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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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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.

Cheers.

[ he raises an imaginary bottle in a commiserating toast. ]

[ He nods in understanding. ]

I don't count on luck when it comes to my life.

Good, counting on luck is a solid plan to get yourself killed.

[ doesn't stop him from doing it, but, well, he's kind of an idiot. ]

[ Yuri would laugh, but he plays it nonchalant. ]

But who'd want to kill me?

Who would want to watch you getting real in space?

[ plenty of people, on both accounts. the world is full of psychos. ]

Drama and death are still far apart.

[ For the most part. ]

Not in my experience, and abduction brings the two closer still.

. . . Must be quite the experience.

[ Military, then. ]

[ actually he's referring to his marriage; compared to it, serving his country was a walk in the park. ]

I've seen things. [ completely seriously. try being married to an elite spy. actually don't - don't do that. it can only cause you pain. ]

I can believe that.

[ His best friend runs the entire military. It's never easy. ]

[ the whole thing? yeah, yeah that would be a bitch. see, hunter prefers to leave all that pesky command business to other people and just follow orders...when he feels like it. or do his own thing, when he doesn't. ]

I imagine there's a certain standard of entrance. Must be this interesting to be worth the effort of kidnapping - teleportation can't be cheap.

They've been doing it for a while though. Whose to say they haven't subsidized costs?

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