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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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[nightblogs]

What, like you actually wanted this?

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[parallels]

Giant space rats. Shadow monsters. Numbingly cold bedrooms. Burning hot engineering rooms. And that's just the first few on the list of catches.

[She frowns a little.]

At least on this trip.

[majestyofthethrone]

Charmer.

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[dino_zarf]

You mean beside the getting dragged away from home bit?

[Wash loves space and would still consider that a pretty big catch]

Ship has ways of getting in your head. And as you may have noticed the climate control's completely discombobulated. Been like that over a month now and we're no closer to finding the problem.

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[meanwhileback]

Is there eventually going to be a point to this, or is whining into the abyss just, like, comforting, for you.

[fatespoken]

The question you should be asking is— would I rather be stuck in a traffic jam on the 110, contemplating mass murder, or journeying through space?

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[fatespoken]

Add in shitty piping and cockroaches, and you've got my last apartment. [ A beat. ] So how long do these trips last?

[fatespoken]

i always try my best.

[majestyofthethrone]

Is that why we had to hear about cocksucking?

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[fatespoken]

"Getting in your head?" You want to go ahead and clarify that?

[fatespoken]

talk about it? i barely mentioned it.

if you're looking for pleasant conversation, you might want to go ahead and clutch your pearls elsewhere.

[majestyofthethrone]

Pearl necklaces are probably more your thing than mine.

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[dino_zarf]

Couple months back there were memories creeping in from who knows where. Not really things anyone wanted shared, as a rule.

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[fatespoken]

i asked a question, didn't i? or were you too focused on bitching about my bitching to actually read?

[fatespoken]

what's that even supposed to mean?

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[meanwhileback]

I saw the question. It's a stupid one, which is why I didn't answer it.

I was just wondering if your pointless self-congratulatory musings were, like, the norm on this communicator network or whatever, because if so I can probably just ignore like, everything that comes across it without worrying about missing anything important.

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[fatespoken]

So in other words, a big group show and tell, except with memories. Know how it happened?

-100 points if you say magic.

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[fatespoken]

didn't realize that foresight counted as stupidity. i mean, maybe you're content to sit here and just wait to be fucked over, but me? i want to know what i'm dealing with.

besides, i've got this feeling that you staying off this network is nobody's loss.

[vindictam]

Most would argue this is punishment enough.

[ Or at least it was to Corvo. ]

What is 'disney land'?

[majestyofthethrone]

How did you take it?

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[foundafamily]

Given what a delightful guy you seem to be, maybe people are right when they say this place is supposed to be hell or purgatory. That a good enough catch for you?

[Here, have some more prudish indignation.]

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[dino_zarf]

Magic would be completely nuts as an answer.

We have no gorram clue what it was though. After the next jump it switched to memories of people what aren't even on board anymore.

[nightblogs]

Could always just jump outta traffic to go get a hamburger and play some playstation.

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[mindtricks]

There is more than one catch.

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[worthyourwhile]

[Tess lets the string of assumptions run through her mind; spoiled, rich kid, whiny fuck. Then she tucks them away for future reference and starts typing.]

This place is a hell of a lot better than where I'm from, but I don't expect that feeling to last.