R50 - Now my song's on the radio

[with_my_teacup]

This is Richard B Riddick calling out from the barge. Anyone interesting out there?

[He's feigning casual, but last year he was able to talk to Fry and Kyra and that wasn't a small deal for him.]

Comments

Private

[with_my_teacup]

That's the thing about being offered absolutely anything, ain't it.

Private

[composited]

More like-- [ He stops, tilting his head, as one of the Dumbshows shuffle over, eyes blank and glassy. She makes small, empty noises, and he gets back up to get a bottle of water from an aging fridge before he comes back. ] More like you think, 'I could fix everything for all of these people, and not just feed them, cloth them, an wipe their asses when they can't remember how.

[ Alpha: Gentle Caretaker Composite. Who'd thought. ]

Re: Private

[with_my_teacup]

Exactly.

Private

[composited]

Hell of a thing. But -- no. No, I don't want to go back.

Re: Private

[with_my_teacup]

Good luck back there. Sounds like you're gonna need it.

Private

[composited]

Yeah. If people aren't Dumbshows like this, they're psychotic berserkers, or they've got a parasite imprint in them. Most of 'em are like this. They get rounded up for slave labor, body hopping, and worse.