broadcast 01

[tothefly]

Who: Natasha Romanoff and various guests
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Post-broadcast, abandoned waystation? Action prompt in comments
When: During bugfest 20XX

[On screen, there's a very calm redhead looking thoughtfully at the camera, one brow slightly cocked.]

It's occurred to me that the fleet has about ten times as many firearms as it does medical professionals. It's also been pretty apparent that a lot of our cast members don't know the basics of gun safety and use. If anyone wants to learn, I'll be at the following coordinates.

[The message ends with a bit of text, the location of one of the abandoned waystations in near orbit.]

Comments

Video

[tothefly]

[A sword? She didn't think Kairi was the weapons type.]

atroma doesn't seem big on weapons they can't control. I wouldn't be surprised if they had remote access to all weapons they give us.

Whenever you'd like to stop by, I'll be here.

Video

[destinyembrace]

[Nat, you'd be surprised.]

I never even thought of that. But they can mysteriously refill the food dispenser things so, I guess that's not too out of the question. Maybe I should warn Hawke.

Okay. I'll head over soon. If I don't finish prepping the steaks first I'll have a cranky captain to deal with later.

Re: Video

[tothefly]

[She might be. Come surprise her, Kairi. She'll worry less about you.]

Hawke is your ship's security officer? And I'm guessing Sokka was the one in the cargo hold panicking about the crates of shampoo everywhere. [He had looked...unhappy. Very definitely unhappy. And possibly pissed.]

video

[destinyembrace]

[Kairi's going to start getting her stuff together to head over, so apologies for all the motion, Nat.]

He is. And yeah, that was Sokka. He was... kind of in a bad place at the time. His girlfriend got sent home from the Fleet not long before that.

[tothefly]

[Motion is fine, means she's on her way. Nat is only half-looking at the comm anyway, working on finishing setup from the sounds of things on her end.]

Might think he'd be happy to know she's not in the line of fire anymore. Home safe, supposedly.

I might panic, too, suddenly ending up with about forty industrial-size crates of shampoo in the hold of my ship, with no idea how they got there.

[destinyembrace]

Hopefully safe, though I don't know what his situation back home is like. Or hers. [Kairi is clueless as to what's happened to Suki back in Sokka's world. She's wanted to ask, but it's still too soon.]

I guess so. Though I thought it was just kind of funny. But that might be why I'm not a captain. [She laughs sheepishly as she bends down to get her shoes on.]

[tothefly]

[Fair enough. Might be a case of frying pan to fire, though in most cases Nat's inclined to think a familiar fire is more reassuring than a strange frying pan. At least you know your risks, there.]

Sense of humor's important, in an authority figure. I've known captains who could laugh at that sort of thing.

Guess I'm a little biased, though. My hair's going to look fantastic for at least the next six months.

[destinyembrace]

Yeah, I guess that's a good point. I think it might be a matter of balance: humor when the situation is right, but also being serious when called for. I've never really lead so I don't know how much I'd trust myself.

[She snickers.]

Yours and mine both. And a lot of other people in the fleet. It's even brightened mine a little, which is nice. It's gotten a bit darker in the past year.

[tothefly]

Balance is important. Practicality. Never know how you'll do as a leader until you're in a place to lead, though. Some of the best I've known didn't think they were suited for it. Takes a certain kind of compassion.

[She herself isn't really a team player, let alone a leader. Not the right sort of person for it, at all.]

Sometimes that happens as you get older. You might enjoy the brunette life, never know.

[It's almost teasing.]

[destinyembrace]

[Would she ever be in such a position? Who knows. She nods to acknowledge Natasha's advice, though says nothing about it for the time being. It's something she needs to think over, and she's not sure what she'd say anyway.]

Ugh, I hope that doesn't happen. I like my hair. [Point of vanity? Heck yes it is.]