Video: Did you change your hair? (OTA)

[alwayscomeback]

Who: Sokka and YOU!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Forge, Iskaulit
When: 3/12

[When the feed comes on, it's absolutely Sokka's forge in the background, but the person in the foreground is pretty damn different. Still, as soon as he opens his mouth, he is absolutely still Sokka. There's no growing up out of that, clearly.]

Sooooo, that sure was two years worth of growing done in one night. That was a fun twist on the upgrades there, thanks Atroma. I personally feel spoiled. You shouldn't have.

[Yep. The sarcasm is strong, it's still Sokka. He plucks at the Drift Fleet jumpsuit he's wearing with clear distaste. It's the only thing that fits him right now.]

So, on the off-chance we don't go to a fun system with shopping next and instead go back to a horrible nightmare planet seen as that's in vogue right now- I might need to get someone who can actually sew clothes to maybe rescue me from this Beige Hell. Please.

[He needs to be wearing blue again.]

OH! That reminds me. I got some interesting intel from our cavalry last month - if you wanna know about that kinda of stuff drop by the forge. I'd rather not talk about that over the network because of the whole Atroma's always listening thing. You get it.

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[alwayscomeback]

I sure did!

[He puts his tools down, walking over with a grin. ]

Pretty cool stuff! Also...kind of depressing, but you take what you can get. Turns out turning an augment against Atroma is exactly how you get out of their grabby little claws.

[bryces_pup]

[She sits and listens, one leg crossed over the other as she settles in for a talk.]

As I think we all suspected, but it's good to hear it confirmed. Did they say how they turned the augments?

[alwayscomeback]

[He exhales leaning back on a table, arms folded. ]

She said she couldn't specify, just that it took a lot of planning and work- and they had heavy losses when they did. Seems like a nebula was part of the equation- they really do block Atroma off from us for a while.

[bryces_pup]

So they lost a lot of people in trying to. Damn it.

[Riona doesn't want to have to gamble with lives so they can free themselves. Truly she wishes this woman had said how, or at least hinted at how to avoid getting killed by doing so.]

That's worrisome, to say the least.

[alwayscomeback]

Yeah, sure sounds like it.

[SECRETS, it's taken Sokka three damn years to get THIS much information. The secrecy is very frustrating. ]

It really is. What's worse is that they don't know how to get home. They've just been stuck here, she said she's been here for about ten years now, including everything.

[bryces_pup]

Free of Atroma, but still trapped all the same. That's... discouraging.

[That means, to her, that they need to figure out more about Atroma. They hold the answers. They brought them here, and they know how to get them back.] And they've learned nothing more about Atroma?
[Has Atroma really covered their tracks that well?]

[alwayscomeback]

It really is. Whatever tech Atroma uses to get us here in the first place is all in their control.

[He shakes his head. ]

Not that I could tell. From the sounds of it, they avoid Atroma as much as possible- probably want to avoid getting caught again, I guess.

[bryces_pup]

I suppose I can't blame them, but that's going to make their quest to get back home all the more difficult. We've come across places and people who know of Atroma, so there's information on them out there, somewhere.

[alwayscomeback]

There is. I don't think they've given up, at least not yet. Honestly, she just sounded tired more than anything.

[bryces_pup]

After ten years of being on the run? I would be as well. Did they ever offer an explanation as to why they attacked us awhile back?

[alwayscomeback]

They were trying to cut us off from Atroma, I guess? Given the Nebulas essentially cloak us- seems they were trying to show us how to avoid them, if we needed to.

[bryces_pup]

By shooting at us? I try not to judge, but I feel like there had to be a slightly better way than going about it like that. Not to mention it puts them on Atroma's radar, so to speak.

[alwayscomeback]

Yeaaaaaaah, tell me about it. I'm still a little iffy on that battle plan. But eh, I guess if they couldn't speak to us directly, they didn't have a lot of options at the time.