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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He gathered that ehhif meant human, but that didn't keep him from looking surprised, "W-wizard?" He looked to Alice, who just tilted her head to the side, just as surprised as he was. "Th-that's... i-impressive. W-we don' h-have wizards i-in my w-world."

"You don't?" And that was just weird. "Maybe you do, and you just don't know it. Ehhif wizards mostly have to keep their practice hidden, after all." Though apparently some of them could tell their families, which made it easier, he guessed. Ehhif were usually pretty blind to everything going on around them, though.

Alex shrugged, "p-powers l-like mine are th-the only w-weird o-ones I-I've ever seen. N-no w-wizards th-though."

"There probably are," he said confidently, with the tone of voice of someone who believes himself to be something of an expert in a lot of things (or at least about the current subject). "They've just been hidden from you."

Alex was easily enough persuaded, "I-I guess I-I never r-really went l-looking..." He was on this ship. Why couldn't there be hidden wizards in his world?

"Most ehhif don't recognize wizardry even when it happens right in front of their faces, so don't feel too bad," he said airily, flirting his tail about.

"I th-think I might... I-I t-tend ta notice wh-when something is... d-different." Well, the cat was definitely a cat. Smug and proud.

"Well...maybe." He did have those weird shadows he'd seen for a moment. "Most people can just write off wizardry when they see it happening right in front of them. It's like it just doesn't register."

"W-well, i-if anything, sh-shadow-eaters a-are probably th-the c-closest to wizards in m-my world. B-but also a l-long t-time ago, p-people t-tried ta k-kill off everyone c-claiming to b-be a w-witch or w-wizard, s-so there might jus' n-not be many left ta s-see."

"That happened on my world, too, with the ehhif." And he remembered something Urruah said to him. "Other wizards have to be careful, too. If ehhif find out about us, we could be taken away and taken apart, because they'd want to try and figure out what makes us work."

Arhu licked his nose once. "That's why ehhif wizards have to be careful not to let anyone know about them. We People are lucky, because we don't have to hide our wizardy."

Alex sat back down against the wall, "Y-you r-really are. E-even though w-we're k-known, w-we are experiments. W-we d-don' r-really have a-all our human rights..."

Arhu watched him for a long moment, and then turned away almost nonchalantly, pinning his tail down so that he could groom the tip.

"Well, y'know," he muttered. "You're not gonna be in danger like that here. And if you need any sort of help, you could always ask me. I'm pretty good at getting people out of trouble."

Alex smiles, "th-thanks." he paused for a moment then, realizing the cat's lack of thumbs. "H-how c-can I c-call f-for y-you, a-anyway?"

"Well, they gave me this thing," he said, rearing up onto his hind legs and pulling the ommnicom out of his personal claudication. "I haven't had a chance to figure it out too well yet, but I'm working on it. I can always use the Speech to convince it to do what I tell it to, if need be." He tilted his head. "Messaging routines are probably pretty simple, too. I might be able to rig up a panic button for you."

Alex stared at the cat, amazed.

"I-I c-could teach y-you how ta use it... I've g-gotten decently familiar with the programming... I'm s-sure I won't need a panic button..."

Was that cat really... yes, Alex, it was.

He carefully dropped it down on the floor. Pawing at it thoughtfully, he eyed it. "I could probably figure it out with a bit of work. But if you wanna teach me, sure. Conserving energy and all."

Alex moved closer and pulled out his own omnicomm, a little puzzled. "Er... H-how... c-can you press the buttons?"

If the cat didn't have a way to manipulate the device, then he wasn't really sure how he could help it him.

Arhu gave him a blank, expectant stare, the sort that cats are particularly good at. His tail was still, ears canted just slightly.

After he figured that he'd made his point, he asked, "So what all does this do?"

"Er... right..." Just go with it, he thought. "So, well, this is the b-basic page. From here you c-can access all these d-different things, like the b-basic text-b-based comm net." He began showing Arhu the communication network he'd grown accustomed to browsing, pointing out various functions therein.

"I've also made a f-function that lets y-you know when people have put s-somethin' up there by playing wh-whatever sounds you s-set to c-certain people. Some g-girl asked me t-ta make it a while b-back. You n-need ta get various soundbites from the on-board libraries though."

"So it's sort of like a combination between a computer and a h'one that ehhif use," he muttered.

Studying the omnicomm, he proceeded to begin speaking silently to it in the Speech. Obligingly it opened up the network for him, and he began to page through the options.

Alex had gotten used to seeing strange things, but seeing someone talk to a device- save those living ones that have the forms of people- and having it respond, without any seeming calibration or anything. That was new. "I-it is... b-but... How are you...?"

He threw Alex another feline look, this one utterly smug and superior - it was one that anybody who had encountered a cat for a period of time probably recognized. It meant something along the lines of, 'because I'm better than you,' though Arhu didn't at all say that out loud. He wasn't that crass.

"Everything alive understands the Speech, the language that wizards work in," he said patiently. "And everything is alive in one form or another, though it may not be life as we understand."

Alex blinked and nodded, pretending to have a better sense of understanding than he actually did. "O-okay... That makes sense I-I g-guess..." He smiled nervously, not entirely comprehending how the Comms were alive, but, hey, it worked. Why knock it?

Unfortunately, the look went far over Alex's head. He was used to rat looks, not cat looks. Even then, the humanoid subtle communication of body language was just something Alex didn't have a full grasp on. A person could have given him that look and he wouldn't have known much better. "W-well, there's some other l-little functions, l-like a file viewer an' e-editor." He felt far more comfortable explaining how the things in the device worked.

"If I wanted to get in contact with you, or you wanted to contact me, how would that work?" He didn't go further in-depth on the way that different things could be alive. The omnicomm was actually very easy to convince to go through the menus, actually; it wanted to be used for communication, wanted to be able to do its function well.

"W-well, you c-can either lock a text post, or you c-can u-use the c-comm ring they gave you. Jus'... think of who you wanna c-contact, and speak." He began spinning the one that he wore on his finger, "I-I don' much like t-talkin' though, so unless it's an' absolute e-emergency, I u-use the omnicomm..."

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Hey look, I live. >.>

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