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[planate]

Has anyone managed to leave the city yet? I've been trying to note down points of interest and figure out what part of the city is what but... not much luck beyond it.

[he rubs the back of his head a little awkwardly.]

I guess it makes sense to repopulate one city at a time, haha! [a beat. that wasn't funny, pipes.] Uh, anyway, if you arrived recently I hope it wasn't too rough. I know a medibay has been set up for sure.

[he gives the camera a thumbs up.]

Pipes out!

[and goes to turn it off BUT WAIT HE JUST REMEMBERED SOMETHING.]

No idea how to encrypt these... Mayday! D'you wanna go on a date sometime?

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[ancillary]

[ Miranda bows her head with one gloved hand pressing finger tips gingerly over her mouth in a failed attempt to stifle the shiver in her shoulders that than the course of her back and clenched around her stomach like a pulled muscle.

She was laughing. Honest to god not laced with contempt, genuinely seized by fit of giggles. However brief. ]

[planate]

[PIPES WINS THIS ROUND. he waits for her to finish, feeling a vague sense of accomplishment.]

I'll be here all week! And the foreseeable future!

[GUNFINGERS.]

[ancillary]

I'll...conceded that all preconceptions of biomechanical life have changed since coming.

[planate]

That happens a lot. What are you used to?

[ancillary]

A hyper-advanced biomechanical species outside the Sol system culled from organic life hellebent on continuing a cyclic war spanning millions of years that...

[ancillary]

Shit.

[planate]

Ahhh... that's. That's sure... something!

[ancillary]

At least you're not squids.

[planate]

I... guess? What do they have to do with anything?





Also, what are squids?

[ancillary]

Never you mind.

Your planet is quite the mess but fortunately the Reapers never seemed to have touched down.

[planate]

Aren't they dangerous???

[they do sound cute though.]

Maybe we were the Reapers all along.

[ancillary]

Even I'd doubt that.

[ Pipes no. ]

Reapers are...well, I suppose we should just be thankful they're not here.

[planate]

I'll take your word for it... uh...

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