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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.

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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.

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. ]

Maybe.

[ But Yuri doesn't believe it. The amount of rumors that came in and the people it targeted were varied and different. ]

[ he was referring to the length of time spent on the marsiva, but that too. ]

You have a name, New Guy?

Hm? It's Yuri Lowell.

Hunter. [ he nods ] Lance Hunter. So what's your little ship like? [ you know, if he's getting transferred to one he'd like to know what to expect. ]

[ Yuri flicks some of his hair back. ]

It's all right. A bit strange. We have one man who apparently died in a war, a captain from some noble house and a large . . . alien? I think you call them? with four arms.

[ a dead man, an alien, and people with a false sense of entitlement? sounds like home. ]

And what do you do there, exactly?

I'm the cook.

[ And he's a pretty good one too. Nothing five-star quality but enough that he's never dealt with any unsatisfied customer. ]

The cook. So they abducted you to be a lunch lady.

[ charming. he actually enjoys cooking but these abductors are in dreamland if they think he'll do that for them. ]

I'm used to it.

[ Yuri used to cook for the Lower Quarter after all. ]

Besides, everyone likes lunch.

If your objective is to remain here forever, by all means, be likable.

Their objective is drama. A boring, well-liked guy? Probably would be gone in a few months.

You're probably raking in all the viewers.

That, or they'll make a point of making you interesting despite yourself. Reality shows are all about manipulation - it's actually the one thing they seem to have in common with reality.

All the more reason to make myself as unassuming as possible.

Best of luck with that.

[ he's not even going to try, he knows better than to pretend he can control his temper. ]

Thanks. I know I'll need it.

Some good luck always comes in handy.

I always seem to be in short supply.

We definitely don't have our fair share if we ended up here.

I've never had much luck to begin with.

Yeah? What was life before Big Brother: Space?

Busy. A calamity from space was going to destroy the world.

[ A creature born from the greed and restlessness of Terca Lumireis. Yuri always found it a little ironic. ]

So, just another Tuesday then.

Considering that I've now been kidnapped into space, I'm going to say yes.

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