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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

[The audio pops on and, without waiting overly long, a man starts to speak.]

This isn’t. Quite what I expected. Where is this?

… Is anyone actually here?

[He’s not exactly one for beating around the bush. Not when he can help it, anyway.
Also, if this is Peragus all over again, he’s going to scream. He cannot deal with dead silent empty places that should be teeming with people right now.]

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[zouichi.livejournal.com]

[Oh, not this again.]

I'm here. Of course, that would beg the question of where here is. Who is this?

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. At least I'm not alone again.

[... He hopes you aren't cryptic. He's so tired of waking up to cryptic.]

My name is Tobias Donn. Who are you?

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi. Kanoe Zouichi.

I was aboard a ship called the Transmigration 9 before I arrived here. Sound familiar?

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[cognitive]

looks like you got your answer.

[ one of them, anyway ]

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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Two people in as many minutes. I'm on a roll today.

[If there aren't hostile robots, he'll have hit the jackpot.]

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[cognitive]

better than nothing. who're you?

[xenofuckno.livejournal.com]

[ Ellen has fiddled around with this, trying to shake off the muddled disorientation she'd felt since waking up. Worst cryosleep, or worst cryosleep? She'd felt more coherent after waking up from fifty-seven years of the stuff. ]

This is Ellen Ripley, and I read you. As for where we are... I was hoping someone would have an answer for that.

[ Waking up to an unmanned flight isn't so odd as never remembering getting there, or not finding any flight officers around when you wake up. ]

Along with one for how the hell we ended up on whatever we're on.

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Ellen Ripley. I'm Tobias Donn. Sorry we didn't meet under better circumstances. This certainly wasn't the ship I was on before I woke up.

[He's not entirely sure he'd still been on the ship, actually. It's not the first time he's woken up in a haze, though. The Exile will have to sit and think on this later.]

But in my experience, the easiest way to find answers is to go looking for them.

[xenofuckno.livejournal.com]

Certainly isn't the space station I was on, either.

[ So... not from Gateway. Well then. ]

It's the easiest way to get yourself killed, too. At least if you're wandering off alone, without a plan.

[ Recent experience kind of has her firmly against this idea. One doesn't know what might be out there. Especially if one's been apparently abducted onto a ship without a welcoming crew around to explain what's happened. ]

[sermonize.livejournal.com]

[ well, for starters, he isn't quite sure what to make of this yet. waking up had not been the most pleasurable experience. he decides to err on the side of caution. ]

[force-killer.livejournal.com]

If other people have been waking up in a liquid-filled tank, feeling like they had too much Juma Juice, I'd say so. I'm glad for the company. The circumstances less so.

[sermonize.livejournal.com]

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[of-two.livejournal.com]

We are presently aboard a starship. Though it's designation and affiliation remain yet to be determined.

To whom am I speaking?

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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

I hoped it was a ship. Never can tell when it's secretly a mining colony, though.

Tobias Donn. Who are you?

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[of-two.livejournal.com]

Commander Spock, first officer of the starship Enterprise.
You sound relatively unperturbed, given the circumstances, Mister Donn.

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[in-three.livejournal.com]

If you find anyone who was expecting this, just let the rest of us know.

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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Well I was in the middle of something important. That tea wasn't going to brew itself, after all.

[Slightly annoyed about getting pulled away from saving the universe (again)? Insert snark.]

But I'm certain there's always at least one person around that anticipates even the strangest of circumstances.

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[babbletechno.livejournal.com]

If scale is anything like what I'm thinking, then we might be expecting more company soon. There didn't seem to be anyone here when we...arrived. I'm not sure anyone can tell you where we are, though. Even the comms are being tight-lipped about it, and they're usually pretty open if you talk to them right.

Were you expecting something like this?

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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Not expecting, really, but the situation is familiar enough to me.

[Though there's one thing he's curious about.] You can talk directly to the comms themselves?

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[wayfinds.livejournal.com]

[this isn't exactly the realm of darkness anymore. her voice carries the grogginess and confusion of someone who's just awoken not long ago in the medbay.]

I'm not sure. And I can hear you.

[a breath, as she collects herself.]

Are you all right?

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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

[Oh, you definitely just got up.]

I'm fine, yes. My memories are a little fuzzy, but I'm certain that will clear up.

How about you?

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[unparental]

I can vouch for being here. As for where here actually is... I'm stumped.

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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

Some starship somewhere, is the most I have right now. The make of the ship isn't known to me.

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[statsraaden]

Well, it would look like so, as I am indeed here, as well as dozens of other people who arrived at about the same time as I did.

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[force-killer.livejournal.com]

So I've noticed. Now, if only we could figure out where "here" is.