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[housepartyprotocol]

Who: Tony Stark and anyone!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Still on The Marsiva
When: Now

[ The video feed crackles to life, and on the screen is a man looking equal parts composed and annoyed. He settles into the frame and smiles wryly.]

I'm not going to waste time here asking where we are, since I'd like to think we can all recognize space, but fair warning: you've got about [ he looks at his watch ] 2 minutes before I start taking this place apart. Not a threat, just making you aware that without a pretty impressive explanation, I will cannibalize your lovely and expensive ship and fly myself home.

[ He smiles briefly and with no humor before sitting back in his chair and tapping his watch. ]

Comments

[housepartyprotocol]

[ Puts his hands up like 'yes, why has no one offered that yet'. ]

Obviously, yes.

[experiencepoints]

[The camera starts jerking around as Nightingale has to actually fuck around with her comm for this, but soon she's sending over a document.]

It's still a work in progress, but it should have all the important details.

[housepartyprotocol]

[ Glancing at the file. ]

How long have you been here?

[experiencepoints]

Since... June 23rd, I think. So about five months, by this place's calendar.

[housepartyprotocol]

How do we mark days? Still 24 hours?

[ He's starting to feel like he's getting a grasp of his surroundings, and it shows. He's much less agitated. ]

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, that's right. Are you from Earth, then?

[housepartyprotocol]

Guilty.

[experiencepoints]

You're lucky, then.

[housepartyprotocol]

You'll understand if currently I'd beg to differ.

[experiencepoints]

At least you understand the calendar here.

[housepartyprotocol]

Are there many people here who don't?

[experiencepoints]

My world's calendar works a lot differently.

[housepartyprotocol]

How so? Different sun? Or something that makes lease sense than that?

[experiencepoints]

Well... It's not Earth, so yeah, it has a different sun? It's ten months in a year, thirty-six days in a month.

[housepartyprotocol]

Makes sense. You know, theoretically. So where is that you're from?

[experiencepoints]

The world itself doesn't really have a name. But the continent was a place called Ashvara.

[housepartyprotocol]

There was a continent and not a planet?

[experiencepoints]

Of course there was a planet. The planet just doesn't have a name.

Speaking of names, I haven't gotten yours yet.

[housepartyprotocol]

How does a planet not have a name? How does that happen?

That's because I haven't given it to you. Name's Tony.

[experiencepoints]

Nightingale. It's nice to meet you.

Any other questions while I'm here?

[housepartyprotocol]

Nope. Unless you know a way out of here.

[experiencepoints]

Off that ship? You wait.

Back to where you came from? No. Even the people who vanish from the fleet aren't sent back where they came from.

[housepartyprotocol]

Uh. Excuse me, what was that? Where do they go?

[experiencepoints]

... We're not sure yet. We're working on it, but as you can guess, the Atroma aren't cooperative.

[housepartyprotocol]

But you know they don't go home. Haw can you be sure of that?