driftfleet | 02

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02 - video

Who: Winn
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: the Tourist
When: now!

[ last time he posted anything, he was a nervous wreck and kind of nauseous. the changes the past two months have left in him are impossible to miss; winn is smiling, upbeat, and almost comfortable. the nervous energy that is there has more to do with his addressing a bunch of strangers than the constant fear of death by space-stuff that overshadowed his first feed. ]

Hi, if we don't know each other - I'm Winn Schott. If we do know each other...I'm still Winn Schott - [ shaking his head, why hasn't he learned from the last time? prepare a script! ]

Anyway! I've been here for a couple months now, and it's been interesting - and I mean that in the original sense of the word. Think about it - not only are we in outer space [ there's only a slight wince at that, and even a lot of excitement. space is terrifying - but it's also really cool ] - but we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to reach across the multiverse and learn things that haven't even been dreamed up in our worlds yet. I've been learning - a ton from just casually talking to people, but there is a much better way to do this if we all cooperate, [ open source. it's the way of the future! ] and I know I'm not the only one out there who's interested!

So, I've got a suggestion for anyone who thinks that's really cool - and - pity for anyone who doesn't [ and by pity, he means judgment. he gestures excitedly with his hands as he introduces his brilliant concept ] - 2016: A Space-Time Odyssey - a series of free weekly lectures about anything and everything we've got here. Talks about different worlds, science, history, art lessons, concerts - I know we've got some musicians here - basically anything anyone signs up to talk about, teach, perform, or however you communicate things where you're from. Since we don't have a lecture hall we can broadcast the talks - give ourselves a fun routine....and if that doesn't work for someone, I can post the notes I'm so gonna take of all of these. Who's in? Who wants to go first?

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[ uh - is that excitement or apprehension, he's not sure he can tell. ]

Yeah - kinda, except for the mandatory attendance, homework, and tests.

[ look lectures also need an audience! ]

I wanna go!!! [ HE WANTS TO LEARN PLEASE PLEASE ]

[ he loves the attitude, a thirst for knowledge is something he obviously very much relates to. ]

You're welcome to, it's gonna be first-come first-served as far as the limited space at the actual lecture, but you can always watch them online if it gets too crowded.

Online like...the communicator-thingies? [ The technical term for them. yes. ]

Exactly! Where I'm from, you can look up lectures on a network and watch them whenever you feel like, and I wanna recreate that.

Whoa, your planet already had the things we have here?? [ LUCKY. His was still stuck around the 1920s. ] How did you put school into one of the tiny screens??

Well, teachers would record videos, like we do now. And you'd chat with them kinda like using the text function here - they'd send you homework, you'd send your solutions - but that's still kind of new, and mostly used for higher or informal education. Classrooms are still the norm for elementary through high school. What's your - planet - like? You're not from an Earth?

No, I'm from Earth! But we didn't have stuff like that at all...! The only machines we have are the ones in those big factories that make tons of gross smoke all the time.

[ Early coal and electricity...yo... ]

[ ok, there could be 3 basic explanations for this. 1. like hank, this guy is from the past. 2. he's from 2016, but from a very poor and remote part of the world. 3. he's from a fucked up earth.

start with the easiest one to check. ]

What year are you from?

The yeaaaarrr.... Uhh.... [ Oh man, dang. he totally hadn't paid attention to any of that before he'd arrive on the Fleet. He'd never needed to, seeing as he was technically "undead" and living forever. And you know, the whole "being hated by humans" thing. Not a lot of time to check a calendar. ]

Nineteen....eight....twenty-something? No wait, seventeen forty-fifty six? Uh...

[ that is some...serious margin there. ]

OK, let's start easier - what's your name?

That's easy~! I'm Sascha♥

It's good to meet you, Sascha. Do you know where you're from, beyond 'earth'? I'm from National City, USA.

Well...I like to think I'm from Latvia! But that's probably not true. I did wake up in Europe though.

'Wake up'?

[ somehow, he doesn't think they're talking about a nap. ]

[ No...not unless naps tend to leave you naked in the middle of the woods and covered in blood that isn't your own. ]

Yeah! The first time, not like going to bed and stuff after.

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[ can't say that's ever happened to him, no ]

Then like...what? [ he's not following, what does he mean 'the first time'? ]

[ Simon, you have yet to truly live. ]

Like...I dunno. There's nothing before that, it was just the first time I ever woke up in my whole life.

[ winn frowns, trying to understand. he feels like he's missing something very basic here. ]

You mean like...all your memories from before have been wiped?

If you mean they're gone...then yeah! [ The basic of the basics: Sascha in a nutshell. ]

Was that your world or another place like this? Were you the only one missing memories?

[ because missing memories seem to be fairly common in kidnappy-dimensions. ]

Did you find out anything about what happened?

Oh, um....yeah, I know why it happened. It was just regular back home though, no space TV shows or anything.

Complete memory-wipe is normal?

[ what kind of messed up world are you from? ]

[ The one where you die for a little bit, suffer brain damage due to a lack of oxygen, and then come back to life!! Totally normal, that. ]

Sssome...times? In certain situations, haha...

[ 'why is everyone dead', an autobiography by winn schott jr.

his curiosity is just going to drive him crazy now, but he can tell they're touching on a sensitive subject here - he's had enough conversations with people on the fleet with terrible histories to know that 'sensitive' is a polite word for 'terrible', and he doesn't really want to be the guy poking and prodding at people's pasts. he wouldn't want it done to him, even if talking about his dad has gotten a lot easier. he still only told kitty about it. ]

Ok. So - after you woke up - somewhere in Europe - there were a lot of polluting factories there? What else?

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