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Who: Krista & YOU
Broadcast: Video!
Action: For all library visitors!
When: NOW?

[the fleet's resident, soft-spoken teen goth shows up on screen... backed by several bookcases filled with books! and maybe a couch back there. she waves, awkwardly.]

Uh, hey guys. Good news, the Bishop's library actually made it through the whole space-fight thing pretty well. The electronic tracking system is still down, but that's why people invented pencils and stuff.

[she gives the camera a funny look.] --No, actually, I'm pretty sure it's... the other way around. ... So nevermind.

[she holds up a very... charred-looking book. it had a red cover, once.]

The bad news is that "The Romantic History of the Galactiplastic Sector 9" totally bit it. So, uh. If there was a waiting list, we're gonna have to put this one on hold for a while. Alternatively, if anyone would like to play a little funeral tune, now's the time.

[she just. drops it flat on the floor. it's dead to her.]

So, um, for everyone who doesn't know... Me and a bunch of other people around here have been putting together a little library in the spare room on the Bishop... The ship's still kind of a mess from the fight, but anyone's welcome to come in and read or check out books, or whatever. We take donations and basically whatever stuff people bring us.

And we've got beanbags. And little lights that go "wowowo..." [accompanied with a little finger-wiggle and a totally straight face.] So if you're into that. This might be your jam.

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[alternatively, if anyone comes to visit the library--it's a personnel room that's been outfitted with lots of bookcases, a couch, a table covered in archival materials, and several beanbags that you can drag around and sit in...

the collection is still small, but there's a little something for everybody! fiction, nonfiction, history, magic, charts, maps, comic books, whatever. Krista's around, probably putting books back on a shelf.]

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Uh, yeah, I thought that was kinda obvious, seein' as how I didn't know about the space fight from last week.

Oh, okay, okay okay. Uh. Well, there was a space fight last week.

[but don't worry. she's not totally useless.]

There were some ships that'd been following us for a couple of months, and they finally swooped in and attacked. Some ships made it out fine, but others, like mine... Took a lot of damage, and, uh... It was pretty intense.

It sounds kind of like they weren't supposed to do that. Like, you know, they weren't part of the whole space reality TV show thing. They were outsiders.

Christ, are you kiddin' me? Once, just once I wanna be somewhere where my life isn't in constant, weird-ass danger. [Maybe don't hope for that while on space reality TV, though. He doesn't look too disgruntled, anyway, in total contrast to his words.]

So did they leave? Did we get 'em?

I hear you there, man.

[she makes a face. kind of a frown. she doesn't seem to be too bothered by his attitude or his way of talking! she's used to... Dave, who was... like that.]

I think we got them about as good as they got us, so... They ended up leaving. I don't know if we'll see them again before we leave this star system, but I sure hope not.

At least we got that goin' for us. [Grump! But with a side of pleased. Good guys, yeah.]

No one gave you a fuckin' explanation, I'm guessin'?

No, not yet. Atroma or whatever's been really quiet about it, so far.

That's messed up.

Hella.

[Suppressing the need to fistbump, here, but mostly because you can't fistbump a screen; or if you did, it'd look super lame.

Subject change, because this is all kind of bumming him out and he needs to talk to other people and figure this out a little more.]

So you guys set up a travelling library or somethin', huh? That's cool.

[she is totally cool with changing the subject on this one.]

Uh, yeah. Turns out we got a lot of book nerds around here, myself included, and... Putting them all together in one place is a lot easier than trying to coordinate like, twelve people all swapping books back and forth.

Plus there's star maps and stuff, too. Network archives, um, digital backups... The works.

I uh, ain't much of a bookworm, but I'll come check out those archives soon. Get to know the place, all that jazz.

Well, cool. I promise I won't force books in your face or anything.

And if you ever happen to find any sweet maps or... I don't know, comic books or something, feel free to let us know.

Yeah, sure, yeah.

You uh, keep it real there. [why did he just say that. at least he has the good sense to not look too horrified by those words. He's. Owning this 90s charm.]