ARC 16: Interview with a Storm Chaser

ARC undefinedMarvin's Story

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Story
Kass asks Marvin to tell his story and nearly forgets to do the classical station intro.

Marvin starts his story by saying he was a coward of a kid, but that wasn't a bad thing. He didn't want to fight in the war and found one of the only jobs that exempted him from service. He knew there was sth. wrong with the war. His older sibling died when he was 15 and he decided to become a jounalist to dodge the draft and keep people informed.

Camnesse, the part of the Empire he was living in at that point, only spread the information that they wanted him to spread, so when he wrote his first story. He was assigned to write about a prisoner at a camp at the Fort, he doesn't know what he expected but he for sure was too caught up in excitement to think about what he will see there. He heard the basic stuff, the prisoners are put to work sewing uniforms, assembling weapons and other menial tasks to support the military with their basic needs accounted for but not kept comfortable. When he and Thela, who was sat across from him and has been his senior for him, tried to print what was actually happening there they both nearly got fired. The prisoners were malnurished and sickly and treated horrible, his editor insisted on the sanitised version. Thela did share his anger but insisted to abide to the wish so they can change things from the top. Thela got got killed in the battle in the battle he was sent to report on before they could active that.

He was helpless after that and threw himself into work to honor him but he kept refusing to write to propaganda. A couple of years into it he was send on a boat to keep tabs on the naval conflict with Westerfield but soon enough a storm rolled around and the boat nearly turned capside and then suddenly they were in the eye of the hurricane. He was struck by an idea in that moment, he had heared of a group called storm chasers that allied with the resistance and followed the war and reported the truth. he and Thela had thought about joining before but they didn't get around to it. After the storm he faked his death by making his ship look like a wreck and set out to find the revolution. He found someone, Lou; he knew from his time as a journalist who had gone missing a while ago, and Lou led him to the revolution, he had a simmilar history than Marvin and also recruited him. Marvin helped them with writing pamphlets and the soup kitchen where they recruited him. Until he met Alston, a stormchaser like the ones he heard about and he gave him a boat and a handset and a notepad to report for them. Those days were good days even though he still saw horrible things but he felt like he made a difference and it was fun to put them into code, which was partly weather related.

After a year as a storm chaser he was seen from a Camnesse ship and his ship got shot, he nearly sank but he still tried to reach safety, passed out and then washed up on the stations shore and Kass found him. He stayed on the station for a while and tried to fix his boat until Lyssel showed up and helped fixing it, when he was done he went back to Steveston and reunited with the revolution people there including Alice, Bluebell and Vesper. Kass interjects him asking if it is the same people from the transmissions and they are, Marvin thought he had mentioned them before but he hadn't and he hasn't told them about the station and the radio yet.They decide to continue the conversation off air and the broadcast ends after Kass makes the outro.