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Who: Ravi Chakrabarti and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: HS Marsiva
When: Pre-shuffle!

[When Ravi wakes up in a completely unfamiliar bunk, his first thought is that he's been whisked back to the zombie camp with the unmentionable name and is about to have a bevy of overenthusiastic, purple gorilla nurses descend upon him. But as the minutes tick by uneventfully, he decides to brave the unknown to explore his surroundings and - despite the perplexities of his current situation - is visibly delighted by everything he sees. When he finally gets the hang of the communicator, his hands are actually shaking from the excitement of it all, making his image a little blurry onscreen.]

Apparently I'm in space! Which is actually pretty bloody brilliant! It's a definite upgrade from my previous zombie camp escapade, let me tell you, but I have so many questions!

[He looks like he's about to start rambling for hours on end, but manages to visibly reel himself in first. It's probably best to start with the basics.]

I'm Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti and I suppose this makes me a new member of this fleet, if there is a fleet. Which I'm pretty sure there is since I'm just about one hundred percent certain I could see other ships from the viewing area.

[A huge grin breaks out over his face as he mentally processes this again.]

I'm part of a fleet and I'm broadcasting in space! I mean, look, I'm obviously not thrilled about being displaced from home again, but if it has to happen, at least I'm on an actual, honest-to-God spaceship! And if anyone can provide some information on why exactly I'm in space, I'd be much obliged. Don't get me wrong, I could only have ever dreamed about all this robotic medical equipment in the last place, but at least the gorilla nursing staff was a bit more communicative.

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Okay, so the Avatar is also connected to the spirit world. Which is like another world over our own, that regular people usually can't see, or even interact with all that much. It's the Avatar's job to bring balance to both the real world and the spirit world. Soo yeah, classic chosen one.

Anyway, when an Avatar dies, they're reincarnated into someone else. There's a whole cycle it goes through with the elements, and that new Avatar is connected to all the Avatars who came before it. Hence the spirit stuff, so they can sometimes connect to their past lives to pow-wow with them about whatever they need.

And so now I have someone here from home, who I won't actually meet for decades, but who I kind of already know because my best friend is kinda there too.

Like I said kinda weird.

You say "weird", I say it's pretty incredible! I swear, every world is cooler than the one I come from.

[Not to say that friends who happen to be zombies aren't cool. But controlling the elements and reincarnation might have it beat.]

I guess? I mean, I never really thought about it before I came here. I guess it is pretty neat.

So your friend controls four elements. What about you? Any special powers?

Err no. I don't have any powers at all. Some people in my world just don't.

Well, we can always stick to being two regular guys with excellent hair in possession of pretty stellar brains! It's a rarer combination than you'd think!

You are so right. People like us, great hair, stellar brains: we got to stick together.

We'll probably have to be careful that people aren't too jealous of us!

I know right! I wonder if we'll get hatemail.

You know, from the quote-unquote viewers.

Nah, I bet if anything we'll be the fan-favourites! You know, the ones that people feel like they can really relate to.

That is true, I'm very relateable. We are the everymen, sitting amongst people with all kinds of weird and unusual powers.

That's the spirit!

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