RADIO FREE ELLIE: 1st Broadcast.

[ascocarp]

WHO: Ellie and YOU.
WHAT: Ellie is bored and playing with a ham radio.
WHERE: Anywhere with a radio.
WHEN: After the TDM, for various values of 'after' when time is variable.
NOTES: It's Ellie, so casual discussions of violence are de rigueur.

[The broadcast begins a little fuzzy as Ellie messes with the dials and utters indistinctly to herself.] Can I- uh- yeah, okay. Cool. Hello? Wait, no, that's... [More fuzz and murmuring.]

[Eventually, she seems satisfied. Now, how do radio broadcasts go? She remembers the ones in Boston's military QZ go...? God, she never paid any attention in that class. Her voice comes in clear, and it's obviously a young person speaking.] Uhhhh, nine-hundred hour... fuck it, the sky's fucking broken. Callsign... Daniela Star.

[Right.]

So, like, is there anybody here that goes by William? Or Will? Not Bill. Heh, those guys are assholes...

Oh! Also, has anybody seen any frickin' trees? Like real trees, with branches and shit. I found some potted plants, but they were all plastic. What about animals and stuff? I don't mean the freaky shadows, fuck those assholes. Like actual living breathing animals.

But... y'know, speaking of the shitty shadow fuckers, does anybody know how to, like, beat them? I saw somebody do it, but they had like a full suit of armor. I tried it and my hand almost fell off. They're cold.

...Maybe that's it. Anybody seen any fucking suits of armor laying around?

Comments

[decisiveconquest]

(Go to your room.)

You sounded like you wanted honesty.

[ascocarp]

[She doesn't HAVE ONE.]

I'm not complaining. Just saying.

[decisiveconquest]

(Aw everyone can share a rubble room!)

I'm in one piece - as I assume you are - so there is hope yet for us.

[ascocarp]

That's what I'm talkin' about.

You ever seen crazy shit like this before?

[decisiveconquest]

Once... I saw a lot of odd things in a place called the House of the Undying. I was put under a spell by warlocks and shown many things - the past, the present and a future that would never be.

[ascocarp]

Warlocks...? Like, people who do magic shit? Does everybody here come from a fuckin'... [Even she knows better than to say a fantasy novel.] Jeez.

I'm guessing this wasn't part of the, uh, spell.

[decisiveconquest]

Yes. (Daenerys finds herself smiling just a bit.) I escaped the House of the Undying years ago. I can't imagine the spell lasting for that long or transforming into...this.

Have you heard of Westeros? Essos?

[ascocarp]

You'd know. I've never seen any magic shit.

Nnnnope. I bet if we weren't doing the whole radio thing, I wouldn't be able to understand a word you were saying.

[decisiveconquest]

It isn't common in my world.

(That's true. She has wondered about language barriers, but this...radio...is amazing.)

I can speak three languages, but that isn't of any use. I doubt anyone here knows Valyrian, Dothraki or Westerosi.

[ascocarp]

You're just special?

Yeah, that's not ringing a bell. I only speak English, sorry.

[decisiveconquest]

I'm not magically gifted; I just happened to encounter it.

(Well that's not completely true.)

English. What a strange name.

[ascocarp]

I mean, your shit sounds weird as hell to me.

[decisiveconquest]

I suppose that is a given. Have you ever considered another world existing?

[ascocarp]

In, like, books and shit. I guess I kinda have to, now.

[decisiveconquest]

With the truth all around us, we don't have a choice.

I must reconsider the existence of gods, too.

[ascocarp]

...If it makes you feel better.

[decisiveconquest]

That has little to do with it. I'd rather gods not be in control of my life, however if gods are the ones that brought us here, it's time to acknowledge them.

[ascocarp]

[A long sigh.]

It's kinda, y'know... optimistic? To thing somebody's in charge.

[decisiveconquest]

There is thought behind these cruelties. It doesn't feel random.

[ascocarp]

I mean, I'm not gonna argue about it. That's just my take.

[decisiveconquest]

If there is no one in control, we are in a far more dangerous scenario.

[ascocarp]

Yeah. I know.

[decisiveconquest]

My name is Daenerys and if you need someone to talk to, I will keep this...book?...with me.

[ascocarp]

[Groan.]

Whyyyyy?

[decisiveconquest]

It's a kind offer; not an order.