5. [video]

[pompous_today]

Who: Simon Tam and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: August 13th

I have a rather strange question. Twice now, people have arrived here who look nearly identical to people I knew back home- and yet, they are clearly not those people. They are close in looks, but in personality... not so much.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is it just something I should chalk up to alternate universes and time travel? It's rather unsettling, to tell the truth...

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[pompous_today]

Well, if the audience likes you enough, you may well be able to. Or we might end up on a planet where you can get just what you need- or gamble for it, as was the case a few months ago.

[iamawaited]

What kinds of things do they like?

[pompous_today]

It's hard to say, to be honest. I don't think I am all that interesting, but I suppose some of the members of the audience find me physically attractive, as they have sent me gifts before. ... mostly wishing I would grow a beard.

[iamawaited]

A beard?

[He pulls a face.]

Those are for strays and Wastelanders.

[pompous_today]

Personally, as a doctor I just prefer to stay clean-shaven. It's more sanitary that way, and I feel like it looks neater.

[iamawaited]

Oh-- you're the doctor?

[People keep telling him it's not Organic Mechanic here, it's doctor, and everyone keeps mentioning it, but he has yet to actually come up against one until now. Coil, sort of, but Coil's... different. This is the first he's met anyone to call himself a doctor.]

[pompous_today]

I am- one of several in the Fleet, in fact. I live on the Bloodsport if you ever have need of my services.

[iamawaited]

[Nux shakes his head quickly. From the scars displayed all across his face, he maybe could have used one sooner... on the other hand, they're very precise and neatly healed, so maybe he knows what he's doing well enough.]

I'm fine.

[pompous_today]

[Simon nodded.]

But if you do at any time in the future, you know where to find me.