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[coy]

[ caroline's sitting in her room surrounded by her loot which is mostly clothes with some jewelry and other knick knacks including a good selection of booze. she and tyler made off like bandits.] That place was better than a mall even if I guess this technically makes me a space pirate or something. [ however, that's the not the worst thing to be called, after all.] Too bad the ship kinda had a freaky meltdown there towards the end.

[ she pauses, pushing the pile of folded clothes off her lap onto the bed.] Is everyone okay? I mean, no one got trapped over there, right? [ she's mostly talking to you, people she loves and even the new people she's met.]

I know people have kind of said that bad things happening is almost cliche around here but seriously? Was that normal? Do I even want to know whatever bad stuff has happened before this?

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[suddenlycaptain]

Yes, that was normal. No, you don't want to know what happened before. Yes, you should know anyway.

[ beat ]

Welcome to the Tranquility, I suppose.

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[coy]

Thanks...? I think?

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[suddenlycaptain]

[ sorry caroline, carolyn is the worst at PR ]

It could have been a lot worse than it was.

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[doggedly]

Hullo, miss, I could show you a bad thing that happened, but you have to agree not to kill her. Can you do that? One fellow space pirate to another--which, careful throwing that one around, we've already had space pirates. You might make someone nervous.

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[coy]

[ scoff! she's offended!] Why would I kill someone? [ PAUSE] There were real space pirates? Were they like fairytale pirates with fancy clothes or more like... Somali pirates that are scary and way less fancy?

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[doggedly]

Somali pirates.

[Somalia is a country, he's got that bit, but any pirate references are lost on him.]

I'd say they were more disappointing than scary or fancy. They tried at being scary but-- [And here he shrugs, dismissively.] Eh. But you can be a fancy pirate if you like!

As to why you'd kill someone, I suspect you'll be quite disgusted with her appearance, but perhaps I've misjudged you. Are you up for it?

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[heorot]

Grabbed your own lot from over there, eh?

[ yeah okay so james' stash is probably just as large if not larger, but you can thank magic for that. makes carrying that back over much easier. ]

Haven't had anything like that happen to me, but I haven't really been around long. All I've experienced is usually a lot more frightening and a lot less... [ he would say fun, but... ] like back to school shopping, I suppose.

[ also hi pretty lady. james is just going to smile. ]

You're new to the ship?

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[coy]

[ caroline probably would kill for some magic skillz to get her stuff over but she managed okay with vampire strength.] Look, I would've grabbed a bed if they weren't attached to the floor. I did get a chair-- [ she turns the camera to show it.]

How long have you been here? [ she nods, however at the shopping comment.] Yeah, that's what I'm saying, it was kinda cool getting some stuff to have.

[ nice try, james, she just smiles back however.]

Yeah, I just came the last jump.

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[heorot]

Yeah, most of that furniture was bolted. Awful turn of events if you ask me- those beds were amazing.

[ yeah, this one definitely took a couple of naps. just because. ]

Few months? Uh- [ give him a second to count. ] Five jumps. Not as long as my mates but it's something. But I'm just hoping our stuff stays through the next jump- you never know with this ship, yeah?

[ that's okay. he can just smile at pretty ladies there's no harm in that. ]

So this is your first big event here? Usually they're a lot more...bad. You lucked out with this one.

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[redhotsummers]

It's not the first time we've had a melt down.

But glad to see you're okay, sunshine.

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[coy]

Hey Summers, I'm glad you're okay from the "usual" meltdown.

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[redhotsummers]

Well you know me, I'm always okay after this stupid shit.

[Wait.]

Actually, I guess you wouldn't know.

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[faithlessly]

Man, am I happy to see you got outta there in one piece. [ C: ] Shit definitely got pretty real towards the end there.

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[coy]

Did you stay on the ship longer? I mean after I ran into you, I was out of there.

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[faithlessly]

Yeah, right up until the thing started basically falling apart at the seams. I'm still not sure how I got outta there.

[leaps]

That's normal. Last time we left the ship things were worse.

[ actual ray of sunshine hikaru sulu ]

You don't want to know.

[coy]

[ hope you got sunglasses on, sulu, caroline's usually the sun-shiniest.]

So this has happened before?

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[servant]

Things weren't that much better over here. We probably shouldn't have allowed ourselves to be divided that way.

Are you alright?

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[coy]

I'm okay, I got away before things got really scary, apparently. What all happened here?

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[reticencies]

I think most people did make it out okay— but overall that would be considered normal around here.

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[coy]

Yeah, I'm starting to get that impression. I mean, I get that life is weird but man, I'm starting to get that 'I never want to leave my room' urge, which is so not me.

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[unparental]

At least you guys managed the 'come back in one piece' part okay.

[ stop being in danger everyone

yeah that's not happening. ]

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[coy]

Hey, I promised, right?

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[reaction]

[ The last time Damon saw Caroline was at Jenna and John's funeral. He didn't think he'd see her again so soon. Or ever. (There was that whole -- about to die from a werewolf bite thing back home...)

It's quite the surprise seeing her on the network, but he doesn't show it. ]

Planning on sharing some of that booze, barbie?

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[coy]

[ Okay, so she had no idea he was here either. So it's an honest surprise to see him as well.]

Damon?