driftfleet | Rip-Van-Sokka II: Electric Boogaloo

Who: Sokka and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Blue Fish
When: Today!

[Sokka's been asleep for about two weeks, and he's certainly been busy in his dreaming state. When he wakes up and finds himself in his own captain bed, there's a brief moment of confusion. He'd only just been home, having a delicious meal, knowing his life, his Tribe faced an uncertain future. And now he's...on the Blue Fish. The name comes back to him with the low hum of the engine. Well, at least he knew what he was getting here, mostly.

He'll be getting up and exploring around, please feed him. He had the BEST food memory-dream.

And later, once he's learned a little more from his crew of the events he's missed, he turns on the network.]

So apparently, Atroma decided to let me sleep though us finally getting any kind of answers. Because that's funny. I'm laughing. I need details, guys, anything you can give me that you found out. Doesn't matter if I've heard it before, different perspectives are important.

[That's his latest Life Lesson He Learned. Yay.]

...And I'm sorry. For people who lost people. Seems there was a lot of that while I was asleep.

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Oh, hey, new person. Yuri. I'm Sokka.

Don't worry about me, this isn't my first going home rodeo. It happens sometimes, nothing a couple hours acclimatising back to being here won't fix, I promise.

[The loss of Beverly stings, he wonders if this guy knew her to be aware of it. He'd hope so, it was good for her to make friends. ]

Yeah well...you can't really avoid it. It's one of those things I plan to get back at Atroma for one day.

Hi... _{[He didn't know Bev, sorry. He knew so few people here, really. He wanted to get to know more. The more friends he had here, the less terrifying this was.]}

So people really do leave and come back. What is the state of your home when you go back? Do your loved ones... do they know you were gone?

I... hate that it's something you have to be used to, Sokka.

Pretty much. And uh- no, they didn't, at all. It was like I wasn't gone at all. I went right back to the last point I remembered, back home.

[Of course, he doesn't TRUST Atroma, so- ]

Of course, that might all be just something they put in our heads, I dunno. And trust me, I hate it a lot, too, but one day, we'll get the better of them.

Oh... oh good. _{[he sighed in relief]}

My family won't be worrying about me, at least.

Wait... what? They can put things in our heads? Like how??

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Nah, they won't, you're good.

Uh..okay, um, has anyone explained the augments to you, yet? The chip in your head?

Oh... oh good. _{[He heaves a heavy sigh of relief. He looks and sounds like considerable weight left him.]}

Ah... that thing in my head? I can't touch it. _{[His eyes widen in fear.]} No no can't touch it again... why? What is it doing to me?

Oh, jeeze, did you touch it? Man, that's- yeah not a wise move. Sorry, that must have sucked.

Anyway, the augment is how they assign you your ship jobs, make it so you understand space and all that. Buuuuut it also means they can play around in your head, when they want to.

I tried to once... I was filled with existential dread and I have not touched anywhere near it since. Does that happen to you too?

What. They can mess with my head? How?? How often can they do that??

Oh god, this place just got worse...

I think that happens to just about everyone.

Yeaaaaah, sorry. Not a whole lot is good when Atroma are concerned.

Ugh... this place... these people. Are they even people?

I heard some people have been here over a year. I... god I don't want to be trapped here but freaking out about it is pointless too...

How do you stay sane??

Atroma? Who knows. And yeah, I've been here for over two years now. I showed up not long after this Cycle started.

Ehhh, a carefully regimented regime of sarcasm, meat and building stuff.

TWO? Oh geez... Sokka I am so sorry. You... you made the best of it though?

What is a cycle? How long do those last?

Meat? Where can you get real food around here??

'Course. I love my crew, and my ship. They help a lot!

That's what they call the segment we're all stuck in, this is apparently the twelfth one, but we're never told how long they actually last.

Sure! I hunt whenever I can. It's alien meat, but it's still good!

Yeah... I like my crewmates too.

So does the fleet change rules or something? Does it have to do with the show?

Alien meat... uh... well I dunno about it but at the same time that gel is so bad I might just try it. How often are we at a planet?

That's good. Getting close to them is a good idea, they'll always have your back, no matter what. It's important we keep that, connections, y'know?

I have no idea, we don't know anything about what happened before us, not really.

I taste like chicken, I swear. And eh, usually every month or so.

Rip-Van-Sokka II: Electric Boogaloo

Aww yee

And then wedding happened /crawls out of the aftermath/ hi again

haa it's ok, hope you had a good time!

It went well, it was fun and stressful and lively. I was MoH, I didn't get married lol

LOL at least that's a LITTLE less a stressful job

Yeah she got to go on a super nice vacay... the jerk

god, luuuucky

I KNOW, UGH I hate her

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