video. because space training is Anders' obsession.

[birdhousesoul]

Does anyone not know how to get to the shuttle bay?

This applies especially if you don't know what a shuttle is. Or if you've never been in space before.

If you don't know how to get there, I will personally come to your room and walk you there. I promise. I cannot emphasize enough how important this is.

It's hard to wrap your thoughts around, I know. Where I come from, the Void is only a theological concept. If you're really, really rotten, you go there when you die. And no one ever mentioned that there isn't air in the Void. I mean, if you're already dead and forsaken by the Maker, why would you need to breathe?

[But he's gone off on a tangent. Right, where was he? SPACE TRAINING]

But that's just it. If you were already dead, you couldn't die again. And people on this ship can die. It has happened. I don't want it to happen to any of you.

Outside this ship, there is no air to breathe. There is no land to stand upon, nor water to drink. There is nothing, save huge fires that somehow burn without air and are called suns. And huge rocks, but you can't stand on those, trust me. They're too far away. If one of them were close enough for you to touch, we'd all be dead already anyhow, because it would have smashed the ship.

[Fascinating, isn't it?]

Then there are the dangers you can't see, or hear, or smell. Do you know what space radiation is? If you don't, you'd better come to space training. You don't want to find out the hard way.

[[OOC note: I'm sorry, guys! Anders is just really fixated on space training and space radiation. Feel free to ignore his spam. Or to poke at him.]]

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[suddenlycaptain]

[ She is not even sure how to feel about this. ]

Well that's one way to get the word out.

... and they're stars, technically. A sun is also a star, but it's a source of light and heat for planets.

be flattered? or ... try to find some duct tape ...

[birdhousesoul]

Carolyn! Hello. Yes, about the suns ... I'm still a bit hazy on how that works. Will you have question-and-answer at the session's end?

[He attends every month. Just hope he doesn't try to talk about condoms again.]

[onlysaneone]

...Well, I guess that's one way to explain space in non-scientific terms.

crying about it

[suddenlycaptain]

Always do.

[ She'll just direct him at the medical staff. Again. ]

[birdhousesoul]

For a much better explanation, come to space training!

next step, a sandwich board

[birdhousesoul]

Fantastic!

[He used to be on the medical staff. Now he works in the gardens ...

... wonder why?]

[onlysaneone]

I will, but I actually already knew about space. I'm coming so I know the evacuation procedures so I can help other people in the event of an emergency. I'm an Avenger, I have to know how to help people.

well a sandwich wouldn't be bad

[suddenlycaptain]

Thanks for offering to show people where it is.

[ It was easier, when Ripley was still around. ]

[birdhousesoul]

An Avenger? [Immediately, Anders' interest is piqued.] What is it that you avenge?

"want a sandwich?"

[birdhousesoul]

It's the least I can do. [He says this sincerely.]

[onlysaneone]

Here? [ pauses to think ] Not so much at the moment. It's sort of an inherited name. Me, James Rogers, and Francis Barton, back home we're Avengers and we were fighting back against the machines that had basically taken over the world. But we got the name because our parents had been the Avengers, back before we were born and before Ultron took over everything.

But even if there's nothing being avenged, we still help people. We protect people from threats they can't match, and we fight those who other people can't beat. That's what we do. And we can do that here, too.

come to space training free sandwiches

[suddenlycaptain]

I'll see you there, then.

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[baron_harkonnen]

[ The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is very well aware of the intrinsics of space. He also has seen the shuttle bay on his occasional explorations of the ship, but, he doesn't feel this is a point of importance. After all, he doesn't know the route that Anders takes to reach the shuttle bay, and thinks that taking him up on his offer would be a pleasant diversion. Perhaps Anders is a bit older than he generally prefers, but this is also a matter of little importance when contrasted with the alternative of sitting in his chambers alone, and monitoring the communications feed. He takes a moment to be certain that his hair his groomed to perfect Imperial standards, and that his robes are adjusted to equal standard before replying. He puts on his most politic of expressions, his disarmingly cherubic smile, so incongruent to those who know him well.]

This is a most important public service announcement, young man. Space radiation is indeed a dire concern, which weighs upon us all.

[ Only the slightest sardonic note lurks under his sugar-laced tones. The Baron feels that anyone who is not aware of the nature of space is simply stupid, but, his goal is to obtain the promised outing with this young-ish stranger.]

I agree that these are all matters of grave importance, but, am uncertain if I know the way to the shuttle bay. I may have glimpsed it, but if so, I've forgotten where, and that must be remedied. I'd be delighted to accept your most generous offer.

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[servant]

[That's certainly one way of making Merlin paler than he already is.]

And this...ship is all that there is between us and those dangers?

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[faithlessly]

Man, if you wanna teach people about the dangers of space, you gotta work on your sales pitch.

video;

[redhotsummers]

Whatever.

In theory, I can survive out in the vacuum of space without dying.

[It's a theory, only because an alternative version of him managed it. He isn't sure he can, actually.]

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[mutelunatic]

space training.

[what.]

[upheld]

Space radiation?

[ sounds bad... not that she knows what what it is, but also sort of wondering if that's an actual thing. ]

I do intend on being there. I assume you know a thing of space?

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[handelaar]

Better be takin' strolls on your off time.

[This department, goddamn. Herding. Cats.]

video.

[king]

Isn't a fire that burns without fuel or air simply sorcery?

[ there's a particular disparaging lilt to how he says that last word... ]

[birdhousesoul]

That's fantastic! What's your position on mages?

[onlysaneone]

Uh... They're ok, I guess? I didn't know mages were something people had positions on.

permavideo

[birdhousesoul]

[The tone isn't lost on Anders, who's partial to a bit of sarcasm from time to time himself. His eyes narrow fractionally as he regards the smooth-talking blobular fellow. But, of course, he can't possibly find fault with the words.]

I'm glad you take space radiation seriously. If you'll give me your number and your name, I shall certainly come by to escort you.

[By number, he means the nanite tattoo that all the ship's denizens bear on one arm; number and room location are linked. He learned this early on -- from the same person who taught him the importance of space training!]

[birdhousesoul]

[darkly:] Mage liberation is a more dire matter in some worlds than you may have imagined.

Where I come from, mages are much in need of avengers.

Re: Video

[birdhousesoul]

[earnestly, and with an air of urgency:] Yes! The walls of the ship are all that preserve us from the airless, lifeless Void. And its insidious radiation.