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[The video feed clicks on, except at first, the image is upside down and you're getting a pretty decent view of a blue jacket before the camera's righted and held back at an angle where you can actually see who's holding the thing.

Bucky's still wearing his Howling Commandos uniform and looks a little worse for wear, if only because he was just in a firefight that went badly after you know. He fell off of a very fast moving train and into a frozen river, but the Barge has healed any injuries and he's just ready to get going on this. He can worry about the rest of it (being dead) later. So he just smiles at the camera, and there's a touch of the familiar cockiness in the expression, even if he's more or less trying to be professional. This is a job, after all.]

This is Sergeant James Barnes, formerly with the 107th Infantry. U.S. Army. Most people call me Bucky. I've been on assignment with the Howling Commandos for the last couple months, but I guess someone decided I'd be better off transferring here for as long as this Admiral guy thinks I'll be useful. [It's a joke, see? Also Bucky really, really does not know what to think of him or this place in general, because this is really not what he thought the afterlife would look like at all.]

So if anyone's got some advice on what to expect for the new guy, I'd appreciate it. [Really, he's got a lot of questions he wants to ask, but he'll leave it at that for now.]

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Welcome aboard. My advice is to have as much fun as humanly possible whenever and however you can.

[See Steve. See Steve stare. And then he's just -- grinning fit to burst, near to bolting out of his room and down the hall to find Bucky.]

Gotta say, you're one damn good birthday present, Buck.

[Well, he's just going to raise an eyebrow at that.] Good advice, I guess.

Barge sucks, don't fall overboard, we sometimes become other people, which sucks even more, we also kind of live with a bunch of serial killers and-....

Howling Commandos?

Edited 2012-07-04 21:04 (UTC)

[Well. Bucky was definitely not expecting you to be here, Steve, and there's some confusion and concern - because you'd better not have gotten yourself killed or done something stupid to wind up here - but. Wow. This is kind of crazy.

So he's just going to grin and laugh a little, because processing all this is kind of starting to head into TOO MUCH AT ONCE territory.]

What're you doing here?

That's what I said. Serial killers? [Not sure if want, Tony. :|]

You won't get a whole lot of chances to put it into practice, so. [ Shrug. ]

I'm Steph. Stephanie Brown.

Nice to meet you. You a warden?

Yup. Been here... two years, give or take.

Chin up, head down, and hang on. Welcome here, Sergeant. [Have a lazy drawling hunter, Bucky, who it is kind of difficult to tell if he's kidding or not right now, as he's kind of smirking.

It's the name, actually. But he's trying to be nice today. It kind of hurts. =/]

Edited 2012-07-04 21:34 (UTC)

[He's just getting up and heading out of his room -- which should look at least a little familiar, considering it's his old apartment.]

Being a Warden. Where are you?

..."Bucky." [Now there's a name she isn't fond of, although at least he isn't "her" Buck. Excuse her skepticism nonetheless.]

Welcome to the ship of lost souls, Sergeant Barnes. The only advice I can offer is, prepare to be confused.

Edited 2012-07-04 21:49 (UTC)

Welcome aboard, Sergeant.

There's a lot to tell. The Barge is a unique working environment, to say the very least, and it's subject to some - unusual conditions.

Or vampires. [In response to the question, not just... randomly.

Although there's probably a bit of that, too.] And zombies.

So you're one of Cap's?

Uh, fourth floor. [And he's getting up to head out too, taking the communicator with him so they can keep talking.] It's really good to see you. [Considering the last time he did he was falling and pretty sure he wasn't going to be seeing anyone for a while.]

How long've you been here?

Long time to be in a place like this?

Yeah. I've known him since we were kids. Vampires? [Sorry Tony, Bucky's more focused on that part of this conversation.]

[You hush, Dean, it's a great nickname. :V]

Thanks. You got a name?

My best friend just left after nearly four years, so I guess it's half my tenure.

Thanks. Is being kinda cryptic part of the job description here?

Edited 2012-07-04 21:53 (UTC)

Like?

Yeah. I'm Dean. [And now he's smiling. Also: pretty much incapable of hushing. If hushed, it's a bad thing. So sorry.]

Howling Commandos, huh? That's a pretty... colorful squad name. What's the deal with that?

[And is he gonna need silver. =/]

Nothing cryptic about it. The wardens will try to give you the straightest answers they can, but even they don't know exactly what's going on. Expect the unexpected, that's all I'm saying.

Apparently. Haven't met them, though. But there's usually something about them happening. It's like some sort of psychotic Jersey Shore: Barge Edition.

[And he's focused on the other, more Spangly part]

Barnes, right. Bucky Barnes. No wonder Cap was basically having kittens over you.

[Not like he stalks Steve's conversations when bored. Nope.]

The Barge will sometimes encounter a form of - turbulence, for lack of a better term, that causes it to merge slightly or completely with an alternate reality or realities. In practical terms, that can mean that people briefly become a different age or gender, or someone they know from their home world, or a version of themselves who's lived a different history. In extreme cases, the Barge becomes something else entirely - a town, for instance.

People call them 'floods' although nothing tangible actually enters the ship.

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