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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.

[vindictam]

Most would argue this is punishment enough.

[ Or at least it was to Corvo. ]

What is 'disney land'?

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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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[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.

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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.

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[stimulations]

Endless nasty and unpredictable options are precisely the catch, well done. You may have also just contributed some inspiration to the pile, and I'm sure we'll all thank you for that.

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[hypospray]

Different worlds, kid. That's mundane for some people.

[ sometimes you come from places like him and other people and you learn these things. ]

Anyone ever told you that you've got a wild imagination?

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[became]

No lido deck.

[ he's the worst. ]

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[the_other_eight]

I see you have lofty goals in life.