+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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[nostraightlines]

Maybe if I'm the most boring passenger alive, they'll just let me go so the ratings don't drop.

[takingkarabusiness]

Something tells me that you wouldn't enjoy that, and it probably wouldn't help, anyway.

[nostraightlines]

Hey, I can be boring. Watch me, see how long you can stand it.

...unless it wouldn't help. What's your name?

[takingkarabusiness]

Kara. Kara Danvers. And I really don't think it would help. Besides the bank deposits, we don't really know who's out there.

[nostraightlines]

José Ramse. Nice to meet you.

What's this I hear about the deposits being frozen? [ He was hoping to go get a drink on the station but was told no one could access their money. ] What happened there?

[takingkarabusiness]

Hard to know, actually... but you could earn some money on the station, maybe?

What augment did you get?

[nostraightlines]

Security. Not too different from home. You?

[takingkarabusiness]

Personnel. Also not too different from home.

You may be able to pick up some extra money with that, though. Some of the bars and clubs need bouncers.

[nostraightlines]

What's personnel mean..? It could be anything, right?

...hm. [ He doesn't really like violence, for all that he's lived steeped in it. In Eudio he got a job as far away from it as he could but if he needed a job fast sticking to what he knows would be the best way to go... ] That's an idea.

[takingkarabusiness]

I guess. I think of it as support staff, though. Basically I'm around to help my crew with anything they need.

[ she notices his hesitation ]

Of course there are other options, too. Other jobs you can pick up.

[nostraightlines]

Do you wind up 'working' much?

[ A little nod. ]

I'm going to ask around. It depends on how long we'll be here, too, I only need to make enough to eat while we're here. Those cube things in the mess? Ugh.

[takingkarabusiness]

The food gets better. Kind of. At least there's more variety of space food, anyway.

And I haven't really been working a lot lately, no. But hope springs eternal!

[nostraightlines]

Do you know how often we make stops like this?

...bored, huh?

[takingkarabusiness]

No, sorry. I've only been here for a little over a month.

[nostraightlines]

One more question for you, is your ship overcrowded too? I'm just trying to figure out what's normal for this situation.

[takingkarabusiness]

Yeah... just a bit, but we're making it work. Some people have departed recently, so that's kind of freed up some space.

[nostraightlines]

You think maybe they're looking to add new ships while we're docked?

[ That's what he would be doing, anyway. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I wouldn't begin to know. Sorry.

[ she is apologetic ]

[nostraightlines]

Don't be sorry, I'm just thinking out loud. Trying to make sense of it.

I guess everybody does that when they first get here.

[takingkarabusiness]

In their own way, yes. I imagine some people have a strange impression of me because I try to keep things optimistic.

[nostraightlines]

That's a good trait, though. We need people like you around.

[ He lowers his voice conspiratorially. ] I'm not usually so cranky.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ lowers her voice to match ]

Somehow I can believe that. This is the sort of situation that makes people act out of character.

[nostraightlines]

You're right about that. Tell me, Kara, what's your world like? Space travel a thing?

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she pauses for a moment, thinking before answering ]

To the moon and back, and some orbiting. There are aliens, but I don't think humans, like me, have figured out the reverse engineering for that.

[nostraightlines]

Aliens, huh? That's new for me here, sounds like you've got a leg up.