Meet and Greet Part Deux: The Socialing

[cityship]

The new people will find themselves ushered out of Obs Deck, so it can be shot down to the planet again, to pick the crew up. Eventually, the crew members on the mission are brought back up, and the doors open to let the two groups meet.

The newbies are likely not expecting their new crew-mates to come back bearing presents--which some of them are.

[ooc: This time anyone can post in. REMEMBER TO TAG OTHER PEOPLE, THO. This is set after the mission so mission peoples can meet the newbies. Latecomer newbies, if you want, you can just tag your guys into this one to make things easier.]

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[bonnypiperlad]

There's a brief bit of time after Jamie walked into the wall where he's making sure he hasn't dislocated his jaw - and looks especially out of sorts. Eventually, though (once he's convinced he's intact), he finds space on one of the meatcouches and plunks himself down.

He'll just watch the door from there for any familiar faces. All things considered, it might just be safer.

[onceadragon]

Claudia had been a little bummed that she hadn't been able to go on the mission, but she so didn't let that keep her down for long. Moreso when she'd heard there had been a new batch of crew members pop out of the freaky pod thngies!

Stepping into the Obs Deck, she glanced around - looking for Myka, Pete and Artie and sighed when she didn't see any of them. Figured. They'd probably pop out of those things when she was old and like thirty or something.

But she did see a crank looking Jaime sitting alone on one of the couches. So of course she had to go and harass see what was up with him."Jaiiiiiiiiiiime! What's going on dude? You look totally bummed!"

[bonnypiperlad]

Okay, Jamie may have been a bit grumpy around the edges, but that vanishes fairly quickly when he hears a familiar voice - and someone he had intended on tracking down anyway. "Claudia!"

He waves his hand dismissively at her question, then gives her a brief smile. "Och, it's nothing." There is no way that he's going to say anything about what happened earlier, nope.

"I'm glad ye decided to come down. I didn't see ye on the mission, so..." There's a bag next to him, and he reaches for it.

"I may have picked ye up a wee trinket."

[onceadragon]

"I had something to do in Engineering." She shrugged her shoulders like it was really no big deal. "But it's all good, I'll just go on the next one."

Her eyes widen a bit and she suddenly beamed at him before she plopped down on the couch right next to him. "Seriously? Sweeeeeeeet! But... Ya know, you didn't have to.. 'Cause I don't have anything for you, and I feel kinda bad."

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie shifts just enough so he can lean over and give her an affectionate nudge, as his hands are rather full at the moment. There's a rustling noise as he searches through the bag.

"Aye, that's true, but I can tell ye about it, if ye like." He's attempting to sound like it's no big deal, but he's giving her the occasional glance from time to time to try and figure out how she actually feels about it.

He pulls out a small package, wrapped in plaid paper and with a ridiculous bow on top. It's almost...furry looking. He offers it out to her, a little shyly.

"Careful. It's heavy."

[onceadragon]

"Well of course I wanna here about it! You all like got to play Santa! How cool is that?!" Even though she was still bummed she'd missed out, that so didn't mean she didn't want details!

She took the present from him and her eyes widened a little when she realized that that present was indeed heavy. "What'd ya get me? A box full of coal?" she teased as she began to unwrap it. "Kickass wrapping paper by the way."

She pulled the box free of the wrapping paper and soon she'd pulled her gift from it. She was immediately smiling as she looked at the large cube with a thistle etched into the crystal. "Duuuuuuuuuude! Swa-weeeeeeeeeeeeet! This is like totally wicked cool!"

She leaned over and pressed a kiss on his cheek with a happy smile. "Seriously, thanks Jaime! You so didn't have to do this."

[bonnypiperlad]

"Och, the last thing I need to give ye is something ye can set on fire," Jamie teases. "For all I know, ye'd burn down half of the ship."

He's not complaining about the kiss - not at all. In fact, he makes some suspiciously pleased sounding noises in the back of his throat. "I'm verra glad ye like it." And he'll be happy to tell her stories of what he's done on the mission He just has one small question, first.

"What does 'wicked cool' mean, anyway?"

[onceadragon]

"Hey now!" Claudia protested, but then grinned. "I'd totally only burn down a forth of it, thank you very much." She playfully elbowed him in the side.

Leaning back she eyed her present with obvious glee. "Oh, well it means it's really great." She looked over at him. "Ya know, I'm going to have to teach you all the cool ways to speak."

[bonnypiperlad]

There's a slightly exaggerated "Oof!" from Jamie at the elbow, but he's grinning right back at her. "Only a fourth? Well, that's much better. I don't know what I was worrying about."

He strokes his chin mock-thoughtfully as he considers the reply to his question. "So if 'wicked cool' means 'really great', then 'cool' would mean 'great', aye? Are ye saying that I'm not a great speaker, then?" There's a pause, and then he very deliberately adds, "Dude."

[billy-blin.livejournal.com]

"Watched ye walk into the wall back there. That was right bloody impressive, it was." Blin said, walking up to the meatcouch (it's that a disturbing thought, a couch made out of invisible meat. If this ship was so organic and had so much energy runnign through it, how come absoloutely nothing about it glowed like the people?). He smiled.

"Please tell me tha's not a tradition where ye come from, or I may just have to go and have a wee laugh on principle alone." He held out his hand. "Name's Blin."

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie flushes slightly - he's not exactly thrilled with himself for getting so distracted, no matter how attractive Inara is. And he's even less thrilled that he did so in front of just about everyone, but what's done is done. A little ribbing is only to be expected. He'll try and take it with as much good grace as he can muster.

"Aye, well. They do say a bonny lass can turn your head, but it's not something I make a habit out of." He takes the hand and shakes it. "Jamie McCrimmon."

He gives Blin a curious look. "I don't think I've seen ye about before. Ye must be one of the new folk."

[billy-blin.livejournal.com]

"Indeed I am. Sat down after a set for a pint or two, a simple drop of dew, and next thing I now? Here I am. Right criminal what passes for hospitality in an inter-dimensional kidnapping these days. Right bloody criminal." He sighed.

"But, no use in complaining about what's done, is there? Plenty still to do that'll require complaining much later on." He smiled. "Alright, Mister McCrimmon, before it causes my mother to roll in her grave (assuming she's dead, of course), I need to know; where're ye from?"

He didn't sound like it, but if the guy said Whales, Blin already had a plan - turn around and walk away without a word. Some things just couldn't be forgiven, like being thrown out of an entire 'country'.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye," Jamie comments dryly. "One moment ye're about to head home, and the next ye wake up naked and covered in slime, then shoved into some pulsing plant-thing and forced to deal with aliens and robots and strange beasties."

He looks a bit puzzled, however, when he's asked where he's from. Even if the kilt wasn't obvious (and Jamie clearly hasn't noticed that it might not be to Blin), the last name and the accent should be. Then again, maybe there isn't a Scotland in Blin's world.

"I'm from Scotland, originally," he replies with a shrug. "Traveled some before coming to Stacy, and..." He trails off for a moment, then asks cautiously, "How much have they filled ye in on?"

[billy-blin.livejournal.com]

"I assumed you were a kilt by yer voice. I meant more locally than anything else. I'm a Belfast boy, myself. Of course, it doesn't make much difference any more, really. At this point the only place I'm positive I haven't lived is in the Oriental Alliance." He let out a heavy sigh... the idea that Japanese business practices could have led to such a takeover was just plain weird.

"One o' the commanders, Kirk I'm thinkin', filled us in on a bit. Multi-dimensional ship, drafted for a war, our earths blown up. Bit of a downer, that."

[bonnypiperlad]

"Ah. I never lived in a big city, really. Stirling would be the closest, I think. Glasgow as well," he admits. "But that'd be in the lowlands, and I'm no Lowlander."

Jamie has heard of Belfast, but the other area mentioned he can't quite place. "Oriental Alliance?" He thinks for a moment, then shakes his head. "Sorry. I can't say I've heard of it."

It is true - having your universe destroyed isn't generally the most cheerful thing to imagine. "Aye. But we'll figure out a way to get them back. It's not so bad here, though. Ye have the Imaginariu...er, the Sensoriums. And ye don't have to sleep in the creepy pods, now that there's crew quarters." Almost as an afterthought, he adds, "And there's a real bar, too."

[billy-blin.livejournal.com]

"Oh, don't misunderstand me, I see little problem in my world being destroyed. Given much longer, someone would've blown the bloody place up without other worldly help. Just a matter of time, really. I just want my dog back." he paused, "and maybe my friend Ronin, too, but mostly the dog."

He sighed. It was really hard to find a good seeing eye dog that didn't shy away from powers.

"Oriental Alliance is what happened when Japan and China reached an agreement; 'our people can destroy your country' was the real idea. Japan got their powers first, so they took over the factory countries producing the goods they designed; There's really only a few independent countries left, these days. Most regions have formed alliances to try and keep the others from destroying them. Except the Irish Republic. Bloody weird, that."

He shook his head at the idea. Every other country had palled up with someone bigger, but the damn IRA refused to cooperate with anyone. As an Irishman, he found it ridiculous.

"Ye'll have to show me these quarters sometime. 'Fraid I haven't had much of a chance te get outside this room yet."

[bonnypiperlad]

"I've seen some dogs around," Jamie states. Not to mention the werewolves, but he'll leave that part out for now. "It's possible that yours is already here. The pods don't always work the way they are supposed to and he might have already woken up."

There's the beginnings of a frown as he listens to Blin. "Och, war was bad enough back in my day. Throw in countries that can use those atomic weapons and..." He shakes his head a little, then frowns. "Or, wait, would those be nuclear?" He pronounces it a little oddly. That one's still a fairly new word for him. "We actually just came back from a world that had a nuclear war. A small one, mind ye, but the effects were verra bad."

He's still pleased about how things went once they were there, so his emotions aren't quite in sync with his words. "That's true, I suppose ye haven't had the chance. I can show ye a few places, sure, but there's still a lot I havena seen yet."

[watchwith3hands.livejournal.com]

Rei was a bit too friendly for his own good. He couldn't help it, he liked meeting people. He hadn't stopped to think that maybe, just maybe, not everyone was as used to waking up in a strange place as he was, and that his jovial personality might be a bit weird to others.

"Hello!" Rei said enthusiastically, plopping down on one of the weird couches next to Jaime. "I noticed you walking into the wall over there," he made a wild gesture with his hand that didn't really point anywhere, "and wanted to see if you're okay. Why'd you do that, anyways? Not like I didn't totally run into a girl a while back while I was checking out those nifty window-thingies. Name's Rei, by the way." He smiled broadly and offered a hand to shake.

[bonnypiperlad]

Don't mind Jamie. He'll just be burying his face in his hands and groaning now, thank you. Through his hands comes a muttered, "I'm fine." Embarrassed, yes. Going to be haunted by this for a long time to come, probably. But physically, he's fine.

Still, for once he's glad that no one knows seems to have woken up from the pods. He drops his hands and glances over at Rei. "I will admit I may have been a wee bit distracted at the time."

He shakes the proffered hand. "Jamie McCrimmon." Wait. Did he say he ran into a girl? "Which girl?"

[watchwith3hands.livejournal.com]

"Cute brunette, sounded sort of U.S.A.-South-ish, I think, but I'm still not sure about all of the accents from the U.S. Name started with a 'K' sound... Katie, Kaylee, something like that. She seemed really out of it, but then again, most everyone here does. Can't say I'm surprised though, what with being in space and the, um, the tentacles." He gave a little mock shudder and stuck his tongue - which happened to be small and forked, like a snake - out at that last bit.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, the tentacles are a bit..." Jamie trails off, distracted by the forked tongue. He realizes after a moment that he's probably being quite rude and should probably stop staring at it, and gives Rei a sheepish look by way of apology.

"Um. Anyway," he says, sort of picking up where he left off. "I don't think it's the same girl, although she sounds new as well. I'm no familiar with accents from the Colonies...er. I mean the Amer...that U.S. place ye mentioned."

[watchwith3hands.livejournal.com]

Rei noticed Jaime staring, and closed his mouth. You'd think after freaking out dozens of people throughout time and space, he'd be more careful about those small, non-human things. But then again, he was so used to the features, like his pointed ears, that he could barely remember a time without them.

"'She sounds new'? Well, if people are new to you, you must have been around here for a while. Or at least before the people I saw coming out of pods when I first woke up. How long have people been on this ship-thingymajig?" It would be good to have reference, and see how long he'd be around. Though, considering he couldn't feel his normal connection to the Guardians, he'd be unable to time travel. Which meant he'd be stuck for a while.

...Wait a minute, what was that last bit? "Colonies? Who the heck still calls them the Colonies anymore?" It was starting to dawn on Rei - that Invisible guy he'd met when he woke up seemed to be from the future, post 24th Century if he was a human in a different galaxy. So, maybe there were people from the past, too. "Eh, senhor McCrimmon," he said, trying to be polite about this, "what year where you born, if you don't mind my asking?"

[bonnypiperlad]

He'd noticed the ears, but has seen a few people on board with at least similar looking appendages. The tongue was just...unexpected. "Sorry," he says, still sheepish. "I didna mean to stare."

As for how long people have been here? He thought someone might have said something about it...but, unfortunately, he can't remember. He shrugs. "Time's...a wee bit strange, here. I know there's people who have been here longer than I have, and I know I've been to five or so of these greeting things since I arrived. One of the older crew members or command staff might be able to give ye a better idea."

Jamie is suddenly very interested in his feet. He really has to stop using the word 'Colonies'. It tends to give things away. "I'd rather not say," he starts, then reconsiders somewhat. "Have ye heard of Culloden?"

[watchwith3hands.livejournal.com]

"Hey, staring is fine, just as long as you don't accuse me of being a witch or the devil or something and try to throw me in a lake to see if I float," he replied with a shrug. "Really, it's happened before, and now I'm re-hee-ally careful whenever I'm in Germany around the 15th Century. Why couldn't everyone have just listened to Charlemagne?"

He was starting to ramble, and he knew it. This wasn't the kind of thing he needed to be telling strangers, but he was separated from the Guardians, and that made him nervous. And when he got nervous, he got wordy.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm down a bit. "Culloden, Culloden, Culloden," he said the word a few times, letting it roll around in his head. He had to really think about it - after all, he'd been traveling space and time for almost ten years, and, even if he could only remember four of them, there was a lot of history stored in his brain. "Culloden, no, don't think... wait, no, it's familiar. Hmmm... oh, yeah, it's a town in Scotland, right? Didn't some sort of battle take place there? I think... I think Puck took me to some sort of memorial there when we were visiting the 1990s. I don't really remember that much from the trip, but I guess that's what I got for having my Great Britain tour guide be an Irishman from the 24th century."

Rei really wasn't sure if any of that would make sense to Jaime. His talk of time travel tended to confuse people. And usually got him written off as crazy.

[bonnypiperlad]

"I've no doused ye with holy water yet, have I?" Jamie may be joking - or he may not. It's really hard to tell with the current expression on his face.

It lightens, though, as he can tell that Rei is rambling, and he doesn't want to make the man any more nervous than he already seems to be. "There's stranger here on Stacy, so I woulda worry about it."

At least he knows a little about Culloden, which is more than most people have when Jamie mentioned it. He looks a little strange when Rei mentions the memorial, but it's not because of the time travel. "They...still remember? That far from the battle?"

There's a wellspring of emotion that threatens to come out from hearing that, and it's a visible effort to stuff it back down. He clears his throat. "And aye, it was in 1746. I was about 17 or so at the time." He looks maybe around 20 now.

There's a thoughtful look he gives Rei after that as he mentally goes through the dates that were mentioned. "So did ye actually meet Charlemagne when ye were time traveling?"