voice into video; backdated before the dual events

[deafleppard]

I've made a huge mistake.

[Story of Gwen's life, really.]

When they said that they could give me a part of the ship that could look however I wanted it to, I thought it was cool, you know? Like, straight out of a sci-fi film.

I could have my own piece of home and not have to worry about paying rent, being late, or most likely of all, getting fired from work.

[Heroes and time management, am I right?]

But now that I've made it this far...

[The video turns on and everyone can see what Gwen is looking at.]

I thought I could get used to it, but there's literally nobody else here.

It's actually kind of creepy.

Comments

voice

[fourstars]

... Oh wow.

[ That... is kind of eerie. ]

voice

[deafleppard]

Why, me.

Why did you tell them to make it like home.

voice

[fourstars]

Yeah, I... tried to avoid doing something like this. I didn't want to have an empty place with none of my friends in it.

[wherenoonegoes]

Yeah, that would be why I went with just a regular island instead of trying to recreate my village.

[deafleppard]

Think I can get a do over?

video

[enthraller]

I made the same mistake. The gardens are still nice enough, but the rest is just uncomfortable.

video

[deafleppard]

The gardens are not nice. Those are the most menacing gardens I have ever seen.

video

[enthraller]

Yours, perhaps. I suppose to do feel an air of menace even from here. [His lips are quirked just slightly up in a bit of a smirk, but by his tone it's very gentle teasing.] But I was more often than not alone in the palace gardens when I was young, so it seemed less strange for my place.

[ringslinging]

It's why I went with the airfield instead of my city. There weren't a ton of people there a lot of the time anyway.

Makes it less glaring.

[ Well. For a while, Coast City was kind of ghost town mode anyway, but he likes to not think too hard about those days, either. ]

[deafleppard]

I swear, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[text]

[notwithoutafight]

[ Videl fails to see what the big deal is. ]

so just get them to put some people in there. i dont see what the big deal is

[text]

[deafleppard]

i don't think it works that way.

Re: [text]

[pinball_wizard]

...I think you have an unrealistic expectation of what we can do with the habitats.

Audio

[kingtyrantranger]

Yeah, sorry. Wish I could've warned you about that. I thought about having them drop a few houses and stuff, but...

[He trails off and shrugs to himself. That's not helping her much, is it?]

I got mine set up as some places to work out. Rich did his up as Central Park. If they can do that, maybe they can rearrange your part a bit? I dunno.

[He pauses, then snaps his fingers, though he's not sure if that noise carries over the omnicomms. It totally does.]

If it's the noise that's bothering you... Do you remember that movie that came out a few years ago? Home Alone? You could do what the kid in that did and have the techs set up a bunch of fake noises and silhouettes and stuff. Maybe that would help.

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[deafleppard]

... You know.

You might be onto something with that.

[pinball_wizard]

Bouncing Boy here, putting on my support staff coordinator hat. If you need your habitat section changed, that's definitely doable. Just work out an idea of what would help make it more comfortable, and I can set the staff on it.

[deafleppard]

You? You just became my new favorite person.

Audio

[mirror_soldier]

From what I've heard, that seems to be a reoccurring issue with the environments people have chosen.

[He's just going to carefully not mention himself in this and keep pretending that it's only a problem other people are having.]

But I suppose most people don't have many places they find familiar that don't require other people being around to make them comforting.

Do you think it would help if they made an environment that was less familiar and didn't need to be populated? Perhaps someplace you had wanted to stay but hadn't gotten the chance to, so it wouldn't require specific people to make it comfortable to live in, and any details they may get wrong with the environment would be easier to over look.

Audio

[deafleppard]

It would help if this whole place didn't make seem like I'm about to die because this is exactly how it happens in the movies.

video

[iamresponding]

Yeah. Yeah, that's either gonna end in zombies or Michael Myers, but either way:

[He makes a stabby gesture with the hand not holding his omnicom.]

Ree ree ree ree.

That's why I picked Central Park because what every New Yorker really wants in public places in the city is for everyone else to go away, because not so deep down inside -- let's be honest here -- we hate every other New Yorker.

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[deafleppard]

Just once, I'd like for it to not be zombies.

[whyarewehere]

This is why when somebody asks you where you want to be, the answer is always "beach".

It's better without all the people.

[deafleppard]

Problem with that is: sand.

[And who really wants to deal with that?]

[leverageintceo]

Want to trade for a Portland brewpub? I'm not using it.

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[deafleppard]

And... why not?