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[bookkeeper]

[ When Nate appears on the screen, the communicator is lifted and angled with someone talking in the background. He looks to be seated in the back of a vehicle. Any cuts and scrapes he'd received before he'd arrived were either tended to by a nurse (heeeelllloooo nurse) or had healed on their own. All that remains is the dirt and blood caked on his face and neck, darker stains both his own and belonging to another stuck in the fibers of his shirt.

He makes eye contact with the camera and it's brief, the view of him slipping suddenly, and then the image jerks as the communicator loudly hits the floor. Oops. ]

Oh crap—

[ His image cuts out just as he's seen reaching down for it. ]

- - - -

So what's a guy get when he saves the world from a power hungry raging maniac? A folder with a sheet of paper of stuff he already knows.

Great.

[ Nate needs more than that. ]

There's gotta be something I'm missing here. A little help? Anyone?

I'll even buy you a drink if that's what it takes.

Comments

[incogneto]

I think it'd help if you showed us what's on the paper

[bookkeeper]

And give away the big secret? Where's the fun in that.

[video]

[glassfall]

You look more in need of a drink than I do.

[She smiles.]

I'd be happy to answer any questions I can for you.

[text]

[bookkeeper]

You're right. I could use probably FIVE drinks right about now.

[ Does she really need a drink? She looks...good? ]

I have lots. We'll be there all night.

text: un: s. parrow

[the_admin]

Usually people who save the world from power hungry raging anything end up with a tombstone under a falsified name.

A folded sheet of paper seems a step up.

text:

[bookkeeper]

Lady Luck seems to be a fan.

[ret2go]

I mean, when I save the world from an evil pirate queen or whatever, I usually just get my job back.

[bookkeeper]

Evil PIRATE queen? Did I read that right?

[godcomplexing]

I'm personally concerned with how they came to know everything in that folder.

[bookkeeper]

[ He's worried about the same thing. For reasons. ]

You and me both. It's a mystery.

video

[h2no]

I'll take the drink but I ain't in the mood to go back to your place after.

[just give him free drinks and he'll pretend to know shit.]

text

[bookkeeper]

Probably better that you don't. I'm still in the dark on who else I'm sharing this house with. Who knows what kinds of crap they're into.

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[storyseeker]

[Elena spends a long time staring at her communicator before typing out a reply. She's spent so long thinking about what she'd do if Nate or anyone she knew from home showed up, but now that he has—

Well. It's not ridiculous to be both glad and anxious, she thinks.]

It's not hard to get free drinks here, if you're willing to play up the imPort celebrity thing. A handsome face helps too.

text;—

[bookkeeper]

I guess that's one thing I got going for me here.

[ CLEARLY nothing else. ]

[Action]

[generalgrievous]

[At Heropa #005, Grievous was in his cyborg form and, for once, out in the main room. He wasn't expecting any company and the house was currently quiet. Often, he was out and about and when in the house he stayed in his room, away from his house-mates. He intended to find a place on his own at some point but for now he remained in the shared housing. So far it hadn't been very beneficial but you never knew when a new acquaintance could prove useful somewhere down the line. He made quite a sight at over seven feet tall with that skeletal-looking alien body, wearing just a sweeping cloak.]

[bookkeeper]

[ It was just one thing after another with this place. Nate hadn't expected much when he got in from the car ride from the base, or wherever he'd initially come from. There'd been so much information to take in, the disbelief of what was in his 'file' that they knew about that no one else did.

Nate had come out of his room to grab a drink from the fridge, whatever juice was in there, when he came upon the seven foot tall ... robot? Shit. Here he'd thought he'd been alone as the entire house had seemed so quiet. ]

Uh. Wow. Hi?

text

[khajidont]

Yeahhhh I don't think they care much about what we did back home. If they did, they'd be throwing half of us parades and tossing the other half of us in jail so it kind of evens out.

What questions have you got?

text

[bookkeeper]

Wouldn't be my first time behind bars.

[ He doubts it would be his last. ]

Have you been here long?

[ Text ]

[ghoulking]

And a pamphlet explaining what is happening.

But this way works as well. What do you want to know?

[ Text ]

[bookkeeper]

Pamphlet? There's a pamphlet? Why is this the first I'm hearing about this?

The guy in the car was going on about how it's 2015? That true?

text;

[cleptes]

Did you get to the bit about your powers yet? That's worth reading.

text;

[bookkeeper]

There wasn't much there to read. There's supposed to be?

Text; UN: D33

[d33tached]

You say that you are responsible for "saving" your old world? That's a rather large claim, don't you think?

text;

[bookkeeper]

Not quite. I just forgot to mention that there were two others with me when we did.

[text]

[carbonfrozen]

I'll take the drink

[text]

[bookkeeper]

You and about the other fifty people I've talked to.

[songwrite]

wait u saved the world? like the whole world?
the one u came from??
what was that like?

[bookkeeper]

The whole world. The same very one.
Wouldn't know since I showed up here right after.

Video

[craftpunk]

[ It's....just a helmet. The only reflection is a black and neon green hand holding a comm out to capture the video. ]

If all you're getting out of this is that you now have a folder with paper in it -- you're missing a lot more than any one person can help with. Haven't you done any reading?

[bookkeeper]

[ ...why? This is. Weird. So weird.

Nathan gives the screen that appears a bit of a side-eye. ]

You're probably the hundredth person who's gotten on my case for not reading.