Action | Bloodsport is such a violent name, gosh

[mikangirl]

Who: SS Bloodsport crew and visitors!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Bloodsport
When: Any time since last shuffle.

[And then the SS Bloodsport got two new crew members. Say hi to your co-pilots? Crew mingle!]

Comments

[goldenglasses]

What!? [Sorry, for someone who has never heard of something like that before. It's a lot to take in.] So- the whole planet? Time just stood still and people came back from the dead?

Wait, do you mean Zombies? I've read about zombies once.

[And he thinks he knows who you're talking about.] Do you mean, Simon? I didn't realize he knew for sure where she went. I really hope he's right. As I thought we had to win to get sent home. Although maybe she won?

[mikangirl]

[And then Nami looks unsure. She hadn't asked that, she'd just assumed. But the way he spoke sure sounded like it...]

It's not zombies! [Uncertainty makes her irritated, because seriously? Seriously?] People died, they woke up a few days later and didn't much like the experience. Up until the very end, anyway.

[goldenglasses]

[Silly, Nami. Don't you remember how unbelievable it felt the first time you were told that death was just a temporary inconvenience?

And CAN skeletons poop? Did you ever answer that question?]

Sorry, I have to admit. That's a bit hard to wrap my mind around.

I mean, nothing changed? Even if someone died from injuries? Wouldn't say... lack of ahhh... a heart? [This is so weird. He can't really believe he's even suggesting this right now.] Stop them from coming back?

[mikangirl]

[No man she's an expert now THAT MEANS EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD BE NO EXCUSE--]

You have to remember something-- wait. [Nah I'm just kidding with that last bracket.] Look. The last place I was at, there were-- we were there accidentally because someone used a machine that kind of shattered their world, and we all fell in through the cracks. There were places we couldn't even travel because the landscape was so unstable. We were never sure whether the fact we didn't die permanently was a result of that, or the fact that some very powerful godlike spirits also got trapped with us and were bored.

I finally found a way home and ended up here instead-- in another little terrarium where you can't leave, and if it follows the same rule of thumb when it comes to time not moving at home because we've been shunted kind of sideways, then I'm having real difficulty believing this isn't the same place after all and probably with the same rules. Do you understand?

[goldenglasses]

Remember something. [Vash stares quietly at Nami while she goes through her spiel. Mouth falling open slightly the further she goes.]

So... you think that you're here... because of that machine?

And time stands still, because we haven't really left where we are. More like, ah, we're in limbo with each other. If feels like time is moving but... it's not? Just around us? In like... a small pocket?

[He's trying so hard to understand.]

[mikangirl]

I don't know if I'm here because of the machine or where I was is just another place the Atroma run for kicks or whether they're entirely separate. I'm saying it's possible. And it's really unlikely that they're not connected in some way.

...but yeah. I guess you get the general idea.

[goldenglasses]

That's good, because following that was nearly impossible.

And if I hadn't woken up suddenly and without warning on a space ship I probably would have called you crazy.

[mikangirl]

I think that's the sane answer from just about anyone here.

[You look frazzled. Here, have another drink.]

[goldenglasses]

So you thought you found a way home and showed up here. I'm assuming it was some other way then winning some unknown television show?

[mikangirl]

Yeah. Like... one of the residents had power enough to create a ritual that would send us all back to the places we were meant to be. The only thing stopping us was a pretty homicidal entity that was more powerful than he was.

We dealt with the entity, we did the ritual. Problem solved. Supposedly.

[goldenglasses]

And then you wound up here. [Vash lets out a large sigh. Not really wanting to touch the idea of having enough "power" or what had to be done to "deal" with a powerful enemy.]

Well, at least there's alcohol here? [He raises his glass to toast against her's if she's willing.]

[mikangirl]

[He might be pleasantly surprised. It was an everyone lived scenario. Including the bad guy.

At that question, she grins immediately.] At least. Cheers. I'll look forward to enjoying the basic luxuries for a while, if nothing else.

[goldenglasses]

[He would be! But for now he's assuming the worst.]

Good! Because basic luxuries is something this place has! And hey! You'll get to travel the galaxy while you enjoy them! Don't know about you, but that's not something people get to do back where I'm from.

[mikangirl]

Yeah, well... for me, an ocean was plenty big enough. It's vast and full of places barely visited if at all by anyone else-- I didn't need more than that. I wanted to map the world.

I'm pretty sure mapping a galaxy is a little far out of my league. Even if I wanted to.

[goldenglasses]

While I hope you don't have long enough to map the whole thing, it might be a fun thing to do in your free times.

[mikangirl]

I'd have to learn an entirely new cartography system. I don't think a topographical map really works when you don't really have anything that qualifies as ocean level.

[goldenglasses]

Or it's at least a very high ocean level compared to an ocean on a planet.

So, how would you map a planet if it didn't have a ocean? [As now he's just curious.]

[mikangirl]

It's a good question. See, most cartography I'm familiar with works with ocean level as a guide to elevation of various locations. Topography sure does. Even charting the ocean itself, you're just doing it in reverse. But out here in space, what would I use as my basis of reference for everything else? Planets move and so do moons. Suns don't, but which sun?

[...which is a hilarious thought, because up until recently the idea of more than one sun would never have crossed her mind. But it's all there in the info she's looked at already, and what's in her head as well-- ugh.]

Star charts are always done back home from the ground up. It's not like we can get out there ourselves to check.

There are people used to space out here, though. I guess I could ask them how it's done...

[Descending into geek mode, whoops.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash nods along as she explains. Letting her have her moment to talk about something she was clearly passionate about.] That is a good question. I take it your place only had one sun?

[mikangirl]

Yeah. One sun and six moons. And you know, this stuff is so out of my league, for all I know I should be paying attention to something else anyway.

...maybe I can find some old star charts on the computers or something.

[goldenglasses]

Actually, I've been trying to keep some kind of chat of where we've been. It's not exactly the most useful sort of map at the moment, but it's been keeping me busy. Maybe I could try to show you what I've learned since becoming a pilot. [Or since waking up with knowledge in my head I didn't have before, but that sounds a bit more creepy and right now he would rather Nami be focused on something she'd enjoy.]

[mikangirl]

Really? That'd be great! [She will learn this charting thing immediately kthx.]

You're a pilot, then? Or did you do this kind of thing at home?

[goldenglasses]

Nah, I'm more what you'd call a lazy drifter back home.

[mikangirl]

Ah. I know the type.

Drift into trouble a lot?

[goldenglasses]

Hahaha. [Spot on, Nami!] Well, I never tried to, but yeah, trouble happened now and then!