username: ens_porter [video]

[ens_porter]

[The young man is looking... understandably nervous as he faces the camera. He makes an effort to smooth his hair down and then flashes a winning (?!) smile. Is that a piece of broccoli in his teeth? Crap! He scrubs the cuff of his shirt against it and then coughs to cover the embarrassment, before diving into his totally-not-rehearsed-like-sixty-times speech.]

So.

Uh.

Hello. Hi. I-is this thing on? Joking, I'm kidding, I know it's on. Annnnd that's the punchline ruined, great, I'm amazing at this.

D-disastrous introductions aside, I'm Ashley. You may remember me from such greatest hits as 'that guy who tripped into the Chrysalis and brought us all here somehow' and, uh, 'that nervous dude who handed me a towel in the shower once' and you would be right, uh, that is, correct on both counts. I'm really sorry, by the way. For the... you know, the... thing. The first thing. Not the towels. Towels are great. I love towels.

Captain Childe asked me like a month ago to do some work with, uh, getting everyone in and settled and doing what we can to make you guys comfortable as much as we can actually help with. We know that you guys don't want to be here any more than we do. Ethyraia! Not exactly a fun time at Grandma's, right? Right.

Anyway, if you have any questions, or... you know, anything, or you just want to chat, come say hi. Introduce yourself? I know I'm kind of setting myself up to be the basecamp whipping boy over here but please don't yell at me I don't do well with that kind of attention.

Or you could just... I don't know, tell me something about yourself? We're still figuring each other out, right? Iiiiiiiiiii am a Scorpio, and I'm afraid of cats. N-not big cats. Lions are fine? I mean... like, normal housecats. So there you go, that's the fun fact of the week.


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Comments

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[morozova]

What exactly were you doing that led to your tripping into the Chrysalis?

( he's already prepared to hate the answer. )

[ens_porter]

i was late

so i cut through the pond surrounding it

i don't do too well with gravity...

[morozova]

Evidently not.

( he'd ask if it was worth it, whatever ashley'd been rushing for, but he doesn't particularly care. )

It must've been quite the fall, if you were able to wake all of us.

[ens_porter]

i guess??

the chrysalis was inert before. it didn't glow or anything, and we couldn't scan it. we thought it was calcified actually...

guess not... haha...

[morozova]

And you didn't happen to notice any person-sized eggs while you were running those scans?

[ens_porter]

there weren't any back then

not

person-sized at least???

[morozova]

How interesting.
I wonder how long it would have taken for one to grow to the necessary size.

[ens_porter]

a few days ig???

we weren't exactly expecting them to hatch...

we'd just cordoned off the area to be safe. it's not like we could all move outside right?