Chapter Nine [Video]

[thebestseller]

Who: Richard Castle and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: August 21st

Windrose crew, please don't worry too much, but I have been tossed in the pokey, so I won't be coming home tonight. Jeez, it's like the other factions don't have any sense of humor at all...

[Castle shifts uncomfortably.]

Really, no appreciation for fine artwork, these people. And they take this team business way, way, way too seriously.

Vision, please take care of the bots, and remember me fondly if I rot away in prison.

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[mistyday]

There you go, it'll be like one of them Arnold Schwarzenegger films. Only Wrath's the good guy!

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[thebestseller]

I wish I could record it, seriously. I probably won't even get to witness most of it.

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[mistyday]

Well you got your communicator thing don't you?

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[thebestseller]

... ...

you mean the one I'm talking to you on right now? [Castle looks sheepish.]

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[mistyday]

[Misty grins.]

The very same.

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[thebestseller]

I guess it's a bit too late to play the "technologically inept old man" card, eh?

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[mistyday]

Just a little. Don't worry though, I won't tell anybody.

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[thebestseller]

You're a peach. 'cause I'd probably never hear the end of it.

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[mistyday]

If it makes you feel better, I ain't ever been real good with technology either.

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[thebestseller]

I'm usually pretty good with it, but every once in a while I'll have a brain fart. In this case, it's because I'm not sure how much I trust Atroma-provided devices.

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[mistyday]

Fair enough. I think in this case you're okay - I mean, they gotta be all for a dramatic jail break, right?

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[thebestseller]

True- and having it from a few different perspectives will help when they have the inevitable Rashomon-style clip show. You know, where the same story is told through different perspectives.

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[mistyday]

You think they do anything as fancy as that? I don't know, I always just thought we'd be shown more like the Kardashians or something.

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[thebestseller]

Hmmm, I never thought about it that way. I always assumed that if there IS a show, it's Big Brother style- except nobody gets eliminated. They just let the cameras roll and edit the footage to suit the story they want to tell.

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[mistyday]

That's the one where they're all trapped in the house, right? I guess that is kinda like us, only our house is bigger.

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[thebestseller]

Yeah. We're all thrown into our spaceship homes and they watch what happens, throw us a curveball sometimes to liven things up. But we could be shown as celebrities, too- it'd help their narrative that we're all happy, willing participants.

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[mistyday]

Shit that'd be messed up, if they got all these people watchin' thinkin' we're here voluntarily.

[Don't get her wrong, she would have said yes to almost any offer to get her out of Hell but she knows wrong when she sees it still.]

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[thebestseller]

Seriously. But they make it sound like we're this super popular, beloved show, and I can't imagine that it'd be that way if the audience knew we weren't here by choice.

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[mistyday]

We ever heard anything from the audience?

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[thebestseller]

I think Atroma's read out what they claim is fanmail before- but that'd be pretty easy to fake, too.

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[mistyday]

What kinda stuff did they say?

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[thebestseller]

A fan was curious about why we wanted to win, I think. You know, meet whatever mysterious and arbitrary conditions they've set to get off this stupid show.

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[mistyday]

I mean... Isn't that kinda obvious why people want to win?

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[thebestseller]

You would think so! I guess they figured we might have different reasons, though. I want to go home, but I know not everyone does.

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[mistyday]

Yeah but if I don't want to go home then I'm not gonna try to win. Simple.