[open]

[livestoannoy]

This was so not turning out to be a good day.

Okay, so they were stuck. In some random part of the ship that he'd never seen before, and they couldn't go back. And just to make it all better, none of their omnicomms or communication rings were working.

Which was why Marco was now sitting at the tables in the new mess hall, fiddling around with his omnicomm in an attempt to get the stupid thing to actually work. He was guessing it was some kind of hardware thing, which sucked, because Marco was better at messing with software than hardware.

Why the hell wasn't Ax here? He at least would know how to fix the damn thing. Ax could fix anything.

And as if to prove Marco's point, while he was poking at one of the wires the omnicomm sparked, causing Marco to let loose a flurry of curses.

Comments

[windwitch]

Maxine was idly exploring (and trying not to be too scared of any and all implications) when she heard the cursing. She hadn't run into many people in this part of the ship yet, but that was a voice she hadn't met yet. And she didn't know what this place held, so-- what if there was something dangerous?

After she literally flew into the mess hall, the relief was palpable.

"Are you okay?" she said, after a moment, landing and walking over to the teenage boy. She was also, admittedly, curious in what he was doing.

[livestoannoy]

Marco looked up. Then he blinked. Okay, there was a girl flying in. Considering what else they had on the ship, that wasn't even that weird. "Am I okay? Oh sure, I'm perfectly fine. Not only have I been stuck on a ship traveling through the multiverse after my world was destroyed for who knows how long, now I'm stuck in some cast of part of that ship that doesn't even have cable and the stupid omnicomms not working. Really, I couldn't possibly be better.

Can you sense the sarcasm, Maxine?

[windwitch]

Maxine looked a little disheartened at the response, her face falling for a brief moment. Sure, he was right to not be in a good mood, but...

"Oh, well, I guess I meant-- relatively speaking? I mean, the situation is really bad but that's for everyone involved. I don't know that anyone is in a particularly bad spot with this, but it is true that we don't really have any reason to feel that great about it. But I mean, if you're not hurt and you can still fight then it could be worse, right? Even if it'd be better to not have to fight at all. I was just worried that-- maybe someone got hurt coming down here, or maybe someone else is scared because I know I kind of am, but I have to try for other people anyway, right?"

Maybe he upset her a little bit.

[livestoannoy]

Marco blinked, not having expected her to...well, actually get upset.

"Well sure, we're not dead," he said, rather lamely. "Except for the omnicomms. They've all suffered a violent and painful death."

[windwitch]

"Well, true." Fortunately, she seemed to perk up again reasonably quickly. "The omnicomms aren't doing as well as we are, so far, though we don't know what's down here but I don't think it's anything that dangerous or we probably would have seen some sign of it by now, right? But I'd have to guess there's something blocking the signal, though I couldn't imagine what, since the whole system is tied into Stacy herself and we're obviously still on board. So for some reason her communications don't reach here. Does that mean she can't sense us, either? Because that could prove problematic in trying to get back..." She frowned. "I don't know if I'll be able to help with the comms though. I'm not an expert on that kind of thing, or anything."

[livestoannoy]

"It's not the signal - something zapped them when we came through the tubes," Marco said, rolling his eyes as if that were obvious. "And this is Stacy, remember? I seriously doubt she'd have an entire section where she couldn't watch everything that we were doing."