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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92012-04-04 04:41 pm

Meet and Greet

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicomms and comm rings. They are also told they must read information about their current situation and a survival guide with their new omnicomm. New crewmates might see a tall dragonish guy with wings (but don't call him that), a large afro attached to a smaller girl, and talking ponies 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. But thankfully this time, there's a system that was set up to aid the new crew members with a few more experienced ones.

[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. Big brother/sister, there will be a thread for you as well!]
soulinherfists: giant glaring eye in profile (GRRRRR.)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-04 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Allenby's response was almost as instantaneous. She had just enough self-control not to punch him in the face, but she did instantly raise her fists.

"WHO THE HELL SAID THAT?! But if you really wanna know, it's more like small enough to get through a cell membrane!" Yeah, that's right, Ed. You would diffuse across the lipid bilayer. "Besides, who cares? Bein' a tiny bit taller doesn't make you better."
equivalent_trade: (Ed: watch it!)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-04 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
/SCREAM

"I don't want to hear that from a shrimp like you." Oh man, that felt so good. "Shorty! Runt! Half-pint!"

A complex? Noooooo. Edward raised his fists in return, but he did back up a little, getting into a good stance in case Allenby decided to unleash her tiny-person rage.
soulinherfists: GLAAAAARE she is put out (I will punch every rat in the face)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-05 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
"DO YOU WANT A BIG SISTER OR NOT, MIDGET?!"

And since he was gearing up to fight, well, why not?! Maybe they'd actually start making progress if they started talking with their fists instead of yelling at each other.

PUNCH.
equivalent_trade: (Ed: WTF book?!)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-05 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
HURGH that was a pretty good punch, but Edward sent a left hook her way.

"I'M THE BIG SIBLING HERE, YOU WATER FLEA!"
soulinherfists: fight pose GRIT TEETH (More interesting than I thought)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-05 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, guess what being short is great for? Ducking! "YOU'RE FRESH OUT OF THE PODS, DUST MITE! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO HELP OUT RIGHT NOW?"

Because this right now? Helpful. So very, very helpful.
equivalent_trade: (Ed: let's fight)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-05 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
And ducking is good for axe kicks! "DON'T LECTURE ME, YOU PARAMECIUM!"

He is clearly fulfilling his mission priorities here.
soulinherfists: punch in the FACE. (HEY OW.)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-05 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
OW. Allenby would have thought that to be not a bad hit, if she had been in the mood she usually was when fighting (i.e. a good one). Now it just pissed her off that she hadn't expected it.

She went flying up, landing on her butt. At least the floor was slightly softer than the foot to her chin had been. Okay, time to try words again. "Do you want to keep shouting tiny insults at each other, or do you wanna know what's going on here?!" she snapped, shaking her fist at him.
equivalent_trade: (Ed: alert)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-05 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
What? They weren't going to fight each other until they couldn't move? That was so weird.

He eyed her suspiciously, as if suspecting some kind of trick. "You know what's really going on here?"
soulinherfists: desperately trying to keep Quatre from going nuts (this can't be happening)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-05 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
IT'S NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. But information is good first.

"Yes, if you'd shut up about height for one second and listen to me." She rubbed her chin. "You heard that dumb voice in your head pretendin' like she was your mom and telling you all that crap about being a champion for worlds and all, yeah?"
equivalent_trade: (Ed: grr)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-05 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're the one who called me kiddo!" But whatever, fine. Talking.

"I heard it, all right. And I don't believe a word of it. Who does that Stacy think she is, anyway?" Besides, he only had one mother and she was deaaaaaad.
soulinherfists: look of recounting injustice (And I had to eat lutefisk EVERY DAY.)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-06 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
"That's 'cause you're sixteen or something, geez!" But hey, now she knew how to piss him off whenever she wanted a fight. Good information to have!

She nodded in approval. "Good, you shouldn't. Don't trust her at all. Sometimes she'll do something decent at the last minute, but not after letting us get almost totally screwed over first. She's run by the Daligig--they're evil bastards, and they drafted us into a war that's probably their fault to start with."
equivalent_trade: (Ed: hmm)

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[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-06 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, like you're any older," he grumbled.

Edward ran his fingers through his hair, frowning in thought. "It's just one thing after another. Okay, so the ship is evil. The people who brought us here are evil. But you don't really think our worlds are all gone, do you? Because I can't believe it. There isn't a creature alive that can destroy a whole universe."
soulinherfists: seriously a serious look (SER. I. OUS. consideration.)

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[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-06 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Seventeen." Which, okay, was just a year older. "Maybe eighteen by now." Because, well, who knew with the way time ran on the ship? She could be.

"Not creature. Creatures," Allenby corrected. "The Ohm are a race or a civilization or somethin', and unfortunately that part's true, but we don't know the real reason why. We don't know that it can't be undone, either."
equivalent_trade: (Ed: assessing)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't be so literal," he said, slightly annoyed. "And that's an even bigger story to swallow. Let's say these Ohm do exist, and that they do destroy universes. In order to gain anything, you have to present something of equal value. So tell me -- what are you going to present that would be equal in value to a universe?

"Once you're dead, you're dead. There's no coming back. I can't even imagine the price you'd have to pay to bring back billions or trillions of people at once."
soulinherfists: suspicious look (Never trust a 30-foot tall Greek)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] soulinherfists 2012-04-06 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Equal in value? Allenby bristled at first, but then it kind of sounded like one of those... thermodynamic things. Or chemistry? Something about matter not being created or destroyed and balancing equations. More stuff that she had deliberately forgotten after learning it.

...No, she was still pissed. "We don't know that. There's a ton of crap that you're gonna see that would be impossible in some places, like magic and shapeshifting. So don't go countin' things as impossible just because your universe's physics don't go along with it."
equivalent_trade: (Ed: /wheeze)

Re: Allenby, open to anyone

[personal profile] equivalent_trade 2012-04-06 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll believe it when I see it. Till then, I'm not getting my hopes up." If Edward sounded skeptical, it was only because he was. What Father had wanted to do had required the souls of everyone in Amestris. There was no way he was going to be involved in anything like that.