001 ( video. )

[rekt]

[ see john murphy. see what looks like the interior of a very fancy treehouse behind him, as the tab sits propped up on a sink faucet, murphy in front of what looks like an electric stove (no gas fires in the tree houses, okay). he's turning the knobs and frowning as he talks, distracted, but multitasking well enough. ]

Show of hands, how many here actually want to head back to their world? [ he's asking with what seems like a bored drawl. it's just how he talks, okay. ] How many think they have it better here?

[ murphy and emori certainly do, but that isn't the sole issue. there's bryan, and if emori weren't here, murphy knows he'd be doing everything to get back to earth with her. they can't ask him to stay without nate. so - ]

Have they said anything about being able to pull people through to this place from your homeworld, once they lock onto it? [ or how many can be pulled through? because who knows if bryan wants just nate, or all of skaikru. which seems like more of a pain in the ass than murphy wants, but thisavrou is a big place. easy to avoid the others. ]

Last one - anyone know how to use this? Like, for food making?

[ he knows what a stove is and what it's used for, it's just the how he's concerned with - the actual cooking part. the Ark had rationed food tabs, and on the ground they just used campfires. how do appliances??? halp???? ]

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[morethan084]

[Daisy had come in on the end of a video message from who she assumed at first was Ronan. She thought about asking if he had seen Jesse, but she probably shouldn't jump in with that.]

What? You've never used a stove before?

[rekt]

Nope. [ an easy answer, with a glance to the tab, to see the face there, and then back to the appliance, as he keeps tinkering with it, hand hovering over the burner as it seems to light up, feeling for heat. ]

On the station, we ate food tabs, and on the Ground, we ate whatever you could trap, fried over your standard, old school, obnoxious has hell, flint and tinder fire.

[morethan084]

You mean at the base camp? You had food tabs?

[Be prepared for the both of them to be confused. Daisy hadn't even noticed at first, but his hair had grown a lot suddenly?]

How fast does your hair grow? I saw you, like, a little under two weeks ago.

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[polyphobic]

I'm still trying to work it all out, but if they could send us back it doesn't sound like it would be too difficult to bring others here. They got us here.

[rekt]

yea p sure they probly CAN do it
wat i want to kno is will they

[ not everyone likes taking in refugees ]

[polyphobic]

They might need a reason to.

[ video ]

[nightmarist]

[Well, now that Adam's alerted him to Murphy's presence and Ronan's seen it for himself, the only thing left to do is yell about it.]

K, what the fuck?

[ video ]

[rekt]

[ um. he's assuming by 'k', ronan means 'okay', and not someone's name. and this is uncomfortable. hearing his own voice talking back to him, murphy's leaning in to squint at the screen. hm. ]

Is this some screwed up alien thing?

[nightmarist]

[Ronan realizes how uncomfortable it is. Feels it, too. The last time he was looking at another Ronan, that Ronan was dying. Murdered, by Ronan himself. Now here's another one, probably not long for this world, and especially not if Kavinsky's involved. He feels sick about it. It's no wonder Adam's too angry to even speak.]

No, it's -

[Too hard to explain.]

When did you get here?

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[gentlemenpreferblondes]

[Well, color her fucking amused.]

You turn it on.

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[rekt]

[ the flattest of expressions, and a voice as dry as the sahara after a nuclear apocalypse: ]

No shit.

Any other dazzling how-tos?

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[gentlemenpreferblondes]

Oh, well. [Can you hear her tone matching his? Because it does. The hell though. Ronan wasn't nearly as incapable when she saw him last time.]

I don't know? Maybe try follow the instructions? Read what it says and symbols? Or maybe trying out each switch to see what they do.

text; (cw sexual vulgarity)

[pillz]

would u mind taking a pic of ur butthoel & ur dick to check 4 spines/razors/poison emssion
mayb an x-ray from medical 2 check if u have a explosive in u

[rekt]

[ what

the actual

fuck.






uuuuummmmmmm


????????? ]



i mind

[pillz]

spoken like a motherfuckin trap]
hw fuckin narcissistic does lynch have 2 b

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[banditings]

[ She manages not to turn on video + audio, luckily. Though, her angry face is probably one that should strike fear in any normal dude! ]

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[ She really wants to kill him, that's really the only purpose of that is that she's mad and wants to take it out on him -- since he's the reason and all, but overall the emotions had been running high and patience thin since they got here. ]

[pillz]

somebodys tryin 2 kill me
i mean
i guess tehere was some other shit wrong w me b4 that happened but
if were talkin about this conversation its that

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[seeingscarlet]

It's complicated. I'm not going back without my brother.

You've never used a stove before?

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[rekt]

ur bro's here but not at home??

nope. had ether food tabs or spit roastd woodland kritter

[warandpeace]

[Oh no.]

[Everyone else is answering that first part so that doesn't matter. It's that stove that does.]

I could offer you some recipes. How are you at following directions?

[Please don't set anything on fire.]

[rekt]

good enough
so long as its simple
cookings mor the issue than how 2 work the stoive

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[tearmeanewone]

[He seems to be getting fair advice about how to use the stove (confession: Elizabeth stared at hers for a while too, but some experimenting with the knobs had straightened it out for her)-- her domain is the nature of timelines and Ingress technology. Yes somehow she's better at quantum physics than electric ranges.]

I don't think I have it better here-- I know it. [There's some amusement in her voice there, and that's about all she'll say about her own take on Thisavrou.]

As for the odds of finding yourself with a friend, it seems like the Ingress has the tendency to pull people who've shared similar experiences, though not always. But somehow I think the technicians won't be too keen on inter-dimensional kidnapping, no matter how better this place may be than where you came from. You may have to wait.

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[rekt]

[ the appliance he can figure out, the part he was less clear on is that it's the cooking with it that's the issue. or, well, cooking period. He understands her sentiment, though, on 'I know it'. There's still a lot of paranoia on whether or not this is some new City of Light bullshit, but that's clearing up more and more each moment. More to the hypothetical deal: ]

Less concerned about them showing up naturally, more wanting to see if I can use the Ingress to pull them here. [ Like she'd said about inter-dimensional kidnapping. But Murphy wouldn't call it that in the least. Not if they're saving them from inevitable violent death. ]

Believe me, they won't be sad to leave where they are now.

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[worn_wings]

Seems like they oughta be able to bring people, if they figure it out. Ain't asked, though.

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[rekt]

Seems like, but the question's more 'will they?'