Video Broadcast - OTA (Post Storm)

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[Hey guys, look who it is. The bright and cheerful and constantly snarky kid. Who is smiling wide, though it looks a bit strained. Good news, his arm has healed since getting back. Bad news, Tommy looks nervous and maybe a hint of stressed as the video starts. But hey, he's in the greenhouse, which is obvious from the greenery around him. And his communication device is propped up against something, because his hands are in the shot, working at the soil around a lush Cyanana plant, clearly working fertilizer into the soil with care.]

So, like... Just because we've got the ships and stuff doesn't mean it's not important for us to maintain the greenhouse, right? We were gone for a while and not all the places in here did well while we were gone. And then I was walking around and realized that we're sorta scattered, the people working here. So maybe people with the skill should, like, coordinate? Because fresh food on the ships is good too. We can preserve shit and put it on the ships for variation.

I also wanna do, like, hydroponics on some of the ships. So if we gets spaced again for a while, we can have fresh stuff.

Guess...

[He sighs and his hand cards through his hair. Which means some dirt is now there in the perfect white strands.]

Guess I mean I'm willing to help organize. Map out the greenhouse, help us figure out schedules and when to work on different plants and that shit. Or not. Someone else can take that charge. I don't much care. It just needs done. Might also need an engineer to help with the ship part. And maybe people to okay adding it to other ships and to take care of the plants.

Anyway uh...

[Let him be useful. He failed as a hero in the storm. Disappointment and frustration flash across his face in the video and then it's gone.]

Thoughts?

Comments

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[Hey Lorna. There's a brief look of relief to see her. That someone still wants him around. But then it's gone.]

You know I can always use you, Lorna. Family helps family and all that. But what data point do you got?

[geomagnetically]

Just tell me when, where, what. And, uh, piloting, so, super relevant to plants, I know. [ A half smile. ]

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But I'm pretty sure people can LEARN how to do simple tasks, right? So the Greenhouse, whenever you're awake, and we'll start with how to tell when certain plants are ripe to harvest them?

[geomagnetically]

Fair point on the first. Hell yeah. Greenhouse, post-coffee, done and done.

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Wait, coffee? Where are you getting coffee?

[SUPER JEALOUS>]

[geomagnetically]

Only in my sweet, sweet dreams where I have gallons of it. I've been dead inside this whole time.

Private

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Talk to Billy. He's capable of some cool magic.

Re: Private

[geomagnetically]

I mean, I guess he did make that one. But I dunno if he's looking for a career in magical coffee maker. [ Plus, she doesn't want to ask him to be that. ]

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You're family. I think you get different rules.

[geomagnetically]

The frivolous uses different kinds of rules?

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I dont’ know. He makes it for me and Wanda.

[geomagnetically]

That would make me feel a little less weird about it I guess. Ideally, we'd be growing a bunch of coffee plants here, though, oh well.

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Ask the Agrii for the plant? Would take a while to grow the beans though.

[geomagnetically]

Patience. The virtue I have in spades.

[ She teases slightly, holding back a laugh, but the smile shows on her lips. ]

Worth a shot; maybe they'll give me a fully grown one.

[ let her dream ok ]

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I have SO much patience. The world just doesn't keep time with me.

[Maybe they'll get lucky and she'll get the beans. That's practically money.]