[video]

[plumlucky]

[Stephanie comes onto the network a la video and she looks tired, bedraggled, and kind of like hell in her flannel shirt and still damp jeans.]
 
Hi. Stephanie here. [She wrings her hair a little.]
 
That was an experience I never, ever want to repeat.  [Ever.]
 
Why the ocean? Couldn’t it have been a freshwater lake? At least that way, I wouldn’t feel like a too salty piece of beef jerky, though I guess then you run the risk of leeches and other watery vermin. [She needed a shower, bad, but she had some questions first. It wasn’t unordinary for her to shunt personal hygiene to the side for at least a few minutes when there were answers that could be sniffed out.]
 
And, why a coma? Anybody have any answers? Those guys that ‘saved’ me were kind of vague. I’ll buy coffee – if they have it here and God I hope they do – for anyone that can help me out.
 
[Or at least, she will until her money runs out, anyway.]

Comments

[earpiece]

[Phil may be adaptable, but at his heart he's a man of routine. He can't seem to catch his equilibrium here, though—sure, it's only been a handful of hours, but he's never needed more than that.

Except he's never been in this situation before. You know, being dead and all. He tried sleeping the agitation off, but then someone broke in and now he can't sleep at all.

So when someone on the network mentions coffee, he is so there. It's also kind of a bonus that she looks like shit, too. Makes him feel better, almost.

But at least she doesn't look like she wants to kill someone, which... Phil kinda does.]

Do they even have coffee here?

→ video

[controlledvariable]

You have my name.

[Like she. stole it. yes okay Steph knows that's terrible logic. It's still weird to meet someone else with her name, especially considering how small the population of Foreigners is]

But uh, did they tell you that you're in a coma back home? [is that what the question meant?]

video;

[demon_brat]

Any chance for a last name? You're not the only Stephanie around here.

And, apparently, we are needed here. Or some of us are. The process is, also apparently, not very precise.

permavoice;

[arches]

They have something close to coffee. But it's crappy.

[video]

[sharpes]

[Still hot. He can dig it.]

It's not exactly a coma. I mean, otherwise we'd drown before they ever found us, right? It's probably more like a stasis.

[#comiclogic.]

[audio]

[emasculates]

[Have a lightly accented, hard-edged tone, Stephanie.]

Would you rather be dead?

[Or is complaining just your Thing.]