cityship: (Meanwhile...)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-06-26 12:42 am

"Listening to others, considering well what they say" (Part 3: Maingate Hotel)

The Maingate Hotel was pretty extravagant, and an entire section of it had been eked out for the crew's use during their stay. They had several suites, three communal areas, a conference room, their own kitchen with a chef on call if they required her.

They were all teleported from the main teleport pad of the hotel into the conference room, which was a large enough room to be able to hold a group their size and had plenty of chairs arranged in a circular pattern so they could mostly all face each other or whoever was in the middle of the room.

Everyone had to settle down so they were all able to talk, and the meeting itself would have to be carefully controlled so they wouldn't all talk over each other. But they were up for the task, right?

[ooc: Guardian Setup, General Mingling, Clone Checkup, Newbie Briefing, General Briefing, More Mingling, Back to the Meeting, and The Idea Guy sections are open. Backup characters introduced to the plot can join in the mingling subthreads if they want. The opening of new subthreads will be announced here and the ooc. Please read the linked OOC post for a plot timeline.]
badassfreakingoverlord: (do not read the overlord)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-10 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Around a corner, the book lurked patiently, cheerfully cheating with its battlefield perspective to watch the kitchen. Waiting patiently, judging for just the right moment....

Now. Everyone was out. A warehouse crashed down into the center of the kitchen, its size not quite proportionate to what it ought to be. From it, eight different jumped out. They began ransacking the place, hurling supplies back into the warehouse quickly and efficiently.
thewunderkind: (Who? Me?)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-10 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Meanwhile, a wunderkind was busy drinking a (admittedly very delicious) soft drink listening in as the kitchen staff was scrambling to get the mopers and emo kidsmoppers and responsible people involved on the line.

Funny how most of the lines were sounding scrambled right now and their main contact system was offline. It certainly had nothing to do with Lash having played around when no one was looking.

By the time anyone would find out what had really happened, it would take at least a week or two to trace it back to their staying guests. It's not like they'd still be stuck here. Hopefully.
Edited 2011-07-10 18:02 (UTC)
badassfreakingoverlord: (animated laughter)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-10 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It took maybe three minutes, tops, before the kitchen was emptied of food, drink, small appliances, and possibly a walk-in refrigerator. Nearly bursting at the seams, the warehouse vanished, along with the Overlord's minions. Out in the hall, the leader picked the book up once again, and the two high-tailed it back to Zetta's room in a fit of snickering and giggling.
thewunderkind: (:D)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-10 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"How did it go?" Lash was sipping the last parts of the soda with her straw pretty loudly.
badassfreakingoverlord: (smug sneer)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-10 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Cleaned the place out. I' m not gonna dump it off here, but we pretty much took everything that wasn't nailed down."

The fridge, by the way, had not been nailed down.

"Oh, uh, if a fire breaks out, the extinguishers I stole aren't rated for combustible metals, so try not to throw any magnesium around."
thewunderkind: (Explosions!)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-10 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Did you turn off the gas at least?" she asked, putting the glass down on the side table. "Wouldn't want this entire place to blow up...well not unless we did it on purpose, tee hee hee!"
Edited 2011-07-11 14:55 (UTC)
badassfreakingoverlord: (wat)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-11 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't steal the OVEN!" he said, indignantly. "Just the fridge! It's not like the oven was storing any food, what the hell would have been the point?"
thewunderkind: (Thinking)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-11 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Scrap metal, maybe," she said stretching her arms and cracking her fingers. "I wish this place had less cameras around the town, I would probably go steal more useful stuff."

Oh well, they had a lot of food, that counted for something.
badassfreakingoverlord: (so much for that arrogance)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-11 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"You could steal the cameras, that would solve both problems."

Zetta logic. But as it happened he'd stolen so many pots and pans that their scrap metal needs would be somewhat alleviated. "Still, we did good. Either way, we'll be..."

He considered that and frowned. "Who am I kidding, they'll still hate and fear us."
thewunderkind: (Raspberry - Evil teasing)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-11 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Lash merely shrugged as she moved at the end of the bed to push out the hundred of things they had hidden there. Combined with the two filled fridge they had a lot more stuff here too.

"Well it's their loss if you ask me!"
badassfreakingoverlord: (hyaa ha ha ha ha ha)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-11 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"We can always horde the food and lord it up over everyone who disdains us," he said helpfully.
thewunderkind: (Ha ha!)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-12 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds like a great idea! Tee hee it's not like I really care that much about all this food anyway but using it to make others mad? I'm all for it!"

Zetta you were a horrible influence.

...but she'd probably sneak a bunch of it for the rangers and stuff like that. You know. People she pretended not to care about so she could feel better about herself and not caring.
badassfreakingoverlord: (Standard Zetta)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-12 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, he'd specified only the people who disdained them. Her fellow Rangers didn't do that, did they?

Magog help them if they DID.

"It's kinda fun being the black sheep of the ship. At least this way we earn the title!"
thewunderkind: (Sparkly eyes)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-12 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well maybe Ron would get kicked another time.

Eh who are we kidding, he'd get kicked anyway.

"Well, black is my favorite color. Or well my favorite achromatic if you want to get all technical." She grinned and gave him a tiny shrug. "To the victors go the spoils of war."
badassfreakingoverlord: (all right)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-12 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Admit it, they will both be slightly disappointed when they find out they weren't the first ones blamed for the hotel explosion.

"Good thing red goes well with black then. The most awesome of combinations."
thewunderkind: (Raspberry - Evil teasing)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-12 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Lash would probably have felt better being tied up in a few hours, if she had known it would have involved an explosion of some sort, admittedly.

"I don't know any expression relating to red sheep with their wool on fire, mind you," she said with a teasing voice.
badassfreakingoverlord: (dot dot frickin' dot)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-13 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Her and him both, sister.

"Well make one up! You're the Wunderkind!"
thewunderkind: (Who? Me?)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-13 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay, okay, how about this one?" she took a bite from one of the energy bars and threw herself back on the bed. "No wolf would ever venture willingly into the land of the badass red fire sheep."
badassfreakingoverlord: (animated laughter)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-13 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Zetta rolled that one in his head for a moment.

"Yeah. Yeah, I kinda like that! Hyaaa ha ha ha ha! Wolves will fear to tread in the lands of the black sheep Wunderkind and the red fire sheep Overlord!"
thewunderkind: (Evil grin)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-14 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Because they'll have laced it with fences of fire, turrets and proximity mines that take into account sheep weight vs wolf weight."

Uh yes. Truly a word of the wise that was waiting to be finished, there. She finished her bar and threw the wrapper on the side. Room service could take care of that.
badassfreakingoverlord: (smug sneer)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-14 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"And if you manage to get through all of that they will punch you so hard you'll see the back of your own head coming at you over the horizon in front of you," he added helpfully.

Lash and Zetta will have the most alarming pillow talk in the universe.
thewunderkind: (Movement - Food in mouth)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-14 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
So basically like all the other times they talk together then.

"Tee hee hee! See? See, now that's what I call a really good expression. I'll have to find a way to use it later. Like on Zedd or something."

Ahh Lord Zedd. You'd never stop being Lash's favorite buttmonkey.

"Tomorrow we should see what else we can sneak around here. Like maybe a supply of toothbrushes or the towels or shoes." Not that she minded being a hobbit for most of her time on the ship but she did sometimes miss a nice pair of boots.
Edited 2011-07-14 16:07 (UTC)
badassfreakingoverlord: (crap I'm a book)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-15 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"If we need to do any more large hauls, I'm not sure where we'll put it. Small loads for a bit... not like toothbrushes are huge. Hey, why the hell doesn't the ship provide for dental health?" Seriously, all that medical tech it already had...
thewunderkind: (:D)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-15 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Who said I only use the toothbrushes for brushing my teeth? They're perfect for brushing away the dust on tiny little gears or a tank shell!" Only a wunderkind could use the noble toothbrush as a bonafide tool of war.