+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]

What does that mean, anyway? Just 'a part of space you're stuck in'?

[takingkarabusiness]

A part of liminal space—literally. I was trapped in stasis during my time there and while time didn't exist inside of it, it continued outside of it.

[nostraightlines]

Well, we're not in stasis. I don't feel stasis'd. But I get your metaphor, it's a place we're trapped going from one world to another.

...right?

[takingkarabusiness]

Right. Yes, exactly.

[nostraightlines]

[ He taps his head; see, he's smart! ]

Seems like there are a lot of people here that were somewhere besides home when Atroma nabbed them. You noticed that?

[takingkarabusiness]

A few, yeah. Not me, though.

[nostraightlines]

You've already done your world hopping.

[takingkarabusiness]

I suppose so, yeah. I did.

Can I just say I was not expecting to spill everything to someone I just met. Not that I have any regrets, because I don't. Just noticing.

[nostraightlines]

I seem to have that effect on people. Don't worry, I'm not going to tell anybody.

Do many people here know? Because if there's anywhere they'd believe you're an alien, it's in outerspace.

[takingkarabusiness]

Not many. A woman named Kitty, mostly. Old habits die hard, and I don't really know what the atmosphere is like.

[nostraightlines]

Oh, I met her. She's got apocalypse issues, too, we bonded.

[ She said that in public so he figures it's fine to mention. ...he really does seem to get people's stories right off the bat. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

She walked through a bench right in front of me.

[nostraightlines]

It's a pretty cool power, I just hope she doesn't do it around a friend I have here... she nulls abilities, Kitty might get stuck in a wall.

[takingkarabusiness]

Wait.

What?

[nostraightlines]

That's her power, nulling other people's so they don't work. I don't think it would have any effect on you if we found you a sun, though.

[takingkarabusiness]

Why?

[nostraightlines]

Because you're gaining your abilities from an outside source. Maybe... I'm guessing, but she only had the effect on certain people back in Eudio.

[takingkarabusiness]

Is it permanent?

[nostraightlines]

No, just while she's nearby. I could estimate how far if we were in the same place.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, if we get a sun, we can always find out.

[nostraightlines]

Hey, can you combine powers? Like use the super strength to take people flying?

[takingkarabusiness]

Yep. I can even laser eye things at the same time.

[nostraightlines]

Laser eyes? You've got laser eyes. How often do you get to use those?

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she laughs ]

Technically it's heat vision. And more often than you might think. It makes cutting things from far away a lot easier.

[nostraightlines]

And you never have to wait for water to boil? Or would it cut through the pot first? These are important questions.