First Pull - Video

[giftedistheterm]

[The wave comes through revealing a pale looking man, perhaps a little bit paler than should be healthy in fact. Simon is still feeling some lingering effects of being yanked into Siren's Port and hasn't had much time to settle after being rushed from the Darkness outside to the safety of the nearest building. There's a window in the background

Comments

[text]

[limitedrun]

Everything wants to kill you.

[Griffin is in a troll mood this evening. As he usually is when the new crop of abductees show up.]

Video;

[giftedistheterm]

[Sticks to video so Griffin can see his 'No kidding.' face.]

I suppose that counts as practical.

[text]

[limitedrun]

[Sticks to text because... well, if he's honest, because he's also watching TV. He's replying during the commercial breaks like a champ.]

You think I'm kidding? The monsters want to eat you. The natives want you gone. SERO wants your body on their lab table so they can slice it open.

Wait. AGI doesn't want to kill you. They want you as one of their sex toys. Other than that, everything wants you dead.

Video;

[giftedistheterm]

[That...does a good job of sobering him up. The monsters he can catch glimpses of out the window and he has no trouble hearing them elsewhere in the city...]

...technically speaking I think the natives would be satisfied with us all going home more than they would want us dead, making two exceptions to your very enlightening blanket statement.

[The tips on SERO and AGI are definitely given some careful thought before being filed away.]

[text]

[limitedrun]

[Your newbie fear is delicious.]

Except we can't go home. We can't even go abroad. So yeah, death is the only option.

[Not that THAT works either, but it would be detrimental to his fun to reveal that.]

Video; (forever!)

[giftedistheterm]

[This isn't fear, his eyes would be open wider.]

A way home hasn't been found yet, you mean.

[It's hesitant optimism, but Simon hasn't even been here for more than a few hours. Giving up hope isn't an option.]

[audio] Also forever because Griffin gets impatient with text.

[limitedrun]

[Okay, the show's over. He can flip over to audio now. He sounds cheerful, even if the edge is very blatant.]

Nope. People have been here for years now. We're all pawn pieces the Core uses for shits and giggles.

[giftedistheterm]

[Still, very calmly.]

How many years?

[limitedrun]

I dunno, d'you think I keep records? A long freakin' time.

[giftedistheterm]

Well you've been very helpful. I wouldn't want to waste any more of your time.

[And Simon hangs up.]