SHUFFLE/WAY-STATION/ILLNESS/WHATEVER MINGLE POST

[save_the_souls]

Who: You! Me! Him! Her! Them! Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: On your respective ships, or the Waystations!
When: After the shuffle over the next couple days! Whenever man!

[It's been nearly a week since the fleet's said their goodbyes to the planet full of skull face folks, and another Shuffle has come and gone. Despite what was mentioned on the last week's Shuffle about cannibalism, it doesn't seem like any crews has resorted to that, so maybe some of you have begun to relax.]

[Or maybe not. In fact, maybe you should do a crew headcount just in case1.]

[By now, some of you who handled any red stones from the planet natives may be feeling under the weather or even downright shitty. But hey! What's that to stop you from visiting the way-stations? These way-stations may be in the same crappy condition as the last way-stations - but at least they're people on these ones! Really...shady looking people! But that's not about to stop you from making friends right2?]

[Essentially, this is a game wide mingle post for this week's shuffle, November's way-stations anyone getting ill, or anything else you want to do but too lazy to make a post about! Please feel free to tag in and tag around! Just make sure to put your characters' location and communication methods (action/network) in the header and/or in the prompts!]

1. - This recommendation goes double for the SS Blue Fish.
2. - Warning: Attempts to make friends with extremely shady characters on the Way-Stations may result in heartwarming musical numbers, or much, much more likely - being kidnapped. Please use your own discretion.

Comments

[catamite]

[that was Nel right there. as soon as the sluggish door lowers enough, the jittery elf springs up and latches onto the edge of it. pole-dancing can be thanked for the upper body strength needed to pull himself up and over.

he doesn't forget Rin though. he hangs an arm down in her direction once he's safe.]

C'mon!

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[what... what... no no no! hey! that's not fair!]

Hey!

[you know what, he's just going to shove those greaseballs aside, waving his arm like he's swatting off a fly. they get dragged off their feet by their circulatory systems; really stings, that.

he, on the other hand, walks towards the door to catch it before it closes.]

[payback]

[Rin blunders back for the door, vaguely registers that Nel is offering her a hand up, and leaps for it. She registers that someone is walking towards them before she registers that it's Robin, so she tries to kick him, still dangling from Nel's grip.]

[catamite]

[Nel just uselessly yells... because Rin is either going to get yanked back out of the ship by whoever is catching the door, or the door is going to close on her and Nel really doesn't want to see what will happen if that ends up being the case.

so yeah, yelling. that's what he has to contribute to this.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[o...kay. he catches her foot, but lets it go pretty fast.

but he reaches over, slaps his hand on the access pad, and then yanks the door down with a horrible, groaning whir.]

Can we all stop yelling for a second!? [he yells rather pointedly into the opening...]

[payback]

Gyahhh! [NO MORE YELLING. She flounders in midair, lets go of Nel, and hits the ground hard on the ass.]

Ah-ahhhh... [That hurt OAQ the tail under the Q is a single welling tear]

[catamite]

[and without Rin to hold onto, and the door moving even more now... Nel loses his grip with a yelp and falls.

he slides and hits the ground inside the ship, also on his ass.

owww...]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

All right, all right, come on.

[he sounds kind of mad. he walks past everyone into the ship, gets ready to close the door.]

Everyone in before I close the door.

[payback]

[She registers Robin's voice and sort of what he wants and squirms ineffectually... stumbles to her feet... itai the paaain ;A; there are tears in her eyes...]

Owwww...

[catamite]

[Nel's already in the ship, all stunned and shaken, so he just... rolls around until he's sitting upright.

and just stares at the two of them like he has completely lost his poor little mind and might die from space madness at any moment. like his skeleton is just going to rattle right out of his body.

he just doesn't understand reality anymore and is still high on adrenaline.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Come on, come on...

[he'll reach out to help Rin get on the ship... before closing the door soundly behind all of them. it reseals with a nice, pressurizing hiss.

and then he. turns around. and immediately crouches down to Nel's level.]

You're not some kind of a crazy space hallucination, right?

[payback]

[Ahh she finally has it together enough to talk to him.]

Not unless he was being spontaneously hallucinated by all those space creeps too.

[catamite]

[Nel, on the other hand, does not have it together enough to talk to him.

he just shakes his head, still jittering in place]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[oh... boy. okay. okay... he's kind of feeling a lot of things right now.

one of those feelings is still 'angry'.]

Nel, come here.

[he holds his hand out. come on. get over here. you're in trouble.]

[payback]

[She's resolving into being kind of irked herself, though incredulous - how could they go this long without finding him? She folds her arms and watches. You do what you do, Robin.]

[catamite]

[he's probably not doing himself any favors by looking completely pathetic and incapable right now, ducking his head while he picks himself up.

slowly slinking over.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[yeah he better.

because as soon as he's within grabbing distance, Robin's going to snatch him up and drag him into a tight hug.]

[payback]

[Oh. Well that's good too. She comes close, though she doesn't join the hug, and glances Nel up and down. He looks strung out but in one piece. She reaches out and rubs his back a little.]

That woman announces when people move around every week. She never said your name, Nel.

[whY DIDN'T YOU SPEAK UP EARLIER aaaaaaauuuuuuuugh]

[catamite]

[he's being overwhelmed by a lot of things, and only some of them are good feelings. he's relieved, but also abysmally confused, and feels like he's done something wrong. it all just erodes and crumbles apart fast.

he smashes his eyes against Robin's shoulder, but it's still obvious that the tears start the moment that he realizes he's being hugged]

I'm sorry...

[he barely has his head around what he's sorry for, though. it's just an all-purpose gush of apology.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[bububu he just... :( presses Nel's face into his shoulder because he really doesn't want to let go of him. he glances over at Rin, and it's really obvious that he's trying not to get really, really upset himself.]

Nel, how long have you been here?

[payback]

[Good lord... she just rubs her hands over her face. She's not gonna yell at Nel, obviously he's distraught, just... auuuUUughh. How did they miss him for this long?]

[catamite]

I don't know... a while... [mumbled miserably into Robin's shoulder.

and there will always be time to yell at Nel, now that they've found him. he probably needs it... since there's apparently a lot from before that didn't quite stick.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[oookay. okay everybody.]

Tega, Nel...

[DEEP BREATH OKAY.]

Who's ship are we on?

[payback]

Nel opened the door.

[So she was kinda assuming it was his. But she shrugs.]

[catamite]

[yeah speaking isn't a thing that he's very capable of doing right now.

he doesn't pick his face up. he just nods against Robin's shoulder, confirming that this is where he's been living. just right over here this whole time.]