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Rogue ([personal profile] touchofrogue) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-07-18 09:32 pm

[ Video, Action ] Deuce of Clubs

Who: Rogue and you! Yes, you.
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Saturday afternoon

[A is for Unintentional Broadcasting (or action, if anyone's there)]
[When Rogue wakes on the Marvisa, the video picks up on her suddenly convulsing. It has been months since she has experienced her powers in full, and her mind is thrown into sudden, loud, throbbing pain. She is surprised that the internal chaos is not as bad as it has been, and after a moment she realizes why: she only has three psyches left, and they are all more or less friendly. After taking a few moments to settle down, Rogue sits up. She is woozy, distracted and disoriented. She goes to stand and overbalances, the missing appendages on her back throwing her off enough that she trips on a sheet and falls gracelessly to the floor.]

Oh for the love of -[she can hardly believe it, she reaches to her back to confirm: her wings are gone.]- what in the Sam Hill--

[At this point, the Network decides that further following Rogue Walking Around to Get her Bearings will be boring, and shifts to something else. Later, she comes back to the communicator not only to answer any return comments that her embarrassing swan dive might have drawn, but to address the fleet as a whole.]

[B is for Delibrate Broadcasting]
[While the communicators aren't set up like Luceti journals, Rogue gets the general idea. She sends out a video post.]

Uh - hi. My name's Rogue, an' I guess I'd like ta speak to the Welcoming Committee. I'm hopin' to get a little bit more than the 'Lost in Space' vibe up here. Speakin' of... anyone have any idea how to turn this music off? I swear it's killin' brain cells.

[A pause. Her gaze shifts downward, and she seems to be bracing herself before she looks back up and addresses the camera with a small smile and a wry, if slightly hopeful light in her eyes.]

Guess I should throw some names out there, just to see if anythin' will stick. Anyone ever hear of... a group called X-Men, say? [A gloved hand reaches up to wrap around a deep green crystal pendent hanging from her neck.] Or a place called 'Luceti'?

[Another awkward pause. She's got a LOT OF EMOTIONS right now, okay, and she's not sure what else to say or do. She kind of hates throwing her hopes out to space like this, but what other choice did she have, really? She gives the camera another quick, small smile.]

Thanks.


[Rogue stretched. She was standing on a narrow railing in the Hospitality Deck - just standing. She hadn’t tried walking yet. She was still not used to this strange feeling of being without her wings. Her balance was off when she moved, when she stood… it would take her a few days to get used to it, maybe longer. She’d get used to it, though. If there was one thing all her experiences had taught her, it was that you could adapt to anything.

Her wings. Her wings were gone. She'd been left with two narrow scars running a lurid red down her back. She could access Logan and heal them, easy, she thought. But right now they were a physical reminder that she hadn't lost her mind completely. She could use that. She felt… oddly adrift (ha ha, and she couldn’t even blame Kurt for that). Even when she’d come into Luceti, Kurt and Kitty had been there. She didn't know what to do. She was alone and afraid... and already lonely.

She took her first step forward and wobbled, much to her frustration, and then another step. She didn’t fall - not yet - but it would be all right if she did. Rogue knew how to fall. She’d just take it one step at a time.]
geonomy: (☆ sink in the river)

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[personal profile] geonomy 2015-07-21 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup! I'm from Earth, and more specifically, Los Angeles. I guess that means you've got reality TV shows, too? [Clay himself hasn't watched them much, only glanced when they were on elsewhere. It never really interested him that much - he'd rather yell at space movies and show that got space all wrong.]
geonomy: (☆ down this river every turn)

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[personal profile] geonomy 2015-07-24 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, Mississippi! So you're from the USA, too!

... You know what's weird? I feel like saying "it's a small world", even though we're from two different states and... probably two different times and versions of Earth. What year are you from, by the way?
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[personal profile] geonomy 2015-07-27 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
2027. [He wiggles his fingers at the screen.] Woooo, I'm from the futuuuure!
geonomy: (☆ cause now i'm shining bright)

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[personal profile] geonomy 2015-07-27 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
At least now you know that all those predictions about the world ending on some year are all fake. Hearing everyone scream about 2012 was a nightmare.

[He was only eight at the time, so he didn't really get it. But he remembers how his mother would get all huffy every time she heard about it.]
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[personal profile] geonomy 2015-08-10 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Clay waves a hand at that, a slight eyeroll accompanying it.]

Ah, that's all pseudoscience anyway. Doing some simple astronomical research should've debunked that for everybody, but you know how people latch on to stuff like that. [Kind of annoying in his field of study.]
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[personal profile] geonomy 2015-08-14 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[... Ah - ]

Well, I mean, it is pretty - or even just asking an astronomer would get the answer they wanted! [But, again, you know how people are, when the evidence is shoved in their face and they still refuse to believe it.]
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[personal profile] geonomy 2015-08-21 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
What? No! I'm not that bad, come on. [8((( INSULTING.]