video/action

[nightroadsaint]

Who: Abel Nightroad and open to everyone
Broadcast: Accidental video, fleetwide
Action: Here, there, and everywhere, wandering around, Marsiva. Someone please help him.
When: Backdated to yesterday March 1st (Friday) before he gets transferred to SS Caprine the next day, and the ship is under attack.

[Good afternoon, Fleet. There's a tall, silver-haired, bespectacled gentleman wearing what seems like a priest garb of his fashion, wandering around the ship's halls. He was a bit of a mess, his hair tangled, and very groggy because he just woke up and had slept for a very long time.

Smiling into the camera.]

Um...right hello? Hello? Hellooooo? Is this thing on and working? So, I just woke up from a very long nap. I think I'm dreaming, but...am I really in outer space? I just take a look out the windows and all I see are stars, lots of them. I wonder how I end up here...

My name is Father Abel Nightroad. It's nice to meet you.

I hope everything is for free here, I ran out of money. I thank you for the free desserts and hospitality. Can I help myself to the food here? I would like lunch...I'm very hungry. I didn't have breakfast today. Your help is appreciated, I think I'm lost.

Comments

[passingthrough]

Universal peace? Sure. You do that.

[She tilts her head.] You look like a priest, but you're willing to say these could be gods? As in plural? [She's not mad at the thought, just curious.]

[nightroadsaint]

I don't see why not, but I was thinking that it's a sentient force and intelligence that is beyond our human understanding and comprehension. I was thinking of terms like...the Atroma is an interdimensional being who understands quantum physics and science to cross an organic body through a wormhole and teleport on a ship.

[Oops, that a lot of science jargon he's rambling. Chipper beat.]

Oh nevermind. Anyway, I am a priest by profession. But long before that, I had a career as a scientist with the Aerospace Force. Back in the day, me and my team, we are responsible for the colonization on the planet Mars. It was a disastrous project, but when we were on the planet, we did go looking searching for alien life forms on the surface, but all we find is rocks and red sand.

I became a priest when too many lives were lost after the project ended.

[passingthrough]

Ah. [It's a small utterance but she says it with more compassion than you might normally expect it.]

It's possible. We really don't know much about them. How many there are. If they are even a plural they. If it's technology, powers, magic, evolution or some combination that lets them do what they do. And it's always possible they aren't doing everything we think they're doing.

Sorry about Mars. Sounds like we're from different Earths. [Though she always assumes at least that much.]

[nightroadsaint]

[He simply shrugs and simply smiles.] It's okay, it happened a long time ago.

I see. I guess it's for the best to not to think too much about it. I mean, I don't feel any different when I'm here or back home. So I'm guessing they gave us permission to have certain comforts to make us feel like at him.

[Yup, he can be accepting as much as free food is provided. Now he's curious.]

Different Earths...? What do you mean?

[passingthrough]

Permission. [She says it with some disgust. Not a lot of disgust. Polite company disgust? She's not a fan of what the Atroma are doing even if she's better off for it.]

Was there a multi-worlds theory where you were from? Parallel dimensions? A multiverse? [He talked about having a scientific background so she figured there was a chance he at least had a frame work for how this might work.]

[nightroadsaint]

In theory. Yes, there are theories, but they existed as scientific theories. Well, fancy that. I guess being here proves that such a thing can exist and it's not speculative fiction.

Say, if that theory is for real, what year was it for you in your Earth?

[passingthrough]

[How dare you, sir! Never ask a comic book character their world's age!] I'm not sure it would even matter since we can also be pulled from different points in time too and different worlds could develop on different tracks or count time differently.

[nightroadsaint]

[He's only curious and just simply asking! Derp...help him.

He'll take that as an answer for now. In other words, he can tell it's a whatever year as long he's here.]

You mean calenders and keeping time is rather useless? Well, farewell to on the clock schedule then!

I was only curious because I want to compare and contrast how different our Earths is by using time as a measure. But if Atroma has that ability....

[It may lead to his questions on time-bending and time-traveling. Still, anyway, changing the subject.]

Well, anyway, enough of that. That can't be helped. Someone told me about this shuffle. So I won't stay on this ship for long?

[passingthrough]

[Totally understandable and newp!]

Well, maybe not useless. We still have a system in the fleet so you can make lunch plans and stuff.

Mm...Under normal circumstances the most you'd ever spend on the Marsiva is a week if you arrived right after a shuffle. It's usually less. These aren't normal circumstances. We don't know when or if—although that's a little dramatic—we'll be leaving. I would guess soon.