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[The situation was not exactly unusual - he had never been kidnapped in this particular manner before, but, well, he couldn't say it was the first time he'd been taken or held against his will, and waking up in a big, damp room with a gift box was a lot nicer than being handcuffed to a wall or on the run from psychotic aliens. Of course, in his admittedly limited experience, it tended to mean that worse things were coming, but he'd judge that on a case-by-case.

[At any rate, once he's out of the egg-shaped container he arrived in, Jim takes a quick look around before heading for the exit, stopping to listen to the hologram on the way. He's a little taken aback by the combination of hologram technology and regular old paper, given that he's from a time and place where the latter is hardly ever used due to the development and advancement of the former, but he takes it in stride.

[Once the hologram is over and he's had a chance to glance over the things in the box and, betting on a need for his hands, pocket the currency, objects, and folded-up pamphlet, he grabs one of the maps by the hologram and walks out onto a street that doesn't look like it would be particularly out of place in any of the larger cities of Earth. The sun is shining - something that his eyes take a minute to adjust to - and the sky looks clear, and there aren't many other people on the street. With no visual cues to his location further than what the hologram and the map tell him, Jim figures it might be a good time to try the communicator. After all, if he was here... what were the chances they'd only kidnap one person from his ship?

[Powering on the device, it only takes him a few moments to work out the features and get a video message started. Once he has it in hand, he takes a deep breath, and begins.]

This is James T Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise. I just woke up here, and I was hoping someone might have seen my crew, or have some information about this place - outside of what the hologram already told me.

[He's really banking on the idea that he isn't alone in this. It's been a long time since he's had to work alone, and it's not his favorite way to operate.]

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Where we are would be a nice start.

[Jim smiles, and shrugs slightly.]

Anything that could help me find my crew or our ship, really. I'm not picky.

Crew I think might be dependent on luck but. For once I have an actual answer re: the ship. Charms. Collect 4, get a wish. You probably could get your ship here, no idea if you can actually fly it but dibs on at least getting to see it first if you do.

[ Nerdy or not it's a space ship she wants to see. ]

Collect four charms and make a wish? [That sounds.. bizarre. Jim is fairly used to the weird and wacky, but he can't say he's ever been to a place where you could summon a starship with some lucky charms.] I guess if that's the only way- how do I get the charms?

[There's gotta be more to this, he figures, but for now.. for now he'll get the surface answers. Then he'll look into deeper into it - how the charms work, for example.]

Kind of sounds like a kid's cartoon, right?

[ She knows it does. ] Sometimes they give them out during events, things like that. Basically they're a "good job integrating into society!" award you can trade in with the CPU, which is like this world's less helpful Siri.

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It really does, yeah.

..huh. Okay. Thanks for explaining. I guess I'll start there, as far as looking for a way to get my ship if it's not around here.

So, is it true no one can leave?

[And there's a pause, and Jim sighing at himself.]

Sorry, ah- what's your name? I should've asked before.

Yes and no. It isn't as though people are trapped here forever. Sometimes they just disappear. Sometimes they disappear and come back and only one day has passed back home but four have here. Then there's the subarchway issue where you can bring yourself a little piece of replica-home, so it's kind of like leaving.

[ She smiles at him. Poor newbie. ]

Dr. Olivia Moore. Liv's fine.

Well, that's weird, but I guess not much weirder than suddenly ending up here in the first place.

Good to meet you, Liv.

Weird is an understatement. I'm still catching up on the time I was gone.

You too, James. Captain Kirk? Jimmy? [ She's not sure where in the range of this she should be calling him. Have a few guesses. ]

Gone?

[He smiles at the name attempts, and corrects,] Jim.

People leave this world sometimes, not intentionally. Most of the time when they come back, it's without memories. Rarely, someone pops back up with them. I re-arrived about four months after I left, memories from here in tact, and only a day had passed back home.

[ That's about the best she can describe it. ]

Jim it is.

Huh. I wonder what would cause that - I guess probably something related to whatever brings us here in the first place. I'll mention it to Spock and see if he can't work that into whatever theories he's got going. You just.. went back home and then got zapped back here again? That's rough.

You're Spock's friend? I gave him a ride earlier. [ She nods. She's not sure which is rougher though, here or home. For different reasons. She has what she needs to keep herself passionate and to redeem her actions back home- here, her existence is less of a threat and there's a lack of impending apocalypse. ] It happens, apparently.

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