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Ok. This is officially an invite to something amazing.
If you are here, and you have not disappeared on me, and know about the Entertainment Feed.
Tomorrow. Six o Clock. Join us at the Entertainment Feed to live Fast.

See the wonders of Rio de Jainero like you will never see them before, and never will again!

Ok, so I've never actually been to Rio, whatever.
It's a hilarious trip, and you do NOT need to have seen the first four to understand what is going on.
You just have to be badass.

Two rules. No fighting. Also, no disappearing mid-film. That's an order.
Also, additional rule. Don't ask me how I got the thing that plays this video originally.
It involved getting some sweaty asshole a towel.

[... Ruby. This is your fault. She's blaming you. No disappearing on her.]

(OOC: Not that we've ever actually had a member of the Fast franchise in this game, and if we'd do I would laugh my way all the way to the bank? Assume that all kinds of the details of the film are just wrong so there's no ACTUAL spoilers. She did swipe it from the Archives after all. Besides, it's Fast. Some names and faces can definitely be changed for the sake of the ... well, Dom. You get the idea.)

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It's kind of how I relax too.
It's way too far from what I actually know to be true so I can't take it seriously.
I take things too seriously under all the smiles, after all.

That's the good kind of unrealistic. Personally. Some people like watching what they do for work. IDK didn't get enough of it?

I got or I'll get whatever types people want. I just might not watch it with them.

Yeah, some people really love their work.
I do plenty of monster hunting on my own and the real thing's much better if you ask me.
So I'll take the insane and silly.

Gotta make it so everyone has their fun, right?

That's good, for them.
A bit messy though.

That's the part that makes it a job and not just me relaxing. Still, it's good work.

the best jobs are jobs you can enjoy.
Why not love what you do for a living, right?

It's a nice thought. Seems like Sleepers can have that here.
Miners stuck on installations didn't have much of a choice. Exploitation, it makes the world spin round.

OH yeah, trust me I get all of that and a bag of chips.
We had our fair share of worker exploiting back where I came from too.
I'm guessing you were one of those miners?

Capitalism, a terrible virus.
Oh, no, I was the one stuck working security. With people hopeless, that mostly meant stopping them from killing each other. Hated it.

Horrible virus, absolutely awful.
And it breeds even worse little crooks because of it, who prey on it.
I could definitely see that being awful, no question.

I managed to get out after a job went really badly. Otherwise I'd be overjoyed to be here instead of back where I came from.
Congrats, you got out. Welcome to Blood Town.

We all find our way around here, don't we?
For some of us its really an improvement over home, and for some of us close to the same.
At least if you dive back into the ocean, things aren't too bad for you back home, right?

Had to come from somewhere. Not sure what's better—this being an improvement or the same. Home has to suck bad to prefer this place.

See, that depends. Does it matter how long we are here? Because I was on a spaceship, in space. If I go back to the same 'space,' but the spaceship is gone, that's going to end badly.

Well. To be honest? This place can be roughly as bad.
But this place is also somewhere I haven't made the same mistakes that I made at home.
I think for me it's an improvement because as long as I'm here, I can wait for her.
And I'm willing to wait.

As far as I know, it probably doesn't matter at all.
You'll probably return if you do to the time you were taken from.

So baggage is what it comes down to. Whatever people bring with, leave behind, and pick up here.
Good luck with your waiting. I think anyone I'd wait for is better off where we were or dead.

That's something.

Considering how things played out for she and I?
I think she might be better off here, but she's the more likely to be ok where she is.
And I'm willing to wait forever for her.
It just gets hard sometimes.

How'd thinks play out?
When you can't do anything to make it happen? Yeah.
I recommend watching serials, long long serials.

Well, not to put too fine of a point on it?
I probably got myself and a person in this town I consider a friend killed, or close to it.
And my wife was lucky enough not to be on that side of the cross-hairs.

But we fell in love and married here, and there we weren't quite that close.
We'd known each other for years and worked together, but ended up on other sides of that fight.
It all got really bad and messy, lots of pain wrapped up in it.

Mushy serials would probably just make her laugh at me.
Which means I should totally do it.

Your love life sounds like a serial.
I'm sorry your wife is gone.

If you wanted to write a memoir or a fictionalized account, I would keep it at The Entertainment Feed, so it lives on.

I have enough serials to last you for years.

Oh man, it could have been.
It was one hell of a crazy ride, the two of us trying not to admit it at first.
I do really miss her, obviously, but I'm just glad she's not where I am in my world.
I want her to be safe.

You know, I might do that. Thanks.

Where are you in your world?

We only get more every day.

Falling into a giant expanse of absolute nothing.
Not entirely sure if I'll survive the landing, or if the falling ever ends.
So, yeah, I'll just stay here, thanks.

Seriously. The fuck.

Time to watch something with a happy ending.

Oh boy is it ever a fucking long story.
Might share some of it with you one of these days down the road.
But for now, happy fucking endings.

It's sad.
But Trench is my happy ending.

Your story, your call.

Since you're here, better Trench is your happy ending than your tragic one.

Absolutely. Bittersweet and lukewarm good is still good.
There's plenty around here that's worth enjoying, and now we can have cars flying out of planes.
It's a win win.

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