YL078T | Voice | Night 009

[doomcame]

[Taissa has woken up in a new place much farther than ever before. It's too warm, even for night. The tropical trees growing just inland of the beach only confirm that this is considerably south of New Jersey. Her clothes are soaked through and she doesn't remember being in the water. Was there a shipwreck? There must be other boats nearby. The coast guard, or somebody, should be out there.

She picks up the only thing outside of herself that she has found on the sand so far. It looks like some sort of emergency radio. She listens to only a snippet of a message before calling out herself, but it sounds enough like military jargon to give her hope of timely rescue. She attempts to sound calm through her shock and confusion. Loud and clear.]

Hello? Who am I speaking to? This is Senator Taissa Turner. I seem to be lost and in need of assistance.

[Also in need of a quick transceiver tutorial, clearly.]

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

Okay, and they somehow snatched a kid right off campus and an American politician instead of just offering people money if they win like a normal supervillain?

[ichoosefight]

Are you kidding? Kidnapping is free. And most of those creeps would enjoy it more this way.

[desperate_times_right]

The island, drugs, helicopter, and crossbow guys aren't free.

Doesn't feel self-congratulatory enough for me. In my experience those guys never stop monologuing.

[ichoosefight]

I know the stuff they broadcast online, sometimes they'll pick an unwilling target. They have commentary like it's a football game, and make money running bets. I guess it's more entertaining when we're running around like rats in a maze than when we know what's going on.

That really doesn't track, but it is a possibility.

[desperate_times_right]

And what, the guardians are for if we get too buddy-buddy since we didn't get explicit instructions? I guess.

[ichoosefight]

Or to kill us if we get voted off the island, probably.

[desperate_times_right]

Thought you said no one died yet.

[ichoosefight]

I don't think I said that.

[ It's definitely not true. ]

[desperate_times_right]

...Okay, Obi-Wan.

You said one person got hit and lived.

[ichoosefight]

I think I said one person got shot, and she's alright now?

There was kind of an in-between step... when she was dead.

[desperate_times_right]

[There’s a long pause, but then Chloe’s back and she sounds pissed]

Bullshit, what is wrong with you people?!

[ichoosefight]

I'm sure that's a reasonable response, but you gotta give me more to work with here.

[desperate_times_right]

All that yesterday, with the alien ghosts and shit, and now this?

[ichoosefight]

I wanted to ease you guys into it, but you did ask.

[desperate_times_right]

I'm not doing the little game show. If you wanna kill me, do it yourself.

[ichoosefight]

If it's any comfort at all, I think we make for really boring television.

[desperate_times_right]

You do, but that's not the point.

[ichoosefight]

I know. But the point is that this whole situation is messed up, and there's not really anything more I can say about that.

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah, okay. If you find me, we'll see who’s best.

[ichoosefight]

......Best at what?

[desperate_times_right]

Winning games where you try and trick people, maybe.

[ichoosefight]

And... why are we doing this?

[desperate_times_right]

Hey, you were the one who said someone's hunting us for sport. I've got shit to do.

[ichoosefight]

...So we're trying to make the show better? I'm not doing that.

[desperate_times_right]

Look, kid, if I've got to kill you to get home I will.