thisavrou | First transmission; video

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First transmission; video

[It would seem that someone has just been handed a copy of the welcome guide -- and instructed on a few basics, or he wouldn't know how to transmit this video -- and it would seem, also, that he is not entirely impressed by what he found in the guide. The video is just wide enough of an angle to show what appears to be a smear of blood on his shirt.]

It's nice. Someone clearly put a lot of work into it. It's not exactly helpful though, is it?

[It seems to have glossed over quite a few things, or ignored them entirely.]

For instance, for all the trouble it goes to to tell us where we are now, it says nothing about how we get home again.

[He'd really like to get back there. He's got ~~people to kill~~ things to do.]

Or even how we got here. Which is what I'd really like to know.

[Is someone messing with him?]

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You're fucked, basically. Just sit back and try to make some money in the meantime, man.

And if I don't want to just sit back and make some money?

Well you can't start a revolution or whatever the fuck on bread alone.

Are you sure about that?

Yeah. It needs funds, funds that won't just come from charities for sure. Not to mention connections.

That depends on the revolution.

No revolution can live on thin air. The hell kind are you starting? You just got here, do you even know what we're up against? What, you gonna make the nerds toil faster by threatening a coup?

Do you know what we're up against?

As a matter of fact I do.

Then what are we up against?

Aliens, dude. No joke.

Am I laughing?

What about aliens?

I just met you and I'm not sure you know how.

Y'know, in my line of work we usually ask for payment for this sort of thing.

Your line of work would be...?

Information broker. I know you're new and all but that doesn't mean you ain't got something.

I have a little money. Which I suppose is no use to anyone here. [Unless this place deals in Polish currency.] There's nothing else that I'm willing to part with.

Nope you're shit outta luck if you hang on to your old funds. [a hum] How about you just help me out if I'm in a bind in the future.

I can accept that. [If it gets him information, he'll take it.]

Alright then.

Now, these particular aliens have in their heads that the ship we were on before, with its tech, is too dangerous to be around. So they were gonna fuck us up when they found us. Dunno what's keeping them from doing that now.

They were going to do this just because you were on a certain ship, which was a thing that you could not control?

Its the tech on the ship. The thing that pulled us outta our worlds.

The tech on the ship that you're no longer on is dangerous, so they were going to come after you about it?

The first planet we landed on was full of it, actually. And now, here.

So they're superstitious and associate strangers with something they don't understand.

I think because we came through the technology they assume something had...lingered.

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