cityship: (Stacy--Main AI)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-06-01 10:42 pm

Meet N' Greet

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]

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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?"

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"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.

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Curry monsters?" Jo repeats skeptically. "You've got to be kidding me. There's no such thing as curry monsters."

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Normally, no," Lister agrees. "Only we sort of had an accident with a DNA machine and a curry I was having."

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-06 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-06 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Honest!" Lister confirms. "Dripped vindaloo sauce and everything."

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

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"And what exactly does a curry monster do?" Jo continues with her questions. Seriously though, what kind of danger could food pose to someone?!

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-08 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
"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."

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-08 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
"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!

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
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?"

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
"No, but the things they invent. Like one Jack called 'the giant death ray'. It's always something in Eureka."

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
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?"

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Lister sort of understood that, well, he understood that it was a Bad Thing.

"Did you get it stopped?" he asks, before looking puzzled. "Hang on, you must have done, otherwise you wouldn't be here, would you? You would be death-rayed to death."

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well yeah, and half the world would have been destroyed... Ya know how it goes." Jo comments with another shrug as if that sort of thing is an every day problem.

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Lister isn't entirely sure that he'd like to live in a world like that. It's bad enough the amount of running-for-his-life that he has to do.

"So, what do we do for fun round here?"

Let's get straight back to the bumming about.

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh," Jo has to pause and think about this one. "Well I guess lots of people go and kick back in the Senorioums -- they're like really huge holodeck..type things."

And really kick@ยงยง!

"Me, I like to use them for shooting practice and stuff..."

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
Lister can see himself spending plenty of time there then.

"You're all about the work, aren't you?" he asks. Yes, he's flirting again, it's unconcious, really.

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Here? Pretty much..." And at home most of the time too, though she does go to church and the occassional date here and there but that's beside the point.

"I mean, what else is there to do? Sit around and feel sorry for myself? Don't think so."

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Man, you need to relax more! Stop stressing, and just slob around. Drink some beer, watch some telly...we do have telly, don't we?"

No curry, no beer, and if there's no telly Lister may just try and climb inside his pod again.

[identity profile] deputyjo.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not stressing," Jo points out before pointing toward herself. "I relieve my stress by shooting targets and stuff like that."

She pauses, her forehead scrunching up a bit. "Annnnnnnnnd I don't know about television. I think I heard some of the Supers mentioning a movie night or something. So I'm sure there's gotta be something like television somewhere."

[identity profile] smegging-hell.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Then it's a date then. I teach you how to slob around, and you can teach me... how to shoot better. Deal?"

Charm maxed to 11, Lister turns his brightest smile on Jo.

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