un: jimothy

[doppleman]

[ This audio stream starts off very quietly but crescendos into the scuffling and faint mutterings that can only come from someone fiddling with an unfamiliar piece of technology. ]

—oddamn device always juuuust a little bit different, proprietary pieces of sh—oh, and how 'bout that, it's recording. Uhhhh, welp, okay, let's see, um.

[ All at once the video flicks on, revealing a masked face that is way too close to the camera. He lurches away as if he's seen a monster, shoots the commlink an irritated glare, and it goes dark once more. ]

Frickin'—heeeeelllllllllooo... uh, people. This is, heh, 's not really the entrance I was planning to make, but when life hands you skin, you make a pizza, amirite? That's. Never mind. Real quick question, is there any way to change the ID on this thing.

Hey know what, matter of fact, while I've got you, does anyone around here have experience reversing experimental and extremely invasive surgeries?

[ Soon as the question's out of his mouth, he's sounding progressively more defeated. ]

Could–could really do with a change.

Comments

[sanctus_dei]

well that does sound pretty shitty. maybe i'll call this place the Trashtanic since it's a big ship.

you're lucky, you just missed out on some mental torture they called a "sim" and tried to tell us it'd be good for us. it'll probably happen again some time though, so be ready for that.

[doppleman]

Ha! Trashtanic... priceless.

[ You take levity where you can get it.

Wait what ]

Uh sorry, sim whatnow?

[sanctus_dei]

they sent us into i guess what you can say was a parallel life inside a realistic simulation? long story short: it was terrible and i think almost everyone died in it. it was manipulative and unnecessary, as if getting dragged onto a prison ship after our deaths wasn't punishment enough. and they even made the wardens do it.

[doppleman]

Oh! C...ool! [ It is not very cool. ]

Iiii dunno though, still can't be worse than where I was. I've only died once so far, for one thing, and it wasn't here.

[sanctus_dei]

i told you this place is terrible. who knows what they're cooking up for us next - they said this is the first one. and we have a couple of wardens that used to be prisoners on a different ship who'd been through a bunch of them.

maybe where you came from was bad but you should at least know what you're getting into here.

[doppleman]

Right, duly noted.

[ Even if he does not sound at all convinced of the overall awfulness of this place. ]

Honestly though, I appreciate it. The heads up, I mean. Don't really see too much of that anymore—not, not because people suck or anything, like. Well, plenty of people suck a lot, but plenty don't! Just usually they're, you know, dead before they can... share the wealth.

Soooooo... thanks?