driftfleet | 07

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07 - video

Who: Winn Schott + you = awesome
Broadcast: yup!
Action: Tourist!
When: now!

[ the feed opens with a profile view of a sleeping winn. on his face, you can see an elaborate sharpie painted mustache (courtesy of opal) and from the ceiling right above him hangs a plastic flamingo in a coat and plastic sunglasses (courtesy of cisco).

to anyone who's been by to see him lately, it's a very familiar scene. but seconds into it something that hasn't happened in about two weeks begins to take place - movement. with a soft groan, winn reaches a sluggish hand to his face, shielding his eyes from the light. the hand then seems to decide that scratching above his upper lip is better use of its time and skills. slowly, his eyes blink open, struggling to adjust, to focus.

and then they do. on that flamingo.

he yelps, jumping up in bed, tearing the flamingo off its strings and throws it across the room, where he proceeds to stare at an off frame army of (four) flamingos. rubbing at his temples he mutters just loudly enough to be captured on film ] So Cisco's still here...

[ that seems to remind him of something, and with a sharp move his still sleepy mind can't seem to properly cope with, grabs at the communicator and misses. next attempt brings it into his hand and you finally get a close up of that glorious mustache.

he frowns into the camera ]

Of course it's rolling... [ his voice is raw, lips chapped, and he clears his throat in an attempt to bring back his usual volume ] Hi - Fleeters - if we're still calling ourselves that - Winn Schott here, back to the world of the conscious - if you recognize me check in and tell me how long I've been out - Kitty - you better still be here. [ because unless you call him within the next 10 seconds he's calling you as soon as he cuts this feed and if you're not there he will freak. he rubs at his painted mustache again, not quite realizing what's bothering him, and with a small tired smile fumbles to shut the broadcast off. ]

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Either by the comms -- or, of course, if you can provide a physical copy? Mister Jarvis usually stops by the Starstruck in the evenings. You could send it along with him.

[ dear mister jarvis. ]

Sure, yeah, no problem. And I can bring the rest by in person in a couple days.

Only if it's convenient -- I'm well aware I'm pushing my luck with penciling me into your agenda for the coming days.

You're not pushing anything, I'm gonna go see all my friends. I love Kitty but we're not those people. [ you know, the ones who forget their friends just because they're in a relationship. their friends mean way too much to them. ]

-- Those people?

[ she asks, although she can read the implication perfectly clearly. peggy can't help herself at times. ]

You know, the ones who forget the world around them because they're in love. She gets dibs, but that doesn't mean I didn't miss everyone else, too.

Ah, yes. How tragic that would be. [ her voice is full and wry. but then again, one might argue her take on love is altogether too far in the opposite direction. ]

[ he's not far from that extreme, but he stops just short of taking his friends for granted. he's gone too long without any. ]

Don't worry, tragedy averted, I'm way more into comedies, sci fi, and fantasy epics, anyway.

I find I like non-fiction best.

[ her coy way of planting her flag most firmly in the land of hard pragmatism -- the sort where even love gets the axe in its service. ]

More than adventure?

[ he's not sure where this metaphor is even going anymore, but he's riding it out. ]

Non-fiction brims over with adventure, Winn.

[ real, lived adventure. ]

Well, yeah. But sometimes it's nice to delve into something that's never been real, relaxing, you know?

[ especially when your life is a constant adventure that's great and all, but the stakes are always super high and the people you love are always on the line, and your life's at stake too and then you go home and you just want to repress the bad parts and focus on something where the danger doesn't matter, never mattered, will never matter because the people involved never existed. ]

I suppose I can imagine the appeal -- [ but that seems to be as far as she's willing to cede. peggy boasts a classical education fitting of one of the finer girls' schools in london, but beyond what she'd learned there? fiction is more of a distraction than a hobby.

perhaps because she's so often been burned by fiction. ]

That's cuz you don't have access to modern masterpieces. What I would've give for a netflix connection here.

[ that's not gonna be super awkward at all, right. ]

[ typical modern elitism, wow.

and yet: ] -- Netflix, Winn?

[ everyone has their blind spots. ]

It's an online streaming service where you can watch a lot of shows and movies, it's great.

It sounds like a distraction.

Hey, nobody can work 24/7. [ though sometimes it feels like he sure is heading as close to that as humanely possible ] It's a great way to relax and, you know, shut your brain down so you can sleep.

[ because why pay for therapy when you can pay for a netflix subscription and repress? ]

Then I take it the service functions a bit like the uploaded files on the fleet's network? [ curious, of course. but it's safer to engage her curiousity than argue the point of whether she could ever manage to relax while watching films. ]

Kinda yeah, except users don't upload content they just consume it, and there's a lot more variety.

[ -- she'd meant the content that the atroma gleaned from their worlds and uploaded, not the passengers themselves. but the gist remains. ]

I'm certain it's a very impressive service. [ just not her cup of tea, probably. ] But I've never been all that fond of the cinema -- perhaps its novelty would be lost on me.

I dunno, it's come a long way. The special effects look freaking amazing now, and in a lot of stuff character and story have gotten really complex and interesting.

Tell me about your favourite film, then.

[ she might as well be polite about it. ]

I would love to, but the Atroma suck so the only movies I remember with any clarity are the ones I've seen here.

[ how can he passionately argue their merits, then? because he can. this is a very touchy subject, peggy, proceed with caution. his little nerdy soul is in agony over the lack of those memories. ]

-- Bastards.

[ so what if she doesn't care about films? she can recognize loss when she hears it. might as well commiserate. ]

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