01 | action + video

[stefanged]

Who: Stefan Salvatore and YOU!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Paisley
When: Following the shuffle!

[action]

[Instant teleportation sucks. Especially when it's too quick for him to process - and then bam! He's... somewhere. Somewhere that's throwing confetti into his face and playing loud, welcoming music?

He nearly stumbles back into the wall, instead regaining his bearings in time to take a look around the ship. Stefan's step is hesitant as he grips his messenger bag tight and explores various places. While he's not exactly stealthy, he's not trying to intrude on anyone either.

In the end, he's settled down in the med lab, inspecting the equipment and trying to discern what's different from the hospitals and labs he's worked in back home - it's not what he's expected, but he could get used to it.]

[video]

[Stefan had held off on announcing his presence via communicator - partially because it wasn't the Network, and partially because they're recording him 24/7 anyways. Does he really need to give the NSA (or whatever this universe's version of the NSA) more fuel for their potentially Islamophobic fire?

Once he's holed himself up in the med lab, he fiddles with the communicator until he's found the video function--]

The longer I'm here, the more I wonder about people's - various species? - taste in television. [He smiles, though it's thin.] Or our showrunners' definition of "informed consent." Doesn't seem like anyone here remembers signing those NDA's.

I... well, this is kind of a weird question, but does anyone know what direction the sun's in? Or how I'd find out what direction the sun's in? It's pretty important. [More than important - it's necessary for his prayers, though he knows better than to voice that out loud.]

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[stefanged]

[ooc | haha wow, i know my solar systems, don't mind me.]

It's okay - I shouldn't have assumed we were near it. But yeah, I'm from Earth.

What about you? If you've never heard of the Milky Way, you're from... another planet, then?

[hearsthesea]

Oh, so is that where Earth is?

[News to her, anyway.]

I do come from somewhere else. We don't have have a name for it like Earth, however. We've never had much need for one.

[stefanged]

Yeah. I don't remember much, so you'd have to ask someone else, but Earth and a bunch of planets are part of it.

[It figures - if they're traveling in outer space, then they would've naturally grabbed people from other planets. She just looks so human. Maybe she's like Superman or something.] Yeah? Then uh, what do you call your country? Or hometown?

[hearsthesea]

Um...

[Well, technically she doesn't have either of those - that still exist, anyway. So, the next best thing!]

My home is on the Legacy, a ship that has no official affiliation with another country.

[stefanged]

[Give him a few seconds to process that...]

Okay, so... is it a space ship like these? Or more like an actual ship?

[hearsthesea]

No, it's a ship on the sea. I'd never left the planet until they took me here.

[stefanged]

Right. [She HAD just mentioned she had no need for her planet's name - sea travel would be the only way to go.]

What kind of place was the Legacy, then? I'm guessing it's not much like these. Or actual ships.

[hearsthesea]

It's...grand. The Legacy is even larger than the Marsiva, as large as a continent. There are only a few settlements on the ship today, but a much larger population lived there once.

[stefanged]

[He doesn't know what he was expecting, but a giant continental ship wasn't it.]

Wow. I kinda want to ask more, but I have a feeling we might be here a while. [Like "how do people live on a hunk of metal?" and "how did a large population survive that long?"] Thanks for your help anyways, um...

[Names. Names might be important.] I'm Stefan, by the way.

[hearsthesea]

And I'm Shirley. Welcome to the show, even if this isn't where you wanted to be.

[stefanged]

I appreciate it, Shirley. It could be way worse, so I don't mind rolling with the flow for now.

How long've you been a part of this?

[hearsthesea]

It's been nearly six months now. Nobody knows how much longer it will last, but surely this can't last forever.

[stefanged]

Six? That's longer than a typical season. [If they're going by the 22-episode mark, anyways. Stefan doesn't really know his television - he's not in the film industry - but he's got a rough idea of how long seasons last.]

I guess they're trying to film this all in one go, however they're accomplishing it.

[hearsthesea]

[...Yeah, that means more to you than her, Stefan.]

That isn't how things are normally done, then?

[stefanged]

I can't say for sure. I didn't work in entertainment back home, but... filming for reality TV shouldn't take this long normally.

Maybe our producers, or the guys in charge, are running on a different schedule.

[hearsthesea]

Perhaps. Things change roughly every month, but I don't know much more about our schedule than you do.

[stefanged]

I figured as much. The lack of advance notice, I mean, not the "things changing every month or so."

That would be giving our TV overlords too much credit.

[hearsthesea]

It would be, unfortunately. There are some people who appear time to time to give us news, but otherwise they don't seem very interested in communicating with us.

[stefanged]

Of course. Because if we could talk to them, we'd figure out all their secrets.

[Excuse his frustration - it's not aimed at her in the least.] What kind of news is it usually?

[hearsthesea]

It's rarely very informative about the outside world. News about changes to crew roster, comments on the systems we're in...sometimes they'll offer vague warnings, but I doubt it's all they know.

[stefanged]

If they know enough to warn us? Probably not.

[The Fleet sounds like a giant lawsuit waiting to happen, really.] Thanks for the heads-up.

[hearsthesea]

It's no problem. It would have been helpful if I could have expected some of this back when I was first taken here.

[stefanged]

Just means you're more experienced than the rest of us. [laughs]

Hey, those rating things actually matter, right? It might work in your favor.

[hearsthesea]

It might be wasted on me, just a little bit. Our goal is to get high ratings, but I don't think I'm the sort of person who's fun to watch.

[stefanged]

I wouldn't say that. Your world's different from mine, but it doesn't make you any less "fun."

[Though now that she mentions it, why would they bring him, anyways? Do they get a sadistic kick out of watching a vampire struggle with how his existence goes against his religious principles?

... Yeah, probably.] So, the more you play to the cameras, the more you get paid or something?