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The Captain ([personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-11-16 09:27 pm

YOU'RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT

WHO: the Captain + You
WHAT: contractually obligated price is right game
WHEN: 11/18, like nightish?
WHERE: Bellona Theater
WARNINGS: N/A, currently

[you've heard the announcement, the sound of Friday's cautious optimism as she spoke it. you've waited all day. now, it's time for the game.

the amount of effort that has gone into this production at Bellona can be safely defined as “minimal.” there are three podiums, with three slate boards and three pieces of chalk. there is another podium, currently empty, next to a plain folding table. there is a tablecloth draped over the table, covering a lumpy, inscrutable shape.

the most remarkable thing is the giant wheel set up on the other side of the empty podium. the slices of the giant circle are colorful, but also completely blank. the Captain actually spends 30 minutes prior to the start of the event simply sitting in front of it, back to the audience, and spinning it, listening to the loud clacking noise pick up and then die down again, before spinning it once more.

clackclackclack clack clack. clack. clackclackclackclackclack.

it's gonna be a long night.]
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[Steven wonders if he's been taking all these things as gospel, and if he should be questioning more. But he's found a few things that corroborate what the binder says, and he sees no reason to keep running up against the same brick wall that people who are smarter and more powerful have already come across. Things are different, for him. He's got Marc here. And not much to go home to if the binder is to be believed. So naturally his focus is on their lives here.]

If there's a way back, I do hope you'll find it. [It seems very important to her, and he's not about to interrupt career aspirations with his perspective as someone who's never had much of one and recently died before being pulled on board this ship. Work didn't really amount to much at all for him, in the end, and he's not sure it would have meant much more had he something more resembling a career.]