cityship: (Stacy--Main AI)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-07-01 05:24 pm

Newbie Meet n' Greet

For the newbies, there are people waiting for them in the Obs Deck. A whole gaggle of people. Behind them is the nasty statue, and the beautiful sight through the windows of the stars streaming past and the swirling vortex of collars that was interdimensional travel.

There are more questions than answers, but the crew is willing to help, especially the Command Staff and greeters.

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-02 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've been here a couple weeks. You get used to it after a little while. Um, if you don't like the food there's a trick you can do in the sensorium to make it taste better..." Or indeed have any taste at all. That had been the second hardest thing to get used to, besides the resemblance to being inside an alien.

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-02 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does the food taste really bad?" Vega asks. He has no idea. The Backdraft have always taken very good care of him, he's their pride and... well, maybe not "joy" so much as "hope for world domination".

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-02 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"It doesn't have any taste. It's more like the texture..." Yuri shudders a little. Snot for Stacy was like duct tape for normal people.

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh." Vega's not sure what exactly that's going to mean, but he'll just wait and see for himself.

"What does everyone do? The ship said we were "chosen" for something." He continues with his questions. Vega's more curious than he is afraid right now, though this is really bizarre.

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
"They don't tell us much of anything. But i'm used to that..." She smiles and tries to not make it sounds scary even though it scares her half to death. "I've never been on one but everyone goes on these missions down to different planets and...well, I don't know what exactly they do there. But it's very important to Stacy."

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, maybe I can ask somebody," says Vega. He has a thought. Something's been bugging him since he ran into that old man who didn't know what a Zoid was.

"Hey, have you ever heard of Zoids?" he asks Yuri. It's going to stink if the only person that understands here is that Jamie guy from the Blitz team. Even if Geno Saurers are really cool.

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuri shakes her head, kindof getting what he's trying to find out. "And I guess you don't recognize one of these." She says, pointing up to the froglike alien hat on her head.

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Vega peers at the "hat" curiously. "No, not really. Is... is that hat alive?"

Upon closer looking, it seems more like some kind of animal than a hat. Creepy!

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
""I'm as alive as you, buddy. I'm Yuri's borg." The 'hat' says with a flick of its ropy tongue. Its voice is rasping and humming sounding.

"Borg! You're not supposed to talk before I tell people about you!" She holds down his edges as if he were a real hat, ready to blow away in a breeze. "I'm sorry if he startled you..." To Vega.

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
He did! Vega jumps back a little bit in surprise.
"Whoah!"

He recovers after a second, fear replaced by curiosity. This encourages him to peer some more. "Huh, what's a Borg? Why's he on your head?"

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-04 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
"It's...complicated. He's apparently my symbiotic partner, to help me catch things..." Or at least that's what she's been told.

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-04 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Symbiotic partner, huh?" He has some vague recollection of what symbiosis is. He tends to not pay attention very well when people try to school him, he daydreams about Zoids a lot. Vega's got quite a narrow focus on life.

"What do you catch?"

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-04 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, ah...Other aliens, I guess. They land on the school grounds and us kids in the alien party have to catch them." In retrospect, that sounded completely ridiculous.

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-04 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Why don't the grown ups do anything about it? That sounds dangerous."

Adults are the people that do stuff in Vega's world. They usually don't explain it to him either, unless he gets real stubborn about it.

Not that Zoid battles are dangerous. Noooo, not at all.

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-04 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yuri sighs. It's a question she's heard before. "They don't tell us much of anything. I guess they're busy doing adult stuff..."

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-04 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I guess. They don't tell me what they're doing much either, so I guess it's not important. Otherwise they'd tell me."

This makes perfect sense to Vega, though it's not true. He only has the vaguest sense of what the Backdraft's using him for. He doesn't see anything wrong with taking on the Zoids Battle Commission, it just means they'd change the rules of the game, right? Nobody'd get hurt, right?

"Are you good at fighting aliens?" he asks conversationally. Forgive him Yuri, he thinks it sounds kind of exciting.

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-04 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuri sadly shakes her head. "I only got elected to it 'cause none of the other kids in my class wanted to. The other girls in the party do it 'cause they want to and they're much better than me. The aliens are gross and scary and if you mess up then the teacher yells at you."

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-05 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, sorry." Vega gets the sense that this isn't a nice thing to talk about. Even though fighting aliens still seems like it would be kind of awesome. At least, with his Zoid. He doesn't know much about lacrosse equipment, but it seems inadequate.

"We can talk about something else then," he offers.

[identity profile] lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com 2009-07-05 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuri gladly takes up the offer. She misses her friends and gets sad if she starts to think about home too much. "Are you in school?"

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-07-06 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Kind of. I don't have class with other kids, but I get homework and I have a teacher," he says. Homework's really boring, and they make him do it before he's allowed to go practice with his Zoid. It's no fun. It's also probably not as thorough as a public school education would be, Vega's being fast tracked to super pilotry first and foremost over everything else.