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[stickupherforehead]

Who: Pearl and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: 6/19 till shuffle

[sleeping Pearl kinda looks dead. If anything, it's probably because she's not moving at all. Or breathing, for that matter. And when she regains consciousness, it's all at once. No gradual waking up for her.

In fact, as soon as her eyes pop open, she's scrambling out of the bed, getting tangled in the bedsheets, and falling onto the floor right onto her face with a loud thud.

A hissing intake of breath, and then Pearl is turning around and staring in surprise at...the bed.]

Sleeping? But that's not...I've never -

[and then she finally sees the giant windows and more importantly, the fact that she's in space. Oh and also that she's probably been kidnapped or something like that.

..............]

GARNET! AMETHYST!!!

[and she's tearing off the bedsheets and scrambling to her feet. Don't hyperventilate. Stay calm. Don't freak out. This doesn't look like Gem based technology. Then again, she barely knows what modern Gem technology looks like. But, but it could also be some completely unknown alien species who had somehow kidnapped her and taken her hostage and of which she knows absolutely nothing about!!

.....] STEVEN!!

Comments

[stickupherforehead]

Though they do tend to do the same things over and over again, but given their short memories and lifespans...

[it's okay. Pearl's ruder, without even noticing. And she doesn't seem to think it's rude. In fact, she seems a bit distracted as she does her best to pull off the paneling.] Oh, I'm a Crystal Gem. My name is Pearl.

[cpt_ressentiment]

Pearl, huh?

[ Which means he's staring at her forehead again, for a second. Well, that's easy to remember. What was that about humans and their short memories? Then he turns his attention back to her, proper. ]

I'm Yosuke. Nice to meet you, even if this whole thing is... really freaky.

[stickupherforehead]

[Pearl nods.] It's discomfiting, to think that someone or something has the capability to simply spirit one away without any clues whatsoever.

[the thing doesn't even budge, so now she's frowning again. And drawing a spear out of her suddenly glowing gem.]

[cpt_ressentiment]

Yeah, seriously... whatever this Atroma group is, I mean, if they're even a group-- whoa!!

[ He stumbles a step or two back, completely surprised. ]

How did--? You can do that?!

[stickupherforehead]

...Yes? [in that she did do that.

And she's swiping effortlessly at the wall. And it's completely intact.]

.......What the -

[looking at her spear, at the wall, and then back to her spear. And then she's spinning around and cuts a spare cot in half with one strike.]

I don't - How could this -

[looks like somebody's weapon got nerfed]

[cpt_ressentiment]

[ He's just gonna keep staring for a moment, flabbergasted - and a little jealous! She can do that, but he doesn't get to have his kunai? Ain't that some shit.

She swings at the cot, and he jumps back with a quiet "whoa--!" as he watches the thing break clean in two. He looks at the wreckage, then at the wall, then back to her. ]

Well... unless that wall's made of some crazy material, you should have done to it what you did to the bed. Right? Man... We just keep finding more and more reasons not to like this place.

[stickupherforehead]

[well, it looks like she can only cut less integral things. And not people. So it probably won't be as useful as it could be.]

But this makes no sense! [she's squinting at the blade, as if a magic weapon could somehow be dulled. And then the spear disappears into motes of light and she's examining the wall again.] And this doesn't even have a shield!

[blink] So unless I've been changed...

[okay this just went from bad to worse]