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[girlwithout]

[After a while of fiddling around with her phone/comm, Rikki eventually decides to bite the bullet and say hi. Voice seems like the best plan – her face isn’t exactly too pretty right now – so that’s what she sets up. It’s clear that her message is coming from a hospital room, though, with the background noise as it is. Monitoring equipment, nurses and doctors walking past her room, all that good stuff.

Her tag reads Rikki Barnes.]

Hey. I’m Rikki, I’m... new. [Geez, she’s really great at dynamic introductions, isn’t she?] I guess... I’m not really new to the hero business, though. I used to work with the Avengers. If that means anything to you. Not really new to starting over in a new reality either, I guess. Kinda new to the military greeting, though, and I’ve never been a tattoo kinda girl. Well, not tattoos that show up without my say-so. Do these things come off? At least they’re not always visible.

[ugh Rikki stop rambling, you can do better than this.] I guess I’m just fact-gathering right now, so if anyone wants to talk about their experience with this place, I’m willing to listen. Or play tick-tack-toe, I kinda don’t have much to do right now. [And doesn’t really want to feel alone right now, but she’s not going to say that part.]

Oh, right. I'm assigned to house 001 in Maurtia Falls, and I'm not gonna be able to move in for a few days. Don't take all the nice rooms before I can get there.

Comments

text; comm tag is "Hiro"

[microbrobotics]

Xs or Os?

still voice;

[girlwithout]

X's.

[microbrobotics]

deal.

Video

[darkpants_warmfeeling]

[Jacob's image is projected through the communicator portrait-style, showing head and shoulders.]

Hey Rikki. I'm Jacob. Sorry to say, but the tattoo is there to stay. At least for the time being.

voice;

[girlwithout]

[She sighs.] Yeah, I kinda figured. Guess it could be worse.

voice;

[darkpants_warmfeeling]

[Jacob smiles a bit.]

It can always be worse. Of course, it could be a lot better too. You said you're not new to hopping realities, so you've got a head start over most of the other new people. That's something, at least.

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[verification]

Looks like we're housemates. I'm Verity.

[ Verity Willis, as her id reads, and she — as it also happens — is most definitely a Tattoo Kinda Girl with fairies and roses wreathing up both arms. Since the caller is stuck in a hospital or some such locale, Verity shoulders aside her doubts about living alongside other people for the time being and opts to be welcoming instead. They're all in this together, right?

And if the girl starts lying, setting off Verity's detection gifts, she'll know ahead of time to avoid her. ]

I'm sorting out my own room, is there anything you'd like me to get for yours? Any food requests to label for you in the fridge?

voice;

[girlwithout]

[Huh. Well, Verity looks nice enough, she guesses.] Nah, I'm not picky. [True. She's spent the last several months living on a very small food budget and soup kitchens. If she was ever picky about food, it's gone now.] The basics are fine. Peanut butter, soup, stuff like that.

How's the house look?

[verification]

Got it. [ Essentials shall be stocked, Nutella will reign supreme. There might also be a couple of bottles of wine in a cupboard when Rikki gets there, oops. ] It's quiet, which isn't so bad. Better than getting harassed for autographs, I can say that.

[ voice ]

[bestversion]

Are you related to Bucky Barnes? Are you his secret wife, I read something like that once.

voice;

[girlwithout]

[There is just... spluttering.] Oh my god! I am sixteen and ew! He's my great-uncle!

Re: voice;

[bestversion]

[ a slight pause as she parses that ]

Well, he could have a secret wife.

He's your uncle?

[ voice ]

[selfequipped]

You ... read something like that?

[Her curiosity got the best of her. She had to ask.]

Re: [ voice ]

[bestversion]

On freakingcool.com! It was really well-written so it seemed believable.

audio

[gevurah]

[ She takes her time with her response once this name pops up on the network. Rikki Barnes is hardly an uncommon first and last name combination, but the mention of the Avengers has her wondering.

Didn't Bucky have a sister named Rebecca? ]

There's quite a few of the Avengers here.

voice;

[girlwithout]

Yeah, I saw a few looking around the network.

[Like Steve.

She's... not sure what to do about that.]

audio

[gevurah]

[ She pointedly avoids Steve as well so she doesn't end up discussing Bucky. ]

Have been in contact with them?

video.

[selfequipped]

Wow, that's a name I haven't seen a while. Hey, it's Kate—though you'd know me more as Hawkeye.

When it comes to stuff to do, though ... you'll notice it gets busy pretty quickly. [Or for people like them, anyway.]

voice;

[girlwithout]

Hey, Kate. [There's a smile in her voice at that - it's nice to have people she knows.] What kinda busy?

voice;

[selfequipped]

Well, there is the typical crime busting, of course. [Which happens all over. But she presses on.] And then there's the whole mystery of everything happening here.

And trust me, a lot's going on.

voice

[khajidont]

Yikes. Sorry the Porter had the timing to pull you in when you're -- injured? Sorry, I'm guessing injured, but I guess you could be visiting someone.

[He recognizes the hospital sounds right off the bat, but not for any sinister reason; having a nurse for a mom will do that to you.]

Uh, what sorts of things did you want to know, anyway?

voice foreverrrr

[girlwithout]

Yeah, injured. Could've been worse.

[For one thing, she probably got medical care faster here than she would have at home, given that they would have had to deal with the crazy terrorist cult first still. Also she might have exploded if she stayed. She's pretty sure she saw the Widow before she passed out, but it might've been a hallucination.]

I don't know. People being treated okay? Anyone being conscripted into anything...? The tats are kinda suspicious, let's be real.

[khajidont]

Oh. Yeah, the tattoos are way suspicious; they've got nanotech in us to track us if we leave the country. Not fun.

But we're not actually formally conscripted, or anything. Whatever we end up doing, we do by choice.

video.

[glowsferatu]

[ imports coming in injured is new, she didn't think that happened, or at least missed the times it did. ]

Well, there's quite a lot of information floating around, we might be able to answer any questions you have.

Are you in Cape Canaveral, still?

voice;

[girlwithout]

Uh - no. That's the name of the base, right?

[She was kind of unconscious-ish at the time, so.]