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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

[Video]

[goldenglasses]

Can- can I make a request that you don't mess with anything that is keeping anyone from being sucked out into the empty vacuum of space, please?

[Not that he REALLY thinks Tony would do something like that, but then again, he doesn't know Tony at all either.]

[housepartyprotocol]

You realize I am also in this ship. No one is getting sucked into space.

[goldenglasses]

Good! You just seemed so gun-ho about tearing a ship apart I wasn't sure if you've ever actually, ah, been in space before. As that would have to be a pretty tiny ship if you're building it within another ship and keeping the air inside the first ship!

[housepartyprotocol]

Thanks for the science lesson.

I take it you've been here a while?

[goldenglasses]

I dunno, is over a year a long time?

[housepartyprotocol]

Uh, don't you have to win eventually?

[goldenglasses]

Sure, if I knew how to win past: Get good ratings from the viewers!

Now I just need to know the how. The how long. Oh, not to mention, what exactly ratings are? Do viewers actually vote? If so how do they vote?

So many questions. Zero answers.

[housepartyprotocol]

Anyone been here longer than you?

[goldenglasses]

There's others who have been here the same length as me. Also there have apparently been other "cycles" as well, but no one has been seen or heard of anyone from those other cycles. At least not yet.

[housepartyprotocol]

That bodes about as well as anything else I've heard today.

[goldenglasses]

Welcome to the party. So good luck with your ship building?