Text; UN: NavySpear

[charlieoscar]

There were people here before, right? So where's all their stuff? Even if they all got chest-bursted their belongings should still be here, but I didn't find so much as a toothbrush in my cabin.

Has anybody found anything useful?

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un: rocipilot

[donkeyballs]

Hey, sailor.

I found a glove, does that count?

Before you ask: just the one.

[charlieoscar]

[He not sure if he should be relieved to recognize the username. That anything in this hellhole might become familiar.

Then he thinks, screw it, and is merely bemused.]

To all the pirates on board, sure?

[donkeyballs]

Someone found a book, if I'm recalling correctly.

Like a proper printed-on-paper one, which blew my mind a bit.

[charlieoscar]

I'd say that's something, but it really depends.

[Then Alex blows Mike's mind a bit. Again.]

Right. Mister From the Future.

[donkeyballs]

Depends on the book? I wasn't a reference manual, I'd remember that much.

Ain't a lot of trees on mars, partner. Far as I know even Earth don't print many paper books these days.

[charlieoscar]

Doesn't have to be, if it helps keep you from going stir crazy.

No, I get it. It's mostly tablets and ereaders for us too, especially for those us living and working in a 9000ton tin-can. Space is a premium. I just wouldn't be surprised to find one.

I'd hope to find one or two on this tub.

un: apollo2

[solarcharged]

Pack of cards, missing three. I obviously picked a good room.

[donkeyballs]

[ Tablets and ereaders? Alex decides not to tell him that neither of those words mean much to him. ]

Well it was a surprise to me, that's for sure.

You're you holdin' up otherwise?

[charlieoscar]

Is there another option?

[charlieoscar]

Well there goes the poker tournament.

[donkeyballs]

Sure. Cracking. And it happens. Best to get it off your chest and let people help out before a crack becomes a break.

[charlieoscar]

I should have specified - is there a useful option?

[But as he guess that's not going to fly, another message follows shortly after.]

Look, this is shit so far gone I don't even have a word to appropriately describe it. But I'm not big on pity parties. So I'm gonna do what I do best and deal with it, so I can get to fixin it.

[...]

Besides, there's still money on this being drugs again.

[donkeyballs]

Sorry, sailor. This ain't drugs. Wish I could say it were.

But alright. You say you're okay, I'll take your word on it.

[charlieoscar]

Which is what the drugs would want me to believe.

I'm dealing. If that changes, I'll send word. I know the last thing any china shop needs is a bull.

[donkeyballs]

I've had too many hangovers since gettin' here to have any faith in this bein' anythin' short of reality.

Alright. We're all in this together, and we'll get out of it together. Somehow.

[charlieoscar]

You actually drank that mystery swill?

[It isn't that he doesn't see the other message; he does. And he actually takes it to heart, probably with more sentiment than it was even really meant, but there's little more that could be said or done about it in that moment.

And humor was the best medicine right?]

[donkeyballs]

It stops tastin' like piss by the fourth glass, even.

[charlieoscar]

Now that's an endorsement.

[donkeyballs]

Partner, I ain't gonna butter it up for you. It's swill. But it still takes the edge off.

text » un: rook

[onlydoubts]

I found a hairbrush. With some hair still in it, and everything.

Chest bursted?

un: gunny

[marineris]

chest-bursted, huh?
that's a new thing to worry about.
there wasn't much in my cabin, just a book of old poems.

[charlieoscar]

So long as you don't wake up blind.

[...]

Any cigars?

Bastards took mine.

[donkeyballs]

Haven't yet but that don't mean much.

You mean to smoke?

You don't want to do that in a space station, hoss. We all gotta share this air.

Haven't seen a one, anyway.

[charlieoscar]

If you have to find a bit of person laying around.

[Speaking of--]

You know, the chest-burster-- from Alien? [Wait for it.] After the guy gets-- [...] Oh. You're not from my neck of the woods, are you?

[charlieoscar]

That's really going to be a concern, huh?