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[ Greg's been on board for four weeks now, and he's seriously homesick. Fortunately for everyone else, he's decided to do something about it (in addition to moping, which already is doing something, thank you very much). ]

I need some statistics. Well-- Raw numbers would be good, too, actually, or anecdotal evidence, or anything you want to tell me. Okay.

Does anyone know-- What's the probability you'll disappear any given jump? Does the probability change if you've been here for longer, or for people who got here on certain jumps? Even if no one's calculated the probability, does anyone have records of everyone who's ever been on the ship? The headcount only lists the most recent jump, and having those lists would help us figure out the statistics and look for patterns. [ Not that there is an "us" right now, but there could be, in the future. Maybe. ]

Um, and third? Fourth? Whatever this is-- How many of you are here with someone else from your... world, I guess is the best word for it? And does anyone have statistics for that? [ He sighs. He's not excited at the prospect of all this number-crunching, but at least it's something he can do to keep himself occupied, and it might give him a more realistic view of how likely he is to disappear, presumably going home, or at least see a familiar face anytime soon. ]

Anyway, come talk to me if you have information or if you want to help or anything. There could be a lot of data to deal with, and. Well. [ This is the face of a teenager who really wants help and really doesn't want to ask for it. ] Help would be really great? Um. I'll be hanging out in the 14th floor in one of the common areas, near the lifts, so. Yeah.

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Pretty sure this is turning into an extended office party on my end of things. I don't have statistics, unfortunately, but there you go.

[she's got people from her world here yep.]

[ It takes him a moment to get it. ]

Lots of people from your office here? [ As he makes a note of it. ] I would've thought a party would be more fun than this.

[She just huffs a laugh at that.]

Most parties are. Office parties, not necessarily so.

But yes, there is an alarming number of my co-workers here.

Wow, that makes me glad I don't work in an office. [ And that he's probably never going to. ]

How many of your co-workers are here, exactly?

Oh yeah? And where do you work, then?

[consider her curious. people requesting numbers but not working in offices...? Strange.]

Altogether, there are four of us. That seemed reasonably intriguing to me.

I don't work-- uh, I'm sixteen, I'm still in school. [ Technically none of those things are lies. Technically! ]

And yeah, four seems like a lot, your world must be popular.

Being sixteen and in school is not necessarily mutually exclusive with working--

But I'll take your word for it.

[sort of. you're a conniving child aren't you.]

Popular. Heh, you could say that. A lot of people seem to be from Earth.

[ He really is. ]

I'm just not sure we're all from the same version of Earth. I mean, I someone from 1962. [ aka when dinosaurs roamed the Earth like really. ]

Okay, but isn't different times more logical than different Earths? I mean, I suppose the "parallel universes" thing would make sense given the sci-fi context of this all, but I'm used to expecting more creative plotlines.

I guess this is why Real Life doesn't make for good movie plots.

Different times is still-- you know, something weird had to happen for us to be here at the same time.

So time travel and space kidnapping's not creative enough for you? The mysterious villain, the man-eating hellbeasts?

[Don't mind her amused face here.]

Pretty sure I've encountered all of those in various movies, though not all at once, I'll grant you that one.

Everything's already been done at least once, that's not much of an argument.

Maybe we're better suited for TV. Reality TV. That-- is a thing, right? [ He doesn't have the patience to sit through it, but he's pretty sure it's a thing. ]

Not everything. I'd be willing to wager someone could come up with a more original movie plotline than creepy abandoned spaceships. But that might just be my bias talking, since I never pegged myself for a horror movie actress.

[......ugh.]

We are not to speak of trashy reality TV though.

[ Hmm-- ]

Not even if it's sci-fi horror trashy reality TV?

[ That's probably not actually a thing, but whatever. ]

[yeah no she's calling you out.]

Seeing as how we can't take touristy trips to the moon yet, I don't think that's a thing. Yet.

So no thanks.

Edited (we are not friends, html) 2013-02-20 05:00 (UTC)

Forget the moon, we're in a different solar system now. But there aren't any touristy trips, so I guess that's still fair.

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