[ tags u from the couch pretend there's no helmet.
in any case not long after nodd arrives, a black void opens up and a memshare begins—jk (yet). it's just io, stepping out of a black void, looking tired as hell and just saddling up on one of the stools, rapping the counter until a beer and a couple shots of vodka slide down. ]
Lonely?
[ don't you have a gay crush on someone?? ]
Tell me, what did you wish to talk about? Or did you... simply want to shoot the shit?
io blinks quietly for a moment as they down the first glass, then the second. hm. there's a fight there, a desire. i would tell you my name if i could. but no one here is a mind reader, so it just looks. sad. ]
... I can't.
[ the beer now. ]
It isn't that I don't want to. Isn't even that I don't remember... It's that I can't, I—
[ and then a void happens and at this point, why not on such a shitty day already? ]
[ nodd's eyes are damp when he emerges from the memshare void. he feels residual sorrow, a phantom pain (thanks, the good doctor) that persists long after he isn't within io's past. he blinks several times to catch any tears on his lashes, to potentially blur them. mask their presence.
the hecks, man. ]
You don't belong on this ship anymore than the rest of us. Amalthea, either. How did you get here? Really.
[ they hesitate, but then shake their head. to see her again. so small, so helpless. their knuckles go white as they grip the glass tightly in their hand.. ]
Don't remember. I... didn't sign anything. Didn't agree to anything at all like this, it simply was. I awoke, and I was here.
[ just like you. ]
I already have had to make enough bargains in life, this is not one I would have made when I only have so many days to save my town...
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in any case not long after nodd arrives, a black void opens up and a memshare begins—jk (yet). it's just io, stepping out of a black void, looking tired as hell and just saddling up on one of the stools, rapping the counter until a beer and a couple shots of vodka slide down. ]
Lonely?
[ don't you have a gay crush on someone?? ]
Tell me, what did you wish to talk about? Or did you... simply want to shoot the shit?
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anyway, he glances over and raises a brow. lonely. why would he be lonely? what do you mean 'gay crush?' nodd is a monk???? celibacy for life???? ]
I wanted to ask what your name is.
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io blinks quietly for a moment as they down the first glass, then the second. hm. there's a fight there, a desire. i would tell you my name if i could. but no one here is a mind reader, so it just looks. sad. ]
... I can't.
[ the beer now. ]
It isn't that I don't want to. Isn't even that I don't remember... It's that I can't, I—
[ and then a void happens and at this point, why not on such a shitty day already? ]
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the hecks, man. ]
You don't belong on this ship anymore than the rest of us. Amalthea, either. How did you get here? Really.
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Don't remember. I... didn't sign anything. Didn't agree to anything at all like this, it simply was. I awoke, and I was here.
[ just like you. ]
I already have had to make enough bargains in life, this is not one I would have made when I only have so many days to save my town...
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And what? Now you're on an endless rotation or is this really supposed to end in a few weeks?
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[ the eternal workshift. they don't seem to have stopped the vicious grind unfortunately. they may just be a natural workaholic. ]
... I have two kids... waiting for me back home. And I don't have another leg to lose.
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We can't go back to headquarters. What if that's just when they reset?
[ but nobody on-board controls the eudora's route. ]
Shit.