

Yeah.

Well, actually... no?

[he squints at the screen.]

Just, like... this one part of the show. I guess.

[misconceived]

[ He rolls his wrist in a motion for the guy to continue. ]

Meaning...?

[catamite]

[explaining is not one of Nel's strongest skills.

...in fact, he's really looking more and more like he might be a little stoned.]

I wasn't here at the beginning of the whole show. That was probably, like... a long time ago.

[misconceived]

... right. You mean this round. Season. Whatever they want to call it. When did that start?

[catamite]

Yeah! That.

A couple months ago, I think?

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You think? Either you think or you know. It's the same as how long you've been here, right?

[catamite]

Yeah?

[...which implies that he might not be entirely sure how long he's been here...]

[misconceived]

[ oh ffs ]

... and how long has that been?

[catamite]

A few months...

[...yep.]

[misconceived]

Right. Okay.

Anything else you can tell me? About being here so long, maybe?

[catamite]

Um. The food is really terrible, and there's no music. Aside from sometimes on the planets and stuff.

Also money is weird, and so are the people running the show. ...It's all weird.

[misconceived]

Money is weird. How is money weird?

[catamite]

You get paid for doing things that people like, I guess.

And sometimes the money is these little pieces of plastic, and some of it is just... on this card thing, like automatically. And everybody gets paid? I dunno.

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Right, because we're supposedly performing for them.

Like a credit card?

[catamite]

I guess so?

[not the expert on the having-money topic, here]

[misconceived]

What do we even use money for?

[catamite]

Oh! There are these station things where you can go shopping. Also there are planets.

You can buy food and booze and... all kinds of things.

[misconceived]

Stations and planets. Wow.

Supplies or just edibles?

[catamite]

Yeah... some of the stations even have these, like... big crazy bird things on them. I forget what they're called. Big-birds, or something.

And I guess you can get all kinds of stuff? Like... soap, and... ship-parts...

[he hasn't spent much time buying anything but food and booze, what can he say?]