Video

[sizzle]

Who: Zuko
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Bishop
When: Now

[ When the video starts up the face on the screen sure doesn't look happy, but then again it so rarely does. ]

I've been here long enough to have gotten my bearings, so I won't waste time with that. Right now there's only one thing I want to know, and I refuse to believe no one can answer that for me.

[ His jaw sets. And he does his best to make sure it looks like he's standing up straight and means business here. Even over video he wants to come across as having a certain air of "no nonsense allowed". ]

I'll keep it short. Tell me who or what is Atroma, and where can I find them.

Comments

Re: Video

[stayinthecar]

[ You must be the friend with the guess! ]

Excuse me, but there is no film crew on the Marsiva -- I'm on it now and there are only a few people, all recently arrived and confused. My name is Zee. Do you think I could see your charts sometime?

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[alwayscomeback]

There's no film crew on the SS ships, either. We don't know how they're filming us, they just are.

Sure, we got them safe in the library on the Bishop for everyone to have a look at. Maybe they'll eventually jog someone's memory.

Re: Video

[stayinthecar]

Is there any proof they are?

I might explore the Marsiva a bit more, see if I can't get off this deck.

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[alwayscomeback]

...

You raise a good point. Maybe they aren't. Maybe everything is a lie.

You do that, I'm gonna sit here and deal with my currently shaken worldview.

Re: Video

[stayinthecar]

Okay. Good luck, we're going to go cut through the ship's walls.


[ Poof. He'll check back in a few hours. ]

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[alwayscomeback]

What? WAIT!!! DON'T CUT THROUGH AN OUTSIDE ONE, YOU'LL DIE!!!

[...]

HEY? HEY GUY?!!! YOU THERE?

[Fuuuckity.]

Re: Video

[stayinthecar]

[ Zee comes back after awhile, looking UTTERLY PERPLEXED. ]

It did not work. There are no outer walls to this deck, somehow.

[alwayscomeback]

[Palm to face in 3...2... ]

UGH. Well, that's good. Punching holes in the side of the wall will kill you, and everyone else on the ship, probably. Don't do that.

[stayinthecar]

What? Of course we would not have penetrated the hull of the ship.

[alwayscomeback]

Are you sure?

[stayinthecar]

Extremely. There's an inner wall and an outer wall even to internal structures. We couldn't reach any outer walls... because were very strange workings in the space between. I'm supposed to be an engineer and had no idea what most of it was. They're keeping a lot from us.

[alwayscomeback]

So am I.

I...never noticed that. That's...really freaking weird.

[stayinthecar]

Look.

[ The feed shifts around and blurs, and then Sokka is looking at the inside of a wall of the Marsiva, which is absolutely packed full of parts, only about 1/3 of which they know what it is. And they're supposed to know how the ships work. What's all this stuff?! ]

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka squints at the image, his brow furrowing. ]

I-

What the heck are they doing here?

[stayinthecar]

I would like to know that as well. And if the smaller ships that most people are on and think they know about are similarly deceiving.

[alwayscomeback]

I'll take a look, I guess. We got a lot of vents, makes me wonder what's really inside them.

[stayinthecar]

Which ship are you on, may I ask?

[alwayscomeback]

The Blue Fish, I'm the captain there.

[stayinthecar]

Will you tell me what you find? I'll do the same when I am assigned to a ship.

[alwayscomeback]

Sure thing, I'll keep you in the loop.