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My name is Max. ([personal profile] theroadwarrior) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-01-08 02:44 pm

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.]


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Action

[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-01-12 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's not surprised with his reaction, and if this were the Wastelands, she wouldn't have hesitated in letting him do his thing. Here, though ... she's got to work within the ship and the fleet and she can't afford to burn bridges without greater proof.]

[In response, she shakes her head.]
No. I just want to know your opinion, since you've been in this situation before, with other universes. He said at home he was ... 'building an army to secure his rights.'

[Hopefully she won't have to explain to Max why that's a problem for her.]
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Re: Action

[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-01-15 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Says he's the legitimate heir where he's from, 'no matter what his father or sister say'. He seeed distrustful when I asserted we were equal. [Because that's how she wants it on her ship.]
Edited 2016-01-15 23:43 (UTC)
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Re: Action

[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-01-17 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[She gives her head a shake.] It's no use; they don't last. Atroma makes sure of it. The crew-mate I was telling you about makes a new sword everyday.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-01-17 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[She reaches out and takes it, unsheathing it to take a look at the blade before slipping it back in it's leather case and tucking it in one of her pockets. She appreciates the gesture.]

Thanks. Here's hoping I won't need it.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-01-18 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
I think I can handle myself with one guy, but I'll keep you posted.

[And she shouldn't take up too much more of Max's time; he looks like shit.]

Not yet. I'm going to keep an eye on him. [She looks at Max carefully.] You need me, you know where to reach me.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-01-18 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks at it, fondly, and reaches over again to brush a finger over a leaf.] Yeah, it is.

[She pushes back from the counter in a move to leave, stopping to drop a hand on his shoulder.] So don't lose it.