video; un: sherlockfreud

[prodigalmess]

[ A tired looking young man with big blue eyes comes on the screen. ]

Uh. Hello? To anyone who might be listening to this, my name is Malcolm Bright. I have no idea how I got here, but apparently that's not unusual. After speaking with Jerry and a few of the other travelers... I still have questions. [ Malcolm will always have questions about everything. ] Has anybody been doing this for a long time?

[ He pauses to lift his cup and take a drink of his coffee. ] Oh and thanks to... [ He squints at the cup and then reads off of it. ] Stark..bucks, for at least making a halfway decent cup of coffee. If anyone knows where to find a hard drink, I'd appreciate that information too. Thanks.


[ ooc: Malcolm had a TDM thread here, so he's already explored the environment a bit. ]

Comments

[prodigalmess]

I'm curious why 'eventually' and not 'now'.

[covert_ops]

I'm just curious. I'd also like some answers first.

[prodigalmess]

I would too, though if way to escape before getting them becomes available, I'm taking it.

[covert_ops]

Pressing matter you need to get back to?

[prodigalmess]

Somewhat, yes.

[ Maybe he doesn't actually want to go back, because he's afraid of the consequences his sister is about to face, but he knows that she and the rest of his family needs his help now more than ever. ]

[covert_ops]

Yeah, I've got stuff I need to get to as well. But while we're here, I'm going to investigate as much as I can.

[prodigalmess]

What have you learned so far?

[covert_ops]

There are creatures outside the walls. Dangerous ones. It's a rough place all around, the people are cagey and need to be won over somehow. My roommate and I are thinking of going along the train tracks to see if we can find anything there.

[prodigalmess]

I'm curious what happened here - what made this place the way that it is.

[covert_ops]

I worry about that, too. It had to be something big. You can tell the locals, even though they're locals, haven't quite adapted.

[prodigalmess]

Maybe some kind of cataclysmic climate change event. I wonder if they've always had two suns.

[covert_ops]

I think randomly adding a sun would kill the people who were here before. If there are any.

[prodigalmess]

Fair point. I'm not a scientist. It's clear that something happened here that changed society for the worse though.