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[vouched]

Who: Lance Hunter and yourself, should you choose to engage!
Broadcast: yes
Action: Marsiva
When: no time like the present!

[ the comm seems to be haphazardly leaning against something, and the image you get is crooked. a sleeping man, who almost instantly awakes with a start. no scream, mercifully, he's quite over screamer videos, and besides, it wouldn't really be that surprising under the circumstances, now, would it? his eyes dart around the room, his feet flying off the cot and touching the ground. the moment he speaks, his accent undeniably and unapologetically identifies him as an englishman. ]

Not again - [ he groans, looking around him. the first time he was knocked out and kidnapped happened because he was foolish, he trusted a friend when clearly he had overestimated the bond, bloody spies, he's had his fill of bloody spies. but this time - he has no idea what happened. one minute, he's in a pod, sailing to freedom and the next - he's in this bed. he must not have deactivated something. do they have a blasted tracker beam on these things? so paranoid! ] Oi, @therealshield, you forgot to paint your eagle - I'm gonna have to deduct your merits - [ no answer. the room really doesn't seem like anywhere his previous captors kept him in, and that's rarely a coincidence. he gets up, and the comm seems to slip off whatever it was leaning against and end up in a new position, one that shows the back of the man, as he walks towards a window. ] ...you have got to be joking.

[ and a moment later ] Bloody aliens!

[ the man comes in and out of the frame, as he's clearly examining his surroundings, before he heads back to check on what he's got by his cot, and notices the comm. picking it up, you now get a close up of his face - ] Little red light - you're either going to explode or - [ that sure looks like a camera, doesn't it? he holds it directly in front of his face. ]

Take me to your leader.

Comments

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[vouched]

If he had this face, he'd be in the forefront from day one.

[ you don't. ain't spy life grand, mate? ]

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[evervigilante]

[ He'll take a hard pass. ]

Probably without the beard though.

[ video ]

[vouched]

[ smart man. ]

I thrive on jealousy.

[ don't hate just because you can't grow one. ]

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[evervigilante]

Shame your beard can't do the same.

[ You wish. ]

[ video ]

[vouched]

Don't worry, puberty comes to us all.

[ you wish, he already got it. ]

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[evervigilante]

So does senility.

[ video ]

[vouched]

I forget, what's that?

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[evervigilante]

I won't do you any favors then, old man.

[ video ]

[vouched]

Do yourself one and work on your insults, that was just...sad.

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[evervigilante]

I don't do insults. It seems like a waste of time when I can call it like it is.

[ video ]

[vouched]

Better - but you're over-explaining.

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[evervigilante]

You used "sad" in a retort, old man. I'm still one-up.

[ video ]

[vouched]

It was an apt description. Repetition demonstrates a lack of creativity.

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[evervigilante]

Repetition also sticks.

[ video ]

[vouched]

Have we depleted your vocabulary already?

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[evervigilante]

Don't you have anything better to do than to snipe with someone who hasn't hit puberty. I'm young, so I have no excuse for my generation.

[ video ]

[vouched]

Not really, no, I seem to be stuck here for the week.

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[evervigilante]

Why a week?

[ He had been shunted off to his ship rather quickly. ]

[ video ]

[vouched]

It's what I've been told - ship assignments are a weekly occurrence and apparently I just missed the previous one.

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[evervigilante]

[ All powerful aliens that only work once a week? Yuri supposes that's close to legitimate. ]

I guess the ship assignments are more important than I thought.

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[vouched]

[ reality shows do love their cycles. ]

How so?

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[evervigilante]

I'm guessing they put us in places where we'd stir up the most action. Or kind of interactions the audience is paying for.

I doubt it's random.

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[vouched]

So this observational period is used to make that decision.

[ that makes sense. possibly the first thing to make any sense all day. ]

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[evervigilante]

Maybe. But people arrive at different times.

[ Yuri hadn't spent much time on the Marsiva. ]

And when I got here, rumors were going around. Which means the Atroma are fully aware of our pasts and histories.

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[vouched]

Maybe some people are easier to get a read on.

[ which would mean he should be wary of everyone on board with him at the moment. which, he already is, but...perhaps not enough.

there's a risk, in believing that second statement. if he accepts it, it means he can speak freely - which he's always preferred. but it could just as easily be a rouse to get him to do so, to spill secrets still unknown. he'll err to the side of caution for now. ]