Meet N' Greet

[cityship]

Part of the crew might be gone, but life on the ship goes on. In fact, new people have woken up and, eventually, they've been spat out into the mess hall.

Maybe it's better to introduce them to some of the worst aspects of ship life first, right?

Anyway, the word is out that there's new people, and someone should probably go say hello. Before the n00bs mistake the glop for crew.


[ooc: read before tagging, plz]

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[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, yeah. Just stop starin'. Dude, it's seriously creepy." She informs him.

OK, so even Jo likes to be included in the attractive woman thing, but... The staring must stop, or atleast she thinks so.

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

Now, if this was Lister talking to Rimmer, Lister would carry on staring just on principle, and to really tee Rimmer off. Since though Lister figures it's probably better not to antagonise the hot chicks people on board this ship, he makes an attempt to stop.

"Better?" he asks, before offering his hand. "Dave Lister."

See Jo, he can have manners.

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

She reaches out and shakes his hand firmly - no wussy chick handshakes here buddy. "Jo Lupo. I'm a Deputy in my world. How about you?"

Seeeeeee? She can be nice and non kick butt mode sometimes.

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

Once Jo releases his hand, Lister surreptitiously tries to get some feeling back in his fingers. She's stronger than he thought. Right, avoid @ss-kicking at all costs.

"Just bumming around in space mostly. Trying to get back to Earth."

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"Bumming around space?" Jo repeats. "Dude, how does that work exactly? I mean, the bumming around bit."

Jo hardly ever bums around. Even on the ship she's always doin' something. Can't let her skills go to complete crap.

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

Lister mostly does nothing but bum around. He considers himself an expert in it.

"Just stuff to pass the day really. Sleep, eat, drink, annoy Rimmer, play durex volleyball with the Cat. Just hanging out. There's the occasional mad panic, but then it's back to bumming about."

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"Sounds... Exciting," Jo says with a shake of her head. "But really? That's all you do in space? It's not like Startrek where you encounter new lifeforms and all that jazz?"

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

"Well, there are times of running around trying to avoid being killed, or having your emotions sucked out of you. Oh, and trying not to have your brain sucked out. Otherwise, it's unicycle polo all the way."

And Lister quite likes it that way.

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"Well do you atleast get to beat the snot outta anything?" Jo asks as she's completely for kicking major butt instead of running.

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

Story time with Lister!

"Well, we were attacked by this polymorph thing. It changed shapes, and stole emotions from you. It turned into a giant monster in my laundry basket, and sucked the fear right out of me."

He won't mention that it turned into a pair of underpants first, that he put on. He'd rather not remember that bit himself.

"Went after it with bazookoids blazing." That was after they decided that Rimmer's leaflet campaign wouldn't work, and Lister himself was talked out of nutting it with a grenade attached to his forehead.

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

Jo's eyes widen in interest and she leans forward a little bit. "Bazookoids?" She's seriously interested in what that is. "What exactly is that?"

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

"It's actually a mining tool, but it does as a weapon. It's about so long," and he measures out about a metre with his hands, "and fires energy. Takes most things down pretty quickly. Apart from curry monsters and simulants. You've got to improvise for those."

And the grin on Lister's face leaves no doubt that they did improvise.

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"Curry monsters?" Jo repeats skeptically. "You've got to be kidding me. There's no such thing as curry monsters."

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

"Normally, no," Lister agrees. "Only we sort of had an accident with a DNA machine and a curry I was having."

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

OK even Jo knows not to eat around any sort of DNA machine. "And you made a monster?" she asks, still not quite sure if she believes him or not.

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

"Honest!" Lister confirms. "Dripped vindaloo sauce and everything."

He won't mention how they killed it, unless she asks. It's embarrassing.

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"And what exactly does a curry monster do?" Jo continues with her questions. Seriously though, what kind of danger could food pose to someone?!

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

"It chases after you and tries to eat you," Lister explains. "We didn't really stop and ask it why it was doing that, we were too busy running for our lives."

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

OK, the sudden mental image that popped into Jo's head made her laugh. It was like some cheesy b-level horror flick. Monster, flesh eating curry monsters.

"I'm sorry, but... That's just... It's just, a disturbing yet hilarious mental image." She manages to say between laughs.

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

Lister can admit that it's funny now, but it wasn't so funny being chased down endless corridors at the time.

"For some reason, we attract all the weird stuff. You know what was funny though? Rimmer thinking he had found aliens. I laughed till I was sick. Seriously."

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"You attract weird stuff? I live in a town that's full of nothing but weird stuff and weird scientists. At least once a week one of them accidentally almost destroys the world...."

She trails off and gives him a skeptical look. "Uh, you do realize aliens are real, right?" Obviously he hasn't seen all the crew!

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

Lister was too busy staring at all the ladies to notice things like aliens around the place! But rather than admit this to Jo, and risk a thump round the ear, he focuses on the first part of what she said.

"Accidentally destroying the world? Do you have a big red button marked "Don't push," round there or something?"

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

"No, but the things they invent. Like one Jack called 'the giant death ray'. It's always something in Eureka."

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

Now it's Lister's turn to stare. He's watched his fair share of the old movies ('Bikini Vampire Killers Part 15' was a classic).

"Someone actually built a death ray?"

[deputyjo.livejournal.com]

Jo shrugged, "Well it was actually silos set to discharge a huge ionosphere particle beam made of irradiated uranium isotopes...."

She trails off before finally nodding. "Yeah someone actually did."