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[kingofbabylon]

[ The video feed cuts in to display Justin Taylor with the sketchpad he arrived with propped up on a knee while he hangs out in one of the lounge areas, watching people pass by. He speaks distractedly. ]

So, I'm on to a few theories. Most of them involve all of you being on some kind of group hallucinogenic trip and this being a bizarre, Lucas Con rejects cult commune. But seeing as 'low budget sci-fi basement porno dungeon' has been shot down, the best I really have left is 'underground kidnapping ring that's going to end in me getting sold off as a sex slave to some foreign business tycoon' and that just seems absurd. [ He glances up at the comm device, shaking his head, and holds his hands up to gesture for a moment. ] I mean. There would be cages or something, wouldn't there? You don't just let sex slaves wander, and you don't build cliche fantasy sets for them.

[ He pauses to look at the camera in earnest for a moment. ] So, since you're all so convinced, is there actual proof of the whole space thing? We're short on windows, and no, this isn’t me asking to be shoved out an airlock, so you can take your smartassed comments and shove them right back up your ass, thank you very much. And even with windows - who's to say it's not just special effects. The government can do shit like that, right?

[ There's a weak shrug ] I'd just like to know I'm not a lab rat in some severely fucked up, large scale social experiment.

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[kingofbabylon]

Everyone's got kinks. [ le shrug. not everyone can be pretty, but not everyone's into pretty so it's cool ]

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[65]

Fair enough. But I don't think there's much of a market for sex slaves in cliche fantasy sets.

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[kingofbabylon]

Have you never seen Star Wars? Slave Leia? The metal bikini?

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[65]

Never heard of it.

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[kingofbabylon]

God, I really need to educate you. Star Wars is, like, the big bertha of sci-fi flicks. There's a princess who gets put in this metal bikini thing and made a slave for this huge, gross worm guy. It started it's own category of kink.

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[65]

I can see why that would have such mass appeal. [<- 70 percent chance of sarcasm there.]

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[kingofbabylon]

Geeks by far have the weirdest fetishes. [ Don't even curr about your sarcasm, bro ]

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[65]

I'd love to have you fill me in.

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[kingofbabylon]

It'd be my pleasure. [ Suggestive eyebrow quirk. LOOK, YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THINGS LIKE THAT TO QAF CHARACTERS. ]

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[65]

[no the best part is my keyboard fucked up and the sentence originally ended with "fill me". YOU'D LIKE THAT WOULDN'T YOU JUSTIN. Anyway he gives a wry smile that conveys a message of "oh you."]

No luck finding that way out, by the by.

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[kingofbabylon]

[ fjdkljfas that's beautiful and clearly it was meant to be, okay. YEAH, HE WOULD ACTUALLY. Justin gives an innocent look at a shrug. 'Whoops'. ]

Damn. I hear airlock and shuttle bay might be the way to go, but I doubt either of us would get far.

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[65]

Or live, once we made it out.

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[kingofbabylon]

Right. I have heard something about stopping at space stations, though.

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[65]

So I suppose there's always that chance.

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[kingofbabylon]

It stands to reason if you can fly too a station, you can stay and get another ship out, but how do we even know how far we are from Earth?

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[65]

No wonder it's taken everyone six months to come up with a plan. There are far too many variables involved in this.

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[kingofbabylon]

I guess so. It doesn't seem like it's for lack of people capable of organizing something. I'm not any kind of rebel leader, but I think we have a few here.