+1 unhappy time traveler

[nostraightlines]

Who: Ramse and YOU
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: SS Starstruck, if you want to come and find him
When: soon after the shuffle!

[ To say that Ramse is displeased is an understatement. This is the second time he's been yanked from one world to another, and where the first was actually an improvement, this second place is... not. Outerspace. Really. Really?! They don't even have space travel in his time, though he knows that in the past people made it as far as the moon. Nothing like this. His outrage at being taken is the overwhelming thing, though. He was happy in Eudio, where there was food and people he cared for. They told him they were sending him home (something he already had mixed feelings about) and instead he's here. Having to learn a new way of life all over again and excuse me it's being watched?

He's found the armory and the clothes in his bunk room, at least, so now he's dressed and armed. He sits in the cold empty space while he fiddles with the communicator. It turns out to be easy to use, and when he makes a broadcast his voice is deep and grumbly. Someone's sooooo cranky. ]

So let me get this straight, I'm new and might not have understood. We're here... to be entertainment. Not to save the world, not to help with a war, not to do anything productive at all.

Yeah. How do we leave?

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[passingthrough]

Oh, yeah, Celeste mentioned that place. You're not Caleb, right? [She doesn't know much about the situation. Just that she should let her know if a Caleb from Eudio shows up.]

And no, I came from MarinaNova before this. [Saying "the prison" gets looks.]

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[ He just got a message from Celeste, so he doesn't do the double take he might have at hearing she's here. Though now he knows that Caleb isn't, and that must suck for her. ]

I'm not. The name's Ramse.

What was MarinaNova like? Eudio was a nice city.

[passingthrough]

Kitty Pryde. [She nods.]

It was a nice city in a dome, underwater which also happened to be a prison.

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An underwater dome, huh... no, outerspace is still weirder. [ He doesn't blink at the prison part. He's been in actual prison.]

What did they bring you there for?

[passingthrough]

For me I'd have to say it was the dome. [But then space travel wasn't that odd. She just had more domestic issues to work on.]

We just met and you want to hear my crime list? Seems like you should at least buy me a drink first. [Smirking.]

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At least I can figure a way of getting a prisoner to a dome. Getting a prisoner to outerspace takes some real doing.

...is there a bar?

[passingthrough]

Probably some kind of trans-spacial displacement system either way instead of submarines or spaceships. [The arrival was pretty sudden either way. Not that they couldn't have simply been knocked out for it. But no one ever wakes up during that?]

On the station we're at there are bars and clubs. Not that you'll have any money yet, but there are jobs too.

[nostraightlines]

Like teleporting?

...I have no idea what kind of job I could do in outerspace. I'm supposed to be working 'security' whatever that means.

[passingthrough]

More technological and less mental, but yeah. Like that.

Maybe you can work as a bouncer at a club? I don't know. I'm doing transporting work.

[nostraightlines]

You're the second person to suggest bouncer. I guess I could get it pretty easily...

[passingthrough]

Must be fate. There's a variety of things open. I just threw that out because of the security comment. Though that's more their doing than anything you want?

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It's basically what I did back home. I didn't like it, it's just... survival.

[passingthrough]

[She knows a little something about survival.] What did you like?

[nostraightlines]

There... wasn't much to like about my world. The place I just was, I did wilderness training. I liked that.

Not much call for it in outerspace.

[passingthrough]

Does seem unlikely. I'm starting to think you're from my world.

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Maybe. It was Earth, 2043.

[passingthrough]

I assume that's the year and not that you'd numbered versions of earth. Mine wasn't that far into the future, but it also wasn't going to last that long.

[nostraightlines]

It's the year. What happened?

[passingthrough]

Apocalypse. As in a person's name, not the biblical event.

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Were they going to cause one? The biblical event.

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There was a massive human genocide going on, so yeah. More or less.

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And you were fighting to survive?

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To survive and to protect others. [Probably more weight on the last part though.]

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There aren't many people left when I'm from.

[passingthrough]

What happened?