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[kettchmeifyoucan]

[Before the image comes on, a few words can be heard]

Oh, the commlinks here have visual, that's a step up.

[And then the video kicks in showing a man wearing an extremely garish orange flightsuit, made even more offensive to the eye by the addition of an extremely colourful cloak over top. The colours seem to be shifting.]

Okay, so woke up here naked. That's a new one. I'm going to take a wild guess and say this is another case of interdimensional strangeness.

[Or downloading completely wrong?]

How am I doing so far? I could use a sitrep.

Comments

[video]

[knightoflight]

[There's a pause while Wing ratchets down his optical filters. Because. That cloak. o_O]

More like kidnapping, I'm afraid.

Re: [video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

Well, that was my next guess.

[He's taking it remarkably well]

[video]

[knightoflight]

[He is taking it remarkably well, Wing thinks. Certainly better than most.]

Has this happened to you before?

Re: [video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

Last time there were sweater vests involved.

[video]

[knightoflight]

....sweater vests?

[That sounds...horrifying? He doesn't even know.] I don't think we have those here.

We have had dinosaurs, though.

[Video]

[evervarying]

[Ashley isn't sure whether the cloak or the flight suit is more terrifying.]

And right now, we're all wishing they'd left that off.

Interdimensional strangeness is about right. If you just woke up, there's a town not far to the south of the ship. Bit more comfortable place to sit while getting the rundown.

Re: [Video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

You sound like my commanding officer.

[This sounds a bit more spacious than Mayfield at any rate...]

How big a town are we talking?

[Video]

[evervarying]

Couple thousand. You want to head away from the glowing dome.

Re: [Video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

Guessing there's a story there.

[video]

[last_ofthe_jedi]

[The feed is powered on in mid-fumble and for a moment the video is tilted and jarred awkwardly until the user can seem to get a handle on the device, seemingly out of surprise.]

Wes!

[Finally, Luke's face comes into focus as he gets a hold of the device and points it at himself.]

When did- How-... Did you just get here? Just now?

Re: [video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

Well, I figured everyone would appreciate it if I took a moment to put some pants on. But basically just now.

[Damn, Luke still looks young.]

[last_ofthe_jedi]

[Luke gives an exasperated laugh and pushes his hair out of his face. He looks glad to see Wes but there's that now-familiar pang of guilt that a friend is now stuck in the same hellhole.]

And uh... from Mayfield, right?

[He can only assume such since Wes looks almost exactly as he did the last Luke saw him, awkwardly ten years into Luke's future and a bit worn and torn from their experience in that godforsaken town.]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

Please tell me there are no drones or sweater vests here.

[It was kinda like an answer, right?]

[text]

[tiptoeing]

Video, audio, and text. As far as the "interdimensional strangeness" part is concerned, we're still working out where we are. And when, for that matter. The planet is called "Verdana".

But those of us who woke up on the ship like you did have come from various points across time and space.

Re: [text]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

So there's at least two places that do that. Just what we needed. No one is insisting we've always been here, I hope?

[tiptoeing]

Not at all; I think the inhabitants of this world would all rather we went back to where we came from. But what other place does this?

[kettchmeifyoucan]

A town called Mayfield. Less naked on a spaceship and more sweatervests and fake families though.

[Video]

[damn_it_jim]

Good god, man. If that's the clothing style on the planet you're from, I think you're better off staying naked.

[Bones pauses, letting his eyebrows lower after a long moment's scrutiny.]

Please don't, though. It's turning winter outside, and the last thing I need to add to my already very long medical to-do list is treating a case of penile frostbite.

Re: [Video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

The flightsuit is military issue.

[The cloak... the cloak is just great, shush you.]

[Video]

[damn_it_jim]

Is your military conducting psychological warefare on its enemies, or just colourblind? There is no species that could make that shade look good.

Oh -- welcome to Verdana. It's cold out, as I mentioned, so hopefully that rig's got some padding to it on top of offending all sapient life with working eyes.

Re: [Video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

[If he thinks this is bad, he should see it on a Gamorrean]

It's tradition!

[Because, you know, tradition is usually his favourite]

We may have been broke at the time. But it's rated for space.

[video]

[did_i_say_percy]

[Cue a fresh-faced, long-haired young Frenchman.]

You sound much more used to the technology here than I was.

Re: [video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

[Wes plucks at his flightsuit]

Well, I'm a starfighter pilot.

Re: [video]

[did_i_say_percy]

[This makes Armand seriously wondered what that star ever did to Wes. He doesn't get it, in other words.]

Are stars dangerous? [His tone is struggling to be polite, but it's obvious he's very confused.]

Re: [video]

[kettchmeifyoucan]

[Oh, that's... not at all what he meant]

Well, if you flew into one... but it's a craft that flies among the stars.