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Who: Wrath
Broadcast: Fleetwide Video
Action: HS Marsiva hospitality deck
When: 6/13

[It's... probably a sad statement about Wrath's life that waking up in a strange place with something plugged into her neck? Not actually that weird. Not remembering how she got to said place? Also not that weird. Not remembering signing up for some kind of reality show?

At this point she just assumes that she's been subjected to another recode.

...okay, maybe a recode that went a little wrong. Who knows how much time she's lost, but it's an accomplishment that she's immediately aware of those things, she knows that. And she also knows better than to think about it too hard. Just have to roll with the punches.

Focus on what she can do. Which would be figuring out the communicator thing (hey, that's all pretty familiar!), try to read some stuff to get oriented, give up on reading, and just go for it.

So there you go. Tiny woman, bright pink hair, surprisingly deep voice.]

Maine? Orion? You around anywhere? Delta? North? Christine? Foxtrot? Whiskey?

[That basically covers everyone immediately important.]

Also, if anyone's seen my cane, I'd really like to have it back. It's about... uh. This big. [Holds hands apart.] And it's a cane. But don't press the button on it, there's a sword inside and the spring is kind of touchy.

And my chems. Those are kind of important.

And my kitten. This big. [Teeny.] Calico tabby with little pink jellybean toes.

That will be all, thank you.

[Very authoritative nod, sign off.]

[And after this, she's limping off to find a window and lose her damn mind with delight that she's in space. She can't wait to tell Maine! ...at some point.]

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None of them are code names, though. Well except Foxtrot and Whiskey, but that's more like a job title.

I'm kind of used to waking up in places and not remembering how I got there. I'm just glad I can still remember my friends. So the rest doesn't seem so bad.

You know someone named Maine? That's gotta get confusing.

That sounds like a pretty crazy life.

Why would it be confusing? He'd the only person I know named Maine.

Parts of it were really awesome. I had a great job and i was really good at it. The memory recodes... Like I didn't really know at the time. But now I know it's bad.

'cause of the, uh, the state? You goin' to visit your pal Maine, everyone thinks you're leaving the state?

What kinda job's that?

There's a state called Maine? Where? [... Maybe it's named after him?]

I was the CO of a mobile infantry platoon for... A long time.

The United States? Earth?

That doesn't sound like any military operation I ever heard of. [But he's impressed!]

Oh, old Earth? The United States are a thing there? [History was not her best subject, even before she had holes put in her brain.]

Ghost Wolf Company is kind of famous on Zeus but maybe not where you're from? Specializing in heavy combat hovercycles and plasma arc tank cutting weapons.

What's your name? I'm Wrath. I was the lieutenant of Wrath platoon.

I'm Ray, and you gotta-- you gotta back up a little there, lady. You're losing me. Old Earth? Zeus? Plasma arc tank?

Nice to meet you, Ray! That's a cute name.

Oh. Um.

Well, old Earth? You know, the place where humans came from? You have to call it Old Earth, because New Earth was the first major terraformed colony, right, and that's in the Sigma Draconis system. And then Zeus is around a star that technically just has a number for a name but we all call it Pantheon.

And tanks don't have plasma arcs. See, the other cities had all these really good metals mines so they were building shit like tanks, but my city--Proles--didn't. So instead, they came up with plasma arc weapons, so you can disable the enemy tanks by cutting them in half. Goes through almost any armor. Even second wave nanocomposites.

[The tips of his ears go a little red at that-- he doesn't think anyone really considers Ray to be a cute name, but whatever, he'll take it.]

That's... Pretty impressive, right? Uh... I think I might be from Old Earth. You think that's possible?

[Oh gosh, he's even cuter when he blushes. Hee.]

Yeah, why not? I think people are still there. And I've even met people from Old Earth, except it's not old Earth to them? There's some kind of time travel thing, which is really confusing.

No kiddin', I'm confused even listening to it. [he's grinning a little, though, through the blush.]

Glad you're not all that confused by this stuff, though. That's gotta be a whole lot easier.

It's not that I'm not confused, it's that I'm always so fucking confused by everything that I just do my best and don't let it bother me.

Shit hasn't made any sense in my life for the last three months.

Only the last three months, huh?

But I get that. Sometimes you just gotta roll with the punches, right?

Everything made sense in the army. [At least that she can remember. So who knows about the rest.]

Well yeah! What else can you do? Life's a bitch.

Well-said, lady.

Think you're gonna be fine here. Hey, come visit the Windrose after the shuffle, I got some shitty booze I wanna get rid off.

Well, I'm not supposed to drink booze any more, but we should still hang out! So I'll definitely come over when that happens.

Edited 2015-06-25 04:07 (UTC)

Sweet. See ya then.