Video Broadcast - OTA (Post Storm)

[doubled_speed]

[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

[thrawnsaide]

[Eli simply shook his head when he realized that Tommy had arrived. He would eventually get used to the speed the kid was known for. It was still new for him.]

I have a few new recipes I just tried, but then we have the usual menu.

[doubled_speed]

I really need to find you things to make pies out of.

[He walks across at a normal speed and flops down onto the nearest surface that makes a good chair.]

There anything you're running low on and need from the greenhouse? I'm trying to learn how to preserve things if I can.

[thrawnsaide]

Anything you think would be handy, would be appreciated.

[As Eli responds, he begins to prep a meal for Tommy.]

I know I'm going to need more herbs and roots. I also need to collect more salt so we don't use up the gift of salt the Agri gave us. I'm sure the hospital could probably use herbs needed for medicines. You can ask Altair that.

[doubled_speed]

[He appreciates real food, so much. He sighs and tilts his in consideration.]

I don't tend to look at the herbs, but I can check that out. And there should be processes to get the salt from the ocean, I think.

[But he wants to figure it out. Be helpful. Be appreciated.]

[thrawnsaide]

Yes, there's a method to collecting the salt. I was using it before they gave me the salt rock. It's just very tedious and time consuming. I want to spend a few days just concentrating on that so we have some in storage.

What stuff are you able to preserve?

[doubled_speed]

I need to ask them for jars or something. I don't know. I think the agriculture data point is SUPPOSED to teach you that. But it glitches with my head. So I sorta just... I'm thinking of drying things. And asking for a book or something?

[thrawnsaide]

Hrmm you could ask them about the book they might supply it. I wouldn't mind reading it myself as I sometimes have a hard time understanding the information the data point supplied. Or what it suggests is something I'm not familiar with at all.

There's this place in the area that was an abandoned market where you can find various items and use them for yourself. I've been there once, but not a place I want to go by myself.

[doubled_speed]

I was decorating my place with my brother with stuff from there.

[He supposes he needs a new place now. He's gotten just good enough to be mobile and hasn't bothered to go home in a WHILE.]

Get myself a bed and set up in one of the abandoned shops or something.

[thrawnsaide]

Well there's room here if you want a place. A few rooms are already taken, but you're more then welcome to take a room.

[doubled_speed]

[Yeah, no, he isn't doing that. Because what happens when Eli goes? Nothing good.]

Nah. I should be finding my own space.

[thrawnsaide]

It technically would be your own space. You can come and go as you please.

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Not to mention I wouldn't mind more company right now.

[doubled_speed]

[Dude, don't ask him to move in that, It's weird, man.]

I mean, I can visit here.

[thrawnsaide]

Understood.

[He proceeded to focus on prepping the meal and letting it cook. He wasn't sure what to say at this point and didn't mean to make the other uncomfortable.]

[doubled_speed]

Listen, it's... complicated. My brother's fiance is here all of a sudden so here it is. ANd I need to take some time to figure it out.

[thrawnsaide]

Hrmm, yes that is rather complicated. It must be hard to have to share your brother with someone else. At least you have your brother here.

[Eli quietly pointed out as he placed Tommy's meal before him.]

[doubled_speed]

It's a lot worse when I've only known him for a few years. Hard to really have a place in his life as a stranger

[He's going to eat slowly, to have an excuse to be around and have company.

[thrawnsaide]

So....you mean you just recently learned you had a brother?

[Eli tilted his head finding the conversation intriguing.]

[doubled_speed]

[Oh man, talk about complicated.]

Do you believe in souls?

[thrawnsaide]

I do. Although from the sounds of things it's different from your world?

[doubled_speed]

I mean, no. Not fully. They just don't tend to linger. I'm absolutely certain that souls exist in my world.

[And that certainty is very complex for him.]

[thrawnsaide]

Er....I'm afraid you're loosing me here. I can follow a lot of crazy stuff, but I'm not getting the full picture. Care to explain some more in detail? I'll go get some more food you in the mean time.

[doubled_speed]

I don't know where souls go when they die. I definitely believe that people in my world have them, though. That's what I'm saying. I'm certain souls exist and can be torn to pieces.

[thrawnsaide]

I suppose it deals with what you believe. I know every culture has their on versions. And some don't believe in souls at all. But... how does this refer to you and your brother?

[doubled_speed]

We're twins, right? Except... except not. I was born to the Shepherd family. He was born to the Kaplans. But that's because our souls were retroreincarnated from these two twin brothers named Thomas and William Maximoff. Souls sent into the past when they died, we were born to different families. We only met three years ago. And we're identical except for colors and I'm more muscled than him.

[thrawnsaide]

.....Alright I can understand this to a degree. I'm familiar with the idea of reincarnation. Although, this is the first time I've heard it actually happening. I can see now why this is so complex.