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[dudebro]

[ The feed flickers on and there is a disembodied hand being held in view, waving in a friendly sort of way. Jason dips his face into view, he's grinning wildly; ]

Anybody need a hand??

[ He starts laughing as if the joke is the funniest thing in the world. Somewhere off-screen, Vaas can be heard chanting "Soylent Green is people!"

The hand waves again before the feed flickers off. That's it. That's the post. ]

( ooc: sorry. replies will come from both jason and vaas! )

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video; un: jace

[estrayer]

[ No. ]

Are you kidding me?

Someone just lost a hand. You better hope whatever took it is long gone.

[ Mundanes. He shouldn't even be surprised. ]

[shabby]

Lost more than a hand, hermano. Silly bastard lost some fingers too. Maybe an arm.

[ He shrugs. Who the fuck even knows. ]

Probably a lot more than that.

[estrayer]

[ And then there were two. ]

I'm still waiting for the punchline. We don't all think this is something to joke about, man.

[shabby]

No? What, you don't have a sense of humor?

[ He sighs, shaking his head and clicking his tongue in disappointment. ]

Life's gonna be very hard for you without a sense of humor.

[estrayer]

I have a sense of humor. You just found disembodied pieces of someone who used to live on this ship. I don't think that's something to laugh at.

[ Or tempt fate, by waving it around as if they haven't just done exactly what the killer wanted them to do.

[shabby]

Why? [ It's a serious question. ] Will being upset bring whoever it was back to life?

[estrayer]

Can we just skip past how much of a shit you don't give and go straight to the actual intel?

Like names, for example. The others announced names. Have you reported this to medical so they can find out who it was?

[shabby]

You are boring and have no sense of humor. I don't think I like you.

[ There's always a buzzkill whenever he's having fun. ]

[estrayer]

[ Totally deadpan. ]

That’s devastating, I don’t know how I’ll cope.

[ Pause. He’s still waiting. ]

The names?

[dudebro]

[ No, no he really shouldn't be surprised. ]

Dude, what even? If they're still here, that's probably a good fuckin' thing, don't you think? Someone can catch 'em then. If they're gone it'll just be some fucking, like, space mystery.

[estrayer]

[ It just had to be this guy. ]

And that's someone's gonna be you, while you're waving around the spare parts it left behind?

This isn't a joke. If you're the next victim, you won't be laughing.

[dudebro]

[ They're gonna be best friends. Accept that fate now. ]

If I'm next, I'm next, then. Not gonna be because I'm waving a dead hand around, man. Gonna be because it's just time for me to fuckin' go.

[ He shrugs, so careless about this. Sorry. ]

But, I can hold my own. Might even take that fucker down myself. Pretty good at surviving shitty stuff.

[estrayer]

Is that why you're going out of your way to show us how cool you are with all of this?

[ Let's be real - most normal mundanes wouldn't even touch that hand. Jace is pretty well seasoned to gore. Clearly this guy is too, despite his personal brand of crazy.

Hell, maybe the two are linked. ]

Look, the point is: this is still going on. You need to take it seriously. If it's a joke to you, it isn't to anyone else. Don't tell me you can hold your own when we don't even know what we're dealing with.

[dudebro]

Sorry, man. Wasn't really going out of my way.

[ He lifts a shoulder in a shrug. ]

You know everyone else on board? Know all their thoughts and feelings on shit? Impressive.

[estrayer]

I know no one’s laughing at innocent people dying.

[ No he doesn’t. And Jason has a fair point, really; no one asked Jace to speak for them. Fortunately, that’s never stopped Jace in the past. ]

Since your friend can’t answer a simple question, have you reported this to the crew?

[dudebro]

[ Whatever, man. He's just going to focus on the question rather than argue semantics. That's going to help no one in the end. ]

Yeah, they know. Nothing they can do about it, just like they did fuck all about the other ones.