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[combatready]

Who: Penny and whoever
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: The Marsiva
When: Now-ish

[ The video feed turns on to show a red-headed teenage girl just kind of. Sitting up in one of the hospitality deck cots. Her eyes are open, but she's not moving at all. Even breathing, if you're observant enough to notice that sort of thing.

That's because she's still in the process of booting up. A robot like Penny isn't meant to be hard shut-down unless she's getting tuned up, so the process takes a bit. The self-diagnostics don't know what's going on - how is the body fine when it clearly shouldn't be?

Still, after a few moments she does come online.

That's when she seems to snap awake, her eyes widening. ] What- [ She scrambles backwards, falling off of the cot, dragging the sheets with her. She lands with an audible THUD that might suggest she's heavier than her size would indicate.

Eloquent first impression.

Penny peeks up from behind the cot, glancing around, a confused expression on her face. Her databanks don't know where this place is, nor can it even place the architecture. And her sensors pick up SPACE from behind those windows to the side. ] Where is this? [ She's been repaired, but by who? And... HOW? And brought here...?

Is she....? No, this is far too real.

Penny picks herself up, taking another look around. ]

Hello? Is anybody there?

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[fedupwithyourbull]

[Blake does not like using the video function. Having her face posted all over the network is very uncomfortable, for a lot of reasons.

But, well... With someone from her world, who knows her, but maybe not well enough to recognize her by voice? She'll put up with it for a bit.]

Penny? They brought you here now, too?

[Her weird behavior doesn't even raise an eyebrow at this point- Blake's already figured she's never going to understand how Penny's mind works.]

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[combatready]

[ Penny perks up at that voice, and Blake's face appearing on one of the nearby monitors. Somebody she knew! She wasn't all alone up here. ] Blake!

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[combatready]

[ ...Somebody who might not have been watching her match, but would surely have heard about it. ]

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[combatready]

[ But if this was some repair facility, why was Blake here? And unaware of her being there on top of that? Something doesn't compute. ]

....Where is "here?"

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[fedupwithyourbull]

You're on a ship called the "Marsiva", brought here by an unknown entity or entities called the "Atroma", for the purpose of being on a reality TV show.

[the distaste in her voice is strong.]

You've noticed by now that we're in space, I assume.

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[combatready]

Oh, yes, I did notice that. It's very impressive. But I'm not sure why somebody would bother bringing us to space.

[ She is. Tapping on the monitor of the communication station now. Very solid. Huh. Not like a scroll at all... even though it is. ]

This "Atroma" must have very good technology. They were able to bring us to space, conduct seamless repairs.... but then this scroll is rather old-fashioned.

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[fedupwithyourbull]

[She has to take a moment to try to follow Penny's train of thought.]

They do. Teleportation is something they're very good at. At some point, you'll be moved to a different ship with the rest of us.

What repairs? Did something happen to your scroll?

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[electrostatics]

[ He's about to say something and then bam, there she goes off the bed. He waits. ]

Nice landing.

[ Elecman, no. ]

[combatready]

[ Penny doesn't get his sarcasm. ] Thank you? [ She doesn't know why it's deserving compliment, though.

She is getting up to examine the video feed from the monitor now. ]

What are you? [ No beating around the bush here, nope. ]

[electrostatics]

[ It's a kind of absentminded remark, anyway. ]

Wow, someone who actually asks straight off what I am. That's new. [ It's refreshing, in a way. Most people tend to leave it for a while.

Since he's perfectly comfortable with who he is, whether people dance around the subject or not is their business. ]

I'm an artificial intelligence, but since I can't really conduct normal ship tasks with no physical body, I got given one when I got here.

And you? You look human. [ But then again, so does he, in the right form. ]

[combatready]

[ Whoa. Wow. WOW! Woooow! Another AI! Another robot! That's amazing!

Penny is immediately super excited, and also super obvious about it. Giant grin, practically bouncing in place.

Still, she doesn't answer immediately. Is it okay to tell somebody the truth if that somebody is ALSO a robot? Possibly? What could it hurt?

That's about as far as she gets. ]

I am too! But for me it's supposed to be secret.

[ ....She also doesn't know that these network posts are. Public.

Penny: Greatest keeper of secrets. ]

[electrostatics]

[ Her enthusiasm is kind of refreshing. It's different when it's coming from another artificial being. He smiles despite himself, a bit soft. ]

A secret? [ Well.... ]

Well, I've got bad news and good news - this is a public post that anyone can read, which is the bad. But the good news is that nobody cares if you're a robot, so you'll do fine.

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[seasidelove]

I am!! I can see you, at least.

Are you alright?

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[combatready]

[ Penny is now peering into the screen. Super close. HI. ]

Oh, yes, I am just fine. It will take more than a fall to damage me!

I hadn't realized this was a scroll. Hello!

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[seasidelove]

Well, good—! I fell too when I first woke up, so it's probably common...

But anyway, welcome to the fleet! I'm new, too, though I've already been put on a ship.

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[combatready]

How exciting! Somebody else new to being kidnapped!

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[seasidelove]

I'm not exactly new to being kidnapped... but I am new here, yes! I'm on the Wonderduck, now, though there are a lot of other ships too.

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[lord_wizard]

Quite a few people, I'm sure.

[One of which is this guy, who will not comment on her falling all over himself because...yeah, he did something similar when he got here too.]

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[combatready]

I am beginning to realize that. [ Please don't peruse her other conversations, thank you. ] There seem to be a great many people here. At least, through this. [ Peering into the screen of the communication hub. ]

[lord_wizard]

I haven't bothered to do a census, but yes there are, I believe, seventeen ships in the fleet as of today, each with a full crew. And each of those with their own communications device. [Meaning, you know, a lot of people saw that]

[combatready]

[ Please tell her they do not look through other people's conversations, that would be rude. ]

How many people does it take to crew one of these ships? Are they all as big as this one?

[onlyburnhotter]

[That voice sounds awfully familiar... Yang checks her communicator to see if she can try and match a face to that voice. Sure enough, she does indeed recognize that familiar orange hair and green eyes.]

Penny? Is that you?

[combatready]

Greetings, Yang! [ That is defs the chipper voice and smiling face of Penny. Please don't run away this time. ] It's a pleasure to see you.

I had heard from Blake that you were here!

[onlyburnhotter]

[Yep, that's definitely Penny... It was certainly nice to see a familiar face though. Yang smiles back at Penny, happy to see her.]

It's good to see you too.

Oh, so you've already heard from Blake then? Good. Guess that saves me the trouble of having to explain most things. No doubt she already gave you the details about what's going on here?

[combatready]

Indeed! I have heard about how we were kidnapped here for entertainment, how you and Blake stay on separate ships, how you two only remember the first half of the tournament, and that you do not spar without weapons because Blake is afraid you do not know how to hold back.




[ ....Right? ]