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Who: Shawn Hunter and YOU!!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Golden
When: September 19, evening

[As weird as Shawn's world was, it was never this weird. Instead of waking up in his apartment, where he should be, he's in some giant ship - and none of it feels real. This can't be real life. It just can't.

He's not on the giant ship for long, though: he finds himself beamed (like space sci-fi beamed??) onto a new place, with confetti and chocolate pudding that looks kinda suspect - but he'll eat it, food is food. Still blowing the confetti out of his face, he'll wander around, taking photos along the way. Every single one's uploaded to the Fleet, and well- there's gonna be an abundance of artsy photos, from various places on the Marsiva to the stations around the SS Golden. (People are optional.)

About an hour after the last one, Shawn's settled in the kitchen and he's fiddled enough with the comm device to realize that he goofed. Big-time. So when the feed clicks on, he looks more apologetic than usual.]

Look, I don't know how I got here - and normally? I'd be kinda down with living in outer space and being on some reality show. Problem is, I'm about to go to college, and I worked too hard to throw all of that away for... whatever this is.

[Making a face, though he's not quite aware of it:] Since I'm stuck here until God-knows-when, is there any way I can call home? Or figure out if anyone else I know's along for the ride? Thanks, uh, and sorry about all the photos earlier. I'm still kinda new to this thing.

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Yeah, well... kidnapping's a weird universal constant.

[Not one he appreciates either, and he inadvertently shudders.]

Not sure how, but yeah. Feeny's kind of his own force of nature. [Feeny also isn't British, but details...] That's cool. I'd never even left the country before I came here. Feels like they're just throwing us in the deep end with this travel stuff.

Well, congratulations on your first moment of travel being outer space. Achievements all around.

[Lightly.]

I'm told we're stuck here until we're sent home unwillingly, so batten down the hatches and make yourself comfortable.

Hey, this place's fancier than where I was living before, so I can't actually complain. Beyond the "I can't leave, no matter how much I wanna get back to school" part.

Thanks, though, for making it all seem so normal.

[He means it too; his world may be crazy, but he wasn't privy to most of it.]

[James offers a lazy salute.]

'course.

[James is usually the one to explain wizardry to the little Muggle-born first years, which is probably why he got landed the Head Boy position, and not because of his sudden newfound maturity. whoops.]

No point in being rude to someone else in the same position, yeah?

Not really, but you never know with people. Sometimes boredom gets to the best of 'em.

Plus it looks like new folk come in all the time. For a reality show, they could streamline it a little better. [beat] Got any advice about that, by the way? They are actually paying us, right?

Television doesn't exist in my world, my friend, I had absolutely no idea what the hell a reality show was before my crewmates told me.

[ SORRY DUDE ]

[See that look on his face? The look of abject horror??]

Seriously?

What'd you guys do for fun? Play with sticks or something?

[ there's a bark of a laugh. ]

I play Quidditch, thanks -- you don't need television [ did he say that right??? ] to keep entertained.

Well, no - but half the fun is watching a good movie with your friends, and talking about your favorite parts and the special effects and just going to the movies together.

[He's still horrified, sorry.]

What's Quidditch?

I never said I've never been to the movies, but television's not a thing in my part of the woods.

[Just saying.]

-- Quidditch's a bit like soccer. Or rugby. But it's on broomsticks.

[ and obviously superior ]

Like a witch's broomstick?

[Forget the TV, this sounds way more interesting.] Wouldn't you need to fly to make that happen?

WIzards fly too, thank you.

[ though the girls on his team can and will kick his sorry ass ]

And that's the whole point! Quidditch takes place in the air.

[Headtilt.] Never thought they couldn't. You just never hear about the guys.

So it's a flying sport? How do you win?

[ ARE YOU ASKING JAMES TO EXPLAIN THE RULES OF QUIDDITCH BECAUSE ]

Well.

[ you can tell that he is literally thrilled to be doing this ok ]

There's two teams, yeah? Each team's got seven players on the pitch at once -- three Chasers, two Beaters, one Keeper, and a Seeker. On top of that, there's three types of balls -- the Quaffle, which the Chasers user to score with. The Bludgers, which whiz about trying to knock players off their brooms, and the Beaters hit them about with bats to try and aim them at opposing players -- and the Golden Snitch -- actually, hang on a bit --

[ give him a moment and james ducks off camera to dig about his own personal snitch, which was in his pocket on arrival. it's a bit battered and the fluttering is a little lazy, but it hovers about within arm's reach, and james catches it whenever it gets too far. ]

This little thing -- the Seeker's only job is to run about and try and catch it. Whoever catches the Golden Snitch earns 150 points. Each goal with the Quaffle is worth 10 -- and whoever catches the Snitch ends the whole game.

[ pause ]

I'm a Chaser, on the Gryffindor team -- and I'm captain this year.

[ jsyk it's v impressive ]

[Holy---

He was asking out of mere curiosity, but if he's gonna get the full-fledged rules, HE IS HERE FOR THIS. Shawn stares at the snitch - really stares, as if it'll vanish at any minute - before letting out a low whistle.]

Captain of the team, huh? Impressive.

You whole sport is, man - I thought football was exciting, but this? I'd watch every single match without fail.

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