Twelfth Cycle - Season Premier!

[thespaceopera]

[Everything is quite dark as the passengers regain consciousness, with little lights and panels on the walls just now beginning to wink to life. It seems as though everyone and their new homes are rising from slumber together. Even the air is sleepy, and it tastes stale--it must have been a long time since it's been anywhere other than recycled endlessly through this space.

And for a few minutes, the only sounds that aren't coming from the passengers themselves is the omnipresent hum of electrical and mechanical parts surrounding them on every side, and the occasional scratch of vermin-feet in the walls. Then, regardless of where each passenger wakes in their ship, a short musical tune and an exuberant female voice crackles to life over speaker panels in every room.]

--Good morning, honored passengers! My name is Diamond, and on behalf of Atroma and our entire audience, congratulations on being selected to participate in the twelfth cycle of Drift Fleet! We are all eager to get to know you, and I just know you must all be eager to get started, so let's get right to it!

[And with that, whoever happens to be on the bridge of their ship at the time will be treated to watching the solid panels slide away from the windows, revealing infinite black and uncountable stars... and whether or not they've ever been capable of comprehending the concept before, they immediately recognize outer space.]

In a few minutes, the HS Marsiva will come into view through the windows to my left. Please familiarize yourself with her presence.

For more information on your new roles, and of the Drift Fleet itself, please refer to the helpful information files already uploaded to the network. And from here on out, it shall be up to you to refer new cremates to these information files and to make sure that their stays on your crews are pleasant and rewarding!

...Also--speaking of your new responsibilities as crewmembers--I expect captain forms to be filled out and submitted by the end of the week.

[The smile practically drips from her voice at that last point, and there's a little pause before she continues]

And finally-- we won't be approaching our first system for a few days yet, so you are all encouraged to get to know each other and enjoy the ride in the meantime.

Welcome to Drift Fleet, and remember... the worlds are watching!

[and the voice cuts out, but the lines are still open. the network is live and listening.]



((ooc: the Fleet is now live! dive in and tag around! it's a good idea to put whether or not your thread is open to the network, and what ship you're on, in the subject of your reply. to see who is on which crew, please refer to this sheet! have fun!))

Comments

[heresyandlace]

It was a different game. And no one I know has figured out a way to win either yet.

[goldenglasses]

A different game you were dragged into? [Vash sighs and rubs at his forehead. This was giving him a headache.] Well, how long were you in the last one? A couple days? A week?

[heresyandlace]

The last one was a month or two.

...The one before that however, was much longer.

[that gesture is contagious. Tek also takes a break to sigh and rub the side of his head]

So, hopefully there isn't anything terribly exciting going on at home. You might be here a while.

[goldenglasses]

Much longer? How much longer is much longer? [Because there is something happening back home he needs to take care of.]

[heresyandlace]

...Years, I think it was?

I stopped counting after a while. [and dropped into torpor to sleep through some of it. like ya do.]

[goldenglasses]

YEARS!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YEARS!?

[heresyandlace]

[ghfjk he leans back from the screen with a little hiss. his poor sensitive ears!]

[goldenglasses]

I CAN'T BE STUCK HERE FOR YEARS! I HAVE THINGS THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT HAPPENING BACK HOME RIGHT NOW! I NEED TO GET BACK RIGHT AWAY TO TAKE CARE OF IT! THIS CAN'T WAIT YEARS!

[heresyandlace]

Maybe if you yell louder, they'll listen to you.

1/2

[goldenglasses]

Oh? You really think so? Okay.

2/2

[goldenglasses]

HEY! CREEPY VOICE LADY! I HAVE STUFF I NEED TO DO! I CAN'T STAY HERE FOR YEARS! I NEED TO GO HOME NOW, PLEASE!

[heresyandlace]

[...Tek is not a creature that is accustomed to having many regrets in his life. but this might be one of them.

he hadn't even covered his ears first or anything.

give him a minute while he keels over.]

[goldenglasses]

Hmm. I don't think she's listening. [Nope. Not catching on that he's bowled someone over with his yelling.]

[heresyandlace]

Idiot...

[quietly growled. even though he totally deserved it.]

[goldenglasses]

Huh? What was that? [Spoken so cheerfully. His new friend would never say something mean about him, right!?]

[heresyandlace]

[no, he'd never say a single mean thing--]

I called you an idiot.

[or that.]

[goldenglasses]

What!? Now that's not very nice at all!

[heresyandlace]

I was just being honest.

[goldenglasses]

Hasn't anyone told you that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all?

[heresyandlace]

I was taught not to keep my thoughts to myself, actually.

Honesty is very important.

[goldenglasses]

Well, I'm NOT an idiot! I'm just not use to waking up suddenly in space like MOST people are!

[heresyandlace]

But you're the only one mindlessly screaming about it.

[goldenglasses]

I'm not mindlessly screaming. I'm purposely screaming.

[heresyandlace]

Is this how you usually react to new situations?

[goldenglasses]

If the situation calls for it! And I felt this situation called for it!