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[rheecon]

Who: Glenn Rhee - and maybe you?
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Also yes SS Starstruck
When: Shuffle Day! Plus he just arrived in time for it! Good timing, Glenn!

action: SS Starstruck ]

[ The last thing that he really knew, that he understood and processed, was that his life was over. After that, he couldn't call the details to mind, but the certainty was there. And then, something else happened. He was in a completely different place, somewhere clean, utilitarian but gleaming... and there were stars.

Truth be told, he hadn't gotten past the disbelief, gradually coming to terms with both space and his own continued existence, when suddenly everything changed around him again. Only this time, there was a little tune to greet him, confetti and dessert?

So don't mind him, far more disoriented than he's ever been, stumbling and barely keeping himself upright, staring around the bridge in building bewilderment - and it's rather immediately clear that's what it is, the stations, the windows... space again. However that happened. ]

Um... hello?

[ Eloquent. He'll get to words. Eventually. ]


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I, uh... I guess this is basically like the internet? It's been a while but: Hi. My name is Glenn, and I just got here.

[ He draws a deep breath - while he's doing a bit better, he's still unsteady. ]

To space.

[ He's hoping for what he figures is the impossible... he can't bring himself to put it into words. So he leaves it there, with the dubious tone of someone who still isn't sure anything is real. Himself included. ]

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[passingthrough]

[She's in a generous mood. It's been a long time since she just unapologetically trolled new arrivals back in her early days of Marina. Growing up can be very unrewarding!

She appears on the screen, ready to be calming and semi-helpful. Or helpful and semi-alarming.] Internet like at least.

I'm Kitty. [A little nod.]

First time being abducted in a strange and seemingly impossible manner?

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[rheecon]

[ He gives a weak smile, the best he can really manage under the circumstances. ]

Yeah. Actually, it is.

[ What does he even say. ]

Are there, uh... a lot of us here?

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[passingthrough]

I'd say there's a first time for everyone, but that's only really true here. [Because this is a weird place where weird things happen and the majority of people in the multiverse are unaffected!]

Mmm, there are fifteen ships with about seven or eight people each. So, I guess that depends on if you think a little over a hundred is a lot. We can get kind of divided with being on different shifts especially if some people don't use the network much.

video; but you know we're going to action this eventually so :P

[youdontneedapictureofme]

[It had been a rough month, to say the least. Friends disappearing, Carl turning with her killing him in the end, and now this. At first Maggie just stares and stares and stares at the video, feeling like she can't breathe. It has to be a trick. It has to be a trick. Why would the Atroma know to give her the very thing she wanted most?]

Hi.

[Okay, that was lame, but he said it first and she couldn't resist it. She gives a watery, disbelieving, laugh.]

It's not like the internet. I don't think. It's more like - like one of Carl's comic books.

[She takes a breath. Words. Use your words, Maggie. It was hard, after seeing in the back of her mind and in her nightmares for so many nights the sight of him after what Negan had done, hearing his slurred voice promise that he would find her.

She falls silent after a moment before finally whispering, disbelieving it still -]

You're really here?

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[rheecon]

[ The broadcast is what he was talking about; Making sense of where he is, what's happening, all of this isn't anywhere near a thing he's trying to tackle, not yet and probably not any time soon.

Of course, he barely registers it. It doesn't matter. This is Maggie, impossibly, somehow. He was certain - or at least he hoped - that if there was anything else coming that he wouldn't see her there for a long time. ]

Maggie.

[ He swallows hard, taking a few deep breaths, steadying himself. It's a strange thing, feeling like he'd been the one to lose her - to lose everyone and everything, all at once. Your own loss just doesn't seem like something a person is supposed to feel. He speaks, quietly but intense - earnest. Somehow, he's not tearing up. ]

I am. I'm here. I don't really understand it, but... I am.

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[postocular]

There are crazier things than space, you know.

[ Like seeing someone back from the dead. It's hard to believe he's really looking at Glenn after watching what Negan did to him. ]

..Hey. It's good to see you.

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[rheecon]

[ For a moment, there's just surprise - it gives way, though, to a warm smile, a bare but genuine glimpse of all the emotions going on behind it. ]

Carl. It's good to see you, too.

[ And the craziness, well. That certainly hasn't escaped him - of course, he's not quite prepared to tell everyone that may be listening that he's supposed to be dead. ]

And, uh... yeah. Had to start somewhere, though.

Starstruck

[kill_switch]

Hello.

[Furiosa has gotten used to the schedule now, walking in to see another new face. She's come prepared this time and holds out a tin cup of water.]

Furiosa, pilot. Welcome to the Starstruck.

[rheecon]

Thank you?

[ The uncertainty to his tone wasn't supposed to be there, still shaky as he reaches for the water. He does his best to steady himself. ]

Sorry - thanks. I'm Glenn.

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[worn_wings]

[ He decides to go for a text response because he doesn't really trust himself to speak aloud just yet. Which means, mostly, that he just types out holy shit about a dozen times and deletes it. ]


welcome to being an astronaut

it's kinda shitty

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[rheecon]

[ See, the fun thing about text is, he doesn't know who that came from. ]

Well, thanks?

Sounds great

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[wingedman]

Don't worry, everyone gets like that. Or I guess most people do.

[Sam offers him a wry smile. He's currently peering out from behind a wall panel that he's got open, wires dangling from the bottom of it.]

I'm Sam.

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[rheecon]

[ He manages a small smile in response when he glances over, a slight hint of a chuckle along with it. As close to normal as he can manage, really. ]

I mean, it is kind of disorienting, right?

Hey. I'm Glenn.

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[asphodels]

Hi, Glenn. Welcome!

[ She seems bright and cheerful, at least. ]

Have you been put on a ship yet?

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[rheecon]

Hi... thanks.

[ She's cheerful enough that he manages a small smile, in spite of everything he's processing right now. ]

I have, yeah. I'm on the Starstruck.

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[theirondragon]

[ It's cool, Glenn. The Bull totally understands where you're coming from on the whole "what the hell do I even do about being in space" front. Still, he's gotten as used to it as he could really, and you'll have the smiling face of a rather large, rather gray, and rather horned man grace your screen when you look over to this new reply. ]

Hey, Glenn. It's not so bad, really. I promise. I mean it can get pretty weird, but it started out that way, right?

[ He nods. ]

The Iron Bull. Nice to meet you.

video.

[rheecon]

[ That's... wow. He'd been talking to other people about being in space, other planets, even aliens, but that hadn't quite prepared him for this moment.

But... the guy is friendly? So he tries to wipe just how blindsided he is off his face. It's not an entirely successful effort. ]

... hey. Thanks.

It's, uh... yeah. It's definitely at a pretty high level of weird right now, so. I guess I'll get used to that?

[ It's not like he has another choice. ]

Nice to meet you, too.

[ultima_mortis]

IT REALLY ISN'T ALL THAT BAD. THERE ARE A LOT OF STARS AND PLANETS TO BE SEEN.

[rheecon]

[ ... whoa. Nothing personal, but this is. Alarming. On the other hand, this is a very positive point. ]

... yeah. That's, uh... actually kind of amazing.

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[candothat]

[Pavel doesn't usually reply to broadcasts unless they come from someone he knows, but this guy seems lost. More lost than the regular kind of lost that comes with abruptly being thrown into space.]

Glenn, hello. This is your first time in space? Do you have questions?

...Questions I might be capable of answering, I mean. Nothing like how do I leave or how was I brought here, I have no idea what those answers are.

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[rheecon]

[ He's in a very special situation here, Pavel. Which is to say, you are not wrong. ]

Yeah... it is.

[ He draws in a heavy breath. He doesn't think leaving is in the cards for him and, similarly, he certainly doesn't want to talk about the circumstances that led him here. ]

To be honest, I'm not really sure I do. Uh, do we know where we are, relative to... let's say Earth?

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[reconstitution]

I guess you could say it's a bit like the internet? Welcome to the Fleet, Glenn. I'm the Captain on the SS Heron. Call me Winter.

It takes getting used to. Being in space.

[ He motions behind him vaguely with that metal arm. ] Where you from?

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[rheecon]

Hey, Winter, thanks. Yeah, it's just, uh... a little unexpected.

[ He'll adjust. It's more than worth it. ]

Earth... the US. Michigan, originally. Then Georgia.

[ By the time they made it to Virginia, well, states didn't mean much anymore. And with the name and the arm, there's plenty to be curious about here. He gives an inquisitive upward tick of his chin. ]

How about you?

[video] and sorry I had to

[the_tailor]

[Lance actually does a double take when he hears this new guy talk. He sounds eerily like his boyfriend, even though they look nothing alike...

But he shoves that out of his mind.]

Yeah. This is definitely space. So welcome to that. First time off of Earth I'm guessing?

[video] never apologize ever ok

[rheecon]

[ Totally oblivious to any of that, of course... ]

Yeah. Definitely. And circumstances did not make going to space super likely.