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Cascade [Open party time!]

Billy had just launched another portal in that maze of mazes, exhaustion setting in. Surely this time he would land on another moving platform of death?

Nope, just the exterior of the finished bathhouses. All polished, systems running, and just about ready to open! Given how sore and exhausted he was, that sounded like an excellent idea at the moment.

With a quick message to the rest of the crew, he set out the 'Open' sign for the first time and took advantage of his owner status---the prime waterfall spot could be his!

((ooc: The bathhouses are now open! Feel free to mingle around, relax, and have a party. Or cause trouble, but that might invite more trouble. Just start a subthread with your character's location and have fun. For reference there are individual showers in front, followed by hot tubs centrally located, saunas further back, and private baths along the side. The showers, tubs, and saunas have smaller sex-segregated units along with a central group unit that's larger.))

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Celena cracked open an eye at the sound of the other's voice, not moving yet from her reclined position as she watched her with some curiosity, at least she hadn't run away, she had after all received so many different reactions to being a dragon from the crew.

As she slid into the pool Celena finally lifted her head from the edge of the pool to give her a smile, "I trust there's plenty of room for you there?" she had helped design the bigger spas but it couldn't hurt to check.

((ooc: Not a problem, sounds good to me ^^ ))

Of course, Celena wasn't actually alone in the baths (not that she knew that). Marco was also here, buzzing around in fly morph.

Now, you'd think that hanging around the baths without anyone knowing you were there would have been fun. Sadly, this was not so - he'd had to follow the Celena around, and she kept spending her time talking to Billy, and that kid who managed to wonder into the women's section 'by accident'.

Rachel, however, was more than enough entertainment for Marco.

<Nice swimsuit,> he said to Rachel in private thought-speak, so that Celena couldn't hear. <But you forgot your dragon-slaying sword.>

[[ooc: stalking is goooooo! :P]]

A little bit of surprise registered on Rachel's face to the question. Okay, so maybe it made sense that it (she?) could talk, given that she was a member of the crew. "And you can talk, too. Yeah, it's fine," she said, shrugging slightly as she made herself comfortable.

Her back tensed slightly as she heard Marco's voice in her mind. Of course he'd be here. She held back the disdain from her face, but not her voice. "It's big enough. Might still squish some bugs though."

Celena couldn't help but give a light chuckle of amusement at the surprise on her features and her reply. "Indeed I can, I'm glad to hear," she replied easily in turn as she shifted herself to be a little more comfortable as she faced the other.

"Oh indeed? I hope you've enjoyed the bathhouse thus far in any event," she gave a dip of her head, she did not quite get the reference to bugs but, dismissing it and moving on, "I am Celena Vantari, I don't believe I've seen you around, new to the crew are you?"

<So sure you want to go squishing the bug that's sitting on the big scary dragon, Rachel?> Marco mocked, safe from his perch on one of Celena's wings. <She'll probably end up squishing you like a bug.>

"Oh yeah," she replied, stretching out and relaxing. "The baths here are great." She may or may not have been emphasizing in order to taunt Marco, while she considered the possibility of pointing out to the dragon that there was a bug on her, that she might want to get rid of. Then maybe he'd back off a little. "You?"

"Uh, new-ish," she said. "Not just arrived, or anything. And it's Rachel."

Celena gave a grateful smile at that, "I've found them quite relaxing indeed," she replied with a light bob of her head, "I'm glad to see so many making good use of them, a fine idea Billy put forward,"

"Indeed? I have been here for some time myself, a pleasure to meet you Rachel,"

Marco practically snorted (which was a feat in itself, when you were a fly). <She's been relaxing all right. I think her scales are startling to wrinkle.>

"Yeah, it's so much better than doing nothing." Truthfully, Rachel could get kind of bored here sometimes. She scanned again for her insect companion, wanting to figure out exactly where he is. She was finding it difficult to spot a fly (or whatever other insect he might have morphed) on a dragon though.

"Yeah, same," she replied, flashing a half smile, but her eyes were focused away from her face, more on her back. Was that... a bug there?

((ooc: Lemme know if you guys want me to change anything to make this easier to reply to, or anything. :3))

"Quite so indeed, though there are many things indeed one could do, this is merely another to the list," Celena commented in return, with a light chuckle, being bored? Such a rarity for the dragon aboard the ship. She did enjoy the baths though and spending a bit of time in and around them.

A dip of her head given at her reply, tilting her head curious as she continued the idle conversation, "If I may ask, do you have anyone on board from your home world?" noting her focus though to her form she took the merest glance, perhaps time to hide Marco.

((OOC: Looks fine to me, let me know likewise, and if you want her to see Marco or not))

<What are you doing?!> Marco hissed at Rachel, as he ducked under one of Celena's scales to hide from her inquiring look. <You're going to give me away!>

[[ooc: probably best to keep Marco undiscovered?]]

Rachel nodded to Celena, momentarily distracted. Rachel was probably just too... active, compared to most others on the ship. At the sound of Marco's 'hiss', though, she tore her eyes away. Marco probably had good reason to be there, if he was getting annoyed about it (as opposed to just being a little creep), so she could let it rest.

"Sorry, just thought I saw something," she shrugged. "And... yeah. I've met a friend or two on board," she replied, vaguely. She didn't really feel inclined to talk about her 'team' much. "What about you? Any other big dragons on board I should know about?"

Celena looked curiously over her side for a moment before dipping her head, she would keep in mind to stay more alert, though she cast that aside for the moment as she gave a light smile, "I am glad to hear of that then,"

At the returned question she shook her head slowly, "Unfortunately not, none of my kind at the least, no one else has awoken from my own world thus far," she gave a soft smile, she hoped that those she knew were safe nevertheless she did not let the thought stop her.

Now this was information Marco didn't have yet. <Ask her about her world,> he said to Rachel, focusing on Celena.

Rachel attempted a glare in the direction that she thought she'd seen Marco, even if he probably couldn't see it. Fine, she'd help him out. But he'd owe her, later.

"That sucks," she said, and added, "Though one of the friends I've got on board can be a pain in the ass."

"What was your world like?"

Celena noted the attempted glare, though made no mention or sign that she had, dismissing it for the moment as she replied softly, "It is unfortunate, but one can hope that many are still in the pods," giving a soft smile and a gentle chuckle as she rose an eye-ridge, "Oh indeed?" Giving her a chance to elaborate if she wished.

"Antara, a world of many wonders and many peoples," She replied thoughtfully and almost wistfully after a moment as she thought back, "From sweeping mountain ranges, lush forests and kingdoms of the various races, from dragon to human and many others," a soft smile on her snout as she lifted a paw from the water, the lightest of glows forming along her markings as a sphere formed above it, an projection of the world on which she was hatched. The world on first glance did not seem all too dissimilar to earth, with wide blue oceans, polar caps and three main continents with all the varied colours one could expect from a world.

<Meanie,> Marco said. <You are so doing the dishes on your own today.>

He buzzed a little closer to the illusion, trying to get a good look at it. <Humans too, huh,> he said, thinking to himself. <How well do they all get along there?>

Rachel may have grinned just slightly-- Celena was giving her a pretty good chance to make another shot at Marco. "Oh yeah," she said, "Seems to think I'll do chores around the place we're staying. Though he's probably too short to reach have the stuff we have to clean..." It seemed a bit out of place, maybe, but Celena had invited it, right? And Marco would get it totally.

She quieted enough to listen to the description of the world, though. Clearly she missed her world-- not that Rachel could blame her, really. She hadn't expected to get a visual, but she was used to weird enough that it didn't phase her. "Looks kind of like mine," she offered, but added-- helping Marco still, much to her chagrin-- "But without much other than humans and animals, I guess. Did you all just sort of get along?"

Celena would listen on quietly before giving a soft amused chuckle as she finished, "Not one to chip in with such work is he?" tilting her head lightly, noting details idly even as they spoke, even the last bit, not seeming to notice if it seemed out of place or not, "A place out in the city here I'd gather?" She'd ask with idle curiosity.

Letting the illusion spin for a few moments, watching it with a soft smile before she looked past it once more to Rachel, giving a soft nod, "For the most part, though of course that's not to say there weren't conflicts between kingdom's. The individual races tolerated each other reasonably well in most cases,"

<She's fishing,> Marco noted, watching carefully. <And she's flown all over the City - all she'd need is a description and she'd be able to find us pretty easily.>

Oh, she was good. Which was awesome news for Kang, but Marco would prefer to not have a glowing giant dragon sniffing around their house.

Edited 2011-01-27 04:48 (UTC)

Rachel nodded again, acknowledging Marco's remark. Rachel did not like that she was looking for information on them, whether it was innocent or not. She was a long way from trusting her. "Just some place," she shrugged, instead, giving away as little as possible. "Doesn't really matter, right?"

"That's kind of weird," she said to Celena. "But good I guess. I mean, most worlds probably weren't that lucky."

Celena gave a light shake of her head easily and cheerfully enough, "Not at all, I myself have made something of an abode myself not far from the park," she commented in return, watching her idly, had she been suspicious of her idle questions? No matter.

"That's not to say there weren't a fair share tensions at times, but indeed, it fared better than some worlds," A little help now and again did improve things after all, though not that it mattered overly much now given what the Ohm had done.

<She's got an abode all right,> Marco snorted. <It's a freaking lair. All she needs is a pile of treasure to sit on and a few kidnapped princesses.>

He buzzed around her scales. <What kind of tensions? Reckon you can get her to say whether the dragons had any with anybody?>

Rachel couldn't help the small smirk at Marco's comment. A lair, huh? Her curiosity was peaked--she might have to check it out, later. "I guess you needed something bigger than the crew quarters, huh?" she said, giving her a once over. Plus, the crew quarters were kind of lame.

She nodded again. "Tensions like what?" she asked, resentful of Marco's direction, but figuring it was necessary. She just wished he'd explain what was with all the spying.

Celena gave a soft chuckle and a nod at that, "Indeed, I was able to find something suitable with a little work out here in the city atop one of the towers, not all too far from the park," she replied easily, she hadn't really considered the crew quarters once the city had come to her attention, "Besides, it gives me more of a chance to stretch my wings,"

She tilted her head thoughtfully a moment at Rachel's question, "Tensions over territories, rights, resources between kingdom's, and the occasional groups wishing to overthrow a kingdom's ruler or government," She shook her head after a moment, she had been through many of those, and even seen to quelling one or two such tensions at times.

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