Dear Diary -> Today I woke up on a spaceship...

[transferedfate]

Who: Ringo Oginome
Broadcast: Video -> To All
Action: SS Marsiva
When: Late in the day, 02/03

[when the feed crackles to life, a girls face is on the other end. It's rather big, as has her face close to the camera. She pauses to look over her shoulder before she starts talking. She looks tense, but not worried. She's not scared per say, but she has the look of someone who is expecting a threat at any moment. Satisfied with whatever she sees, she looks directly at the camera again]

So, where are we this time? Looks like a space ship, which is definitely different for Yao. [she can't help the unconscious look of disgust that crosses her face at that name] And if anyone hasn't noticed, they put something in us this time. [she frowns deeply, and her free hand rubs the bulge of her implant]

We should probably pick a room and set up fortifications or something. Who knows when they'll decide to unleash the blood sucking aliens, or whatever they have planned for us.

[she pauses... When she briefly looked over the network, no one was talking about Haven, or getting ready, or anything. Memory loss? It happened before, maybe it was their latest way to get them to turn on each other. If that was the case, she had to find the others who knew what was going on, and this seemed like the most direct way. Too bad all of her assumptions are completely wrong, but she'll probably be told that soon...]

And if anyone actually remembers 'Haven', you'd better reply. We need to be ready.

Comments

[sensationate]

[ There's someone else on board the Marsiva with Ringo. He sounds amused when he comes up behind her to speak. ]

I don't remember Haven. Do I still get to reply?

1/2

[transferedfate]

Aah-! [she starts and can't suppress the slight squeal that comes out. She was very concentrated on the feed and didn't think that anyone was coming, and SUDDENLY A DUDE!]

2/2

[transferedfate]

[but she quickly tries to cover her surprise with annoyance, so she's a little cattier than she would usually be]

Sure, you can talk if you want. But you probably won't say anything important.

[sensationate]

How about the fact that you're on TV right now, and appear to have the completely wrong context for what's going on around you?

[transferedfate]

Yeah, sure I'm "on TV". [hmm, so that's the gimmick this time? She can't help but look him up and down. He seems like a normal guy, but if he says this is a TV show, who knows what they'll have to do to "win" this]

What kind of show is it?

[sensationate]

Apparently a reality TV show. Throwing people of different times and spaces together on small ships where we only have a modicum of our own agency and seeing what happens.

video;

[got_it_memorized]

Bloodsucking aliens? I'm not sure it's that sort of reality show. [Though he guesses he wouldn't necessarily rule it out, after what happened with Fenris and Robin.]

What's Haven?

video;

[transferedfate]

[w...hat... reality show? whatever]

Either you'll find out soon enough, or it won't matter. [for this guy's sake she hopes he's a hologram or clone or something]

[got_it_memorized]

Well that's remarkably unhelpful.

[transferedfate]

Well what you said wasn't exactly helpful either. [Ringo... this is not... how you make friends.... But after a pause of consideration she decides, what the hell.]

Haven was a city that got destroyed by this crazy organization. Now it's just a ruin where people are brought to be guinea pigs.

[got_it_memorized]

I was just addressing the topic I had information on, kiddo. 'Fraid I can't answer the question you asked: we don't know where exactly we are, we're just kinda in space. Sometimes we come across planets, but they're not worlds I've ever heard of or been to, so there's no real orientation.

[His eyebrows lift and he looks intrigued. A crazy organization, huh?]

Yeah, crazy organizations are good for stuff like that. Haven't seen anything like that so far here, though.

video

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[...well, this is interesting. there is a pale, smiling man on the other end of the video feed, watching her.]

I have a feeling this isn't going to end the way you think it will.

video

[transferedfate]

[she gives him a flat look]

This isn't my first time to the rodeo, you know.

video

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Oh, I don't doubt that! You sound very competent.

[which he means very genuinely!]

video

[transferedfate]

[haha, but she totally assumes he's being sarcastic. She tries very hard not to roll her eyes and only partially succeeds?]

So then, what did you mean?

video

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[he is in an unusually good mood... so he won't even mind.]

I mean that I'm very sure this is not going to turn out to be what you think it is. I mean, there may be blood-sucking aliens somewhere, but after that... You're going to realize you're actually part of another project entirely, now.

video;

[heresyandlace]

Oh--

[he turns the video feed on a moment later, so a picture joins the voice. a rather absurdly pretty man with lavender eyes, smirking from the screen]

Do we have another veteran in our midst?

video;

[transferedfate]

[wow, absurdly pretty is right. But she focuses more on what he says, and replies skeptically]

'Veteran' is a weird way to refer to it.

video;

[heresyandlace]

I think it fits perfectly-- especially since it seems that 'war' is a theme that keeps coming up with those that have run through this sort of thing before.

Is this 'haven' referring to where you were last, right before finding yourself here?

video;

[transferedfate]

... Yeah. And it's where I still am. [Her mental count keeps ticking higher, so there's a hint of reservation in her voice. They don't seem like they've been brain washed in the normal way, and they keep insisting...

But there's no way that she's anywhere else. As the though processes solidifies she juts her chin up slightly, as if defying his words]

You'll see in a week.

video;

[heresyandlace]

Oh, I will?

Tell me-- are you much of a gambler?

Video

[alwayscomeback]

[His augment is already playing up, so Sokka is more than a little highly strung.]

Nooooo blood sucking aliens yet. Nope. You're in the safest place ever. Nothing gets in.


...OR OUT!!!

Video

[transferedfate]

[. . . . .]

Oh great, just what I needed, a crazy person.

[alwayscomeback]

I'm not crazy!! I'm just really energised right now! It's cool. It's totally cool.

Coool.

[transferedfate]

As a cucumber. [CAN YOU HEAR THE DRIPPING SARCASM? It's dripping. Like a cool cucumber]

Look, I don't have time for this. I need to find a defense or... something.