♦ from the start

[deathcouture]

Who: Kravitz and YOU!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: On the SS Bloodsport!
When: After the last shuffle!

1) [ action -- SS Bloodsport ]
[ Hello, Bloodsport, you have a new crew member! He's... very confused, wondering why he keeps getting yanked around -- honestly, it's kind of rude. And definitely not the kind of rude that can be made up for with pudding and confetti. Oh well.

He brushes the colorful bits of paper off of the sleeves of his suit coat, straightens his tie, and... starts walking. There's got to be a reason he's just suddenly appeared in this place, right? ]

Hello? ... Is there anyone actually here?

[ Because geez, it's quiet - and not the kind of quiet he likes. ]



2) [ video ]
[ So far, Kravitz's entire experience here has been 1) wake up in a giant spaceship. 2) attempt to regain bearings. 3) almost immediately end up whisked away onto some other ship with a *Pop!* and some confetti. 4) try the pudding. ... It's mediocre at best.

So when he finds this... very complicated Stone of Farspeech... and sees others using it to talk, of course he's going to give it a try. He turns it on, angles the camera well enough to get himself in-frame, and clears his throat. ]

-- Right. Well. I've pretty much gathered the short of what this all is, so beyond that, I have to ask: how cut-off are we? Because there are several people that I really should call right now, and I have a feeling the answer is going to be, "That's impossible". So... how impossible?

[ He's been stuck alone and cut-off from everyone and everything before. This situation is, arguably, better than that... but that doesn't mean he has to like it. ]

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[postocular]

So, the bad news is that we're pretty cut off from our own worlds until more people you may know show up. The good news is that it's possible that they will.

This place is kind of like another universe. Supposedly time stops in our own world until we get back. I'm not really sure how true all of that is. Either way, welcome to the Fleet.

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[deathcouture]

... Huh. Um, well, thank you for the welcome. I'm not sure how I feel about the possibility that something could stop time in all of the worlds we come from, but... I guess that's better than being missing?

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[postocular]

It's hard to tell what's better when all the possibilities are pretty shitty. There are other theories, but they're pretty dark. It's easier to just go with it, even if it's what the Atroma want.

My name's Carl, by the way.

[deathcouture]

Pretty dark? I can imagine.

[ No really. He can. fjdskl ]

Kravitz. Nice to meet you, Carl. How long have you been here?

[postocular]

Nice to meet you, Kravitz. It's been a little over two years, now. It sounds worse than it is, though?

[deathcouture]

Really? Because it all still sounds pretty bad, so...

[postocular]

I mean, I guess?? There are worse places than this, though.

[deathcouture]

That's... true.

[ Boy has he heard stories. Particularly one story. But that's neither here nor there. ]

I guess I'll reserve judgment. After all, I feel like I've been stuck in worse situations than this.

[postocular]

Honestly, it's not that bad. [ Especially if you have nowhere to go, but hey. ]

Some of the planets are actually pretty cool.

[deathcouture]

[ Well... okay. Fine. If there has to be a bright side to all of this, it's probably at least partially getting to see whole other planets. Worlds. What have you. ]

Oh? Hm. What's been your favorite?

[postocular]

[ He has to really think about that one. ]

One of the first planets we came to after I got here. There was a planet, but it also had another world in a ring around it. There were a bunch of weird creatures and lots of different places to go. It was nice, and being in a place like that made me less homesick?

I was a little younger, then. [ He'd been with family for so long, that only having Maggie had been a little jarring. ]

[deathcouture]

That... does sound nice. More than nice, actually - it sounds pretty amazing. Definitely nothing I've ever seen before... people living in a ring around a planet?

[ So that's the kind of thing you get to see out in space, huh? ]

[postocular]

Most of the planets we've visited have all been really different from one another, though there are similarities along the way. Makes being stuck here kind of worth it sometimes.