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Who: Suzie and YOU!
Broadcast: Fleetwide Video!
Action: On The Marsiva, newly arrived!
When: Afternoon, November 28th

[The view from the personal communicator broadcasting this particular message is — well, it's two things, really. One is that it's capturing a lovely, albeit partially-obscured view of the Marsiva, which also appears to be moving along at an ambling walking pace that's indicative of someone wandering around. The other is that whoever's responsible for this particular broadcast evidently missed the memo about appearing in it, because she's nowhere in sight.

All of which presumably adds up to the logical (and correct) conclusion: the communicator got shoved in a pocket and turned on by mistake, and here we are, granting the fleet an impromptu and oblivious tour of the Hospitality Deck and its sights and relative lack of sounds.]

...Helloooooo? Hello, perdonami! Um...if someone's there, I think there's been a...mistake...

[Wandering, wandering. Time to go look down the medical wing's corridor in search of human life, and be utterly disappointed.]

Hello? Someone in charge, can I speak with you, please? Someone? I can't be here right now, the boat's going to leave without me — it takes thirty minutes to get back, if I miss it I'll be stuck waiting a whole hour! I can't wait a whole hour, there's chores, the laundry won't get done if I'm not — I think I might've left the gas on, is someone theeeeeeeeere?

[The video meanders again; now we're over by the windows, evidently peering out into the void.]

Ohhhhhh, this isn't going to be good, if everyone comes back and I'm not there...

[A pause.]

Oh, no! Can Air Supplena even get phone calls or telegrams from outer space?!

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Suzie?

[Eloquent and on-point as always. Good job, Jojo. He'll start wondering all the better questions that won't ever get answers about how and why now all these people are turning up from back home in a few seconds. But first he's just glad to see her. Sorta. He'd feel better if it was at least in-person if it couldn't be back home.]

Why are you worrying about laundry when you're in space?

[where]

[are all these women coming from]

[ALL THESE WOMEN, worrying about gas and laundry and training instead of SPACE, where, WHY]

Suzie, turn it around. Nobody can see you.

[He sounds very calm. He is not. He is probably going to throw a fit in about four seconds.]

[ Another new arrival, though Genos has had some time to himself to get used to the idea. What idea? He's in space for some reason, his teacher isn't here which means it's probably not that important?? Yet?? And if it is, the people in charge of the ships have made a critical mistake and Genos is going to talk to management later about it.

Anyway, if she's looking for human life, she's going to stay disappointed. Parts of him appear human, but the only organic things left inside of his metal body are hidden away from view. ]

Your pleas will get you nowhere.

[ What a comforting guy. ]

[ There's a small amused sound from Lisa Lisa as she spots Suzie wandering. She could hear her musings from a ways away, and ... it's so typical Suzie ... ]

Suzie, you don't have to worry.

[...Hold up, that sounded like Jojo's voice. But that can't be right, Jojo's going to Switzerland. Like, he literally just left so he cannot possibly be Already Here, Also In Space™. So she's got to be hearing things, right?]

...Hello?

[Cue the camera lurching side to side as she looks around for the source of the voice in question.]

Who's there? Um, you sound a little like someone I know, haha...

[Turn what aro—

...Wait. Hang on, right, the thing in her...pocket...

AND UP IT COMES, presenting a fantastic view of one eye, then the tip of her nose, then the corridor behind her, and then finally about three-quarters of her face as she gets the thing to the proper distance and angle.]

...Aaaaa!

[AND DROPS IT LIKE A CHAMPION, CAESAR, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CONVERSATION]

That's because I am someone you know!

[Oh my God, woman. And everyone talks about how bad he is. ~~Except you sorta did close to the same exact thing, Joseph. So many you should throw stones.~~]

Suzie. Look at your communicator.

[Caesar looks . . . irritated. But also tired. And also a little relieved. But mostly irritated. So it's about 50% more emotion than she's probably used to him showing, overlaid by the standard. Mostly he's pissed about the fact that she's on the Marsiva, so he can't check on her in person.]

[He is gonna punch Atroma in the face.]

Suzie . . . pick it up. Stop screaming. It's just me.

[...THANK YOU FOR THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE, STRANGE ARMORED ROBOT MAN. The good news is, she's not actually holding anything right now, because if she were there's approximately a 50/50 chance she might've thrown it at him just out of sheer surprise.]

Ummm. O...kay, are you the person who brought me here, then?

[WHAT LIGHT, FROM YONDER SPACESHIP CORRIDOR BREAKS. IT IS THE EAST, AND — well, no, it's nothing quite so ridiculous as that, but it is quite possibly the one and only person capable of instantly setting Suzie at ease while simultaneously making her panic. A little.

So she makes a beeline for the voice, only moderately flustered in her haste.]

M-Madame Lisa Lisa! But — but — I don't understand, you just...left...

[Like seriously. You are supposed to be in a car and decidedly not in space.]

U-Um, shouldn't you be going to Switzerland right now?

[Waaaaaaait a minute. Right. In her pocket. Okay, let's just...have a look...here...]

...Jojo?! It is you! What are you doing? How did you get here?!

R-Right! Right, um, all right, just — just hang on, haha...

[Haha, she's so clumsy, right, let her just...get that...there we go. Let's try attempt number two, hello, Caesar.]

...Caesar? Why are you here? Did something happen to the car?

[Okay. Good. There she is. Good. Okay. There she is . . .]

[. . . completely out of reach on the Marsiva with who knows who he's about to panic he can feel it happening fuck--]

No, the car - it wasn't the car, it's fine. We got there fine. We're just - here now, that's all.

[She doesn't know. She doesn't - what does he do with this.]

Are you all right?

[ She's glad to see her, honestly. There's a lot of weird shit going on here, and if Suzie has to be here, it would make Lisa Lisa feel better to know that she's someplace where it'll be easy to keep an eye on her.

... And the fact that she thinks they just left for Switzerland is a big, helpful tipoff as well. She pauses for a moment, thinking about how to proceed. ]

I'm sure that everything will be seen to while we're away.

[ Well, she's read that time stops while they're gone, anyways. Hopefully that is true. But the last thing either of them need to worry about is the laundry sitting for -- well, however long this is going to take. ]

This will just have to be a small detour.

Ummm...

[Her gaze skews off to the side for a moment, then turns into an outright glance-around of her surroundings; when she finally returns to the camera, it's visible the way she leans in closer and lowers her voice in an attempt to be conspiratorial.]

A-About that...I think I'm better than I ought to be! I felt so bad and didn't say anything about it, but then when I woke up here, now nothing hurts the way it had been before...

[ His eyebrows twitch and he tilts his head slightly to the left; he's not entirely what to make of that—she doesn't recognise him. He's not full of himself at all, but he knows his own popularity. There's nowhere he can go without someone recognising him, fan or foe. ]

No. I must have arrived the same way as you, just earlier. Apparently there are other ships, and more people aboard them.

Why didn't you say anything about--

[Because she's Suzie. For God's sake.]

You should have said something. But they - fix things, when you come here. Injuries, or . . .

[You know. Death, and stuff.]

[Good job, Suzie. You did it!]

The same way you did, the way everybody does. You're on a ship called the Marsiva right now. We were actually all just on it not too long ago, but I think in a different part. [And boy is that a long story.] Don't worry though, you'll get put on one of the smaller ships soon like the rest of us.

Somebody's bringing us here? To space?

[And we are apparently going to stay? IN SPACE??]

What about the — that package, and Switzerland...?

And make it harder for all of you to leave me behind? Uh-uh! You and Jojo and Madame Lisa Lisa have more important things to be worried about right now!

[But she's not going to complain about the abnormally fast recovery time, no sir.]

...Oh. So...you're just as lost as I am, then.

[Well, he's weird, but he doesn't seem altogether bad or anything. So...okay, sure, let's bear this out a little longer.]

That's right! There are people I know on those other ships, I think. Um...you're not from Venezia, I don't think, are you?

Suzie.

[God.]

What were you going to do if it got worse?

But there's no one left at the...

[It's a weak protest, one that's barely a protest at all; if Lisa Lisa says that it's fine, then it must be, right? So there's no need to worry or to fuss, right?

Right...?]

A detour to outer space, though? You have to admit this is really strange! And isn't it bad to be here when you need to hurry to St. Moritz? How do we get back from a place like this?! Oh...

Cae-sar!

[Hmph.]

I'm fine, it wasn't like that!

Don't worry about any of that stuff. Lisa Lisa and-- [Wait, shit. She doesn't know. Joseph corrects himself.] We're handling it, alright? All of us.

But that stuff'll be waiting for us when we get back home, so you don't need to worry about it right now.

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