Video, UN: Kassandra

[metoikos]

[Kassandra had spent the better part of a day figuring out just how to use the Omni before doing this. She's not technologically inclined, but once she had certain things pinpointed it wasn't difficult to work out some of the basic functions. Including ill-advised videos introducing herself, though she clearly hasn't mastered the Art of the Selfie.

The video feed opens at an odd angle showing a tanned woman, thankfully right-side up, staring at it with furrowed brows. Deep in concentration for a moment more, she simply stares at the camera in silence until she seems to come to a conclusion. Nodding, the woman exhales, and finally speaks up.]

...Hello. If other people are able to hear me, please say something so I don't keep talking to a rock and wondering if it really is magic or if I am crazy.

[Her voice has a heavy Greek accent, and if her attire is any indication she is not of the modern era.]

If I am talking to a magic rock, then know that my name is Kassandra, and I am looking for my family and my crew. Men named Alexios, Nikolaos, Barnabas and Stentor...and women named Myrinne, Roxana, and Odessa. I have hope that I am not alone in being reborn in this strange land, yet I have seen no sign of them.

[There's a pause as she fiddles with the Omni one more time.]

Aletheia, if you can hear this, show yourself.

[And then the feed drops.]

Comments

[metoikos]

I'm a demigod.

[Easier that than explaining her true lineage. She's still wrestling with the Isu stuff.]

[rocinantes]

( of course she is. )

The fucking hell is a demigod?

[metoikos]

[It's a lot, okay?]

Someone from the bloodline of a god.

[rocinantes]

So, you're some kind of god? It's been awhile since I took a class on history so I can't remember the god that did lightning.

( help him out. )

[metoikos]

Part, yes.

[Again, way easier than explaining Isu shit.]

And it's Zeus.

[rocinantes]

Zeus, right. The lightning guy.

( he's thoughtful for a second. )

You're related to him?

[metoikos]

Yes. His blood is part of my bloodline.

[More or less.]

...What's your name?

[rocinantes]

Amos.

( he gives her a salute. )

And I am not a fuckin' demigod.

[metoikos]

I figured. We aren't exactly common.

[Aside from Clarisse, apparently.]

What do you do here?

[rocinantes]

Here? Drink.

( he hasn't gotten a job yet. )

Fight people when I'm bored. I used to have a job back in Dreamland but the junkyard didn't make it here so I'm still looking.

[metoikos]

So, a roustabout then.

[Well, that's something.]

Is this like where you are from at all?

[rocinantes]

I don't even know what that is.

( so. )

And no. I live in fuckin' space. I live on a spaceship most of the time.

[metoikos]

I don't know what that means. Don't we all live in a space?

[Astronomy was not really a thing in the 5th century BCE. She's a hundred or so years too early for that.]

[rocinantes]

( right, he's forgotten about this and how some people don't understand what he's saying. )

You know birds, right? I can fly like that but I don't have wings. In the future, there'll be ships that fly in the air like they do on the water.

( not the best explanation but — )

[metoikos]

Ships that fly sounds almost as outlandish as this whole place.

[She inhales...but nods.]

And I believe it, given that I'm standing in this place. That must take some great wings to make a whole ship fly.

[rocinantes]

It would take too long to explain to you how it works.

( and he's lazy. )

But just trust me and know that we do get there. And once we do, I left this planet as soon as I could.

[metoikos]

Sounds nice...I suppose?

[She wouldn't know.]

I imagine that's thousands and thousands of years after my time.

[rocinantes]

Probably. I'm surprised you've gotten the hang of this network thing so fast.

( she hadn't fumbled too much that he'd seen. )

[metoikos]

It seemed fairly self explanatory. The rock told me what to push, so I pushed it.

[And there's also her grasp of Isu technology. She assumes this is more of that.]

But I also spent a day poking at it.

[rocinantes]

The rock.

( he sighs, shakes his head. )

I hate this place because shit like that makes sense.

[metoikos]

How do you think I feel when none of this makes sense?

[Mostly confused. And kind of angry.]

[rocinantes]

Pissed?

( that's how he'd feel. )

I'd probably be punching things. Or people.

[metoikos]

I do want to break a few things, yes.

[Very much so.]

...But is that any better than a child throwing a tantrum?

[rocinantes]

Why are you equating that to a child throwing a tantrum?

( he doesn't agree. )

It's a good way to get excess energy out. It's that or fucking and fighting comes with less strings attached.

[metoikos]

Fighting's also a good way to make enemies, and get people to look down on you. Neither of which are things I can afford in a new place where I have no friends or allies.

[She's learned this the hard way.]

And who says fucking has to come with strings? Hetaerae and Pornai don't exist here?