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[fatespoken]

When you’re a kid, maybe you say to yourself:

"I wish I could go to Disneyland."

"I hope I'll get my cock sucked by fifteen. By sixteen, I better be banging someone in the back of dad's favorite car.”

"One day, I’ll get into Harvard and become a brown-nosing yuppie making bonuses bigger than my insecurity complex. I’ll get married even. Have a kid, maybe two. A dog. And if I'm really lucky, I won’t be miserable.”

Those are the sort of wishes that come true. The mundane ones. You don’t say: "Well, one day I’d really like to go up into space. Maybe spend a night or two in a space ship. A journey through space? Oh man, why not? Not like we've only gotten as far as the moon. ”

And then, bam. Space.

Life doesn’t work like this. You don’t get what you want and when you do, it never comes free. So, what’s the catch? Probing, space slugs taking over our brains, being sold as human cargo to a far away planet, a floating menagerie? The options are endless.

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[meanwhileback]

Getting fucked over is a life constant, if you're not perpetually anticipating getting a metaphorical swirlie from life literally every time you leave the house, you've already lost.

For instance: Being stuck here, in this jumpsuit, arguing on the not-internet with people like you. If that's not a giant karmic middle finger, I don't know what is.

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[chuffle]

[Put popcorn.gif to be honest.]

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[fatespoken]

[ Damn, you've hit all of them right on the nail. ]

what makes you say that? a feeling in your bones? personal experience? pessimism?

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[fatespoken]

Don't leave me in suspense.

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[fatespoken]

It's all a matter of perspective. Me? I got to say fuck it tedium and wound up on a space ship.

Only the most magical place on earth.

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[fatespoken]

Delightful doesn't even cut it. I'd say I'm amazing. [ A snort at that. ] That's cute, except where I come from, that whole heaven and hell thing isn't an issue.

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[foundafamily]

I don't know if you've noticed, but you're not "where you come from" anymore, pal.

[parallels]

Dunno.

Been here about a month or so. If time is passing properly.

[worthyourwhile]

Common sense. And if you do a little digging you'll find out this fucking temperature thing isn't the worst of the shit that's gone on in the past few months.

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[fatespoken]

That's what I would've said. If not that, then what? Science?

So there is a way to leave to this place... and I'd guess that it's as completely random as arriving here.

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[dino_zarf]

People vanish sometimes, just as random as when we show up. No real telling where they end up. The drives don't work like anything I'd ever seen before.

[fatespoken]

Twenty four hour days, seven days to a week, thirty to thirty-one days to a month?

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[fatespoken]

except there are different levels of getting fucked over. am i going to just total my car, or am i going to be flung out
and dragged across the pavement? is it just annoying, or life or limb?

like this? being stuck here, in this jump suit, talking to someone who sounds like some preteen youtube trolling douchebag? that's annoying.

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[fatespoken]

[ a conversation between two adults, yup ]

[fatespoken]

You ever been to Los Angeles? I'm not walking anywhere.

[fatespoken]

... something involving me and sucking cock?

am i close?

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[meanwhileback]

Are you seriously telling me that you woke up in what's obviously a haunted-as-fuck derelict spaceship floating ominously through deep space with no apparent direction that we know of, a crew full of what appears to be extras from a bad fantasy movie about elves and shit, and you don't know how you even got here much less why you're here in the first place, and you're thinking there's a chance you might not be about to be Victim #43 in the newest Jason Vs. Freddy In Space horrorshow?

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[fatespoken]

i've heard about the memory show and tell.

not sure why i'd give a damn about memories from a bunch of strangers, but i guess that's supposed to be ~scary~?

[worthyourwhile]

Apparently it could kill you, although it seems like no one kicked the bucket so it might have been an exaggeration.

[Despite herself she had to agree. Memories and needing a jacket didn't seem that upsetting. The monsters seemed worse, but she was pretty sure she could handle it. Still, she wasn't planning on getting too comfortable here. Even if they did have more food than she'd seen in a dogs age.]

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[ironsider]

You might if you want to be an astronaut.

I didn't want to be an astronaut. But I remember kids saying they wanted to go to space.

[fatespoken]

death by embarrassment, maybe. if you care about that sort of thing. [ And well, he does care about memories and not sharing them. But hey, it happened once, doesn't mean it will happen again, right? ] But I'll take heatstroke over brain slugs, any day of the week.

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[fatespoken]

By drives, you're talking about the engines, right? What makes them so unique?

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[fatespoken]

like i said, no one just hands you a free ticket to another universe without expecting something in exchange. whether that means our pain or sanity, i don't really care. fact is, someone's -- something's -- is gunning for us, but whether i let them? that's my choice. and that's why i need the specifics.

if you want to be ms. scream your head off, useless horror movie victim #44, go right ahead.

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[fatespoken]

Or maybe I just want the pleasure of getting to rub the whole space thing into the faces of people who actually care, once I get back home.

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[fatespoken]

By calling this purgatory, you're implying that I got here by means of something I did back home.