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Who: Thor and you
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: on the Blue Fish if you want him
When: today

[Thor has obviously stuck his communicator on the desk in his room, because the video opens with him in profile, sitting on his bed. For a few moments all he does is toss a small rubber ball out of the frame, then catch it when it rebounds off the opposite wall with a thud back towards him. He does this a couple of times before he speaks.]

When I arrived in the Fleet, I was told a lot of things and given several warnings. All of them with good purpose. What I remember most though is being told not to try and take out the augment. More than one person told me this.

[A sidelong glance at the communicator, before he throws the ball into the wall again. Thud. Catch.]

No one said why exactly, other than the obvious part where it's stuck in our heads. Still, I would ask what exactly we know about these augments. What's been tried to get them out, what happens when you do? And have they been known to do anything else besides give us information about our ship roles.

If I had heard more about it earlier, I probably wouldn't have-- [Hold that thought: Thor misses the next rebound on the ball and it smacks him in the head, making him jump and drop out of frame for a moment.] --shit.

[Okay, he’s back up, with the offending ball tossed away into a corner. He rubs at his face before continuing, faintly annoyed. Everything is out to spite him today.]

Anyway. If you know something about them, I'd like to hear it. Or even if you have an opinion on them. Those are good too.

[One day he'll make a network post when he's in a cheerful mood. Maybe.]

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Nothing good about them. I think they have some sort of defense mechanism to keep us from removing them.

[ There's a hesitant pause before Carl looks at the camera again. ]

A friend of mine tried to remove hers quite a while ago. She lost a lot of blood. Almost died. She might have if she'd managed to get it out.

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That part I know of. A sort of terrible feeling that you get if you try it.

[He knows from experience. Poorly judged experience.]

Sounds unpleasant. That's the trouble with them being so deeply embedded. How was she trying to do it?

[ He shakes his head. ] I dunno, I wasn't there at the time. Somebody else was, and he reached out. I think she had a knife.

But it can make you do all kinds of things. Has anyone you know fallen asleep for a week or more, yet? Or have things change about them?

A knife? I wonder how she was able to get through the defense mechanism that far.

[Thor certainly hadn't pushed his luck too far with the knife he'd tried with. He hadn't been desperate enough to do that. At Carl's question though, he grimaces.]

Yes, I can count myself as one of them. I was in a coma for a week and two years passed for me. It has happened to people I know as well.

She was... seeing things. Seeing someone from home that had died. She didn't take it well. [ If it had been him and he'd been seeing images of his dead mother? He'd probably have reacted the same way, too. ]

Yeah, it happened to me, too. It happens to everyone at some point or another, and there's no way to tell how long they'll be asleep or if they'll be different when they wake up.

A lot of people remember more things from home, even if you don't really leave this place.

[That's even worse. He can easily imagine someone being driven to desperation by something that upsetting.]

Understandably. If that was the Atroma's doing as well, they have no right to use such things against us.

[He lets out a sigh. He hadn't thought about the comas, but it makes sense to consider the augments responsible for that as well.]

It would make the augments powerful indeed. It's why I wondered about what else they could be responsible for.

They don't really have the right to do any of the shit they do to us, but here we are. But I think they're responsible for a lot of the stuff. Maybe it's why we don't see the Atroma a lot- because we don't have to for them to do things to us.

I have not ever seen or heard them in my whole time here. It's frustrating. I would rather set eyes on our captors.

[And fists, but one step at a time.]

And it seems likely that's true. They have no need to show themselves if their systems are working as intended.

I've seen the hosts once over video.. It was.. [ Definitely not great, and he grimaces. ]

The old hosts-- I think their names were Beau and Diamond. They were executed while we listened to it. That's when the new hosts showed up.

Mmm, I heard about that. Someone showed me the recording that was made.

[Which is horrific enough in its own right.]

I do not think these hosts are the ones in charge.

No, I don't think they are either, but it's all we've got. There are parts of the Marsiva that are accessible to us, but no way to get to the rest of the ship.

No way that we've found yet, at least. Nothing can be perfectly shielded forever.

Not like they'd let us, right? They can make us do anything. Or they could use a canon and destroy the entire fleet if they had the mind to.

They could, yes. [He says that agreeably enough.] But they have not yet. I would wager we're of more value to them alive than dead.

For now, maybe. I don't think their intentions for us are great, being kidnapped and all. People hurt people more than creatures do.

Oh, I believe that. I have no illusions about their sense of decency. Yet if they were going to dispose of us, I think it would have happened before now.

If we weren't useful, they could kill us without batting an eye.

Mm, yes. I've been in situations like it before. It is not enjoyable.

[And so far he's been less successful in busting his way out of it. If only there was a gladiator contest to throw into.]

What's your name?

Carl Grimes. Nice to meet you.

You as well. I'm Thor, son of Odin.

[ He smiles broadly. ]

So Natasha wasn't lying- you really are here.

That isn't something she would make up. You know Natasha then?

Yeah, she's been teaching me self defense and retraining my aim.

[Thor smiles a bit at that. It sounds like the kind of thing Natasha would do.]

Then you are learning from the best. Natasha is very skilled. I need to work on my aim myself.

[If the ball tossing incident in his broadcast wasn't an indication - which he is not mentioning, no.]

She's great. I'm learning a lot of stuff that will be useful. It's too bad I won't remember it when I go home.

[ He pauses, shaking his head. ]

If you want, you're welcome to use the dart board we have on the Red Fish for some extra practice.

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