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driftfleet2017-05-04 07:58 pm
eloquentness) wrote in driftfleet2017-05-04 07:58 pm
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Who: Iris West and YOU!!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: If you're on the Marsiva, sure
When: May 4th
[ Two whole days later, Iris still can't believe she's actually in outer space. The view outside the Marsiva hasn't done anything to dissuade the notion, either. Part of her desperately wishes she could disembark and explore this star system: it would be the story of a lifetime, and more importantly, it would be a story she would've uncovered all by herself.
Exploring the hospitality deck hasn't answered many questions, so she's taken to sitting in the cafeteria with a trusty mug of coffee. Turns out, it's a good place to sit and think - as well as a good place to scroll through the Network and see what other people're saying.
So far, she's drawn a few conclusions: 1) there's a whole fleet of ships surrounding the Marsiva, 2) not everyone's from Earth - or a planet like it, and 3) they're here as part of a reality show?? That last one's pretty hard to believe. (Who'd watch someone write and edit?) Instead of asking her fellow captives the hows and whys, she figures she's better off asking them something else: ]
How many of you know the game 'Questions?'
It's a pretty simple game back on Earth: I pose a question, and you can only answer me with a question of your own. The first one to forget a question "loses." To make things easier on everyone, I won't instate any additional rules.
To start us off: Were you familiar with outer space travel before you arrived here?
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: If you're on the Marsiva, sure
When: May 4th
[ Two whole days later, Iris still can't believe she's actually in outer space. The view outside the Marsiva hasn't done anything to dissuade the notion, either. Part of her desperately wishes she could disembark and explore this star system: it would be the story of a lifetime, and more importantly, it would be a story she would've uncovered all by herself.
Exploring the hospitality deck hasn't answered many questions, so she's taken to sitting in the cafeteria with a trusty mug of coffee. Turns out, it's a good place to sit and think - as well as a good place to scroll through the Network and see what other people're saying.
So far, she's drawn a few conclusions: 1) there's a whole fleet of ships surrounding the Marsiva, 2) not everyone's from Earth - or a planet like it, and 3) they're here as part of a reality show?? That last one's pretty hard to believe. (Who'd watch someone write and edit?) Instead of asking her fellow captives the hows and whys, she figures she's better off asking them something else: ]
How many of you know the game 'Questions?'
It's a pretty simple game back on Earth: I pose a question, and you can only answer me with a question of your own. The first one to forget a question "loses." To make things easier on everyone, I won't instate any additional rules.
To start us off: Were you familiar with outer space travel before you arrived here?
(Voice)
[ The idea sounds familiar, though: this Queen might be like Selene or Artemis or one of the numerous moon gods other civilizations once worshipped.
She has to laugh, not unkindly, at such earnestness - ] Then you probably don't have them. Television's like - moving pictures. If the illustrations in books could move, and people could weave stories out of them, I mean.
(Voice)
(He had been young then and care-free.)
They sound very entertaining, though I think I prefer a good book. The imagination cannot be replicated perfectly.
(Voice)
[ Iris already wants to hear the story, but she figures, she'll have all the time in the world to hear it. ]
They can be. It depends on what story you want to watch, and frankly, how good of a storyteller the people involved are. [ Her voice grows quiet and conspiratorial, as if she's telling a secret: ] Between you and me? Most reality shows are terrible.
(Voice)
(All of the Valar are mighty and magnificent to behold, but Varda is pure loveliness.)
Reality shows? Do they represent life and the world as it is?