can_has_vodka | for lastvoyages: First Vision [video+spam]

[Have a spritely young bald woman in filmy clothes, perching on a scratched wooden desk and beaming at you. Her eyes are bright, bright purple and almost seem to glow slightly, and she is very pale.]

Hullo everybody! I'm Arkady, and I'm from the Island of Whitechapel. Of course, for most of you Whitechapel isn't an island, but we had a little problem with the Thames getting loose from its banks, and ever since then things have been a bit wet in London. Whitechapel has about twice as many people as this place, and we just took on a hundred more. We'll make do, though. We just need to pull together. [It's not clear whether she's speaking of Whitechapel or the Barge. Both maybe?]

I'm to be a Warden here, and if there's a need for help anywhere, do let me know! [She pauses, blinks at the screen, and then leeeeans forward and peers into it as if she can see some of you on the other side. A giggle; the purple eyes blink and she pulls back again.]

I'll be up on Deck in the gardens if anyone wants to say hello! Yay flowers!

[A few seconds later she literally appears a few feet from the Colour Garden, which she immediately crouches down to inspect.] Hello flowers!

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How old are you?

[Claire was all about finding people her age lately.]

Twenty-three! [Going on eight sometimes.]

Cool. I'm twenty-one. [She thinks. Between not knowing how time works here and her body not again any more, Claire is left to guess.]

You know what needs doing? A spa day. Hot tubbing, gossip, people doing each other's toes.

[Could Arkady be her new BFF Stephanie?

She smiled brightly and nodded.] Totally agree. I haven't done that since Stephanie left. She was my best friend here, but she left a few weeks ago.

[It still sucked. It still hurt. But she'd move on, just as she had with friend before.]

If the tailgate partiers are getting a tailgate party, then people into spa-y things should have a spa party!

P'raps I'll paint my nails to match my eyes...

Tailgate party? What party?

[Now what had she missed?]

It's just in the planning stages. But yes, some of us were talking about maybe doing a cookout with deliberately terrible-for-you food. And beer and margaritas.

Oh. Okay.

[More tea drinking.] Well, let me know when you want to do our spa day. Kay's teaching me languages in the morning and I can work around my gym duties.

I'll do just that!

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