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Who: Kara & Friends (and future friends)
Broadcast: video / fleetwide
Action: The Tourist, kitchen or Kara's room
When: now!

[ In her broadcast, Kara is in her PJs, hair down and glasses off. She looks like she just woke up not too long ago and the overall vibe is very "confessional vlog". She doesn't seem distressed, just a little confused, and tired—though her eternal optimism is always there somewhere. ]

Hey, so, question: On a scale from "wow that's super weird we've never heard of something like that" to "it must be a Wednesday on the Fleet", how common is it to just like, get a bunch of "new" information from home? Which, now that I think about it, is kind of a dumb thing to ask because we have implants that give us job skills training. But I'm just wondering. Uh, in the abstract? Something like that.

Anyway, I'm going to go get some coffee and food because I'm starving. Who knew that sleeping was such hard work?

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That's kind of what I'm doing now...

Ooooh, don't be that person! You'll probably be telling them things they don't want to know!

They're being so insistent though!

Resist! They think they want to hear it, but trust me, they don't. They really don't.

Oops.

Speaking from experience?

A bit, yeah.

Hopefully it wasn't all bad?

Well, there seems to be a lot of war in the future. Also, a harebrained trip halfway across the world to find the long lost father I never knew, apparently.

...Wow.

Congratulations?

I dunno. I don't even know how it'll turn out! I kind of got distracted. But probably not well.

Well... you don't have to deal with it here, at least?

Yeah, that's my consolation. Of course, if I hadn't shown up here, I wouldn't know about it at all, so...

Until it happened.

Time is confusing.

Yeah, you can say that again. Paint ball is a lot more fun.

Yeah? Have you been playing?

Maker's breath, have I! When I get back home I'm going to make it the national sport!

And a national holiday to go with it?

Naturally. Maybe around Satinalia. A day just for paint ball!

What's Satinalia?

Only the best holiday! There's a big feast, and everyone gives gifts, and there are masquerades where everyone wears masks, and the town fool gets named king for a day.

That sounds like a lot of fun, and a little like Halloween.

What's Halloween?

Kids dress up in costumes and go around begging for candy, and there are parties and stuff.

Really? They beg for sweets and... get some?

It's a prearranged agreement. You only go to the houses that have their lights on.

It was strange for me when I learned about it too.