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

[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.