driftfleet | 01 - video/action

Who: Winn & you!
Broadcast: video
Action: on the Marsiva
When: now!

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[ it's the smell that makes the first tug towards wakefulness, or rather the lack of it - over the years, winn's gotten used to waking up to a familiar aroma of an apartment that's just a little too dusty, has just a little too many clothes that really should have been washed yesterday lying around, maybe some residual takeout smell that still lingers from the night before because he's forgotten to properly ventilate - none of it is hitting his nose now, and his mind is not taking it well. groaning, and rubbing his eyes with one hand, his other reaches for his bedside table to pick up his phone - only to hit air.

well that's weird.

eyes finally blinking open, he finds himself staring at an unfamiliar ceiling. shifting in bed - he finds himself falling to an unfamiliar floor.

what the hell?

he's dreaming, right? he has to be dreaming. or maybe it's a freaky fantasy like the one kara was stuck in - though why would anyone waste disgusting alien hallucinatory-leach things on him? and besides, this - this looks absolutely nothing like his ideal fantasy world! well, just in case it'll work (he'd fill really silly if he passes up the simplest solution for being too simple and it'll end up being all that it takes!), he shuts his eyes tightly, pinches his arm, and mumbles to himself ]

I hella reject this fantasy. You are rejected, fired, gone!

[ opening his eyes again, he finds that unsurprisingly - the only change that transpired is that his arm now aches. well, what else was he expecting? pulling himself up to his feet, he decides he might as well try to figure out where he is - and how to get out of here.

and then he spots the window. blurting out a girly scream, he turns his back to it, his knees nearly buckling under him, and his face losing color. slowly, he turns back towards it and chances another peek, chuckling nervously at his own behavior, trying to ridicule his fear away ]

That's a pretty good green screen -

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[ the face that appears on your screen is pale and clearly very shaken. actually, he kinda looks like he's going to be sick, doesn't he? good thing that space tech isn't 7-D! ...unless it is in which case, now would be a pretty bad time to find that out... ]

I got a couple questions for -- whoever's watching this - or - [ he looks around, waving his free hand to gesture around the room - wherever the less voluntary cameras may be ] this - If this is a reality show, when's elimination? Cuz I - I volunteer to go home! I mean let's face it, there is no point to keep me in the running - unless elimination's actually eh, elimination [ he runs his finger against his throat to illustrate his point ] in which case -- my vote is still on home, thanks -

This...isn't really space, is it? [ he chuckles nervously ] I know 'beam me up' was my birthday wish for like 3 years running, but you're over a decade late and this is so not what I had in mind - [ he clears his throat. not the point! and not something he needed to share with - potentially an entire galaxy. actually, this whole broadcast was probably pretty dumb, way to make himself easy prey. ok, no worries! he can still salvage this! ] Anyway! Little help, a lotta help, Xanax, I'll take what you got, thanks. [ clearing his throat again ] Over? [ nailed it. ]

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Classical. Mozart and Beethoven, stuff like that.

[really helping prove she's not a nerd here]

No, you're right, you're cool as a cucumber. On a flaming grill.

Your video game answer still makes you like ten times more of a nerd.

Hey, if having fun's nerdy, I don't ever wanna be cool.

[ except he does, but he never will be because that would require changing pretty much everything about himself and he's pretty sure that's not a thing. ]

Pretty sure it's more about how you have fun.

The fun way. Which. Is lost on people here cuz they've offered me cooking, laundry, and darts.

Please tell me you're kidding about the laundry part.

I wish I could.

Man, that's just depressing.

Being a nerd doesn't sound so bad now, does it.

The existence of a worse option doesn't make it better.

Have you ever tried video games?

I don't have time to stare at a screen and press X over and over.

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You're doing it wrong.

Maybe. I wouldn't really know, since video games are nerdy and I don't play them.

Accept your inner nerd, it's safe, you're too pretty for wedgies.

It's not about wedgies, it's about my personal sense of pride.

Ok, let me ask you something then - what's so wrong and humiliating about being a nerd? Don't - use me as an example, can't blame alla that on the nerdiness.

You know what telling me not to use you as an example makes it really tempting to do?

Ouch - [ he's not really that bad, is he? ] What's the matter Ivy Leaguer, not up for the challenge?

[don't feel bad, she's a jerk to everyone.]

What's wrong with being a nerd is that I don't want to live in my mom's basement when I'm thirty with only cheetos and Mt. Dew for company.

That's not being a nerd - that's just being lame.

[ but feeling bad is his specialty! ]

Being lame has a much higher occurrence among nerds than normal people.

You know what else has a much higher occurrence among nerds than normal people? Running multi-million or billion dollar companies, making world-changing discoveries, and having fun.

You don't have to be a nerd to do any of those things.

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