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[experiencepoints]

Who: Nightingale and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva hospitality deck
When: Now!

[action]

[Nightingale's awakening is much lower-key than most, sitting up in the bed and realizing quickly that she is not where she should be. The best way to cope, of course, is looking around, taking in her surroundings, and just talking to herself.]

Okay... So, this must be a game. Don't think I recognize any space Echoes, though... Whatever, I should figure out the win conditions, first. And hope it's not another 'everyone dies' game.

[she lifts a hand, and a strong wind whips through the area, throwing bedsheets and pillows around.]

Okay, magic's still on, that's... usually a good sign.

[She doesn't seem to have noticed the mess she made. Or maybe she doesn't care. Either way.]

[Video]

[Having immediately fallen into the assumption that this is a game, Nightingale isn't too bothered by the idea of being able to operate technology she hasn't seen before- it's not like it's the first time, after all. She takes a deep breath, and starts talking to the camera. Noticeably, she still hasn't cleaned up her prior mess.]

This is Nightingale, from Takshaka. I don't know what's going on, but this game seems a bit different. Can you check in with which teams are here? And Roc, Gull, Hawk, Magpie, Togetic, Sparrow, any of you around?

And which Echo is this, while I'm at it? I don't recognize any with a space theme going on unless it's the damn Bone Witch again. If I see that dress or that whale again, I'm going to find a way to leave in the middle.

Comments

Action!

[preformthisneigh]

[Oh hey, somepony else at last. It's been a few months since Cheese last saw a human-shaped-thing, but he's pretty sure he still has the hang of basic etiquette. He casually jumps over a wayward, windblown pillow, before ambling over. ]

I'm pretty sure it's not a game. Or, it's not a good game. You can't win like in pin the tail on the pony or pass the parcel. This is more a 'surprise, you've been kidnapped from your home and you can't get back on your own' sort of game. Nopony wins in that game.

Action!

[experiencepoints]

[It takes her a moment of blank staring to process what she's seeing.]

A... talking horse. Okay. Sure, not the weirdest thing I've seen. Are you the Echo here?

[preformthisneigh]

[Cheese, of course, is used to this sort of reaction, he's come to expect it. ]

So long as I'm not the weirdest thing. Aaand no, I'm not the echo, or even an echo. [To himself. ] Echoechoecho. You find those in caves.

The name's Cheese Sandwich. [He gestures to the rubber chicken on his back.] This is Boneless 2. We're new here, too.

[experiencepoints]

[Ah, it's the kind of conversation where she can feel her tenuous grasp on logic and sanity slipping.]

... "Cheese Sandwich". I hate to admit it, but that's still not the dumbest name I've heard, either. Which team are you, then?

[preformthisneigh]

[He has no grasp on reality at all, and has a tendancy to drag others along with him. She's doomed. ]

It's a perfectly acceptable pony name, I'll have you know. You know what's weird to me? Human names. Like, Pam or Brian. What's up with that?

[Oh. She's asking him a question. ]

Uh...There are teams? Is this like when the castle split into two? Because that didn't go so well. I'm not great at teams.

video

[ofbelief]

[ Stares at. Long and hard That's it. That's what she does. And then she squeaks out in awkward disbelief: ]

Nightingale?


This is not a Takshaka you were expecting. And she certainly didn't expect to see anyone.

[experiencepoints]

[Nightingale wasn't exactly expecting to see Lark of all people here, either.]

Lark? What- When did you get back? Shouldn't you be with Cecilia still?

[And if Lark is back, who left?]

[ofbelief]

[ Welp. She squirms in her eat on the makeshift window seat and tries to think of what to say. This is the second person she didn't expect here in a month. ]

No. I've been here for a month? A little over now... No one else from Tashaka is here. And its no where near the castle, I think.

[experiencepoints]

... A month? That doesn't- I just visited Bluebird a couple days ago, I think. What do you mean?

[survives]

It's... [A laugh and a shake of her head.] I don't know about a game, but it's a TV show.

[experiencepoints]

... It's a what.

[survives]

Yeah, it's pretty weird, right? It's supposed to be, um, a reality TV show. So... everyone's watching what we're doing.

[She tries not to think about it too hard, okay.]

[experiencepoints]

[you can practically see the panic building up as she tries really, really hard to keep it suppressed.]

Watching what we're doing. As in... all the time? Or just sometimes, or in certain places?

[averagestar]

Umm... I don't quite understand what all you mean. You're using a lot of strange terms, but... This is a reality show, isn't it? Even if the setting is kind of weird.

[experiencepoints]

... Wait, what? Reality show? Are you high?

[averagestar]

That's a really dangerous accusation, you know. Accusations like that ruin careers.

No, I'm not high. Rather, shouldn't the implant be telling you this already?

...I'm pretty sure implants like that are illegal, but considering that they dragged so many people here, I suppose they don't really care about that.

[experiencepoints]

Okay, either this is what I'm thinking, and you don't have a career because we're all dead, or it's what this... implant is apparently telling me, and this is a reality show, in which case, you still don't have a career, so it's harmless.

Yeah, I've got a bunch of extra knowledge in my head, but I haven't exactly had time to sort through it, and who exactly would be stupid enough to trust this extra knowledge in their head in this kind of a situation?

audio;

[feathery]

Why are you looking for birds.

[experiencepoints]

They're my team's names.

[feathery]

Does that make you guys the bird team. You don't look much like a bird.

[experiencepoints]

... Technically, we were the snake team, I don't know why they decided on bird names. Most of us are human. Except Wren and Magpie, I guess.

video;

[limitstorm]

You were in a game?

[ that piques his interest. didn't neku and joshua both talk about games? ]

Sorry--the only teams we're on here are the ships we're on.

Re: video;

[experiencepoints]

That was not a game.

[Her reply is instant, with a snap and venom to her voice that she wasn't aware she was capable of, before she catches herself, sucking in a deep breath through her teeth.]

Sorry- It's a little different. They were called games by the assholes who ran them, that's all.

I'm starting to get that this wasn't where I thought it was.

[limitstorm]

[ he frowns, pulling his head a bit back at her reply.

well, he should've expected that. ]

Some... [ ... what can he call them? ] f--friends of mine were in something called a 'Game'. I just wondered if it was the same thing.

I guess it's not.

[ pulls at his bangs. ]

You wouldn't be the first one. Welcome to Marsiva, I guess.

[experiencepoints]

... Sorry, can you tell me about that game of theirs?

[shakes head]

Thanks. I'm Nightingale. You?