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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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I'm going to give you a break and assume no one's played you the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd...

Haven't the foggiest. [ the hip'n'young around here tend to manage the soundtracks for any given party -- and their taste is rather distant from hers. her idea of 'modern' music is shaped like taylor swift. except... ]

Although a member of my crew managed to get his mitts on a record player. Turns out, I'm half-partial to a man named Johnny Cash.

[ clearly she should extract herself from their poisonous influence post haste, they sound like absolutely terrible people. ]

Not a bad start. What's the garbage you're referring to, then?

God knows. It's all thumps and bumps and electronic alterations. Sounds more like a bad telephone connection than singing. [ autotune is something of an affront to someone who'd grown accustomed to some of the finer lounge singers and jazz vocalists found even in the less fashionable parts of new york. ]

Somebody Swift? I didn't bother to learn.

[ oh, she knows. it's taylor. but her insouciance is calculated. ]

[ autotuning can suck it, he's with her on that. ]

I see your problem, try spending time with someone over the age of 16 and not currently going through a breakup.

That's becoming increasingly difficult in this place.

[ -- which is unfair of her to say, really, because she mostly speaks with people her own age and older. truthfully, however, your mid-to-late-twenties are worn much differently in '47 than they are in the 21st century. it shows when she interacts with some of her 'peers' in the fleet.

no matter which way it's cut, she feels older than them. ]

Edited 2017-04-25 15:27 (UTC)

I believe it. I feel like I'm trapped in a Disney princess tea party.

[ what with the actual disney ~~princess~~ chief's daughter and the pink haired princess he's sharing the marsiva with. ]

Without the tea. [ so there's no silver lining. ]

What's that Snow White film got to do with anything?

[ alas, by '47 there was only one disney princess. ]

That's a conspiracy I'll leave to the 16 year olds to explain.

[ really, he's not invested beyond making the joke, and jokes lose their value when they require explanation. he can only name the classics he's seen as a child, anyway. ]

[ no don't she doesn't want to talk to them :c ]

Conspiracy? Be still my heart. You can't go talking it up like that and then bailing before providing details. Utterly rude.

If you want me to talk you'll have to offer some [ rubbing his fingers together ] compensation. Talk's cheap, intel not as much.

[ if she focuses on every word out of his mouth they'll be here for the rest of their lives. ]

Do you really feel as though you're in any position to be extorting anyone, Mister Hunter?

Extorting, such an ugly word. Inaccurate, too, at worst this is a sale.

[ of pointless nonsense. which he spouts infinite amounts of. ]

[ just about barely amused, she offers up a snort of laughter. ]

You've got my frequency now. Contact me when you've been assigned a berth -- then we'll see about whether you've got anything for sale that I'm interested in buying.

[ laughing is probably her best strategy with him, he's far less likely to press the point and be obnoxious on purpose all the time if she just laughs. ]

Until then, ma'am. [ with a little mock salute. ]

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