Tenth Gate [Video]

[forsometimenow]

Who: Jennifer Keller and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: Now

A year, huh... [Jennifer looks distant and sounds a little sad.] How... [She hesitates.] If you've been here for a while, what kinds of things do you do to cope when you're really, really missing home? Because I've been thinking about my friends back home a lot lately, and having been the only person from my world here this entire time... [She trails off, and decides to just wait for responses.]

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[forsometimenow]

It is. I've always been of the opinion that they're not as in control of things as they like us to believe they are, and their hands-off way of running the show means they're able to keep themselves in perfect control when they do talk to us. Because nobody's THAT good at acting, unless Atroma's representatives are brainwashed or something.

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[collegedropout]

Brainwashing wouldn't surprise me. But then again, nothing usually does. Not completely anyway. I guess I kind of leave open room for just about anything in a universe where my world's rules don't apply...

They could be people made of kitchen utensils and I'd probably get over it pretty quick.

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[forsometimenow]

[She had to chuckle.]

Sentient kitchen utensils would make just as much sense as anything else, right? It would explain some of the things they do, too.

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[collegedropout]

Right??

[He grins, but — oh! Manners. Come on, buddy, getting sloppy.]

I'm Sam, by the way. Nice to meet you aboard this fleet potentially ran by spoons.

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[forsometimenow]

I'm Jennifer. Dr. Keller in the infirmary, but Jennifer outside of it. I'm glad to meet you, too. Some pretty weird things have happened to me back home, so I'd not find it hard to believe anything that might happen here myself.

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[collegedropout]

Oh, trust me, I get it. Boy do I get it. Anything happening is on par the course.

I've had plenty of time travel and universe hopping in my lifetime. Even before I was actually kidnapped out of mine. It's a pain, huh?

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[forsometimenow]

We had plenty of that back home, too, though I never experienced it firsthand- the rest of my teammates were the lucky ones. My boyfriend especially. He's a great astrophysicist, so he was always the one to push the button, so to speak, in case something went wrong.

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[collegedropout]

Wait, no kidding? They hopped universes or time or something like that?

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[forsometimenow]

Yeah. By accident, but it did happen. And there was the time they met clones of themselves- that was fun.

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[collegedropout]

Oh, yikes. I usually just meet monsters that transform into my face.

... Which is still -- weird. But you know. Normal business.

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[forsometimenow]

See, we don't have very many monsters- mostly humans, the occasional alien. And most of them have humanoid shapes.

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[collegedropout]

Hey, you never know. You might have met supernatural beings without even knowing it. Back home, a lot of them blend in pretty damn well.

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[forsometimenow]

True enough- after all, if they live among humans, learning how to blend in is a necessity. There's no point in trying to hide if all you do is stick out like a sore thumb, and a lot of humans wouldn't know what to do with a nonhuman in their midst.