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Who: Jim Barnes
Broadcast: Fleetwide video + audio
Action: Iskaulit.
When: August 20th.

[ The video flicks on to a spacious room, spans it from left to right, then top to bottom. There's a door off to the right side, and the camera follows it to the adjoining room, similarly large. Again, left to right, top to bottom. Both rooms are spic and span, empty, with wooden floors. And then it switches to audio. The voice is brusque, but amiable, with a moderate Brooklyn drawl. ]

Nice place for a gym. There could be a dojo next door, so it's all in one place. I've got a few sandbags to hang up, and some mats we could use. There's a notice outside for schedules — I know a lot of you folks have been offering training. The room's big enough, and there's plenty more like it on this ship.

Anybody else interested?

[ Anyone wandering the Iskaulit or looking for Bucky after the broadcast will find him humming as he puts up the sandbags. He's dressed very simply in the ship's jumpsuit, with no left sleeve. The left arm whirs in tune as he works. ]

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[ whoa friend that's some enthusiasm. Bucky beams at him. ]

Sure. What can you do?

Uh, well. [He glances off to the side at that, because he doesn't have much to offer, technically. But dang is he interested.]

III'm actually not much of a fighter. I've been training some, but I definitely wouldn't be a good teacher in that or anything.

But! I'm an astronaut back at home. My whole life's been all about exercising and building myself up to rough it out in space. I could help some people with that!

[... But mostly:] All we've got is a treadmill on my ship, and that's really not enough.

I hear ya.

[ There's an empty cargo hold on his ship. Just space for running, and damn, he hates running. It just seems like a waste of time. ]

If we get a few weights in here that'd be good for ya. If not, there's always cardio.

Cardio, core exercises - Even just weights would be good for me. You know, it might be pretty easy to make some pull up bars? You don't need many materials, and we'd just need somehow with some constructiony know-how to make them.

[And pull up bars are pretty essential, in his opinion.]

You know what I wish we could have? A pool. But that's probably reaching way too far.

Actually... there's plenty of empty rooms, it wouldn't be too hard to find one with a tank that could be engineered into a pool...

[Oh. My god. That just gets Clay to lean in close to the video, bright-eyed and hopeful, because - this could be a reality after all??]

You think we could? Oh man, that'd be the best thing if we could! You know it's a great way to get some exercise in, especially if - Dude, can you imagine - We could teach people to swim, too! I mean, we're going away from a world that was full of ocean, but I'm sure it'd come in handy someday!

[ Bro. bro. Your enthusiasm is seriously off the charts, and it's making Bucky grin almost mischievously. ]

Tell you what. If you've got time today, why don't you come aboard, and we can scout around for a pool room?

[You ain't seen nothin' yet!]

I've got all the time in the world for this! [Plus, he'd like to see if any of the equipment there could be used for charting incoming stars and planets, but this is definitely a huge priority in itself.] I'm Clay Terran, captain of the SS Vanquish. I'll come over in about half an hour, okay?

[ Wait, this is the captain of Rogue's ship? Bucky beams at him extra. ]

James Barnes, Captain of the SS Heron. Pleasure. I'll be waiting.

Pleasure's all mine, Captain!

[Nice to meet fellow captains, and all! But once that's done with, Clay gives a cheery little salute, then goes ahead and gets off the feed. Gotta get ready to go, after all!

And really, it's a little more than twenty minutes rather than a full half hour by the time Clay shows up, already looking for the guy he was talking to. Hopefully he's not too early, but, well... he got excited!]

[ Clay gets a lazy salute before the feed cuts, and boy, is he early when he shows. He gets a smile for his trouble anyway, the enthusiasm is practically rolling off him in waves and it's hard not to be infected by it. ]

Just about done here; let's take a walk.

Hey! [He goes right up to him, already raring to go. So it's a good thing they're taking a walk like right now, because he isn't sure how long he could stand being still.] Yeah, right behind you!

[And when they do start to walk, Clay gets to his side rather than behind him, and... he can't help letting his eyes linger on a few places, the places where he helped out with the ship that didn't have to do with fighting off the bugs.]

You know... last time I was here, I was helping out with a memorial.

[ Bucky tracks his sightline, these rooms all looked the same once: hostile, full of things that needed breaking. ]

Yeah, I was at it. Ain't a good feeling, bein' in a graveyard.

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