duck tales, oo-ooh!

[frigidaire]

Who: Crew & Visitors of the Wonderduck
Action: The Wonderduck
When: a mingle for the month of January!

[ come one, come all, crew members and visitors alike. come play terrible rec-room games or eat awful, overly processed food! or just mingle! ]

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[fedupwithyourbull]

[She doesn't even mind- Her eyes flick back to look at his wings. She can't fault someone like him for being suspicious of people.]

Blake Belladonna.

[feathery]

[That's. Alliterative.]

Sounds like a superhero name.

I'm Davesprite. [Or Dave Sprite, since it's debatable if that missing space is audible.] But "that feathery asshole" works, too.

[fedupwithyourbull]

I'm not really much of one for superheroes.

It's nice to meet you, Dave.

[feathery]

Likewise, I guess. I'd say we could shake hands and make the greeting official, but [he holds up his hands, Doritos bag in one and chip in the other] turns out I complicated things.

Which mind-altering occupation chip did they give you.

[fedupwithyourbull]

[She's just going to let that first bit slide, having no idea how to handle this.]

Engineering, from the sound of it. Or maybe there's a different reason I just suddenly know how to repair a spaceship.

[feathery]

Oh, cool. We keep losing our engineers. The last guy we had aboard was fucking impossible. Never seen someone drool so much. Or be like. That geriatric. Probably why Atroma shipped him off to lands unknown, now that I think about it.

[How reassuring???]

[fedupwithyourbull]

[davesprite you aren't helping]

... What?

[feathery]

They rotate us out sometimes and no one's ever confirmed where we go.

[At least, that's what he's assuming she's asking about.]

It's just a shitload of speculation. Mostly based on wherever we been before this, since a bunch of us have done the interdimensional shuffle before. [He shrugs a little, like whatcha gonna do.] The rathole I crawled out of just dumped us back where we came from.

[fedupwithyourbull]

[well, that's part of it, anyway.]

So... they kidnapped an old man, put him here, then decided he wasn't entertaining enough and sent him somewhere else?

[feathery]

Hypothetically. I mean to be honest I would have found him hilarious if I had the exclusive outsider perspective. Preteen me would have watched a show featuring him.

[But he's figured out at this point that his sense of humor is Weird—and that's on a good day.]

But who knows why Atroma does what they do. Maybe someone misclicked when they were moving his file and dragged him to the recycle bin instead.

[fedupwithyourbull]

[davesprite this is really alarming]

Does anyone know where he went?

[feathery]

[He is terrible. Sorry, Blake.]

No one besides him. And even that's questionable, if you ask me. ...Which you did. [Uh.] I'd try not to overthink it, though.

[fedupwithyourbull]

That sounds like something worth overthinking.

[feathery]

Sure, though that's probably a way down the road of driving yourself insane and spending your whole ride here in a never-ending state of anxiety.

[fedupwithyourbull]

[... well, at least Yang is here to snap her out of it if it does happen again.]

You won't solve anything if you don't try to think about it.

[feathery]

[Davesprite rolls his eyes, but it's more good-natured than anything derisive.]

I said overthink. Big difference.

[fedupwithyourbull]

It's hard not to, when there's potential lives at stake.

[feathery]

Yeah, but that's probably why it's more important not to. [He shrugs.] Or at least that's how it always was in the cosmic clusterfuck that prematurely kicked me out and put me on the street for adoption.

Though to be fair, there's not a whole lot else to do besides think. At least when we're holed up in the ships for days on end.

[fedupwithyourbull]

Is there anything to read around here?

[She has so many questions, but it feels like she won't ever understand, so... Let's focus on the real priorities.]

[feathery]

Depends what you pick up at the stations. There've been a couple dramatic readings on the network. I think someone mentioned a library, but I never seen it.

[He doesn't even remember what ship it was, tbh.]

[fedupwithyourbull]

A library sounds great, but... I'm surprised they gave us that kind of a resource here.

[feathery]

I dunno. It was set up by another crew before I got here, so the collection might not be that varied. Sounds like there's probably a lot of romcom trash, if that's your speed.

[fedupwithyourbull]

Not really.

[It is. It is absolutely her speed.]

But if they have other genres there, I'm sure I'll manage.

[feathery]

We got movies, too. Oh, and a bunch of data files. There's all kinds of shit in there.