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!

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[experiencepoints]

[INTERNAL SCREAMING

Nightingale immediately jumps in surprise and spins around, and the entire stack of books just vanish into thin air.]

- Fuck-! Don't sneak up on me like that!

[incousinswithyou]

That is quite a handy talent you have there.

[wow she didn't even apologize]

[experiencepoints]

It's not a talent, it's something everyone in my world can do, how long have you been there.

[She's bristling like a startled cat. Considering she is tiny and a twig, it is rather less intimidating than she would like.]

[incousinswithyou]

Oh? [man, she's acting like she doesn't even see the bristling]

Was I intruding? [she can always leave you alone to your torrid lesbian vampires]

[experiencepoints]

Yes. No. It doesn't matter. Did you need something?

[She's beet-red, so it's pretty obvious she was up to something, anyway. Not that Michiru hadn't already seen it, but...]

[incousinswithyou]

[that's an interesting reaction. It sure beats trying to find some other form of entertainment.]

Well, I was trying to find something to read. Do you have any recommendations?

[experiencepoints]

They're all Earth books, how should I know? I"ve never read any of them.

[incousinswithyou]

Truly? You look like you're quite a voracious reader with rather broad tastes.

[she's either referring to that stack of books you were carrying or to the fact that she might have seen you reading before this]

[experiencepoints]

If I'm trapped here, I might as well learn the dominant culture, right? Even if it's annoying. So, I'm going for the textbooks.

[She huffs.]

[incousinswithyou]

Is that what they're calling it nowadays?

[well, at least she knows that you know she knows.

A bored Michiru is never really a good thing.]

[experiencepoints]

I don't know what you're insinuating.

[are you going to call her bluff, michiru

because it's a pretty fucking terrible bluff]

[incousinswithyou]

[and she's reaching up to the bookshelf, neatly picking out the next one in the series. This one has a cover of one lady vampire possessively holding onto another half naked vampire chick.]

Do you find this sort of thing educational?

[and if the topic of porn has already been breached...]

[experiencepoints]

[oh fuck there's a series

She's immediately trying to snatch that out of Michiru's hands, but, uh. It's not hard to keep it away. Girl has the physical stats of a particularly unathletic paper bag.]

That's just because of Bluebird-!

[incousinswithyou]

[Michiru readily lets the book tumble into your hands. At least she's not that sort of bully.]

Bluebird?

[experiencepoints]

A- A friend of mine, who is a vampire, who would have thought these things are funny, that's all!

[ignore the fact that i am beet-red. and the slight stammer at 'friend'. there's totally nothing else going on here.]

[incousinswithyou]

A friend? Just like Haruka and me, I suppose.

[michiru no]

[experiencepoints]

No-! She had a boyfriend, anyway!

[She's. She's not denying her own feelings, anyway.]

[incousinswithyou]

Oh? I'm sorry to hear that.

[she taps contemplatively at her chin] So we're working with 'wishful thinking' here.

[that sounds better than 'fantasizing,' at least]

[experiencepoints]

It's not- Shut up!

[Yeah, she's lost and she knows it, but she's still not going to admit it. It sounds even more pathetic to her when someone else says it.]

[incousinswithyou]

[it's a smile, but it's not unkind]

Is she a friend from home?

[at least she's sort of changing the topic]

[experiencepoints]

No- That was Yura.

[She immediately realizes she shouldn't have said that and rushes on.]

I met Bluebird at the interdimensional shithole I was at before here. She was my teammate. Basically our team leader, but she'd deny it as hard as she could. She was really strong in a lot of ways.

[incousinswithyou]

[Yura, huh?]

Ah. That sounds like a difficult situation to be in. [crushing on a teammate and all.]

It sounds like there were a few good things about the other place you were at. [but wasn't it a free-for-all orgy sort of place?]

[experiencepoints]

A few. Some of the people were good. That's really it.

[Of course, she's completely unaware she's given Michiru that impression of the castle, or how that line sounds in that context.]

[incousinswithyou]

[wow. The look she's giving you is somewhere between calculation and admiration.]

This place must seem tame in comparison.

[experiencepoints]

It is. ... No one's died yet.

[While we're on the subject of giving completely the wrong impression.]