trans_9 | What is Love? [Valentine's Date Event]

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What is Love? [Valentine's Date Event]

It's shaping up to be another average day on the Transmigration 9. Crew members are going about their business as usual and all is (to most appearances, at least) about as "well" as things ever are on the ship.

Some crew members are going to be stopped out of the blue by impact with a force field.

"Attention Crewmen: You have been chosen to participate in an experiment!" GLaDOS's voice informs. They're not alone, someone else that was nearby is also caught within the same narrow radius. "Participation is mandatory. Please try to relax and enjoy the experience, as this will improve the quality of the test results."

Clearly this is going to be a wonderful day for science.

"You and your new scientific partner are now on a date," GLaDOS goes on. "As it would be detrimental to our study of the date experience if you were to be separated, you must remain close to your partner for the duration of the experiment. This will be enforced with the Transmigration 9 Crewman Containment Field. Prolonged exposure to the Transmigration 9 Crewman Containment Field may have unexpected side-effects. While any side-effects encountered will be documented and your desire to offer yourself to science is commendable, it is not a necessary part of this experiment."

"You will be informed when the test has been completed. We would like to thank you in advance for your full cooperation in the experiment and failure to attempt to foil it in any way."

"The experiment has begun, so you may begin dating."

[OOC: The exact details of your characters' confinement are up to players' discretion. Being trapped in a sensorium or other stationary place is a possibility, as is being stuck in a sort of roving invisible force field hamster ball that only affects the two of you. How far partners can move apart is probably subject to whatever's fun but they ideally shouldn't be able to sit on opposite sides of a room ignoring one another the whole time.

ICly the "test" lasts for a few hours and you are free to godmode GLaDOS telling them the experiment is finished.

If you would like a few tags from GLaDOS herself in your thread, ping me on this account or plurk or AIM or whatever is most convenient for you. :)]

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"Normally I'd agree with you," Kaya said. "People with no bending are usually in more danger than those with. But keep in mind the Fire Nation wanted to rule over all the other nations. Their biggest threat would be benders, so naturally they would be the ones imprisoned or outright killed first."

Something she knew all too well thanks to her teacher.

She sighed. "It really would be nice if we could get everyone on this. If someone has something in them that could hurt them later, we could find it out now. We can't really afford any more causalities."

But enough about that! "So how about those tea cups?"

Yes. A much more pleasant topic of conversation than who would die first back in Kaya's world or people dying on the battlefield (not that Howard is terrible averse to some people dying on the battlefield, but he's bitchy like that).

He straps into a teacup and waits for Kaya to join him.

Kaya would wholeheartedly agree. Thinking about the people dying in her world meant that she would eventually start thinking about people dying HERE. Considering the recent shake ups in the past few days, it was the last thing she wanted on her mind.

So instead she boarded oversized cups normally meant for serving tea and still looking baffled about it.

"Make sure you strap in," Howard warns her just before the teacups start. Slowly at first...and then insanely fast.

By this time, Kaya is definitely no slouch at getting ready for whatever craziness is going to happen. It starts to move slowly enough: and then it picks up speed, making the two of them spin like crazy.

Thankfully Kaya had no motion sickness.

It takes more than a single teacup ride for Howard to have a problem with motion sickness, too. He's just stoked by the time the ride ends. "Bet you didn't have that back at the Water Tribe."

Oh, she was glad to get off, Kaya was reeling a little bit after this. Roller coasters and sudden drops? Fine. Revolving teacups going around and around? Definitely not her cup of...well, not her preference.

"No, we definitely didn't," she said, balancing herself by a nearby concession stand. "Of course, we were more of the skating, slopey types."

"You feeling okay?" Howard's been on those sorts of rides enough that he doesn't sway any with his feet on the ground.

"Been better," Kaya mumbled, half laughing at herself. "You know, I've trained in Will's classroom on tightropes and balance beams. You;d think something like this would be a piece of cake!"

"You'd think they'd prepare us for spinny things in case we're in a shuttle crash. I don't know. I've been mostly training on my own. Group training reminds me too much of gym class." He already knows he can't keep up with superpowered people - why rub it in?

"Gym class." At least Kaya actually knew what that meant now. Looking at the way things were set up in Will's, she could see how things would be coordinated so hey could help more than just a small amount of students.

"Does anyone help you at least? That can be a gain. I've had a few people help me prepare for things that would come my way. It's the only reason I'm not more injured than I am."

"Yeah, Zou's teaching me. There's no way I'd know how to do it myself." Howard's able to admit that sometimes, you do need someone to show you before you try it. "Who's helping you out?"

Kaya laughed. "Man, I've had a long list. Kang's the one I learned basic swordsmanship, but there was also a vampire queen, Sheeana, Chase...there have been a lot I learned from. You find that you learn more and more when you open your mind. I still have a bus full of gym equipment and magic to look after, actually."

"I miss Chase. He brought me cars," Howard muses. "You going to be offloading any of that equipment?"

Kaya also looked a little sad about him leaving-he had seemed like a fairly good guy, and he had helped start training with the Outsiders pretty well.

"I don't think I could even if I wanted to," Kaya said. "But the bus is still working and I leave it open for anyone who wants to come and train and meditate there."

"Damn. So all that stuff's wasted?"

Clearly that's the biggest travesty here.

"It's not wasted, it just means you have to go over there!" Kaya said, reddening slightly. "I have the keys, ok? The guy that owned it gave them to me, Matt."

"Jeez, why are you so oversensitive all the time?" He rolls his eyes. "Don't take it so seriously."

"I'm NO-well, ok, maybe I am a little," Kaya said. "I guess its just a little guilt and a little sadness. I feel bad that Matt is almost a memory, and worse that...the bus used to be so full of people, and now its almost empty."

"He's sleeping in the pods. It's not the end of the world unless an AI sics her goons on them again."

"There are a lot of people in pod sleep I wish weren't," she said, sighing. "But there you go. How's Orc?"

"He's...Orc. You saw him when you met him, right? That's basically his baseline." Howard tries to sound thrilled that Orc's around but it's clearly feigned, shot through with worry. "He's mostly drunk."

Anyone could see that it bothered Howard that Orc was so out of sorts. She was wiling to bet that was also what Orc did back where they lived.

"Then it might be time to talk to him, make him see there has to be more than drinking. It's a fun activity to do with friends, but if he's drunk more than actually functional, its not going to do anything except hurt him."

They hadn't talked much, but knowing this made Kaya sad. There has to be something that happened with Orc that made him how he was. It was things like these that made Kaya realize the harsh reality that was the Fayz, and how Howard had actually been one of the lucky ones.

"I don't know. Maybe it's better that he stays drunk. It seems to keep him from thinking too hard." And if Orc stops drinking Howard's going to have to find a new carrot and stick routine for him. "It's complicated."

As much as Howard is concerned about and afraid of Orc's alcoholism, he also doesn't know how he'd manage their relationship without it.

Kaya was quietly thinking about this. She was pretty sure that Howard did NOT think that was probably the best idea, he just didn't know what to do about it.

"I don't doubt its complicated. Orc seemed very confused when he came onto the ship, and that will probably get worse. But at the same time, it isn't fair to him if no one prepares him for the worst. With all the things that happen here, he'll need to have his wits about him more than ever."

She sighed. It was something she inherited from her first teacher, Katara, to raise a fuss and be sensible. That didn't mean she always liked doing it.

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