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[benames]

Who: Cisco Ramon
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: the marsiva
When: current

[ today you can see cisco ramon putting tons of cheddar gel between two wheat solids, pressing them all together into a sandwich before heating them up on the highest setting available. it's not really grilled cheese but it's as close as it comes.

he's already eating out of a plate of frozen banana cubes ]

ok so eating all of this alone while everyone else is partying is absolutely my senior prom all over again just in space-setting.

[ oh to be a nerd, even in space. ]

so - what do we call ourselves? the fleeters? this is just for future knowledge, I am not in any way implying that title is.

[ the space microwave beeps ]

are they going to serve frozen tequila cubes in that party? because if so then a) awesome and b) I think those should definitely be provided to those of us who are stuck here on board of the SS No-Date.

Just saying.

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[benames]

Hey, the ability to enjoy candy is definitely something you can learn and improve, it's in no way an insult. and I'm not just saying it since you might be violent and petty and try to eat me.

[ nice going, ramon ]

well, yeah. I mean. Gorillas vs Men-Sharks in space.

[ ... ]

Awesome.

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[passingthrough]

Eat you? Not if you're eating poor-grade candy. I have my standards. [Which include not being a cannibal. Have a smirk.]

Was it? I mean, were you in space before? And where is your dorsal fin? I can ask that on a first meeting right?

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[benames]

thank god, I've been having tons of poor-grade candy. Seriously huge amount of poor-grade candy, it's downright Halloween night in here. really, eating me would be like eating about a billion poptarts covered in industrial sugar and dipped in soda.

[ he's 80% kidding and 20% serious and ok maybe it's time to reconsider said eating habits ]

Space - no. Though this setting combined with the general weirdness of things I've seen would make for a seriously awesome movie.

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[passingthrough]

You say that like poptarts could turn me away. Poptarts are nature's breakfast.] But at some point maybe I should mention I'm not actually a cannibal. [She never thought she'd feel the need to have to say that. Living in strange times.]

I think they are doing more a show than a movie. Sorry to disappoint.

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[benames]

man, it'd be awesome to have some space pop-tarts around here. or...poptart flavored wheat solids or whatever this thing is.

[ pointing to his make believe grilled cheese ]

just as good. I hope someone is actually watching this and that we're not all doing this Big Brother: Space for nothing.

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[passingthrough]

There is something extremely unappetizing about the word "solids".

[That last bit surprises her though.] You'd really want to be watched by a bunch of strangers? [She tries not to think about it and apparently does a very good job considering the kind of fleet life she's been living so far.]

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[benames]

Well, nope. but the unknown other options of why we're here freak me out way more than the space reality show explanation.

[ firm nod ]

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[passingthrough]

Oh, you mean like the ones where maybe they are just experimenting on us? [She's had some various worst-case scenarios thoughts. When doesn't she?]

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[benames]

That's...a good example of a totally terrifying option, yeah.

[ he doesn't want to think about it whatsoever but now that we're on a roll ]

That and that eventually some aliens will drag people away and eat them.

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[passingthrough]

You know, I think if they were going to eat us they'd do it right after they caught us or they'd give us something better to eat than space rations. [Comforting?]

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[benames]

Yes but- but! but what if those - jello things are actually designed to somehow make us gain weight or -?

[ you know what, nope. tossing the grilled cheese. ]

we gotta get to the bottom of this.

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[passingthrough]

I've been here almost three months and I haven't gained any weight. Do you feel like you've hit the bottom yet?

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[benames]

not yet.

[ pinching the bridge of his nose ]

I guess I might after spending some nights here and not being eaten by anything.

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[passingthrough]

Has someone tried to eat you at some point? I feel like this is a very specifically odd sort of worst-case scenario. [Do you know The Blob? Because he actually does that back home.]

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[benames]

dude. Alien - the Movie? everyone gets eaten except for someone who gets pregnant with alien baby and I watched that half a million times.

[ firm nod ]

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[passingthrough]

Right, I've heard of that one. [Always nice to have a reference from before her world imploded in disaster.]

I don't think anyone is going to eat or impregnate you, but no promises.

What's your name anyway?

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[benames]

it's a major classic. though I probably wouldn't like to see the movie here even if we had a chance. Sorta like watching Air Force 1 while flying.

[ nope. ]

Cisco Ramon - hi.

[ little awkward wave ]

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[passingthrough]

Kitty Pryde.

I'm guessing that's a movie about the president's plane? So, the pop culture stuff is a little hard here with not everyone being from earth or the same time or a version of earth where movies are happening.

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[benames]

yeah, I'm already working on a database where we can all login and type down some world information, might help with all the overlaps and also with the things that keep changing between the different earths.

[ never a dull moment ]

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[passingthrough]

That's very industrious. If you meet someone named Winn don't tell him about it. He has enough projects as it is.

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[benames]

uh.

[ smiling a bit while sorting his different notepads ]

I think you're a bit too late for that part.

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[passingthrough]

[Sighing.] Of course.

I already don't like you, Cisco. [Not actually true.]

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[benames]

sorry - you know, to tell fellow nerds not to take on more projects than we can chew is like telling us not to breathe.

[ firm nod ]

especially around here.

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[passingthrough]

Hey, I can be nerdy, and I only have two projects. [And one is half or more Winn's and the other she shopped out largely to Erik because she can't manipulate metal with her mind.]

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[benames]

nerdy is still not a nerd. we nerds recognize each other from a mile away.

[ firm nod ]

space nerdbros. from what I can tell, it's still mostly me and him around here. maybe Hank. ok, probably Hank. but that's it.