02. video / open

[landfall]

[ Here, Barge, have Racetrack who has just woken up from being a Navy sailor and fighting pirates and seriously what the frak. ]

I am so confused.

[ Help. :c ]

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[deadly_ned]

All of it's real. In one form or another.

But this is the reality we call home.

[landfall]

Okay.

All right.





Hi. I'm Racetrack.

[deadly_ned]

Hello, Racetrack. My name is Ned. I'm a paired warden and a piemaker.

[landfall]

I'm also a warden. And very new. And a pilot.

I can't even tell you how long it's been since I had a pie.

[deadly_ned]

Ship pilot or aircraft pilot?

I'd be happy to make you a pie. Sometimes a pie helps soften the blow to all the newish things.

[landfall]

Viper. Um, spacecraft.

[deadly_ned]

You're an astronaut.

[landfall]

A what?

[deadly_ned]

A.

Someone who goes into space.

There are few enough people from my world that that's something of a major accomplishment.

[landfall]

Oh. Well. From my world, everyone who isn't in space is... dead.

[deadly_ned]

Then it's an accomplishment that you're



Alive...?


That's a horrible thing to say. I'm sorry.

[landfall]

[ SHE CANNOT BELIEVE HE JUST SAID THAT.

Stares at him for a moment, and then bursts out laughing. ]

[deadly_ned]

I'm at least 70% certain that laughter in this case is a sign I haven't been too blatantly offensive where the matter of death is concerned.

[landfall]

Oh, gods, that was what I needed.

I'm not, by the way. Alive. Well, I am now, but I died.

[deadly_ned]

..Ah.


I'm sorry. That's. I mean, I've never...personally experienced death from that point of view, but I can't imagine it's the most...pleasant thing to go through.

I'm sorry. The only thing I can offer that would bring even a fraction of comfort would be a pie.

And I can say with relative confidence that pie tastes better after you've died.

I'm not sure why that is.

[landfall]

Then it better taste frakking amazing, because now you've built my expectations up.

[deadly_ned]

It will.


I promise it will.

[landfall]

Tell me where and when and how many forks I should bring.

[deadly_ned]

You're just one person. One person, one fork.

It's symmetrical that way.

[landfall]

I have two hands.

[deadly_ned]

Are you ambidextrous?

[landfall]

I can fly a Raptor with either.

[Private, Threadjackin' all over this post]

[itstopped]

You're not going to save a slice for your inmate friend?

[Private, Threadjackin' all over this post]

[landfall]

I'll save a slice if you get there before I eat all the slices.

Pie, Felix. It's pie.

[Private, Threadjackin' all over this post]

[itstopped]

The food is a bonus, I'll give you that much. It's been months since I've even looked at algae.