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[foresaw]

[It's taken Isaac longer to pull himself together, so you'll excuse him for being late to the intro party. Well, if you want to get technical, he hasn't pulled himself together at all. He's only been temporarily calmed down, and the weary man that appears on the video feed is clearly still very anxious. He's thin and disheveled, probably in need of some sleep, and nervously biting at his fingernails. It takes him a moment to speak, and when he does, it's in a very soft, shaking voice.]

What do I have to do to get them to take me home?

[He swallows thickly, tightly clenching his hand closed.]

Please--there's something important that I still need to do.

[Left the stove on, gotta let himself be killed, really no difference. Isaac is an odd one. He pauses, shakes his head, and lets out a soft chuckle.]

No, of course not. That would take some luck, wouldn't it?

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[cargojet]

[ See, people? This is exactly what he was talking about when he said some people needed hope. ]

We're going home. Might not be today, might not be tomorrow, but we're going home.

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[foresaw]

[Isaac needs quite a bit of it right now.]

How do you know? How can you be so sure?

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[cargojet]

Because I've already lived your future, Isaac. You can't be here--it's not the way things are.

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[foresaw]

I know how things are. I'm supposed to die. I painted it, just before I came here. You know that just as well as I do, don't you?

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[sammyskeleton]

From what I know, time stands still in our home worlds until we return. If that helps ease your mind.

[yeah, definitely not going to do the "i'm a skeleton!" trick with this one.]

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[foresaw]

It doesn't. [He can't decide if it's a comforting sentiment or not. There isn't exactly anything waiting for him back home except for a few days separating himself from his own death.] But thank you for trying.

[voice]

[sammyskeleton]

It's the least anyone could do, given how that information doesn't seem to be common knowledge passed down to new arrivals. I don't think you'll like the other answers, though. Just to prepare you for that.

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[redhotsummers]

You gotta click your heels three times, and say 'there is no place like home' while doing it.

[Yes, he can be a bit of an asshole, sometimes. But he's not really happy about well...the question. There isn't anything they can 'do'. It doesn't work that way. He knows.]

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[foresaw]

[But Scott, he's late for an appointment with death. This is important. He doesn't have the energy to muster up anything more than a weakly sarcastic response, though.]

Thank you. That should have been my first thought.

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[redhotsummers]

Look--sorry.

...Just got here too.

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[coarse]

[It's strange - this man's anxiety is more familiar to Bass than anything and anyone else he's seen on this ship. Maybe that's why he's inevitably drawn to answer.]

Calm down. [It's almost assertive, the way he suggests it.] What's your name?

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[foresaw]

I am calm.

[It's funny--Isaac really does consider this calm, or at least as calm as he's capable of being. He's been brought from a particularly harmful situation back home, but it's still baffling how the others have managed to settle in so easily.]

Isaac Mendez.

[coarse]

I think you can do better than that, Isaac.

[His words are neither condescending or earnest. If anything, he just sounds... focused.]

I'm Bass. Can you tell me what's happening back home?

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[agtcarter]

[Her expression is soft and kind when she addresses him.]

It's all right. I know you wish to go home but I'm afraid we haven't worked that out yet.

I'm Peggy. What's your name?

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[foresaw]

Isaac. [He furrows his eyebrows, looking both perplexed and disappointed.] I don't know how long you've been here, but...no one's been taken home? At all?

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[agtcarter]

Nice to meet you. [It's said in a warm tone.] I have been here a few months now. People have left, but not through their own choice I'm afraid. They're just sent home without warning.

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[swagneto]

Everyone here has something important to do. [ Like Erik himself, but that's something irrelevant for the conversation. ]

The only luck aboard this ship is that you're currently still alive.

video. Also, that is the best Erik username I have ever seen.

[foresaw]

Then it looks like I'm completely out of luck, because I'm supposed to be dead. [Or supposed to be dead soon. What's the difference, I mean, really?]

video. lmfao thanks! fuck being slow ;;

[swagneto]

Seems like quite a few people have that on their agenda. [ Erik responds dryly. ]

What makes dying so important to you?

video; before the fear gas :|

[askedtobe]

[ Is this seriously..... this is up there on the worst week of his life. Excuse him while he just stares, because you're supposed to be dead. Or, last he heard you were dead, at least. But why are you all showing up to torture him, seriously, what did he do.

Don't answer that. ]

Isaac?

video; you're a fear gas.:|

[foresaw]

[The feeling is mutual (minus the dead bit), because if Isaac looked like a broken man before, he looks absolutely shattered when he sees Peter's face. He still doesn't like Peter, but he knows he wasn't the only one who was hurt when Simone was killed.]

You...can't be here. Why are you here? [You're gonna explode tho, Peter.]

video; your face is fear gas :|

[askedtobe]

[ It's incredibly hard for Peter to react maturely over this, considering the last time he saw you, he wasn't really... at his best. Admittedly. So he takes a couple seconds to think through what his reply should be, instead of blurting out the first pissed off thing that comes to mind. ]

Because i've been here for a few weeks. [ Duh. ]

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[the_vishual]

Excuse me, sir?

[ Chase has pinged on this one--she knows he's important, very important, and similar to herself. The recognition stops there, and it gets the little girl curious enough to flick on the video screen. ]

I'm afraid luck has nothing to do with it.

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[foresaw]

[Isaac seems a little taken aback to find a child on the opposite end of the feed, but it's short-lived. Why should he be surprised? Peter is here, and that was surprise enough.]

What does it have to do with, then?

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[the_vishual]

God.