1st video/action

[17thangel]

Video;

A smallish pale girl appears on the system, moving around somewhat frantically near the various cabins with a look that is 1 part confusion, 1 part anxiety, and 4 parts annoyance and 4 parts whatever that look Mr. Scott had when Captain Kirk told him to rewrite the laws of physics in 15 minutes.

"Um, look. I'm sure whatever is going on is really important here but I was kind of in the middle of something back home. Something involving restoring a destroyed planetary power system before life support on something completely fails and given how I only sort of LOOKED at it for about a minute and most of the best parts are under the sea I really don't have a lot of time for this right now. After I get it up sure, bring me and MY SEIBZEHN here and we'll step on ANYTHING you want but you just brought me and I'm not so useful for squishing things alone."

"I understand you want to make it personal by saying my dad is one of the people here but I do kind of know my family, even if we were separated most of my life. Really, just let me finish my project and just ask, home will probably be unbearably dull once I get the Zohar reactor working again anyways so it'll be a welcome diversion."

Her face turns a bit more irritated at the next part.

"Unless this is some sort of gag Mr. One Eyed Pirate King! I know you're the one who bonked me over the head and drug me out before I could get a better look at that system to get it back online despite the city crashing. Don't think for one minute that if this is some sort of gag and I find you behind it I won't BEAT THE EVER-LOVING SNOT OUT OF YOUR ONE REMAINING GOOD EYE!"

Action;

Later Maria is sitting by the water looking miserable. She's playing with her watch, pushing every damn button on the thing.

"Yeah yeah... No carrier. Seibzehn, I know you have to have power. Please come in. Dad had to have put in his own reactor or something. C'mon, you can't do this to me! You always come. Maybe some sort of jamming I need to figure out how to defeat. Oh who are you kidding Balthasar, the power grid is down and you're some place weird."

She buries her head in her knees and keeps pressing the button getting lower with every non-receptive beep she gets.

Comments

[17thangel]

"So this is a summer camp for kids on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Joy... I'd rather just punch Bart."

[hououji]

[... Fuu's got nothin'.]

Maybe you should take this chance to get something to eat and spend a while resting...

[17thangel]

She sniffs and looks over at the area, her face turning slightly green

"Smells like mostly meat. I know what's in the Solaris food tins and can't really eat that."

[hououji]

We've got plenty of other foods outside of meat, you don't need to worry about that.

[17thangel]

"Its not Solaran food packs, right? I mean they don't feed us people here, right?"

[hououji]

... I am fairly certain they don't serve us people.

[17thangel]

"Well... That's a step up from most places back home."

[hououji]

[Loooooooooooong pause.]

W-why on Earth would they feed you people?!

[17thangel]

She looks down and clenches her fists.

"Solaris was a terrible place. They did a lot of horrible things."

[hououji]

It sounds like it... is that where you were before this?

[17thangel]

"Back home, there was a war. No. There were two wars. Solaris caused a war between the nations of Kislev and Aveh so they could test combat mecha and develop a perfect one. I'm from Shevaat. We were SORT of at war with Solaris, but it was the war of we had one flying city, no real farmland and maybe 15 military units against thousands. So we just tried to mitigate the damage of the other one."

"Solaris was obsessed with perfection. They did horrible experiments on people too and the failed ones they turned into food to continue the experiments on new people."

[hououji]

That's... awful...

[Blondie has no idea how to respond. Turning people into food? It's disgusting and terrible and how could anyone ever do it?]

[17thangel]

"Yeah. That's probably the best way of summing it up. There's more to it but I guess it doesn't matter here."

She shrugs a little and tosses a rock into the water.

[hououji]

I don't think it matters because they're eating other people.

[Because seriously who does that.]

[17thangel]

"That's why they had to go. I'm not saying everyone there twirled their moustachioed faces day in and day out, most of the workers didn't know they were having Bernie Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches, but the guys in charge, and that idiot Fei let one of them get away...."