[thank you, carlene; your entire life is garbage - VIDEO]

[pop_of_color]

[The video, though active and recording, shows only back - but it's not a solid black,
as though the camera's been covered. Instead, it shifts and moves and lets in some peeks of light, suggesting that someone's trying to keep the camera covered with their hand or with something that keeps sliding off. At one point, there's a grey ceiling and the top of someone's head - the only indication of which is two black curls.]

Shit.

[The video goes black again with the sound of the device being placed on a hard surface of some kind, probably a table.]

All right, listen up, dum-dums. [The voice is that of a woman. She has a deeper tone than others, and there's an edge to it that suggests she could very easily kill you if she wanted to. And that she probably does.] I don't know how the fuck I got here or why - or why I woke up in America's sweaty asshole of all places, or why I'm now in Amish country - but I need to get back to Brooklyn, ASAP.

Also, what the hell is it with these damn .. machines? [She means the Porters.] This is some Star Wars bullshit, and it's probably the only cool thing going for this place right now.

Comments

[audio]

[glassfall]

None at all. In fact, I remembered everything as though I hadn't been brought here.

[audio]

[pop_of_color]

Huh.

Wonder if that happens to everyone.

[audio]

[glassfall]

From what I've heard, it is... but you'd have to ask around to get a better picture.

[audio]

[pop_of_color]

I mean, I don't care that much, but it's weird.

[audio]

[glassfall]

Truth be told, I find it a little concerning.

[audio]

[pop_of_color]

Being ripped from your homeworld and being returned with no memory?

Seems kinda cool, honestly. Makes me wonder if it's happened a bunch of times before, and I just don't remember it.

[audio]

[glassfall]

It's certainly possible. But I don't like the idea of forgetting everything I've learned.

[audio]

[pop_of_color]

True. I don't like the idea of having my head fucked around with without my knowing.

[audio]

[glassfall]

Precisely. And the idea that it could happen at any time is... unsettling.

[audio]

[pop_of_color]

Hm.

I have to think about this some more when I'm not ..

Y'know. In public.

[audio]

[glassfall]

I understand. I'm still sorting all this out myself.