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[robitussin]

Who: natalie and you
Broadcast: fleetwide!
Action: on the pathstone, if you like!
When:

okay so like

i got here after we'd after we got to the starlight, so i don't know exactly how long we were there, but i wanted to know how long we usually stay at planets or stations or whatever

like on a scale of one to ten how likely is it that we'll still be here in two or three weeks

[she doesn't like having to wear the mask whenever she leaves her ship, but there's another reason she's asking, too.]

also i keep hearing about people who have been pulled into places like this before and i wanted to hear more about those if anyone feels like talking about their previous shitholes

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[beathach]

I could tell you, but that would depend on what you want to hear. Do you want to hear about how much of a shithole it was, or the better parts?

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[robitussin]

eh give me a mix of both, i want the full picture

[beathach]

All right. Have you heard of another world called Kyriakos?

[robitussin]

dude no way

what team were you on??

[beathach]

I was on Gulgallana. You're familiar with it?

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[ino]

We usually don't stay any longer than a month. That's a month too long for this place if you ask me, though.

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[robitussin]

so we'll probably still be here by the end of april, basically?

yeah it sucks

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[ino]

Yeah, probably. It might be a little longer, but I hope not. I like breathing.

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[robitussin]

yeah

figures when we can finally use our money again we get stuck on some boring bullshit planet that's trying to slowly poison us

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[ino]

It's been like that. We usually go to a couple of creepy places before we get to go to somewhere nice.

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[birdsbirdsbirds]

YO, yeah it'll probably be another three weeks if not longer. I'm hoping this isn't all a setup for swamp monsters to come and eat everybody.

And this is my fifth... nexus, or whatever other word you'd use, if you want to hear about that whole mess. I've got plenty of grievances.

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[robitussin]

that would be just our luck tbh

fifth?? jesus christ

what were they like?

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[birdsbirdsbirds]

What does 'tbh' mean.

(If that's an Earth thing I'm not from there.)

[thankfully, he's been around long enough to not have to question what kind of sneeze noise "jesus christ" must be.]

Well, the first one was pretty nice. We sort of hung out in a tower and the nearby town all the time because no one ever told us to do differently. A bunch of stuff was free. Not a lot of people there, though. Kinda boring.

And then the next place I went to was THE WORST. (」゜ロ゜)」 The place after that was technically the future of the second place, which was also terrible. The fourth place was kind of like a three-month-long fever dream, so I honestly don't remember it very well. I think I was a cat at some point. Like.

I think I was turned into a cat.

... What the fuck.

And now I'm here and it's stupid but actually not so bad compared to some of that other shit.

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[robitussin]

to be honest

where are you from

also what was the second one

and did you just now realize the cat thing

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[birdsbirdsbirds]

Goooot it.

Gratia. Town called Skeleton City. Yes, it's actually named that.

The second one was called Nor. It was basically six months of being trapped with a bunch of really angry dragons and their crazy dragon king. Also the world was ending, but not in a fun, flashy way. It was pretty miserable.

And yeah I just now realized the cat thing. Like I said, I don't remember it very well.

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[passingthrough]

Sounds like we got here there same time, so I can't help you there. I was in a place called MarinaNova Asylum between home and here. It called itself a prison.

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[robitussin]

a prison? man that's just low

adding insult to injury

what did they say you were imprisoned for?

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[passingthrough]

Honest though. This is kind of like a traveling prison.

So many things. Tiny, insignificant stuff like jaywalking or speeding. And bigger things without without context. Alongside people who would probably break into tears if they had to hurt a fly.

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[robitussin]

fair enough

figures. did you ever figure out what they really wanted you for?

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[passingthrough]

Not for sure, but I think we were being studied and they were putting us through our paces to test different stimuli. No idea why though.

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[experiencepoints]

A little less than a month each time, it feels like.

[Pause.]

Or, uh. Around an Earth month, anyway.

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[robitussin]

Do you measure your months differently or something?

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[experiencepoints]

Six days to a week, six weeks to a month, ten months to a year.

Earth calendar is bullshit.

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[robitussin]

Earth calendar superiority.

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[experiencepoints]

Ashvara's is better, sorry.