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[nextlineis]

Who: Joseph & (God help) you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva, yo!!
When: nao

[For a little while, there is not steady broadcast. It cuts in and out long enough to show a face, a shoulder, ceilings, and maybe a wall or two, obscured by fingers covering parts of the camera. Once a while it's just audio, a few curses or other mutterings cut short. And sometimes, yes. You get incoherent keysmashes likejhdsakfhsdh and jdkl;ffnfffff.]

[Finally, it does turn on and manages to stay on, but its user seems perfectly unaware as,]

Oh, forget it!

[And down, down the communicator goes as its tossed over his shoulder. At least you can tell he's wearing nice boots before he kicks it away for good measure and sends it spinning across the floor.]

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[ino]

[ And here's Ino, looking wholly unimpressed. ]

Really?

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[nextlineis]

Hm?

[He's not visible from where the communicator ended up, but he's also wondering where the heck that voice is coming from. It will be several seconds before he walks over, crouches, and flips it over so at least some part of him is visible.]

Oh hey. [He grins, wide.] It works!

[Don't you dare tell him he didn't do that, okay. He totally made it work.]

[ino]

Yes, it works. You were just pushing the wrong buttons.

[nextlineis]

It has too many buttons. [It is clearly not his fault he was struggling before, but he's going to move right along past that.] But obviously I pushed the right ones eventually.

So who are you anyway? And where are you?

[ino]

[ She just lifts an eyebrow, but there's no comment. This guy is obviously new, and that's more important. ]

My name is Ino. And I'm not on the Marsiva, where it looks like you are -- I'm on a different ship.

[nextlineis]

Nice to meet you, Ino. My name is Joseph, but you can call me JoJo. [He points in a direction off-camera. She can't see the window he's pointing at though.] Are you on one of those ships out there?

[ino]

[ Jojo ... what a cute name for such a buff dude ... ]

Yep, that's right. Mine is called Three Twins. There's a big fleet of ships, and by the end of the week you'll be on one of them yourself.

[nextlineis]

[Considering his lack of success in finding any controls around here to fly this ship, the idea of moving to another ship sounds like a better prospect. However, there is one small thing that takes priority over figuring out his chances at being a spaceship pilot.]

Will the same thing happen for Caesar?

[ino]

Uh -- I don't know who that is. Is he there with you?

[nextlineis]

Of course he is. [A beat.] Well, he's obviously not in the same room as me right now, but he's here on the ship somewhere.

[ino]

Then yes, he'll also get moved to a ship.

[ Look, you don't seem like the brightest bulb in the box, Jojo ... She had to ask. ]

Not sure which one, there's quite a few that have open space at the moment.

[nextlineis]

[Okay, you know what? ...That is 100% accurate and fair. Not that Joseph would share that opinion if he knew that's what she was thinking. He would actually take offense at it and probably get a little huffy, but he's oblivious and just believes it was a weird question.]

Do you know which ones?

[ino]

Uh ... off the top of my head, I think the only one without any open spots is the Blue Fish.

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[alwayscomeback]

[He'll tilt his head a little, because that sure is a nice view of the floor. He'll just...call out. ]

You were holding it wrong.

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[nextlineis]

What?

[Who said that?]

[alwayscomeback]

You gotta come back to the communicator.

The thing you just dropped on the ground?

Marco?

[nextlineis]

[Well, okay. He'll go get it. It'll be a few brief seconds since he kicked it pretty darn far.]

Polo?

[Hi, Sokka.]

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka gives him a wave.]

There you are. You use these things to talk to people here. Kinda important.

[nextlineis]

There's people here?

[So far he's seen Caesar and...Caesar. That's it.]

[alwayscomeback]

Yep! Lots of us, all on different ships. You're on the Marsiva now, so it's just...whoever is in there with you. In a couple days, you#ll be shuffled onto a smaller ship, and you have a little more freedom.

[nextlineis]

Oh yeah? [He's trying to decide if that will be a good thing or a bad thing, but he doesn't know enough about the situation to make that decision right away. So, for the moment, he'll set that aside.] Any idea which ship that'll be?

[alwayscomeback]

Nope, it's at random. But if you don't like it, you can always transfer to another ship, if they've got room. It just takes a little paperwork, is all.

[nextlineis]

That simple?

[Joseph is skeptical.]

[alwayscomeback]

That simple. It's one of the few things here that's not needlessly complicated.

[nextlineis]

So what are the complicated parts?