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[The video feed opens to reveal an extreme close-up of one brown eye, rimmed with what one could not be blamed for assuming is black eyeliner. Jack is muttering to himself under his breath, but he's close enough that his words are picked up easily.]
-- communication device, she says, but ahh, where's the catch, hmm? Everything has its price...
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-- communication device, she says, but ahh, where's the catch, hmm? Everything has its price...
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[Somehow, he doubts that is what you are looking for.]
Nearest bar is located [the map pops up on Jack's wearable and several locations are highlighted] as seen.
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Well, Jack is more than used to holding conversations with the voices inside his head.]
So she stole the ocean too, did she?
[He brightens up at the map, though, once he figures out what he's looking at.]
Excellent! Aaah, you've been much more helpful than most hallucinations I've had the misfortune to encounter.
Not that - encountering you is a misfortune, if this map is to be believed.
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Not an oceanic port.
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That is only the nearest Zone. There are many other locations of the same nature on the station as well. The map on the wearable can be expanded and rearranged to show more as warranted.
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[What are these zones you speak of. All he's getting from this is that there are lots and lots of bars. And that can only be a good thing.]
Let's see all of them, then.
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Affirmative. [the map expands to show two more adjacent zones with all the appropriate highlights; then it expands again a few seconds later to show the entire station with the appropriate highlights dotting the entire structure]
Suggest use of teleportation devices if roaming far from initial Zone. Higher quality establishments will require credits to gain access.
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[Now he's getting a little unsettled. A...whatever this place is floating in space is impossible, but everyone keeps saying it.
Wherever they are, though, there's clearly a lot of it. Jack looks up from his scrutiny of the map (glancing up and to the left of his shoulder, where he assumes the hallucination is coming from), confused.]
Teleportation?
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Instant transportation from one location to another. There are several teleportation platforms located throughout the station for convenient use.
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Jack's silent for a long moment, considering this.]
...That's impossible.
[And impossible is a word he doesn't say often.]
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But, well. Say what you will about his hallucinations, they've rarely steered him wrong.]
I'm trusting you, mate.
[He turns, jabbing a finger at thin air, the cautioning expression on his face completely wasted. And then he walks toward the teleporter, carefully following the instructions to program in a destination and stepping through.]
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Whelp.
Hopefully it just didn't work at all.]
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This...is definitely a different place than where he'd been a moment ago.
He steps out, still looking around as if expecting the landscape to vanish at any moment, turning back to stare at the teleporter, then forward again, until he's finally convinced.]
How did you do that.
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More of a practical man than a theoretical one, myself.
[Thus:]
It works like that every time?
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How fascinating.
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