Mingle bells mingle bells

[poetontheinside]

Who: Windrose crew
Broadcast: Maybe?? probably not
Action: SS Windrose
When: After the shuffle!

[After this seasonally inappropriate song gets stuck in your head, it's time for a mingle! Come on up, new Windrosers, it's time to party.]

Comments

[pain_train]

[First, ow. Her stupid back. Second, fuck the back, that was fun.

Wrath whoops. Might be some tears in her eyes there, but she will make up for it with pure toughness and enthusiasm.]

Do that again! Can you do a high G bank in this thing? [Making her feel like she has a hovercycle again.]

[grabthecheese]

[Whoops, she didn't mean to make the newcomer fall. It's fun when it happens to Ray, but she's seen the cane Wrath uses. On the other hand, she definitely sounds enthusiastic.]

I could try, but I'm not sure the ship won't fall apart.

[It's. Not exactly a top class ship.]

[pain_train]

Oh, that sucks balls. Well, I think Vision is supposed to do engineering, and he sounds really smart so maybe he can get the equipment in better fighting shape.

[... Not everything is about fighting, Wrath.]

Er. Flying shape.

[grabthecheese]

Ray is an engineer, too. The problem is that we don't have any equipment to upgrade with.

[And Polly is military, too. It's definitely fighting shape.]

The fleet has been attacked in the past. It's better to be on the safe side.

[pain_train]

Aw, our engineers are super cute. [Lucky! Maybe she should drop some spanners for Ray to pick up]

Oh, so it's a supply problem. Hm. That shit is way more difficult.

You should probably tell me about that stuff some time since I'm supposed to do security.

[If it's all ship battles, maybe her back won't fuck them all over. She'll worry about her problems with shooting ability... Later.]

[grabthecheese]

They are?

[She sounds surprised, but she never notices these things.]

It was before I arrived. A lot of the ships took damage, but the crews were mostly okay.

[pain_train]

Well, yeah. They both have very nice smiles, which is the most important thing. [Spoiler: Wrath thinks 85% of everything is cute. Including giant honking mad driver cannons.]

Ah, gotcha. So you're pretty new, too?

Guess I'll just ask around. Kind I see what there is to even work with here. It's hard to come up with decent strat without a starting point.

[grabthecheese]

Well, I know Ray is single. [She hasn't asked. She just thinks she would have heard otherwise.]

I've been here a couple of months. People are very helpful, though, so we're not on our own if anything happens.

[pain_train]

Aw, poor guy. Hope he isn't too lonely. [Wait a second. Oh. Oh!] Oh no, I don't want to be anyone's girlfriend or anything. I'm terrible at it. And anyway, that stuff just makes everything get weird.

[This of course doesn't mean she wouldn't bang him like a screen door in a hurricane but that is totally different. At least on Planet Wrath.]

Gotcha. A couple months can be a lot of time when shit keeps coming, though. So there's a pretty solid team going?

[grabthecheese]

[Well. Relationship talk mostly just confuses her anyway. She'd ask if Wrath just wants to look, then, but--

No, she won't. She'll just shrug and move back to the other topic.]

I think so. I haven't seen them in action, but they got the ships fixed up again pretty quick. And no one got hurt passing through the asteroid field.

[pain_train]

[Well, come on. Who doesn't like some window shopping? And just because you try on the cute shoes doesn't mean you have to buy them...]

Are there a lot of ships? Where are we in the fleet hierarchy?

[Buy taking business is way more important, let's be real.]

[grabthecheese]

[She frowns a bit, just for a second.]

There's no hierarchy. We have weapons, but we're not an army, or even organized. We work together because we have to.

[pain_train]

[Wrath frowns.]

That's not good. I mean, yeah, it'd be bad to just... Force people to serve, but there has to be some kind of chain of command or how does anything get done?