video, backdated to pre-plots

[thebioticwoman]

[Shepard has settled into her quarters, and the background to her transmission is a thrilling expanse of undecorated wall with a little bit of couch cushion visible near the bottom of the frame. She herself is a red-haired, pale-skinned human woman with green eyes and a calm, no-nonsense demeanor, wearing what looks like it could be a military or merchant marine uniform, though it has no obvious insignia or rank.]

My name's Shepard. I just got here, obviously, and I have a question. The staff was polite about it, but considering one of them nearly dropped his datapad when I floated the idea, there's obviously something they're not telling me...why is "Spectre" a bad codename?

[She could just freakin' Space Google it, but this is a good icebreaker. Besides, she doesn't have her omni-tool and she finds the omnicomm interface unreasonably clunky and inflexible.]

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[AUDIO]

[kingtyrantranger]

Nice to meet you. I'm Jason.

[On to the question.]

Anyway, the Spectre's already around. They say he's the Wrath of God. Kills murderers and other criminals. Spooky powerful, too. I read that he destroyed an entire country because he figured they'd never stop their civil war.

All I really know for sure is that he let a teammate of ours die just to get a reason to kill someone.

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[thebioticwoman]

[Shepard hisses softly between her teeth.]

That's...very legalistic.

[kingtyrantranger]

Yeah. He works out of the Bible, I guess. We've got files and video of him in action, if you want.

But, yeah. At this point it's kind of like calling yourself Jason Vorhees or something. Sorry.

[thebioticwoman]

[There's a delay before Shepard replies, because she's watching the anonmeme video.]

...I see.

[She's got no problem with killing, but the legal system exists for a reason.]

I'm gonna assume "Vorhees" isn't your last name?

[Shepard's familiarity with 200-year-old slasher flicks is minimal.]

[kingtyrantranger]

[He snorts.]

Nah. I'm Jason Lee Scott.

He's from this, uh. Horror series. Sorry. Like, nine movies about an unkillable zombie murderer in a hockey mask.

[thebioticwoman]

Okay, I won't wear a hockey mask, either.

[Her voice is dryly amused.

Sorry, Casey.]

[kingtyrantranger]

I think Casey called dibs on those already.

[Someone missed your implication, Shep.]

[thebioticwoman]

[That's not--]

I guess I'll just have to come up with my own style, then.

[So deadpan.]