⌖Shot #1

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Who: Percy and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide (part A)
Action: You bet, part A on the Marsiva, part B on the Red Fish!
When: Part A=Sometime before the shuffle; Part B=After being shuffled!

{Part A: Marsiva || video}
[This isn't the first--nor, he suspects, the last--time that he's woken up in a strange place without his weapons, nor is it the first time he's woken up feeling odd and chilled. It's everything else that followed that's a new experience and for a couple days, he's just been on auto-pilot. He's still not home. This isn't Witchy Willows. He may never know if something horrible happened there to bring him to this plane of existence or it was merely another accident. And he knows so many new things that he never knew before but suddenly does now, and that's just blown his mind.

Now that he's on the other side of a bad panic attack, Percival straightens himself out, back very much to the window displaying the vastness of space so he doesn't have to see it, and turns on the communication device.]

What happened to Vax? Where is he?? Where is Escha, Goofy, Ru--everyone?? Where the hell are my guns? [With each question, his voice rises, growing angrier.] Someone is responsible for all this!


{Part B: Red Fish || action/etc}
[With bits of confetti still strewn across his shoulders and stuck in his hair, he takes a moment to gather his bearings and stare at the plate of what he hopes is something edible and not something akin to a Scanlan surprise.]

Hello?

[He waits for a moment, grabs the plate (it doesn't seem inedible to him), and starts to wander around. His expression bears a note of wide-eyed confusion as his eyes fall on everything.]

Hello? Is anyone around?

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[A pause.] As someone who's had plenty of bad ideas, you're got me curious. What would happen?

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[ Oh no... Eithan visibly winces. ]

You, uh... you really wanna know?

[ He kinda suspects the answer is yes, so you can absolutely tell he's already poking through his device to find something, but he's not sharing without an absolute affirmative. fjsdkl ]

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[Curious reaction... Well, why stop there?]

Would you rather I found out myself? I am quite bored here and am feeling a bit reckless.

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As a fellow lover of bad ideas, still gotta talk you down from this one. Check it out, if you're so bored.

[ He sends a link - a recording of someone attempting to remove the thing, and how fuck-awful sideways that went: bleeding out, mental fuckery induced by the augment as a defense mechanism... it is Not. At. All. Pretty. And if Eithan knew what content warnings were, he'd be attaching them, for sure. Oh well. ]

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Just a moment.

[Somehow, he does figure out how to open it and watches it. When his attention returns to Eithan, he doesn't exactly seemed fazed. Mildly disturbed, but probably not as much as one should be.]

Well...that was...something. Is that the only instance or have others tried with similar lacks of success?

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[ Oh good! He's one of the more seen-it-all-and-is-maybe-kinda-fucked-up-too sort of people. Noted. Eithan doesn't have to pull punches. ... That is both a good thing and a sad thing, admittedly. ]

Others have tried. Just either didn't make the network, or I haven't personally seen it so I don't have it on hand to send you. But, yeah, no one's managed.

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I see. [Shame... He wonders what would happen if someone tried to remove it from the corpse of someone who also had one, but that curiosity will have to be fulfilled at a later time.]

My apologies. Here we are discussing such...things and we haven't yet exchanged pleasantries. My name is Percival Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III.

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[ I mean, that's a long name - longer than he's heard in a long time - but the only real reaction he has is just an amused smile.

And in totally subconscious reflex, once introductions start, his posture straightens a little and he gives a respectful nod. ]

Nice to meet you, Percival. Name's Eithan Paine. I'm on the SS Blue Fish, if you ever need anything. Or just wanna talk, or somethin'.

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[It's not often he sees a reaction that isn't one comprised of a slow blinking processing nod at what he just said, and he appreciates that. He wonders if a name like his isn't the first of its kind that he's heard.]

Thank you, Eithan. And please, call me Percy. All my friends do.

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Percy it is. [ He smiles. ]

So where were you before this? If you don't mind talkin' about it, I mean. I've heard other people talkin' about gettin' stuck in places other than their own worlds before endin' up here.