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Who: Nami and anyone
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport
When: 16th April

[The broadcast doesn't switch on while Nami is still sleeping, but it does decide to catch the moment when she practically launches off the bed with a banshee screech and then tumbles to the floor blankets and all, a tangle of material and bare limbs flailing in a pathetic heap.]

Luffy, you ass-- I'm the only one who can--

[The only one who can inhale a blanket corner, apparently. 8| Please hold, spluttering. She eventually flips the blanket back to show a mess of orange hair, smoothing it dazedly behind one ear-- and then freezing as she swipes at thin air beneath that.]

Wha hap'-- where's my--

[....]

.....huh?

[Memory might be taking a bit.]

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[Some hours later she'll be back and fully coherent and annoyed.]

I go to sleep for two weeks and we're still in this crappy place? Tell me there's a bright side somewhere. And I guess I owe a bunch of shifts at the bar or something.

Aha. Tell me I still have a job.

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[Eyyy, look who's back.]

I don't think there's a line-up out the door for the bartending job. Um, no offense to the place.

[He likes it well enough, for not being a regular, but the fleet is enough of a job as it is, in his opinion.

More seriously, though-]

You okay?

...yeah. [Sam more or less confirmed that her wakeup call was recorded, so she just sounds vaguely sheepish.] I, uh... kind of went home for a while, if you can call it that. Ended on a jump scare.

[A literal one. Her captain is an asshole.]

Hey, Kirito. How's things?

...I hate jump scares.

[One of the many reasons he doesn't play horror games. Ugh.]

Things are okay, I guess. The moon still sucks here.

I think I vastly preferred the station. That had casinos. [Grumble.] If I was going to sleep for so long, they could at least have obliged me by moving on to somewhere better.

Is there anything even worth seeing down there?

Well... the wildlife is pretty interesting, I guess? Everything that the pollution hasn't killed had to evolve to survive in it. There's mutant bears and stuff, it's kind of cool.

[If you like that kind of thing.]

Mutant... bears...

[Is that some sort of twisted way of trying to cheer her up because oh god. Never setting foot outside her ship.]

Unless they have solid gold claws or something, I'm not interested.

I think you can sell their fur if it's washed properly, but it's not worth much. You'd be better off playing the games in town.

Oh, what kind of games? Any cards?

[She's been informed of the existence of paintball, at least...]

There's a bunch of different kinds, yeah. The stakes are nowhere near as tempting as the casinos, though, but it can't hurt to look around.

Well, if it's still worthwhile in some form or another. We can't always have casinos, I guess.

...of course that does mean I have to get a gas mask. [Blech.]

They hand them out for free in the spaceport, so it's not as bad as it could be.

Just, uh. Don't venture too far out in the wild.

Oh, do they? [Well, free stuff earns instant points.]

Silver lining. And you don't need to worry. I doubt I'll be touching the wild with a ten foot pole.

Smart decision.

[You are much wiser than he.]

So what was with the flailing wake-up, anyway?

Ah. That.

Kind of got dragged off a two thousand foot drop right before I woke up.

[No big deal.]

Holy crap! That'd be huge fall damage!

[In any RPG that'd be an insta-kill, nevermind real life.]

Are you gonna be okay?

Oh. Yeah. [She waves a hand.] It's terrifying, but it's not the fall that's a problem, it's the ocean at the bottom. The idiot that dragged us off the drop can't swim. And neither can anyone else he dragged except me.

[I can't rescue five people at once, jfc.]

Yeah, when it comes to falling, the bottom is usually the problem.

[He's had this problem before. Not great! Though that was due to his own stupidity, not someone else's.]

Don't suppose anyone grabbed a life preserver on the way.

Nope. My captain's a moron.

[It'll probably work out. She'll probably scream at him a lot. Fun. She huffs a sigh and slouches, chin in hand.]

The fall won't kill us, though. Luffy will probably turn into a balloon at some point.

...You know somebody who can turn into a balloon?

[That's one he's never heard before.]

In a way. He's made of rubber, so he does all kinds of weird things. Blowing himself up like a balloon is just one.

[That clears things up right.]

...You've got one hell of a party back home.

[RUBBER MAN. What kind of class would that even be?]

You don't know the half of it. Sometimes I think I'm the only normal person on that ship.

As normal as pirates can get?

[Or is that in itself normal in a water world? Who the heck even knows.]

Hmm. Given that, maybe I'm the most normal person actually on the sea. Pirates are pretty eccentric all round. At best.

[Dude, our world is like half populated by pirates. Probably.]

Considering we all live on ships already, I'm surprised there aren't more pirates in the fleet. Interesting people make for good drama, don't they?

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