001 ✥ VIDEO

[pandoricas]

[Hello residents of turtleland, have one (1) Rory Willams looking at you through these console things. He's looking decisively uncertain about this, possibly wondering if making this post is even a good idea in the first place, considering one name he saw on the list...

But well, he's already started the recording, so stopping it now is kind of redundant. Rory gives another unsure look through the screen for a moment more before he pointedly clears his throat and starts to speak.]

Uh... hello, I guess. My name's Rory, I used to be a nurse from Leadworth, and I'm... married.

[Yeah, good job there Rory. Real smooth. Can you see how out of his depth he feels right now?]

So, um. From what I understand, we're not-dead... and on a giant turtle. [Quiet mutter at this point.] Why a giant turtle? Space whales are one thing, but... [Trailing off here for a moment now, as if lost in some other thought entirely, but Rory quickly shakes himself off it and focuses back on the video again.] I guess not being dead is good. I mean, it's not fun being dead. I don't like being dead.

[Rory, you're not making things better for yourself.]

Anyway--hello, I guess? Looks like I'm going to be stuck here no matter what, so I suppose its nice to meet the rest of you who are stuck here too. [Beat.] Here's to being stuck together? Or something like that.

Comments

[pandoricas]

[You make it sound so simple...]

Well, yes, but--I mean, it is a turtle, so it has to do turtle-y.. stuff. And things.

[chiot]

'Course. Humans gotta do human-y things, too. M'sure it poops and eats just like us.

[pandoricas]

[THAT IS NOT EXACTLY REASSURING.]

What happens if, I don't know - the turtle wants to flip over, or something?

[chiot]

Oh--we got a bubble. Biggun, huh? It just--poof--it makes us all stay on the turtle's back, huh?

[pandoricas]

A... bubble.

[Does he mean force field...?]

Is it safe?

[chiot]

Mmm.... I heard it sorta is, but then some people, yeah? They broke through an' started fighting. But we got it all figured out, we did.

[pandoricas]

You mean the other people who don't belong here? Or those... uh, Kedan people, was it?

[chiot]

Us. There's lotsa us that got, uh--powers, huh? They all helped.

[pandoricas]

['Powers'...

Yet more reasons to be unsure about this place.]

Do, um, a lot of people have these powers?

[chiot]

'Course. Mosta them, I think.

[pandoricas]

Most of--

[Okay this is not good. Not good. He's just a normal guy!! What can he do if something goes wrong between them??]

Are they--I mean, are they... alright?

[Are they sane?]

[chiot]

Uh-uh. Onne 'em is teachin', huh? Sabriel. Taught me some stuff, y'wanna see?

[pandoricas]

[Uh no he does not want to see little kids doing stuff that makes him uncomfortable...]

I think I'm fine, thanks.