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Challenge #01970-E146: Crash Site Review

"How does it feel?" "Can you describe...?" "What do you think?" And other inane questions often asked of the accused, the shell shocked survivors of a tragedy or just some poor sod who happened to be there when something happened. -- Anon Guest

In retrospect, it is a mistake to make an emergency landing on Nolliwud. It was almost a resort planet, with a majority of the planet's industry dedicated to creating dreams. Live action, animation of varying kinds, even audio. If something could be imagined, this world made it real.

And when reality came to Nolliwud, out came the news media. They, too, crafted fantasies. But they did it by grinding up the truth into easily-digestible sound bites. And focussing on that which frightened the most amount of people in the least amount of time.

Thus, when the Furiosa's Journey made an 'al dente' landing on some marshy grounds reserved for filming locations, the news media swarmed as the passengers and crew made good their emergency disembarcations. Fortunately, Captain Daav'nporth was prepared for their Lowest Common Questions.

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