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[mylegacy]

Who: Caesar Zeppeli and your face
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Friday and Saturday before the shuffle!

[All things told, Caesar does not spend a lot of time on introspection when he arrives on the Marsiva. He takes a few moments to look at the stars - astonishingly bright and close, almost frighteningly so, when you're used to cities, or being too busy to look up and see the space that God made - and then looks away. For fear of being overwhelmed, maybe, or because he has other things to do.]

[Though he can't begin to imagine what they are. What do you do after you've died?]

[When he figures out how to access the network, he doesn't hesitate at all. Hesitating means thinking, and if he thinks too much about this his voice will come out weak, lost, confused. He is a Zeppeli; that would be unforgivable.]

[So it comes out strong, full, his syllables well-rounded and imbued with good humor.]

Buongiorno, all, I - seem to have taken a wrong turn somewhere around Mars. I don't suppose anyone has a map?

[He chuckles briefly, then sombers. There's information in his head that he doesn't know the source of, but he can guess.]

There are many people trapped here. I know that much already. I know what is happening. What I don't understand is why.

[Or what is to be done about it. (Although where would he go, if he wasn't here?)]

Comments

[mylegacy]

You work quickly. But you haven't been here long enough to discern a pattern here yet?

[experiencepoints]

The circumstances are different. Less happens here.

[mylegacy]

Are you bored, signorina?

[experiencepoints]

No way, I'm getting to sleep in for the first time in months.

[so, hell yes.]

[mylegacy]

That sounds a little boring.

[Although wow it also sounds super nice. What is sleep.]

[experiencepoints]

It's still an improvement.

[mylegacy]

Then I hope it lasts for your sake.

[And his. Because. Fuck the entire last month.]

[experiencepoints]

Thanks, but don't get your hopes up. It never lasts.

[mylegacy]

[Speaking from experience again, he knows. But he won't call her out on it, not right now.]

I'll do my best to be as pessimistic as possible, then, just for you.

[experiencepoints]

That's good. That's how you stay alive.

[mylegacy]

[Just the barest hint of a flinch, here.]

Is it really.

[experiencepoints]

Alive-ish, anyway.

[Doesn't seem to have noticed...]

[mylegacy]

I didn't realize you could be alive-ish.

[He's kind of a liar, though.]

[experiencepoints]

I can think of a few ways. But then, my captain's apparently a vampire.

[mylegacy]

Really.

[H u h. B|]

[experiencepoints]

So she claims, anyway. One that drinks engineering instead of blood.

Don't ask. I don't have an explanation either.

[mylegacy]

Has she killed anyone that you know of?

[You know, just. Taking a survey.]

[experiencepoints]

She killed my desire to ask her more questions. It was swift and brutal.

[mylegacy]

Oh, well. That's probably fine then.

[s i g h]

[experiencepoints]

You don't have to worry about her. I'm pretty sure the only thing she can hurt is your brain, and that's just by talking to you.

[mylegacy]

It sounds easy enough to avoid, at least.

[experiencepoints]

Pretty easy, yeah.

[mylegacy]

Thank you for the warning all the same.

[He will still probably be investigating this in some way because fuck vampires forever, but. Reassuring.]

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, no problem. Just don't do anything stupid, all right?

[mylegacy]

[Nightingale, you are talking to someone from the jojos franchise. "Anything stupid" is all he does.]

Of course not. I'd hate to disappoint you so soon.