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driftfleet2016-01-08 02:44 pm
theroadwarrior) wrote in driftfleet2016-01-08 02:44 pm
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action.
Who: Max and the crew of the SS Starstruck and any visitors.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Max is sick after falling into a frozen lake. He is insufferable about it.he's been awful active for an antisocial dude
When: January 8-9th-ish.
[After a rather disappointing day of nearly freezing to death thanks to big ugly creatures, hallucinations, and generalized know-nothingness of an arctic terrain, Max is confined (at last) to a bed aboard the SS Starstruck. Well, partly. A slight fever and a sneezy, lethargic exposition is apprently not enough to keep him pinned down.
A sick Max is even more insufferable, turns out.
It's just — difficult for him to explain in words, what being still does to him. It's one thing to sit in a driver's seat, or even a passenger's seat, and to get out and feel your ass and legs numbed after hours of going on and on until the guzzoline runs dry. At least you can see the open world whizzing passed you.
But a bed. For one thing, Max hasn't slept in an actual bed in... He's not sure how many days. Not counting the rare occurrences, he's not even sure he's slept in anything more than a car's reclined seat since he first began his journey on the dystopian-gone-apocalyptic roadways. This is torturous. He's fairly sure Peggy and Nami and Furiosa are out to get him for sure. As it turns out, no-nonsense women are still far and beyond his greatest weakness and adversary. He's been shed of his bulky uncomfortable jacket and left in his mid-sleeve shirt, and in that way he's looking like an paradox: the most comfortable discomforted man in the galaxy.
So yep, when people aren't looking, he's getting up and wandering back into the cargo holds, where he had originally spent most of his time. In fact, one could probably board a shuttle and find him passed out asleep in the driver's seat, swaddled up in blankets. And still with a mildly sour disposition. Be careful waking him, he swings sometimes.
He only wanders to the main control room, where the crew would pilot their ship, when it's empty enough. Otherwise, he'll dip into the kitchen and eat, because being sick back home didn't mean avoiding food; if you were needing sustenance and it was there, you had to keep going, force something down to keep your strength up. Max was fairly good at it.
Unlike... you know. Being horrible at staying put.
On the bright side, he doesn't consider returning to the planet?
Not yet, anyway.]
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Max is sick after falling into a frozen lake. He is insufferable about it.
When: January 8-9th-ish.
[After a rather disappointing day of nearly freezing to death thanks to big ugly creatures, hallucinations, and generalized know-nothingness of an arctic terrain, Max is confined (at last) to a bed aboard the SS Starstruck. Well, partly. A slight fever and a sneezy, lethargic exposition is apprently not enough to keep him pinned down.
A sick Max is even more insufferable, turns out.
It's just — difficult for him to explain in words, what being still does to him. It's one thing to sit in a driver's seat, or even a passenger's seat, and to get out and feel your ass and legs numbed after hours of going on and on until the guzzoline runs dry. At least you can see the open world whizzing passed you.
But a bed. For one thing, Max hasn't slept in an actual bed in... He's not sure how many days. Not counting the rare occurrences, he's not even sure he's slept in anything more than a car's reclined seat since he first began his journey on the dystopian-gone-apocalyptic roadways. This is torturous. He's fairly sure Peggy and Nami and Furiosa are out to get him for sure. As it turns out, no-nonsense women are still far and beyond his greatest weakness and adversary. He's been shed of his bulky uncomfortable jacket and left in his mid-sleeve shirt, and in that way he's looking like an paradox: the most comfortable discomforted man in the galaxy.
So yep, when people aren't looking, he's getting up and wandering back into the cargo holds, where he had originally spent most of his time. In fact, one could probably board a shuttle and find him passed out asleep in the driver's seat, swaddled up in blankets. And still with a mildly sour disposition. Be careful waking him, he swings sometimes.
He only wanders to the main control room, where the crew would pilot their ship, when it's empty enough. Otherwise, he'll dip into the kitchen and eat, because being sick back home didn't mean avoiding food; if you were needing sustenance and it was there, you had to keep going, force something down to keep your strength up. Max was fairly good at it.
Unlike... you know. Being horrible at staying put.
On the bright side, he doesn't consider returning to the planet?
Not yet, anyway.]
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An apology, at the very least, wouldn't hurt.
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Max squints, as if she spoke in some imaginary language.]
Apology for what?
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[She says it very matter of factly. Like, what the else did you think she meant?]
Besides, you will likely recover a lot quicker if you didn't keep getting up and moving around.
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As he rubs his nose wearily:]
Didn't ask you to do anything.
[Seriously, you guys are nags.]
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How about this then? I am not doing it for you. I am doing it so no one else on the ship does not get sick. From you.
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As someone who is never stuck with people for this long, he doesn't consider that. But he has no clue how to reply to that, especially when she has a point, so he folds his arms and huffs, looking away. Grumble grumble.]
I don't use rooms. Don't use beds.
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What do you "use" then?
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[There is no better place. Instant potential for safety if shit hits the fan.]
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Can you not think of any other place where you might be able to relax?
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Could get a few hours leaning on a wall.
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It's what I'm used to.
Don't have beds where I live.
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Or safe.
[... And that's about how far he explains on his own.]
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Better to be in a fully equipped shuttle, in a more open area. The shuttle itself can defend against bullets and lasers more than armor on our bodies, and we can pilot them into anyone attacking us — or open the cargo bay's doors and sweep them into space while safe inside a shuttle.
It's a good defense.
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[She sighs, sounding defeated this time. Clearly done with this whole argument.]
I see there is no changing your mind on this. Can you at least promise to stay in one place? That way when I bring you some food, it won't get cold while I go looking for you?
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I like the kitchen. And the shuttles.
That's where I'd be.
[So will you let him be, now? This sourpuss eats up the sound of being alone.]
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Your soup is cold.
[She says it like a last little humph, before turning to leave. However, before she exits the room, she turns back briefly.]
When you are done, let me know. I will come get the dishes.
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... Didn't have to make me anything.
I don't -- like debts.
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[She gives a slight grin to show she means it as a jest.]
If I fall ill, then you will just have to return the favor.
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A hum is the reply he gives — whatever it means, it's not a harsh sound by any means. He doesn't want to think about such a thing. Helping someone who's sick. That's not what he's built for. Was it? He tries not to think of the small exceptions.
Progress, at least. It has him thinking.]
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