At least there's no elevator music...

[thespaceopera]

[At least two weeks have passed since the Drift Fleet passengers woke up on this strange wing of the Marsiva... Some new passengers have even joined the group instead of being Shuffled off to a fleet ship! The large monitor in the central room remains quiet for now, so how is everyone holding up?

Have you been relaxing? Enjoying the Earth media? If you can even remember them, how have Calibrations been treating you? Has anyone started getting a little stir-crazy?

Don't worry... This ship has no shortage of mysteries, and you'll be seeing a few more soon.]


ooc: here's another mingle for the current game event! players can start or continue threads here from any point during the event. the additional setting information is still being postponed due to sickly mods, but y'all are welcome to post additional topcomments for reactions and investigation once it's up!

Comments

[ricksybusiness]

Not rrr[urrrp]eally. [Ask a stupid question...

Rick squints at the paper, turning it around like it's abstract art and he's trying to figure out which way is up.]

What is this?

[alwayscomeback]

[Wow, old guy, WOW. He turns it the right way up. ]

They're questions to ask Beau and Diamond if they show up again. This is the first time since any of us GOT here that they're actually responding to our questions. I want to make sure I get answers.

[ricksybusiness]

[Rick's response is a lingering, flat stare, and then he just tosses the notes over his shoulder.]

That's the worst idea I ever heard. If you need to write yourself notes so you'll remember to ask something, it's probably not a very important question.

[alwayscomeback]

HEY!!

[Sokka struggles to capture the floating papers. ]

Are you kidding? I'm writing down every possible way to ask the same question in case they try to weasel out of it again. I want to know where my friends are, that's actually important. For all of us. Where do we go when we don't win?

[ricksybusiness]

[Rick steps out of the way but doesn't really make any effort to help. You do you, guy.]

W-wow. First time held prisoner by an enigmatic, faceless captor, huh? That's cute.

[alwayscomeback]

[So rude, old guy, SO RUDE. Sokka gathers them all back and puts them on the table. ]

Yeah, yeah, I know a lot of other people have dealt with this thing before, but I haven't so you'll have to excuse me for not being so bitter and jaded that I'll just sit back and not fight against them.

[The determination is pathetic, really. ]

[ricksybusiness]

I didn't say that. But politely asking questions is a reeeaaaaal dumb way to 'fight against' anything. [Air quotes and everything.]

[alwayscomeback]

So what do you suggest? They're on a screen, and yelling at them gets you nowhere.

[ricksybusiness]

Uh, winning? That seems to be the best idea where I'm sitting.

[alwayscomeback]

Only one person can win, I'm not abandoning anyone. Besides, that doesn't help my friends who have already lost.

[ricksybusiness]

[Uh, wow. Rick makes a skeptical face, because that's pretty dumb.] Cooooool. That's less competition to worry about, I guess. Thanks for clearing that up, bro.

[alwayscomeback]

[Whatever, old guy. ]

Are you seriously that heartless that you don't care about anyone else on the Fleet? What about your crewmates?

[ricksybusiness]

Most important rule in the universe is to look out for Number One. Wh-which is [urp] me. Otherwise...

[He turns around to flip off nothing in particular with both hands raised up in the air.] I do what I want, muthafuckaaaaa!

[He is trying to establish a catchphrase. Don't mind him.]

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka stares at him for a long time. Does he recognise that Rick is trying to establish a catchphrase? ]

...My mother's dead, jackass.

[Nope. Probably not. ]

[ricksybusiness]

[Wow, Sokka. You are harshing his buzz. Rick freezes, then slowly lowers his hands and looks back over his shoulder.]

You take a lot of things personally, huh. Th-th-that--that's not a very appealing characteristic.

[alwayscomeback]

[That's him. The buzzharsher]

I don't know, I make plenty of friends anyway.

[ricksybusiness]

L-lemme guess. All of you band together and do dumb sidequests to quote-unquote "help people" [There are those air quotes again] on your journey to... do something equally dumb and pointless.

[alwayscomeback]

Saving the world, so...not actually pointless.

And only like...half of the side quests are dumb.

[ricksybusiness]

Wr[burp]ong, "saving the world" is only delaying the inevitable. Everything dies, including planets.

[alwayscomeback]

This was less about things dying and more about being crushed under the thumb of an oppressive dictator.

[ricksybusiness]

[No... how dare you make Rick backtrack about his flippancy. If there's one sort of dumb, lame quest he approves of, it's overthrowing governments.

Rick squints, quiet, and slowly folds his arms over his chest. Very begrudgingly:] Well, I guess that could be stupider.

[alwayscomeback]

[Too bad, Rick. He dun did it.]

Yeah. Well, we did it now, anyway. The world's safe and all the oppression stuff is pretty much done with now. So. Less stupid now.