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.

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[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.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[okay, Nel is useless to them. he looks at Rin again.]

Can you see what ship this is? I'm sure it's plastered all over their network panels.

[payback]

[She rubs Nel's back a little and goes to take a look. It doesn't take that long; she's figuring out the basics of this space stuff, slowly, when she bothers to kick herself awake and interested for it.]

The Three Twins... who do we know on here? Anyone?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Three Twins... I think I've talked to them, but I'm not all that familiar.

[he points to the top of Nel's head, though.]

He seems like he's doing okay, though. Hasn't died yet.

[payback]

[She laughs a little, it just jumps out of her, but it makes her think of dragging Nel out of that one room in his heart too while he cried and tried to melt into the ground. She goes over to Nel and rubs his back a little, between his shoulder blades.]

Yeah. Well, if they're a good crew, that's good.

[catamite]

[calming down enough to find words again, he turns his head so he and peek out from his hiding place, face all smeary]

They're good...

[birdsbirdsbirds]

All right.

[oh hey he's just going to reach in there and wipe the smears off Nel's face with his fingers. what... a plot twist, jeez. he's working on hiding his feelings back behind a wall of incredulity, now.]

Okay, so. Nel's here. We're here. I can't believe we all made it to another world.