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Felix Gaeta (didwhaticould) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-02-19 19:50:00

Entry tags:

felix gaeta, kitty pryde (aoa), sam winchester, spencer reid

Day 363 - Open Video/Action
[Video]

[The video opens on a man sitting squarely in view, his bearing better suited to someone awaiting a big job interview than a newly incarcerated prisoner.]

Hello, MarinaNova Asylum. My name is Felix Gaeta. I'd say that it's a pleasure to join your ranks, but I don't want to start off on a lie.

I've been over the information I was provided with on arrival and it left a number of things unanswered. Namely... [a pause to pick up a notepad] ...is all of this really virtual, and, if so, does anyone know where our bodies are?

Do you have a leader or any kind of civilian government?

Is everything here actually free for the taking, or are there strings attached?

[He pauses again, flips a couple of pages, and sighs.]

Maybe this is a better question: do you have an archive or some other collection of information that hasn't been provided by the wardens? No one wants me to go through all of these, including me.

[And scene.]

[Action]

[Gaeta can be found at the library—taking notes, likely—or at any of the many eateries in Marina, admiring the sheer selection available. He won't go out of his way to be friendly.]

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	didwhaticould 2016-02-20 01:28 am UTC (link)
	[There's a new nerd in town, loser. Learn to share. Gaeta accidentally makes eye contact, which is one of those things that seems to necessitate talking.] Hi. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 01:35 am UTC (link)
	Hey. You don't see a lot of new arrivals in the library on their first day. [Unless they materialize there.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-20 01:51 am UTC (link)
	How do you know I'm new? [Is this guy so attentive that he knows the face of everyone here? Does Gaeta have new person smell?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 01:53 am UTC (link)
	[Sam gestures to all this Gaeta has going on clothes-wise.] The orange is kind of a give away. [And even when Sam doesn't speak up he is recording people who arrive and announce themselves. That maaaay be part of his current notes.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-20 02:03 am UTC (link)
	[...Oh.] Astute. Do you have an extensive collection of notes about this place? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 02:27 am UTC (link)
	[The most extensive and thus creepy.] ...Why? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-20 02:33 am UTC (link)
	I like being well-informed. My last two jobs relied on it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 02:37 am UTC (link)
	What were your last two jobs? [Sam waves a hand at a chair opposite him as he slides some of his notes out of sight.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-20 02:50 am UTC (link)
	[He takes the indicated seat. The note-hiding is fine; if their positions were reversed, he'd do the same.] Senior Officer of the Watch on a battlestar, then chief of staff to the president of the Colonies. [Maybe not an impressive resume to someone who doesn't know what those jobs entailed.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 03:18 am UTC (link)
	[Is that anything like a deathstar?] It sounds impressive. [Sorry, he doesn't know what those jobs entail.] What colonies? Where are you from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

didwhaticould
2016-02-20 03:24 am UTC (link)

[Less dying, more battling.]

You have no idea what they are. [So seriously, don't try to make him feel good about himself by saying they're impressive.] They both involve gathering, organizing, and disseminating information. [And babysitting drunkards and basically being in charge when said drunkards can't do their jobs, but that would be an inappropriate thing to say.]

The Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Picon, specifically. What about you?

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	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 03:35 am UTC (link)
	[Okay, Sam wasn't that invested in it. He's just a hunter which is much less fancy though still extremely impactful since he brought on the apocalypse and such.] Fair enough. Kansas. Which is on earth. [Not something he'd normally say, but since he's never heard of any of the places this guy mentioned he figured he should be more vague instead of specific. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-20 03:51 am UTC (link)
	[Yeah, okay, that's impressive though.] Fair enough that you'd share your notes with me? [Except don't because that second thing was completely mindblowing.] Earth? You're from the Thirteenth Colony? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 04:05 am UTC (link)
	The thirteenth colony? I've never heard it called that. [Awkward.] What year are you from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-20 04:22 am UTC (link)
	I'm from day 802 BCH... 6998 by the old calendar. [He's smart enough to get that those things mean nothing at all right now.] The colonial fleet's been looking for Earth ever since the colonies were destroyed in the Cylon Holocaust. I thought it was a myth. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-20 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	[Okay, wow. Not that he hasn't met people from versions of the far-flung future, but to hear the actual date is kind of jarring.] Well, in 2010 it definitely exists. What's a Cylon? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

didwhaticould
2016-02-21 02:52 am UTC (link)

[Fun fact: Gaeta is from about 150,000 years in Sam's past. Not that either of them will ever know that.]

Either we're not from the same universe or the Fleet's going to be in for a surprise if it ever finds Earth.

Humanity's biggest mistake. [Too cryptic?] They're machines. Humanoid, sentient. They were trying to hunt us to extinction, but their priorities keep shifting.

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	tallerthanthou 2016-02-21 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	[Things they'll never know! Wheee!] I'm guessing you built them and then they decided to take over? [Plot of every sci fi ever?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-22 01:23 am UTC (link)
	I wasn't involved personally, but yes, basically. [That guesswork is extremely suspicious, sir. He is going to make note of your uncanny knowledge ~~of sci fi tropes~~.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-22 04:10 am UTC (link)
	[Gaeta's wording also led him down that path, but the tropes help.] You must love being in a prison run by AIs then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-23 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	Absolutely. [Not. There is some unshakeable low-key panic going on.] Nothing puts me at ease like being surrounded by machines in a prison that's being overseen by more intelligent machines. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-23 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. If it helps any, we've seen the engineers. I think the robots and wardens are the lowest in the chain of whatever command is going on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-23 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	That's... comforting. Do the engineers seem to be human? Organic, at least? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2016-02-23 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	Organic. I'm pretty sure they're not human. I didn't see them myself, but from what I've heard one looks a little like a cross between a spider and a scorpion and the other was hooded so you couldn't see much of anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	didwhaticould 2016-02-23 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose a spider-scorpion and a mystery in a hood are better than extremely advanced machines. [By the slimmest of margins.] So... has anyone ever escaped? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)