cityship: (Stacy--Actual Face)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-10-01 12:17 am

Meat n' Greet

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. They are also told they must read information about their current situation and a survival guide with their new omnicom. New crew-mates might see a tall dragonish guy with wings (but don't call him that) and purple 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.]

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Atom turned toward her, giving her a bright smile. "Yeah, anyone from back home. Have you seen a professor with a really big nose? Or a little girl with pigtails? She's my sister, Uran."

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard for Eva not to be compelled to smile back when smiled at by a kid's face. "I haven't met a Uran yet, but you could ask about her over the channels. And professors with big noses...I haven't met any, but if he's the type to gravitate towards the science department I can show you where that is."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Atom looked a little concerned. "Maybe I should stay here, then. Just in case they come out. I'm sure you'd know them if you met them. Uran really likes animals, and Professor Ochanomizu is the nicest scientist I know."

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Eva frowns a bit. "Then you might be here a long time. They may still be sleeping in the pods. I haven't met them, but there are thousands of people unaccounted for in that computer system."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"A computer system?" Atom brightened. "I'm good with computers. I can help look for them!"

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you're good with computers, you're better equipped for survival here than I am." She grins. "I don't know if the ship actually has a list of everyone it's picked up, and I'm sure if it exists and we can actually access it we would have by now, but the ship's a bit damaged."

If Atom didn't seem like a youngster, Eva would go on to pout about how her life is under the thumb of a computer who is quite possibly completely insane and at the very least, more than a little defective.

She holds out a hand to Atom. "I'm Eva. What's your name?"

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is? Who damaged it?" This didn't sound like great news. Were they all in the hands of a malfunctioning AI? Was it benevolent, or might it hurt some of the people aboard?

Atom hesitated for a moment before taking Eva's hand and shaking it. "It'm Atom! Tetsuwan Atom. Nice to meet you, Eva."

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pirates, it seems." And the answers to that are a lot more murky.

It takes Eva a moment to realize he's said 'Atom', not 'Adam', as she'd first assume, but she shakes his hand warmly. "Tetsuwan would be your family name, wouldn't it? I don't really know how these sorts of things work."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds differenter in Japanese.

Atom looked a little dubious. "...pirates? Space pirates?" Weird.

He smiled anyway at her question. "Yep, that's right!" It was sort of weird how no one on the ship recognized him at all. Not that that was a bad thing, and maybe it was just more proof that the people here really did come from different worlds. It was just a little strange to have everyone treating him like a little human boy.

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Stacy's translating it into English and Spanish neener neener

"I assume so. I think it'd be pretty hard for them to damage a ship this size just by stabbing it with scimitars and firing cannons at it."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Unless they were laser cannons." And laser scimitars. Think big, Eva.

He frowned a little. "Are they going to come back? Shouldn't we be worried about that?"

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
"But wouldn't laser cannons be more likely to be on a space pirate vessel than a regular pirate vessel?"

She shakes her head. "I don't know the details, but nobody here seems concerned about it happening again."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Atom looked a little dubious. If it happened once, couldn't it happen again? Although with him here, they probably didn't have to worry so much.

"What are you doing here?" he asked finally. "Are you looking for someone?"

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
"My family's around already. I just like to come see the happy reunions. Don't worry, there are very few people who never find anyone from their home here."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah... maybe it's better if they stay in there, though. It's safer. I'm glad your family's okay."

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably. I think they're safer, in there. Occasionally the people who are awake get sent on missions and they always come back in foul moods."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Atom's brows knitted together in concern. "How come? Are they dangerous?"

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Generally. Or...demoralizing, a lot of the time. We haven't lost many on the missions but there have been injuries and close calls."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh." Atom was silent for a moment. "I guess I should help out with them, then. I bet if more people went on them, they'd be less dangerous."

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
She raises an eyebrow. "You fancy yourself a warrior? I mean, for all I know you are."

And yet there's something sad in how she says that.

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Atom smiled a little. "Well, you know. I'm pretty tough. Besides, it's less scary to do things together than it is to do them alone. Right?"

He didn't want to make her upset. She seemed like a nice woman.

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
She smiles. "A true point, although I don't know of any solo missions yet. I half suspect their the ship's attempts at team bonding sessions."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Bonding sessions? I don't know... couldn't they do it in some way that's a little less dangerous?" What was the point of thrusting them into life-threatening situations just to get them to make friends if they ended up hating the ship?

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I was being sarcastic." She winks. "But there doesn't seem to be much point we can see in them yet. Maybe down the road. The ship isn't very good at telling us what it needs."

[identity profile] tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Atom considered this. "...then I should try and go on as many as I can. I don't want people to get hurt if they don't have to."

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