This particular section is surprisingly still in its base form despite the fact that Greed is standing there, looking around with a small frown.

"So how's this supposed to work again...?"

Something about him not actually having to do a lot... Eh, he'll figure it out.

He wasn't even sure what he wanted to do in here, honestly. He just hadn't gotten around to checking out this part of the ship, and as its future owner he needed to learn everything he could. There might even be things to acquire here. The possibilities were endless!

Right now it just looked like a blank room, though. What was the appeal here?

 Nanashi was expecting a visitor. She had realized earlier that she might have met with a very fortunate circumstance, having met Greed earlier on the comms.

Now with her campaign clearly not gaining any ground and the knowledge that Greed had a rather similar goal to her own but a very different way of achieving his ends, she had realized a brilliant way that Greed's plan could work to her advantage.

Not to mention he had turned her down before for no good reason. No one denied her without good reason.

Unfortunately the homunculus had insisted that he was not making any promises. 

That did not mean she would not be upset if he did not show up. 

So she sat on her bed with her arms folded in front of her while she tapped her foot impatiently.

( Earlier... )



You may notice a shape lying in one of the alleys in the shopping district. He appears to be human and is wearing a long, black coat, but on his extended arms you can see the edge of a plant suit on his wrists. About the only other thing you can glean from looking at him is that he collapsed here for some reason.

If you're there for long enough, you might hear his stomach growl...


[ooc: It's mooching time! TL;DR for the cut, Greed's letting Ling take control for a while to see how much he can get without having to pay for it himself, but Ling is totally willing to take advantage of this opening. If things go too far you might run into Greed again, of course.]

Suddenly, the usual relative peace of the ship is disrupted by a rather loud announcement from Stacy.

||Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention, all personnel...||

It's entirely likely that she won't stop repeating the announcement until, well, everyone reports to Obs Deck. The mouth in the huge statue on the wall opens, revealing a screen. On it, the dossier for the mission flickers into display, understandable to every person there. Smaller copies of the dossier appear in holographic form in front of everyone.

The planet's stats, right next to a rotating picture of it, blue with thousands of small islands just barely visible, are as follows:

( Mission Dossier )

--

...Waitaminute. That's no mission.

It's a goddamn vacation.

[ooc: SHORE LEAVE IS GO.]

[ooc: Newbie Helpers List | Instructions: Post your character with one post establishing them as being podpopped. Tag each other in groups of 2's, 3's, and 4's, to get some interaction to start with. If a thread doesn't already have 2 or 3 people tagged in, tag it with your character's podpop popping near the other people, rather than making a new subthread. If you would like to play out them talking to the AI, please send an email to the mods making the request--we do this only by request. Then move onto the big Newbie Meeting. Once your character has gotten the rundown from the old crew, you may start posting entrance posts and freely tagging.]


||Pod Release Protocols Initiating|| Stacy's familiar voice sounds out to all the podmates through the ship.

In the Pod Caverns, there are the sounds of: Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

There is condensation and mist spraying out from cracks in the pods, as the people inside slide out onto the floors, covered in slime.

--

( There was nothing... )

Stacy's voice speaks over the whole of the ship. What she has to say has become very familiar over the the podlings have spent here.

||Pod Release Protocols Initiating,|| she says. ||Please proceed to the Observation Deck to meet your new crew mates.||

Those crew members that don't head to the Obs Deck on their own are hurried there via gentle but insistent tentacles. A few people stop by Engineering to help bring and pass out omnicoms and comm rings to the new crew members as well.

[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.]