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[tumang]

[ The video opens to Amos munching on what looks like one of the protein bars the fabricator seem to produce by the dozen. He's looking straight at the camera - this is no mistake broadcast, he learned from the best how to do this - and half of him is in the frame. ]

People keep on asking me about this stuff once they realize I've lived in space a while, so I'm just going to share my wisdom with you all so I don't have to say it a million times again.

[ He stands, the angle of the video changing as he grabs the communicator he borrowed from Alex to broadcast this. As it moves, it pans over what looks like a very large shortgun type of weapon. It ends up points towards Amos's lower body, more specifically, his boots. ]

Okay, first off, keep your mag boots on. Sleep with them if you can. To engage them, lean back on your heels, and walk like you're wearing pumps. Heel first, then toe.

[ He demonstrates on camera. How does he know how to walk in pumps? Who knows?

He turns the communicator back up towards his face, after a few steps. ]

Second, if you feel nauseous when you're walking around the station, try to see if you're walking spinward or counter-spinward. As in, if you walking with the spin of the gravitation rings or not. Walking against it is going to make you feel worse.

Third, don't eat too much, but don't forget to eat, either. Sounds basic, but you'd be surprised.

[ He almost adds that coffee is not a form of food. ]

Fourth, make use of the fitness area on deck 4. We're not at full gravity here, and in space, you lose muscle mass very fast. If you don't want to turn into a noodle, weightlifting and cardio.

Fifth, stow your gear. There are all of these compartments in the crew quarters, don't leave shit hanging around. Anything can turn into a weapon if we suddenly lose gravity, or if it turns out that this barge can do maneuvers. You don't want a mug coming at your face at 4-g.

[ Seriously, stow your gear, people. It's not that hard. ]

Sixth, don't use the sealant guns without gloves. This shit will glue your hands together. Be smarter than that.

[ He resumes eating his protein bar. ]

That's the most important points I wanted to make. Now, if you've got specific questions, shoot.

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[donkeyballs]

[ Alex has spent a lot of time with people that would be written off as assholes by many. He's seated beside one of them, right now. But mostly he just likes to talk, and likes to keep people from killing each other. It's the simple things in life, really. ]

Yeah. My whole crew is here, save the Cap. So he's gotta be on the station somewhere - my only guess is that they grabbed our whole ship. I ain't got a clue in hell what else we'll find - [ Please god let it be the Rocinante - ] But I can't see why they'd grab all of us without him. And people just wake up in corridors, so they had to be held somewhere before that, right?

[resleeves]

What if he's dead?

[ maybe it's the pessimistic side of him but, if alex's captain isn't stalking around the corridors, kovacs would think he's dead and gone before he starts to fantasize about him being behind some mysterious door. it just made sense.]

That not a possibility? Space is pretty rough. Maybe something went wrong when you all ended up here. One bad step and you're breathing vacuum. Ouch.

[ at least it would have been quick. small favors. ]

[donkeyballs]

I ain't callin' it until I've gotten into every nook of this place, or I find a body. [ His voice is a little tight. He's not giving up on Holden. He's going to hold onto this hope as long as he can - well past whenever it stops making sense. ]

We all woke up at different times, so it ain't like they released us all at once. And he's been livin' in space just the same as the rest of us.

[resleeves]

[ for the briefest of seconds, the thought enters his mind that maybe that happened to his sister. she'd been close to him when he'd passed out and then he'd woken up here, alone. was she somewhere else on this ship, trying to find him?

no, that was fucking ridiculous. it was stupid to think that. she wasn't here. she'd have found him if she was here. ]

Your show, Space Cop.

[ he remembers your name, Alex, but he can't help himself sometimes. ]

I'll keep an eye out for this errant captain of yours.

[ he has no idea what this guy looks like but figures he'd be fairly noticeable if he was searching out a bunch of people he hasn't seen in awhile. ]

Not like there's much else going on to keep my attention here.

[donkeyballs]

[ Kovacs just gets a mild eyebrow raise at the 'space cop' thing again. Maybe he should introduce this guy to Miller, if he wants to know what a Space Cop looks like. (Then again, maybe not.) ]

I'd appreciate that, thank'ye. His name's James Holden.

[resleeves]

Holden. Got it.

[ while kovacs doesn't plan on going out of his way to look for someone that might not even be here, he does intend to keep the name in the back of his mind. maybe he'll stumble over something or someone that wasn't there the day before. maybe he'd find this missing person and be a hero.

ha. what a laughable concept that was. ]

For your sake, I hope he's hiding out in some cubby hole somewhere. Would be more pleasant than the alternative.

[ you know, the one where he was dead in space somewhere. a corpse couldn't really captain a ship, could it? ]

[donkeyballs]

They had to have been keepin' the rest of us somewhere.

We'll find 'im.

[resleeves]

[ good to be optimistic, kovacs supposes. wouldn't be hard to lose that while you're stuck in space on a station that's a mystery to you.

he's going to keep that all encompassing pessimism, though. suited that tough guy persona much better.

kovacs just gave him a two fingered salute in reply. a good luck and good sleuthing all in one gesture. ]

[donkeyballs]

[ Alex offers a mirrored salute, and then the feed winks out. ]