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[What's UUUUUUUUUUUUUP Anchor. Hope you guys like awkward teenagers, because this one's all up on your network with an announcement.

Peter's not what one would call a professional when it comes to recording videos, but he's figured out how to work the communicators efficiently enough to where there isn't to much awkward fumbling between the time he starts recording and the time he sets the comm down. It's not the most exciting video ever, just some scruffy looking kid in a slightly oversized jacket standing in a creepy, abandoned lab of some sort, surrounded by dusty computers and abandoned equipment. I mean, there's probably been a horror movie or two that have started off this way, but don't think too hard about that.]

Hey, um. I... didn't plan this part, so I'm uh, just gonna wing it. So, my name's Peter. Peter Parker, I'm from New York. People from Hadriel might know me, I was there for... I wanna say close to a year? So that's, um. That's me.

...Hi.

[Okay, that introduction probably wasn't quite as painful as it could have been, even with the awkward little wave he tacks onto the end of it. He isn't any more comfortable about being in front of the camera than he was a moment ago, but now that the introduction is out of the way, the whole getting down to business part does seem to come a bit easier. He clears his throat and stands up a little straighter.]

Anyway, uh. Two things. One, I know there's a lot of crazy like, sci-fi technology around here, I know people are probably pretty confused about how to get it to work and how to repair it. Um, I've got it figured out, for the most part. I can- I can get at least some of this stuff working again, if not most of it. I can probably make replacements for other stuff that's beyond repair. There's kind of a lot of ground to cover around here though, and I haven't had a chance to really explore everything. So, um, I'm gonna need your help. What I need from you guys is to help me find and prioritize what areas and equipment need attention first. Like say, the medbay, life support equipment, other things we need to like, live.

And before anyone asks, no, the bartender robot doesn't count as a high priority project. Sorry, guys.

Okay, thing two. I'll be setting up shop in the R&D area for... y'know, R&D things. It's below the agricultural areas. I'm gonna get some kinda station set up here where I can give you guys... uh, lessons, I guess? Like basic computer stuff, how to work some of the machines, how to fix the computers and machines if you need to. Like, anything you guys wanna know. The more people we have that know how to keep this place running, the better our chances of survival are, right? Right.

[Right.

And. That's it, he's out of shit to talk about. After a couple probably uncomfortable seconds of silence, he moves to grab his communicator to switch it off.]

And uh, that's it! Peter Parker, R&D, hit me up. Later!

[The end]

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Coooool, we have carnivores. Good to know.

[The way he says it implies that he does not, in fact, think that this is cool. It's the opposite of cool. It's uncool and if someone isn't careful, they might become a snack for a radioactive wolf or something. Groovy.]

We're definitely gonna have to get up there and check that out. Gonna be kinda hard to use the area if we're being gnawed on by mutant bears.

[Julie, too, does not really think that it's cool. The next time she goes up there, she's taking a weapon.]

I mean, yeah. Traps could work to figure out what we might be dealing with. I don't know if there's any surveillance up there, but the trees are grown in pretty thick in some places.

That's not a bad idea. I got pretty good at setting traps back in Hadriel, we could make something like that work.

I don't know if there's a too much we can do about surveillance, though. Not unless we want to go in there and start trimming back trees.

Might not be a bad idea. I wouldn't want to volunteer to do it unguarded, though.

[That's trimming them back, not cutting them down, certain individuals who shall not be named.]

It's got pretty wild. Wonder how long this place has been abandoned.

I think I could handle it.

[He sounds mostly confident about that, but also his spider-sense hasn't been entirely reliable lately so he just backpedals on that shit real fast.]

You're- you're right, though. People shouldn't be going in there without some sort of buddy system in place. But um, I haven't been able to really determine how long this place has been abandoned for. Like the only clue I've gotten is that this planet used to have four suns which... isn't really a lot to work with, to be honest.

Yeah... not really.

[Still, could be useful to know at some point. It's a pop-quiz piece of info, but she'll take it.]

Did no one here keep records of anything? You'd think there'd be, I dunno, journals, logs, even fucking maintenance records or something?

There's stuff like that in the computers, it's just most of the data is corrupted and I haven't had any time to really sit down and try to fix it. It's on my to-do list for sure.

[She nods.]

I haven't seen a working computer outside of Hadriel in like, ten years, so I'm not gonna be any help with that. Leave it to the professionals, right?

The way I see it, the more professionals we have, the better our chances of survival. I did offer lessons, if you wanna pop in some time and get caught up on some of this junk, I'd be more than happy to help.

Huh, really?

[Well... sure, he offered and all, and it can't hurt. It'll give her something to do, too.]

Well, sure, I guess. I'll give it a try.

Great! A lot of this stuff is super easy once you get the hang of it, promise.

[She laughs.]

Yeah, okay. You might not be saying that when I've fried out my third computer by pressing 'enter'.

If that happens, I'd honestly be impressed, not gonna lie.

In that case, I'll try not to impress too much.

[Another grin.]

But seriously, yeah, I'm up for being shown the ropes.

[okay he has a chuckle at that. Please don't blow up all the computers, guuurl.]

Awesome, yeah! Just let me know when, you know where to find me.

...In R&D, in case you didn't actually know where to find me.

[Snicker.]

Yeah, you said where you were. [She was paying attention!] I'll be down later, if you'll still be there?

Yea, I should be. I'll see you then!

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