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Where Are They Now?
Good evening, and welcome to Where Are They Now.
Ten annuals ago, a small spelevision network went public and burst onto the media landscape with a space-breaking new program. While the first season of this program was often criticized online for its abrupt ending, it quickly took the inter-net by storm and became popular on now-defunct social media site Spitter.
That's right. Tonight, on Where Are They Now, we're taking an exclusive look... at Airlocked!
During its time on the air, Airlocked! became known for its charming and eccentric casts of characters, the authentic relationships that developed, and of course - the murder. The All-Star series finale, which shattered viewership records across several galaxies, and was even syndicated beyond the reach of InterGal 7, brought with it the revelation that this fictional universe, with its eclectic mosaic of characters, was actually a series of snuff films - real murders and executions, broadcast into billions of homes and nests.
Following the trial and imprisonment of the Executive Producer of InterGal 7, most of the beloved cast retreated from the private eye, understandably changed by their experience.
This annual marks the tenth anniversary of the series premiere of Airlocked!, and to commemorate this media milestone, tonight we are here to ask:
Where Are They Now?
[The camera pans down onto Earth - not the Earth of 6982, but the Earth of 2019. To a successful coffee shop in Portland, Oregon.]
Not all of the victims of Airlocked! could be found for comment, but our camera crews have spent the last several weeks in part at this coffee shop, whose owners we watched on the spinoff Lovelocked!. Let's watch.
[[OOC: Welcome to an impromptu reunion log for Airlocked! Here's Da Rules:
-Airlocked Alumni are welcome to participate. All players who did not participate in Airlocked must have mod approval to join.
-Airlocked alumni are welcome to NPC their own castmates or to bring castmates for each other.
-Airlocked CRAUs are welcome. If you played your Airlocked character in a different murdergame, feel free to bring them back with that experience as well (see rule 1 for murdergame castmates).
-Character toplevels go under location toplevels. Each location toplevel is for a location where the film crew was able to - safely - interview and observe Airlocked alumni.
--Alums are encouraged to post their own location toplevels! Tell us what Flavortown's been up to!
We are stealing a gimmick from We Could Be Round 5! Since this is a TV program, any character is welcome to do a "Talking head" aside. If you have questions about how this works, ask and we'll provide an example!
And finally, Have Fun and Be Yourselves!]]
Ten annuals ago, a small spelevision network went public and burst onto the media landscape with a space-breaking new program. While the first season of this program was often criticized online for its abrupt ending, it quickly took the inter-net by storm and became popular on now-defunct social media site Spitter.
That's right. Tonight, on Where Are They Now, we're taking an exclusive look... at Airlocked!
During its time on the air, Airlocked! became known for its charming and eccentric casts of characters, the authentic relationships that developed, and of course - the murder. The All-Star series finale, which shattered viewership records across several galaxies, and was even syndicated beyond the reach of InterGal 7, brought with it the revelation that this fictional universe, with its eclectic mosaic of characters, was actually a series of snuff films - real murders and executions, broadcast into billions of homes and nests.
Following the trial and imprisonment of the Executive Producer of InterGal 7, most of the beloved cast retreated from the private eye, understandably changed by their experience.
This annual marks the tenth anniversary of the series premiere of Airlocked!, and to commemorate this media milestone, tonight we are here to ask:
Where Are They Now?
[The camera pans down onto Earth - not the Earth of 6982, but the Earth of 2019. To a successful coffee shop in Portland, Oregon.]
Not all of the victims of Airlocked! could be found for comment, but our camera crews have spent the last several weeks in part at this coffee shop, whose owners we watched on the spinoff Lovelocked!. Let's watch.
[[OOC: Welcome to an impromptu reunion log for Airlocked! Here's Da Rules:
-Airlocked Alumni are welcome to participate. All players who did not participate in Airlocked must have mod approval to join.
-Airlocked alumni are welcome to NPC their own castmates or to bring castmates for each other.
-Airlocked CRAUs are welcome. If you played your Airlocked character in a different murdergame, feel free to bring them back with that experience as well (see rule 1 for murdergame castmates).
-Character toplevels go under location toplevels. Each location toplevel is for a location where the film crew was able to - safely - interview and observe Airlocked alumni.
--Alums are encouraged to post their own location toplevels! Tell us what Flavortown's been up to!
We are stealing a gimmick from We Could Be Round 5! Since this is a TV program, any character is welcome to do a "Talking head" aside. If you have questions about how this works, ask and we'll provide an example!
And finally, Have Fun and Be Yourselves!]]
Electric Brewgaloo
TM). The atmosphere is warm and inviting, with dark wood furniture, a chalkboard wall, and dozens of paintings by the owner's husband that include both regular earth landscapes, and also a lot of space landscapes that will seem familiar to those who were there (and those who have played the space-themed TTRPGs that have licensed some of them).Bolton himself is dressed in a starry apron with a dark dress shirt underneath, and at first he greets the cameras with an unimpressed expression, before finally allowing them to stay "as long as they don't start any bullshit."]
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Ten years is a lot longer than Jane thought she would ever get, and to know there's years yet for her to see beyond partly in thanks to the trauma and horrors of Airlocked is...well, she feels obligated to appear for their little anniversary. Not that she's exactly thrilled that there's still a fervent desire for "content" about herself.
In the group chat, she makes sure the others know her stance:
I'll be in a safe place and humor the request, but I will certainly not begrudge any backup. I trust Space media outlets as far as I can throw them.
She chooses Portland, and Bolton and Jamie's coffee shop, because she feels safest there. The most neutral ground she can think of, where at home with Lightning and Xander and her Dad and everyone else, she's pretty sure her many parental figures wouldn't even let her out of the house should the space camera crews descend upon them.
Not to mention the chocobos. Geez, who knew raising sweet fluffy birds and ending up with her own tiny flock of cyan feathered friends would elevate her to 'mom we MUST protect at all costs, especially with a Choco Meteor' status?]
...Got my degree online, of course, but I've taken to traveling wheresoever I can. Visiting old friends, and seeing new places, you know? I want to make as much of my life as possible. Hoo hoo, it'd be a shame if I didn't!
[Jane in her late twenties is still petite, plump, and able to turn on a jovial, sparkling personality for the cameras. But once they're not focused on her? She slumps back in her chair, sighs, and rubs at her eyes before taking a deep drink of hot, life-giving coffee. She still sports a streak each of pink, emerald, and orange in her bangs; she's dressed nicely, but the clothes are a bit too new - not like her usual worn down outfits scuffed with the dirt of the multiverse - and the sleeve of her shirt is still stiff enough that you can most certainly make out what is obviously (to Airlocked alumni) a familiar knife hidden, but not out of reach. She's putting on a show, she knows it.
But it's hard, when you realized you didn't have to do that all the time, and got used to just being yourself. To just discovering who yourself is, every day.
If you're nearby, no matter what season you're from, she'll look over to you and give you the weariest little smile you've ever seen.]
Never have I ever been so glad as to have kept my Spluesky private and completely unaffiliated with this horsepucky.
[Fun cakes, baby chocobos, and long-winded rants about Hercule Poirot, all at chippercherry (at) spluesky (dot) com.]
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I've been alright...a little tired right now. [Understatement. Reliving so much in your mind and going over details that you thought were faded but are actually crystal clear is...hooph.]
What about you, what have you been up to?
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[Sniff. That's her snarky genius orphan she adopted despite being only nine years younger!]
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[Conspiracies just happen, it's part of life. Their veracity, however, is quickly crumbled when prodded in just the right place.]
I'll probably be heading back home after this stuff wraps up...well, maybe not right away. [She wants to have a proper visit with Bolton and Jamie! And maybe stroll around the normal United States of America for a while. Pretend she's totally a normal girl for a couple hours before going back to her actual normal.] It'd be nice to bring everyone back some Earth souvenirs...hah, if you'd told me ten years ago that would legitimately be a thing I would be doing, I'm absolutely certain I wouldn't believe you. But it's real!
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Hey - you been out there? Are those guys still around?
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Nope. I’ve kicked the last ones out. This is a press free zone my liege. Your soda fountain decree shall stand for yet another decade more. Verily.
[Her Mimikyu gives a wave at Max’s Shuppet from her shoulder. Ghost buddy!]
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It's fine if they wanna talk to people out there. I'dve stayed home otherwise. Just figured I'd, uh, stick around.
[ In case Bolton needed backup? Max isn't sure he's great backup, but hey, he's a guy that exists? ]
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[Mai looks out the door and closes it again.]
Distracted. Arianna is monologuing.
[She shuffles over to tilt her head at Max's drawing.]
Who?
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[ It is! He's been making a lot more art out of garbage and shit he thrifted, in the past few years. Been in a few fancy galleries and all that, which feels stupid for stuff he literally just threw together, but eh. Makes him feel like he's paying his share of the bills. By doing something actively, not just from the Trauma Money.
Anyway, he's sketching out some ideas for bringing the deer head back to life. Figuratively!!! ]
It's fine. Would've just stayed home if I was hiding-hiding. As long as they don't actually come back here.
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[Mai immediately fixates on the plan. She thinks for a moment and nods a little.]
Mm. It's strange. That they want to see us. ...I'd ruin it.
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[ Why do you think he's back here??? ]
It's, uh, kinda tacky anyway. Dunno why everyone back there doesn't think so. Maybe some of 'em do and it happens anyway, I dunno...I mean, if you were kidnapped here they'd at least try to get you on some talk shows.
[ So yeah, maybe it's all about the same. The scale is probably just worse in space on account of Space. ]
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[Mai tenses. But no -- it's been a long time. And these are her friends. They all know each other's problems anyway.]
I was on them. When I was small. It didn't go well. ..."Heal this." They'd show me a dying animal. So I'd cry and heal it.
We needed the money. And I didn't understand back then. I did what I was told. But... People ran us out of town, after that.
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[ You know that, yeah? ]
'S not a party trick.
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[She gives a tiny nod and looks off.]
I don't want to now. Difficult. ...Thank you.
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[Zombina is here, busting through the door and waving a zombie movie with far too much undead boob on its cover for what it’s claiming to be a remake of.]
Night of the Living Dead: Unalive came out and—
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[That is a lot of cameras wow. Zombina looks at them. Then at Bolton.]
Do you need me to ruin their footage. I’m pretty sure the pg-13 TV laws are way less strict in my world than theirs. There is some pretty graphic stuff in the paper guide inside.
[It’s a Monster Musume world remake of the Night of the Living Dead with real zombies. Graphic could mean anything from ‘torn in half zombie actors’ to ‘uncensored tits’. Does Bolton risk it?]