Meet N' Greet

[cityship]

||Initiating Meet and Greet. Crew members, for the sake of morale, there will be periodic meetings on the Obs Deck so that newer members of the crew can be welcomed and so the crew can communicate with one another.||

Apparently, Stacy liked to throw a party now and again.

[ooc: Anyone may start new threads here]

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[googledox]

This was his first public appearance since his disappearance. After spending ample time to recover and regroup mentally, Brainiac 5 was ready to go out and face the crew, not sure if the ones who had known him once would be forgiving, not sure if the people who were new would be afraid of him.

After all, he didn't plan on hiding anything about what had happened to him or his status of being monitored if anyone asked. If he was anything, it was honest--sometime to the point of tactlessness.

To anyone looking at him, he cut an almost pitiful figure. His green skin inordinately pale, his blond hair only just starting to grow back, his already-lean body too-thin and almost emaciated, he looked like someone that had survived some sort of disaster or wasting disease. As he walked onto Obs Deck, he fiddled with the metal band on his wrist, which, curiously, looked completely solid all the way around and yet too narrow to take off.

Yet the way he held up his chin and scanned the room with bright eyes suggested that even if he'd undergone some recent hardship or illness, he was still in possession of his dignity--and maybe his ego, as well.

A thought occurred to him, as he scanned the crowd and remembered a face he was hoping to see. A furry face.

"Koko!" Brainy called, bending down to look under tables, knowing Koko sometimes liked to hide. "Koko, are you here? You had better not be hiding, you flea-bitten nuisance."

[splendid_roman]

Having not seen him before Ian couldn't tell if the way he looked was usual for him, so decided to be tactful and not mention it. "Is Koko a cat?" he asked. "Do you need some help looking for him?"

Sorry for the wait! Crazy weekend.

[googledox]

"He's an extremely irritating monkey." Yet despite being irritating, Brainy was still a bit desperate to find him. "One genetically engineered from the Earth order Cebidae. The closest approximation would be Cebus albifrons, the white-fronted capuchin."

Brainy stood up from looking under a table to put his hands on his hips.

"It's entirely possible he's gallivanting around the ship in other places or that he's been repodded, but he always did like to go where people were congregating, so I thought he might be here."

He hoped he might be here, rather.

That's ok

[splendid_roman]

Ian nodded. "Is there a treat you can offer him?" he wondered, still thinking about cats, mainly. "If he is here that would bring him out."

But it was a big ship and who knows where a monkey might be. "I'll help you look," he offered. "If he's not here then we can work through places where lots of other people are and places he liked to go."

Re: That's ok

[googledox]

"He eats just about anything edible," Brainy said, "so there's nothing in particular that would lure him out. I'd appreciate the assistance, though. He was my first--"

Awkward. It was too awkward to tell a stranger a superintelligent monkey was your first friend. Why had he almost told a stranger that? His emotional control was clearly still not the best after everything that had happened to him.

"--my first pet."