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[deep_sky_diving]

Even with Stacy's guidance, it took Tennessee quite a while to find what she was looking for in the more restricted areas of Weapons and Possessions. There's just so damn much stuff—! But she tracked it down, finally: a benign-looking hard-shelled case sized like a coffin, sealed with a series of locks down the side and a reinforced, solid-state control panel.

As she toggles the display controls and starts punching in security codes, and as the container unseals and starts to open with a hiss, she hums dramatically.

Retrieving the shiny-slick bodysuit thing within from the preservative goop it was resting in is easy, though the slime splashes her in the process. She checks that nobody's around, then quickly strips out of her plantsuit, starting to awkwardly work her way into the suit, getting all the support equipment arranged properly against her. (The suit—or the base layer of it, anyway, as there's an assortment of sleek-fitting extra panels and attachments—is form-fitting but not skintight, given the extra thickness of it.)

The torso, the arms... finally she seals the odd segmented helmet in place, the faceplate splitting open to both sides as the suit's systems initialize. Only her face is visible now, with the blue-green mild iridescence of the suit and its slim-fitted back and leg and arm and torso hard-shell packs covering all of her.

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[deep_sky_diving]

"Howdy," Tess says, flashing a grin Cassie's way as she twists to poke and prod at one of the hard-shell segments attached to the suit's back. The suit certainly does a good job of flattering the curvaceousness she already has.

[staturity]

"Hey. You must be new or at least I don't recognize your voice. I'm Cassie." It was very flattering. If Cassie weren't secure in her sexuality she might be entertaining some bi curious thoughts.

Oh wait, she wasn't that secure in her sexuality.

[deep_sky_diving]

"Tennessee Lee, atcher service," Tess says, offering Cassie one of her gloved hands. There's weird etched designs in the fingertips—some kind of pressure sensor system?

And, on a close look now, Cassie will be able to see the slick, form-fitting, transparent membrane sealed over Tess' face, even stretching over her mouth and nose and eyes. It gives an oddly artificial, plasticine visual effect to her exposed skin.

[staturity]

Cassie shook her hand. "Nice to meet you. Uhm, I hope this doesn't sound rude but what are you wearing?"

[deep_sky_diving]

"My suit," Tess says, striking a little pose. "It's a Wegner if'n y'want to be technical, but I've made plenty o'mods since I got it. I'm a grasshopper, right?" She watches Cassie's face for any signs of recognition.

[staturity]

Recognition? Yeeeeah no.

"You're going to have to explain that to me."

[deep_sky_diving]

"Well... I can't really show it off in here, but I'm a Jumper." The way she says the word suggests a firmly capital letter. "It ain't fer everybody, but I'm one o'the ones who likes t'wander 'round the galaxy 'n all that."

For just a moment, her gaze halfway verges down, echoing the same sort of appraising look Cassie was giving her before.

[staturity]

"Jumper? Does that involve some kind of teleportation?" Cassie didn't make too much out of that look, it was only fair considering how long she'd been eyeing Tess.

[deep_sky_diving]

"Well, 'course it does," Tess says. "Ain't so great to use in atmosphere, but get some good star charts, and—pshow~." She makes a little 'whoosh' gesture. That could explain the 'why' of the suit.

[staturity]

Cassie let out a sigh of appreciation. "Flying. That has to be awesome." One more reason to be envious.

[deep_sky_diving]

The ironic thing, really, is that Tess does fly—just probably not in quite the same way Cassie might be thinking of.

"Well, it can be fun, but you gotta have good conditions," Tess says. "...hey, you know if'n there's any real airlocks 'round here anywhere?"

[staturity]

"Airlocks? Well, probably but do you really want to use them? That's pretty risky." Said the girl who stole pym particles, fought Kang the Conqueror, and was guilty of doing a lot of stupid, risky things.

[deep_sky_diving]

Tess clicks her teeth and mumbles something, and the suit's oddly-segmented helmet seals forward around her face. "It'd be nice t'at least get a look outside," she says, cleverly-hidden speakers carrying her voice almost as well as if it wasn't sealed up.

[staturity]

A suit and she was pretty too, this was just not fair.

"Yeah but you might want back up just in case. Maybe you could talk to some of the others who have suits?"

[deep_sky_diving]

And then the forward section of the helmet unseals again, the segments sliding to the sides to expose her face. "I guess so, but it'd be kinduva drag to go find somebodies."

[staturity]

"Maybe but it beats being dead or left behind. Better safe than sorry."

[deep_sky_diving]

"Well, I guess so," Tess says with a shrug.

She eyes Cassie a little. She saw how her suit was being looked at... "You wouldn't be interested in comin' along, wouldja?"

[staturity]

"Actually I would but I don't have a suit." Not counting her boyfriend.

[deep_sky_diving]

"There's a lot've stuff 'round here." Tess turns in a slow circle. "Maybe we could find you one without anybody's name on it?"

[staturity]

"You know, that is a great idea. So long as it's easy to figure out how to use. I don't want to press the wrong button and have it explode on me."

[deep_sky_diving]

"There's the ones like the tuna workers use, nothin' too fancy in 'em..."

Tess glances upwards. "Stacy? Are there any mechanical counterpressure spacesuits around nobody has a claim on?"

[cityship]

||Yes. There are several available. Indicating...||

Several cases light up a little brighter than before.

One of the nearest seems suitable.

[staturity]

"Oh wow. Thanks." Cassie reached for the suit. "I think I can work with this. I hope."

[deep_sky_diving]

"Ain't as slim as my rig, but I'm guessin' you don't have any Friendlies, so you'd need the extra support... Want any help gettin' it on?"

[staturity]

"Yes, please." Cassie examined the suit some more before she started putting it on.