trans_9 | Meet-n-Greet

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Meet-n-Greet

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings. New crew-mates might see a tall man in green armor and snake girl among their number. There are also several authoritative-looking figures ready to introduce themselves.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies.]

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"Y-your a wizard?" Well, that explained the robes and the use of the term familiar and the whole elfyness. "I d-don' know that much either, b-but I d-did study a lot about r-rats ta make sure that I c-could take c-care of her properly."

"I am," Aibghalien said, with a distinct note of pride in his voice.

"And you clearly studied the right things," he said with a little laugh as the grooming tickled.

Alex blushed at the complement, "I-I did m-my best." Alice was perfectly happy to keep grooming as long as Aibghalien would let her.

He looked back up to the elf and asked, "Wh-where are you f-from?"

"I come from a land named Anuire, on the continent of Cerilia. It used to be one great country, a very long time ago, but now it's twice-shattered... possibly beyond repair. I've been trying, but..."

He sighed. Such things didn't really matter at the moment, did they.

"I-I'm sorry." He understood how it was to want to make a place better. It was just such a huge task, it really seemed impossible.

Not to mention, to lose a world you worked so hard to change? It hadn't bothered him too much, only because he had always been working to those ends because of Loretta, even though he rather liked the idea of it being a better place. He just wasn't as invested.

"A hero's work is never done," the wizard said with a shrug. "I've spent so long with the world in turmoil I barely remember what it was like to have peace and quiet. Perhaps this is how things always are -- constant conflict, the world always changing and something drastic always happening."

He sighed, then shook his head with a rueful smile. "Sorry. I didn't mean to wax philosophic."

Alex laughed, "For being in war, i-it's been p-pretty peaceful here, a-actually." He had yet to really face the Ohm. He had only seen problems that came from within the ranks of the crew itself.

"With all these different people around here? I find THAT hard to imagine!" He chuckled -- then paused.

"Or, is it true that the ship stops fights?"

Alex nodded, making making waving motions with his arms straight out to the sides, "Y-yeah, t-tentacle things appear an' p-pull you a-apart." He stopped with the arm motions as he continued, "W-we had a bomb s-scare a wh-while back, but i-it was handled p-pretty quickly. S-some sorta c-creepy mind-controlling parasite thing. They've s-started checking for those now though."

"That's a little alarming." He didn't really intend to clarify which part, if he meant a specific one, though.

"Is this ship really all... biological? It seems there is a great deal of... the electrical devices, as well. They did hand me one almost as soon as I stepped out of the caverns..."

Alex shrugged, "The ship is alarming, and c-creepy, an' I don' like it. It's all l-living, b-but p-people made electronic devices. I d-do programming f-for some o' 'em. S-still, I don' t-trust the ship a-at all."

Did he forget to mention that he doesn't like the ship?

"Hmm. Perhaps I could trouble you at some point for brief instruction in these... electronic devices, as you say." The elf made something of a face, rather spoiling his image of cultivation and maturity. "My experience with anything... advanced, I suppose, mostly comes from an invading army that kept trying to suck the magic out of my lands and sterilize it."

Alex doesn't look pleased at the idea of an army that sucks magic out. Then again, he doesn't like the idea of any invading force, or anyone trying to force people down for no good reason. Too many shadows came of it to ever be worth the effort. "W-well, I'm d-down in engineering a lot. I-if ya e-ever w-wanna stop by, I c-can show y-you a few things. O-or you c-can c-contact me yourself." He briefly explains how to use the comms to write a locked message, slowly.

Aibghalien picked it up almost instantly -- no, that understateed matters. With the most basic grounding in the comm system, Aibghalien deduced most of the rules and mechanisms behind it in a matter of moments. The elf has something of a terrifying intellect; still, he seemed entirely grateful for the basic introduction.

"I'd certainly love to stop by some time... but what's an engineering?"

After all, intelligence never could replace knowledge.

Alex gave him a bit of a funny look before smiling understandingly, "I-it's one of the departments here. We work on electronic, and, well, b-basically a lot o-of technology. S-some people build things, wh-while others, l-like me, p-program them so th-that they work. P-programming i-is sorta like t-teaching. Ya g-give a device r-rules ta follow, and it figures o-out what ta do based on th-those c-commands."

"Ah, so it's just the name. The overall field of this sort of... device?" He took pains to keep his prejudice against technology out of his voice, recognizing it as stemming from the means said technology had, in his experience, been put to, not the field or devices themselves. He still had a little strain when he spoke it...

But the way he took to the omnicomm, it likely wouldn't last.

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