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[searingedgelord]

Who: Velvet Crowe and You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: aboard the SS Red Fish
When: right after the Shuffle

[Velvet had woken up in one strange tin can and had only just started to get her bearings when she was suddenly transported to another strange tin can. This isn't how she was expecting today to go.

She stumbles a little but manages to catch herself, oblivious to the fanfare that signals her arrival.]

Where--?

[She takes a moment to steady herself, shaking her head to clear it. She blinks, focusing on her surroundings, trying to make sense of things.]

...Is that pudding?

[Where does pudding fit into all this? And that's not even mentioning the confetti. Actually she hasn't even noticed that yet, or the fact that a lot of it has fluttered into her hair. She looks pretty festive for someone so cranky.]

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[girlverine]

Yes. [Initial judgement of the woman was that she was probably dangerous, judging by how quickly she reacted to Laura. Unarmed, but that didn't mean much, Laura knew she looked unarmed too. And...not human. Though she couldn't place the smell she was getting from her.]

Part of the fleet outside of the Marvisa.

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[searingedgelord]

That doesn't mean much to me.

[She's a little peeved. Though more at the situation than Laura. This all happened so fast she feels like she's having to rush to catch up to figure out what the hell is going on.]

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[girlverine]

The ship you were on before this one, it's called the Marvisa. We're...smaller.

[Which didn't matter much, since the crew was always smaller than the Red Fish could manage anymore. Plenty of space, really.]

You were sent here from there. [A beat.] I'm Laura.

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[searingedgelord]

Right. I wasn't there long.

[Really she'd maybe been awake for ten or fifteen minutes before she found herself here, or at least that's what it felt like.]

I'm Velvet.

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[girlverine]

It doesn't matter. You can see it out the window in your room, or in the cargo bay.

[Okay. How was she supposed to do this...when Laura had arrived, she'd just snuck around stalking everyone until she had things figured out. Explaining them was...different.]

Do you...have questions?

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[searingedgelord]

>[Straight to the point. Velvet could appreciate that.]

Yeah. Lots of them.

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[girlverine]

I can try to answer them.

[Try being the operative word, really.]

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[searingedgelord]

Why am I here? Who brought me here? And how do I leave?

[Those are the three biggest questions she has. Though she doesn't necessarily expect Laura to be able to answer all three of them, she might as well lay them all out at once.]

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[girlverine]

[Of course those were the three questions. The ones that didn't answers.]

We don't know. And you can't.

People eventually leave but we don't know why. Or how. They're just gone one day.

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[searingedgelord]

[Well knowing people do leave is something, at least. But still this is annoying.]

Seriously? No one knows?

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[girlverine]

No.

[She frowns faintly. It was a question that frustrated her too.]

Sorry.

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[searingedgelord]

[She huffs, frustrated. Maybe she should focus on something smaller, if the bigger questions can't be answered right now.]

Okay, what about weapons? When I woke up mine were gone.

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[girlverine]

People arrive unarmed, yes. Unless your weapons are part of you.

[Hm.]

Do you know what augment you were given?

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[searingedgelord]

[That's a new word.]

Augment? Guess not.

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[girlverine]

It is a chip. Inside your head. Or an implant. [Laura wasn't really sure how to identify what someone else's was...]

It teaches you things you need to know for the fleet. Security, or piloting, or medicine...

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[searingedgelord]

[She'll figure hers out once she stops being so distracted by her own frustration. Speaking of which, this is one more thing to be frustrated about.]

So, not only did they kidnap us, they messed with our heads?

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[girlverine]

Yes.

[Sorry.]

But they can be useful.

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[searingedgelord]

Something being useful doesn't excuse it.

[Though she'll still make use of it. She just can't help but be mad about it.]

So you're saying something in my head is going to...teach me about some part of this ship?

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[girlverine]

No, but that does not change it either.

[Laura could be a pragmatist at times.]

You will instinctively know how to fly. Or use the medical equipment. Or unlock the armory.

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[searingedgelord]

The knowledge is just already there?

[She glances around the ship thoughtfully, trying to figure this out.]

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[girlverine]

I think so.

[Laura had gotten security, and already knew how to defend herself so all it had done was unlock the armory for her. So she wasn't sure.]

That is how people describe it.

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[searingedgelord]

[That's weird, honestly. She wanders a little, though, and eventually pauses at the pilot's station. She studies it for a moment.]

This.

[It all seems familiar even though she's quite sure she's never laid eyes on it before in her life.]

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[girlverine]

[Laura trailed after her, watching for reactions, watching her body language. The woman was clearly dangerous...which was probably why she had been assigned to the Red Fish.]

Try it.

[She said as they came up on the piloting chair. Laura was a proponent of winging it, it seemed.]

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[searingedgelord]

You sure about that? If I mess up, we could end up dead.

[She does move closer to study the controls and what not. She's still a little dubious of all this.]

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[girlverine]

It will be fine. Do it.

[Laura just leans her shoulder against the cockpit door and waits. Enough hemming and hawing, Velvet.]