001 - Video

[revoltndevelopment]

Who: Ben Grimm
Broadcast: Video Broadcast
Action: Bishop
When: June 4th

Awright, lets get this over with quick.

[ Ben's been loitering for a few days in the Marisva, getting his bearings, read'n up on what he could about this place, but some stuff you only get through good old fashioned talking face to face. Or face to camera. A huge, craggy, orange face fills the screen, all worn and weathered and animate like stone probably shouldn't be. There's a slow blink and a low sigh, the Thing rolling out his shoulders and settling in for a fun series of conversations. ]

Ben Grimm here of The Fantastic Four and Avengers ask'n for a headcount. Who all's here, who ain't, and which version of earth are ya from?

[ It ain't his first rodeo, it ain't even his tenth- it is his second in one of these weird 'crammed in a jaw and hope noth'n blows up' sortsa places though. Seems a bit nicer than Luceti. For one thing: Space! For another: he gets to pilot. ]

And can we skip the 'oh gosh gee you're all big and orange and rocky!' like I don't know. You're in space, you've gotta have seen stranger things than me by now.

Comments

[revoltndevelopment]

Yeah, yeah. I'll keep an eye out for 'em.

[ Odds of actually getting them? Slim to none. But it can't hurt. ]

Nice t'meet ya, Vash. Where you from?

[goldenglasses]

I'm from a place called Gunsmoke. If you're from Earth I doubt you've heard of it.

[Unless your Earth is dying and you've heard of a fleet of ships being sent out into space to try to help the human species live on; but Vash doesn't really like mentioning that part.]

[revoltndevelopment]

Like the old western?

[ Was it a movie or a tv show- he can't ever remember. ]

Funny name for a planet.

[goldenglasses]

Uh. No? Maybe... I mean, we're not very scientifically advanced. [Anymore.] So I suppose I guess that depends what you mean by old and western. I mean, west is a direction where I'm from.

[And for once he's not acting stupid. He just hasn't really heard that term before.]

[revoltndevelopment]

Western movies? You don't got those on Gunsmoke? That's kinda sad, kid. Cowboy hats, six shooters, spurs, 'this town ain't big enough for the both of us'?

[goldenglasses]

We don't have movies. [That technology lost and forgotten in favor of survival.]

But we have lots of different hats, guns; including six-shooters, and spurs though.

But most of our towns are big enough for two people. Otherwise I'm not sure a town of one would really be, you know, a town. [He doubts that Ben is speaking literally, but again, he can't help playing the idiot. Or well, he could, but this is more fun for him.]

[revoltndevelopment]

So wild west type planet fulla the literal minded, or are you just that special?

[ Biting as it could be- Ben's actually curious here. Some places never pick up on sarcasm or simile or metaphor. It's kinda weird. ]

[goldenglasses]

Oh! I'm not that special! [Ha!] But I don't think we're all that literal. At least, I don't think so. I've never been told that before myself, but I do know a couple who could be.

[revoltndevelopment]

[ Ok, this kid's a little weird but- hey. He's met weirder.

He's pretty sure he's met weirder, at least. ]

Ran into a race of aliens once that were completely literal. Gets exhausting.

[goldenglasses]

Yeah? I bet. I mean I definitely have used some sayings from back home that people didn't get, but we definitely have metaphors and such where I'm from and not everything is literal.

[revoltndevelopment]

Different planets, different people, different quirks. So aside from no movies and a lotta western stuff- what's Gunsmoke like?

[goldenglasses]

Dry, hot, and sandy. It's a desert planet and gets a bit dull really quickly.

[revoltndevelopment]

That's a raw deal. What d'you do for fun?

[goldenglasses]

Play a lot of poker. If you're good at riding some like Thomas rodeos, but I just always fall off so I tend to just bet on races myself. Hide from the heat. Chess and other bored games. I dunno, a bunch of things.

The kids tend to like to play sheriff and outlaw a lot. They're pretty good at making up games with just a ball or sticks.

What about your planet?

[revoltndevelopment]

<div align = "Justify?>We got plenty of water on earth so- beaches, swimm'n, read'n, movies, video games, traveling- we're kinda spoilt for choice.

[goldenglasses]

We've stopped by some moons and planets with large bodies of water. One was full of salt so you couldn't drink it. Something I had never considered before, undrinkable water, but it was still amazing. I must say I'm jealous. [It doesn't take much to impress anyone from Gunsmoke. The place sucks.]

[revoltndevelopment]

Yeah, seawater. Can't drink it but it's good for fish'n. Guess you don't got much of that where you're from either.

[goldenglasses]

Nope. Never been fishing in my life. [But they do have fish... in a way.] Gotta say though, after seeing how fishing is done its nothing I feel like I've been missing out on.

[revoltndevelopment]

Eh, it ain't 'bout the fish'n. It's about hav'n an excuse to sit back with a sickpack and do noth'n while supposedly do'n somth'n.

[goldenglasses]

Sit around doing nothing but working on a sixpack? I think I could get behind that.

[revoltndevelopment]

And if you're lucky, sometimes you actually catch somth'n and there's fish afterward.

[goldenglasses]

See that's the part I have trouble with. Violence, even against a fish, makes me queasy.