Meat n' Greet

[cityship]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings. New crew-mates might see a tall man in green armor and snake girl among their number. There are also several authoritative-looking figures ready to introduce themselves.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies.]

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[prattlingvoice]

"We can't just do nothing!" Donna said, spreading her free hand wide. Then she stopped, and looked at Jamie. "What do you mean, 'at least they're safe where they are'? What about up here? Are you telling me this place isn't safe?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"That's not what I meant." Although it's not, not completely, but he's reluctant to go into it unless she presses. Bad enough she has to find out about the war as it is.

"Mostly the ship is, but...look, you've just woken up here and found out your world's gone. Destroyed. Do ye really want your family to have to find that out too?"

[prattlingvoice]

Donna thought of her grandfather, her mother, her friends...everyone she knew, waking up to find themselves in this strange place, where everything they knew was gone. "No, I guess not," she said quietly. "But why am I here? Why me? Why not someone else, someone important?"

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie's quiet for a moment, then nods in understanding. "I know a wee bit how that feels. Ye wake up in a place like this, where there's all sorts of beasties and these super-heroes with powers and you're not sure where ye fit into it all."

He glances down at the morpher on his wrist, then flicks his eyes back up to Donna. "Even if you're not one of those, there's something important about ye, or you'd not have been woken up in the first place. It's just a matter of finding out what it is, aye?"

[prattlingvoice]

"Well unless someone needs a secretary to save the universe, I don't think there's going to be anything important about me, Kilt-boy," Donna said dismissively. What good was a temp in the middle of a alien war? What was she supposed to do, catalogue how many people woke up with useless belongings like her?

[bonnypiperlad]

'Kilt-boy' is apparently a nickname the Scot doesn't care much for, because as soon as he hears it, his lips press together in a rather vexed-looking way. "The name's Jamie, I'll have ye know. And maybe not, but there's things ye can do and learn here if ye want to."

Although he's beginning to wonder if she wants to, honestly. "Look, I'll not say it's the best thing to be where we are, but it's not like we have much choice in the matter right now. Not if we want to get our worlds back."

[prattlingvoice]

"Jamie. Good name you got there, kilt-boy," Donna said, her lips quirking in amusement for a moment.

"Now, excuse me, but am I the only one who notices that there's something wrong with the idea that we can bring back our worlds when they've been destroyed?" Donna said, her expression turning incredulous. "They said the world is gone! How on earth can it be brought back if it's completely destroyed?"

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie's mouth pulls off to the side for a moment as she says it again, but he lets it slide for now, not realizing he may regret that decision later. She's right about the rest of it though, and he nods.

"I know, it sounds daft," Anyone with any sense would think so. He thought so, when he first heard it. "But that's what we've been told. The problem is, it's the Ohm that have it."

[prattlingvoice]

Don't regret it too much Jamie - she'd keep calling you kilt-boy even if you had insisted on her not using it.

"Wait, how can the Ohm or whatever have our worlds if they destroyed them? That doesn't make sense," Donna said. Jamie was definitely right about all this sounding daft.