+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]

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.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, I can't say that we know very much about them... [ ha ha i am a normal human beep boop ]

But otherwise I don't know how to describe it, you know? Asking a fish to describe water and all that.

What about you?

[nostraightlines]

No space travel, no aliens, but when I was a little kid we got robots to Mars. That was a big deal.

[takingkarabusiness]

That is a big deal! We just did that where I'm from, too. It's an adorable robot.

[nostraightlines]

Yeah? What year is it where you are?

[ he doesn't remember what the robot looked like :( ]

[takingkarabusiness]

2016? What about you?

[nostraightlines]

...

[ Well that doesn't. Nah. It can't be lining up with her world, there are aliens! There are no aliens where he's from. Could there have been? Hmm... ]

Uh. It's 2043.

[takingkarabusiness]

Wow. Well, that's very interesting. Not the first time I've met someone from Earth from my future, but definitely a closer future.

[nostraightlines]

Yeah? I really hope it's not the same earth.

[takingkarabusiness]

Why?

[nostraightlines]

That's right about when we got wiped out by a plague.

[takingkarabusiness]

...That's terrible. I'm sorry...

What was it?

[nostraightlines]

It's called the Kalavirus. It's like the flu but with organ failure and internal bleeding... we had it as wiping out 98% of the population before communication broke down. Anything more is just a guess.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ this is the nightmare ]

But you survived?

[nostraightlines]

The survivors are the immune. Every time it mutates it picks some more of us off, but... I'm lucky I guess.

[takingkarabusiness]

Yeah, I guess so. That's awful though. I'm so sorry.

[nostraightlines]

I won't say it's alright, because it's not, but that's life. And I still have my brother.

[takingkarabusiness]

What's his name?

[nostraightlines]

Cole. His name's Cole.

[takingkarabusiness]

My sister's name is Alex. They're pretty important, huh? Siblings.

[nostraightlines]

Pretty important, yup.

[ For most of his life, Cole's been everything. One way or another. ]

Are you older or younger?

[takingkarabusiness]

Younger, and adopted, actually, but that doesn't change anything.

[nostraightlines]

That's alright, Cole and I aren't actually related either. I'm older.

Doesn't make him listen worth a damn.