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[deprecate]

[ Maybe you recognize him from his little panic attack after falling naked out of the goo tube. Maybe you've never seen him before in your life. Either way, Cillian's looking into the device, held with the steadiness of a master Skyper, his blue eyes underswept with dark smudges. ]

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

[ The Bible verse is recited low, steadily, in his thick Northern Irish accent. At the end, one eyebrow twitches up, wry, and he licks his lips briefly. ]

I'm confessing, I was never the type to keep a video blog. Bit weird, being that you can see me and I can't see you. It's just it's, erm, it's different to acting.

[ He tugs the lobe of one overlarge ear, catches that he's digressing. ]

Erm. My point was. Actually, I've a couple of questions, though I've read around a bit, and since I'm getting the impression not all of you are brand new to this circus I was hopin' to get an easy answer. [ And he adds, muttered, wry and almost bitter: ] Or a computer, if you've got one you've not already given to a Suicide Girl.

Right. Questions. Can we smoke on the ship? Does anyone know what the letters O-P-R and the numbers on my arm are meaning, apart from letting me get around places? Am I gonna get in trouble if I share someone else's room? And where do I go to get more insulin?

[ He nods once, a little jerkily. ]

Yeah, that's the lot of them. Cheers.

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[suddenlycaptain]

If you're going to smoke, do it away from anything that looks even remotely important. I'd say don't do it at all but it's not going to stop anyone. Oxygen Garden might be a good place for it, as long as you don't set it on fire. Kitchens would be better.

OPR is Operations. There are a couple of things it could mean; apparently someone signed you up for something. Any idea what that something could be?

I doubt anyone will care on the room sharing and medical should have insulin.

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[deprecate]

Wow, all four.

[ He seems teasingly impressed. ]

Operations as in heavy machinery? Because I'd be all right with that. Do generally prefer to do my own signin' up, as it were.

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[suddenlycaptain]

I do what I can.

Communications, flight officers, gunnery, engineering, and support staff.

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[deprecate]

I erm, I was a mechanical engineer. Am. But back— that was my job. Not spaceships...

[ He grins suddenly, boyish and maybe a little excited. ]

Though I'd fuckin' love to try.

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[majestyofthethrone]

Isaiah 43:2.

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[deprecate]

That's the one, yeah. Not that there've been a whole lot of rivers and fires so far.

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[majestyofthethrone]

There's a pool but it's probably not best to go down there right now.

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[skindeep]

Do you reckon they'll send us to the Headmaster's office if we get caught?

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[deprecate]

Can I just point out how completely public school that question is?

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[skindeep]

Don't worry Cillian, I'll take the heat for both of us. And you don't have to call me a hero.

( voice )

[raffish]

[ The Bible is not something he would recognize and certainly not in English. Maybe if it was in Swedish, and even so, it would hardly matter to him. It's not a big thing back home.

But he's not going to address that. ]

I smoke all the time, I don't give a fuck if you can or you can't. So far, I haven't died yet, but apparently we're all gonna die anyway so, hey, live a little. [ Extreme mocking tone.mp3 or something like that. ]

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[deprecate]

I just, we're on a fucking spaceship, right? Where'd the smoke even go? So I figure, it'd be shitty if it blew into whatever gets the air around.

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[raffish]

I don't know where you come from but the fact that we're on a spaceship is enough to not to get me wondering about technical shit, man.

[jilt]

[ it's harder to dredge up the right sort of tone, but irene is a performer, a perfectionist. she drags up her mask because she has to, because the loss of a friend is no reason to start slipping. her tone is light as ever when she replies, and there's a smile in it, even if unseen. ]

You can smoke if you please, and if you've anything on you to smoke.

[deprecate]

[ Cillian's an actor, himself, but he's not one to take a crowbar to the cracks in other people's masks, and so whether or not he believes her easy tone, he doesn't call her on it. ]

They gave me one pack of fags, like they gave me one change of clothes. It's like I packed for an overnight stay that's gone all wrong.

[jilt]

Some get more, some get less. It all depends on your luck. Seems like you haven't much of it.

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[hejhej]

[YOU TALKIN' 'BOUT HER, CILLIAN?]

I'm flattered.

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[deprecate]

That so? I'm not trying to kiss arse here, you know.

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[hejhej]

No one gave me a computer. Someone is building me one.

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[grandseigneur]

[conversationally]

Are you a god fearing man, sirra?

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[deprecate]

Now, wouldn't say fearing. But I s'pose I'm a God-worshipping man.

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[grandseigneur]

[same difference to hook.]

How quaint.

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[dirtyword]

Diabetic?

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[deprecate]

Yeah. Type one. Fucking shithouse.

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[dirtyword]

Talked to medical?