dear diary 001

[onetwosixshit]

Who: Oscar Mike and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva [video]
When: 6/27

[Video]

[There's a slight crackle as the transmission begins, but it's almost immediately interrupted by a horrendous banging noise, and the screen is momentarily invaded by an out of of focus blob of colour again and again. Beyond the noise, it's possible to make out a voice that seems to be both very far away as well as muffled by something or someone.]

Hey, hey computer. Computer person, you there?

[Thankfully the banging stops after only a few moments; someone's been tapping at the camera, but has since figured out that it isn't doing anything helpful. Without the finger to focus on, the camera is finally able to come into focus, revealing a- well, someone fully decked out in regulation power armor. Someone that sounds very confused and just a little annoyed.]

Okay, cool, guess you're taking a nap or something. Not like a guy's stuck here, no clue where he is, nah go on and take your computer nap and-look get me the hell out of here.

Montana? Cap'n Galt? Galilea? [There's an exasperated noise.] Benedict? Look haha, funny. Come pick me up from where ever this is. The computer is taking a lame-ass nap or something.

(ooc: Oscar Mike is actually semiliterate, so any characters responding in text are likely to have their messages at least somewhat misinterpreted.  I'm so sorry)

Comments

[pain_train]

Um.

You're not home any more. You're somewhere totally different. Like a whole different universe and your friends probably aren't here. And you're stuck in a reality vid show.

It sounds weird, but that's the truth.

[onetwosixshit]

Okay so, say like a guy only understood like half that-

[pain_train]

Um.

Which half did you not get?

[onetwosixshit]

Uhhh...all of it.

[pain_train]

So like both halves.

[She's finally met someone worse at math than her. Wow.]

Okay. We'll start from the beginning.

Wherever you were? You're not there any more. You're not even in the same universe any more.

[onetwosixshit]

Yeah, see that's the part that isn't right. That freaky science stuff is weird enough, don't need it getting any more complicated.

[pain_train]

Doesn't matter if you don't like it. That's how it is.

[onetwosixshit]

Uhhh, so then I just gotta make it not like that. Yeah. So the computer lady and or dude and or nonbianary individual needs to wake up so I can get back to shootin' dudes. And my bros.

[Is that a very slight waver to his voice?]

[pain_train]

Sorry. No one's found a way to do that yet. It sucks, but you gotta deal with it. Your computer person isn't here. There are other computer people like Vision and Ordis, but they're probably not your computer person.

[onetwosixshit]

If they're computer people, why aren't they in the computer and getting me the hell out of here right now?

[pain_train]

They're computer people who have been put in human people bodies. And they're probably not your computer people anyway.

[onetwosixshit]

Uhhh. Wait what-a-what? That some sort of...freaky thing??

[pain_train]

Not really? I mean, I don't think so. They're perfectly nice people.

[onetwosixshit]

Huh. Still sounds super freaky. Like, weird freaky. Freaky freaky.

Anyways, one of them could get in here and set coordinates, right?

[pain_train]

No one can get onto the Marsiva, for one. Two, if they could, do you think any of them would still be here?

[onetwosixshit]

The marawhatawha? You ain't speaking in words, are you?

[pain_train]

The Marsiva. That's the name of the ship you're on. And of course I'm speaking with words, what the fuck else would I be using?

[onetwosixshit]

Sounds like one of them nerd names that nerds give to stuff. This Marseeva, that the name of the computer person here? Dude? Lady? Non-binary entity? Don't want to insult.

[pain_train]

It does? I don't know who named it, it just the name of the ship. I don't think there's a computer person there, at least not one who's talked to us.

[onetwosixshit]

Well maybe they're just shy! Some of 'em are. 'course some of 'em go on and on about the pointlessness of existence and the farce that is free will, but you just kinda tune them out like lalalala yup still listening buddy.

[pain_train]

Or maybe there isn't a computer person there.

[onetwosixshit]

That's not how it works though. There's always a computer person.

[pain_train]

Maybe there is where you come from. But that's not how it is here.

[onetwosixshit]

That's...how it's supposed to work though. It's not different anywhere else.

[Mind might be in the process of being blown.]

[pain_train]

Um. Every universe is different. This right here is super different than where I'm from.

And we don't have computer people like that where I'm from either.