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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[multiglyphs]

[ she bristles, but only slightly. once upon a time she would have said the same thing. but distance can change a person, it seems. ]

He was, perhaps, one of the warmest people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

[ino]

[ Aww. Is that a crush you got there, Weiss ... luckily, she didn't meet Ino back when she was sixteen and probably would have gone "Oh yeah, isn't that guy weird"?

She's got a little wry smile on her face, though ]

You said you met in "Cerealia", huh? ... He wouldn't have happened to mention what he remembered last from home, would he?

[multiglyphs]

[ ABSOLUTELY NOT, THEY'RE JUST FRIENDS, GOSH.

but it could have been. if she'd had the chance or time... anyway. no use getting caught up in things out of her control. ]

I can't say for sure, no. He... tended to talk quite a lot. And emphatically.

[ino]

[ She lets out a little sigh. Two people she'd met in the last few days now knew her friends, and none of them had anything to say about what was going on at home. She had to wonder if that meant it was bad news for them, too. ]

Figures. Oh, well. Thanks anyways.

[multiglyphs]

[ weiss watches her a little carefully. ]

Were you hoping to hear about something in particular...?

[ino]

We were in the middle of a war, last I remember -- so I was kinda hoping I'd hear about how it's going. Or went.

[ She'd be more worked up about it, but she's been waiting on news -- or anyone from her world period -- for almost three years at this point, so ... ]

[multiglyphs]

Oh... [ that's certainly pressing. all weiss has got to return home to is a school dance... ]

Well — I'm sure you've heard by now? The promise that our worlds' time stops while we're here. Of course, I don't know how much weight you want to give that but [ wait, wasn't she supposed to be reassuring here ] but I'm sure it's fine.

[ino]

Oh, yeah. [ She waves a hand ] It's not that I'm worried that I'm going to miss anything. I was just kinda hoping someone would show up from the future to tell me how it went, since I haven't been home in forever.

[multiglyphs]

How long has it been, if you don't mind me asking?

[ino]

Uh --

[ She usually tries to avoid this question, but it's not like it's a weird thing to ask after what she just said. ]

--Well, technically, it's been eight years, but it's kind of complicated.

[ She's quick to follow up, though: ]

That's really unusual, though. Most people will go back within a year, so don't worry.

[multiglyphs]

—eight years?!

[ that beats out allen by a year, but if that were true, then ino would have been at least nine or ten when she'd been taken and and

weiss puts a hand to her forehead. ]

How have you not yet gone crazy?

[ino]

[ Yeah, there's also the whole looking way younger than she is thing, oops. But she'll get into that another time, or at least whenever Weiss asks about it.

She lets out a little laugh, though. ]

That's a good question.

[multiglyphs]

[ well. weiss rather hopes ino isn't already crazy... it wouldn't be prudent to have a mad captain, after all. ]

Ah... well. I'm sorry for bringing it up.

[ino]

It's fine, it's not a secret or anything.

[ She'll move to sit down at the closest table with her now-cooked food, gesturing for Weiss to join her if she wanted to! ]

Just means I have a lot of helpful and relevant experience, really. Don't feel like you can't ask about any of it, I'd rather my crew was prepared for any of the weird shit that might get thrown at us.

[multiglyphs]

[ weiss shall! she takes a dainty seat beside the other, carefully folding her hands over her lap. ]

That's kind of you to offer... While this isn't my first time, it's certainly my first on a spaceship. I'm sure your experience here will be quite priceless.

What would you say is the weirdest thing to happen to you here?