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Who: Max Caulfield & Anybody
Broadcast: Open
Action: SS Marsiva
When: Saturday, pre-shuffle

[ Max is almost used to waking up in weird places. But when she awakens to the crisp, clean, sterile surroundings of the Marsiva's hospitality deck, she knows something is wrong. Her dorm room, Chloe's room, school maybe, the lighthouse... but this felt more like a hospital. Where...? ]

This isn't... where is this? [ She's quick enough to her feet, glancing around. ] Calm down, Max, just need to figure out... where......

[ She trails off when she catches sight of those bowing windows in the viewing bay, showing... space. ]

No way. No way... This can't be real.

[ She seems to be in denial for a few moments. Gaping, staring, taking a step back...

And then, hands shaking... she pulls out an old instant camera and snaps a picture. "Always take the shot." That's what she had been told.

She shakes the photo that pops out for a moment, then stares at it, as if the view would somehow be different. But alas, it is not. ] This is really happening, isn't it? I'm in space. How?

[ Assume she's open to messages here. During and following those, though, she'll be snooping around the deck, looking at and through anything and everything. Snoop, Max, snoop and figure things out. ]

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[ Oh, hey, it's an actual adult! Probably a good thing, really. Although Max doubts being an adult would help at all with kidnapping, of all things. ~~Even if Max is technically an adult sssshhh.~~ ]

At least I'm not the only one who's been kidnapped, I guess.

[ She has to pause for a moment, though. Because- ] Dude, we were just kidnapped, and you went to take a shower?

[Castle paused with the drying and smiled sheepishly.]

Well, uh- I was sick before I was brought here, so I thought it'd wake me up a bit. You know, for whatever they're planning on doing to us. Not that anyone seems to be in a rush to discuss that.

I don't think the kidnappers talk to us much. You can use these to talk to the other people here, though. [ Gestures to both the communicators and the screens around the room. ]

We're apparently on some... alien reality TV show. And I know how crazy that sounds. But if it's a lie, everybody else here believes it at least.

[Castle nodded as he took a seat beside the young woman, looking down at his own communicator.]

Makes sense- though I admit, I've been a bit reluctant to touch mine. Waking up with a strange phone on you can never mean anything good.

[He blinked and shook his head.]

... Out of all the crazy things I ever imagined would happen to me in my life, "kidnapped to star in a space reality show" definitely wasn't on that list.

I don't think anybody could even imagine this scenario. It's pretty out-there.

I want to say it sounds pretty cool, except the "against my will" part. Oh, and the part where I haven't seen anyone familiar to me yet. ... so it's not actually all that cool.

If they're kidnapping a lotta people, they'll probably want to spread it out. Keep suspicion down. If they take people who are connected, the police might realize they're not isolated incidents, right?

...Sorry, I think I read too many conspiracy websites.

Hey, I work with the police, so that line of thinking makes perfect sense to me. But I am pretty well-known back home... people are going to notice I'm gone pretty quickly, and my fiancee's a federal agent. She's going to have everyone she can looking for me.

That must be nice. People go missing in my town and the police give up after like a week. I'll probably be leaving my best friend to put up even more missing person posters.

... It is a pretty sobering thought, though, either way. Even if not a lot of people would end up looking for you... someone's going to be missing us back home.

[ Max seems to be deep in thought now. She can't help but wonder if this is the same thing that happened to Rachel Amber. ]

Well, with where we are... all the people in the world looking can't help us, can it?

In space? Yeah, that's... going to be a problem. We haven't been able to get anyone past the moon yet where I come from. Let alone onto a gigantic ship like this.

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