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[theroadwarrior]

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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[kill_switch]

[Maybe it's naive to expect to find him in his room when she comes to visit. Furiosa is definitely not surprised to find it empty, though, and what ensues is a short manhunt before she finds him in the shuttle. She doesn't wake him up, but starts to set a few leftover supplies from her own bout with illness. There's a couple boxes of tea and soup that she'd gotten from the planet, half a pouch of cough drops, a scarf that she'd gotten herself when she'd been there (freshly washed), and of course, a packet of tissues.]

[After that's deposited, she shifts slightly and sets a small, potted plant on the console infront of him, looking down to see if he's awake now. This she wants back.]

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[notmutantbutmiracle]

[After dealing with Felix, Wanda had thought that she'd be able to handle any other ship patient that might fall ill with whatever cold seemed to be going around. Max was doing his best to disprove this assumption. He was being even more bull-headed than Felix had been about refusing to stay in bed. Luckily, she always knew where to find him. Sure enough, she walks into the ship's cargo bay, and finds him sulking about in there.]

Why is it so difficult for people that are sick on this ship to just stay in bed and rest?

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[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka does her best to keep track of where all her shipmates are in the Force. It's harder, now that most of her shipmates are non-Force-sensitives, rather than the beacons in the Force that are the Jedi. But she feels responsible for this crew, so she does her best.

So it doesn't pass her notice that Max's presence has been on the ship for more than a whole 24 hours at once, now. Which is... unusual, for him. It could be that he's just settling in more. Still, something in the Force compels her to go check on him.

When she finds him, she raises one eyebrow high.]

... Wow. What happened to you? You look awful. [She sniffs.] ... Smell it, too.

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[mucked]

[ -- why does she care?

it's a valid question. peggy, after all, doesn't always care. especially when to all proper observances, the man has plenty of allies of his own. she decides it's because he's part of her crew, and the old military blood can't be beaten out of her. they are comrades by lottery and random assignment, and that's enough for her. so -- well aware of his tendencies to wander -- she doesn't even bother checking his bed.

her heels click on the cargo bay floor as she crosses it. it takes some hunting, but she tracks him down as he sleeps in one of the shuttles. she doesn't try to wake him. instead, she leans in to deposit a steaming mug of tea within arm's reach.

there, she thinks, a cup of your own. ]

[mikangirl]

[Despite the lateness of this tag, Nami visits Max fairly early on in the piece. Once she'd warmed up and taken her shift at the bar (and indulged in delicious hot food, thanks Eugene) she was back out on the trail the next day. She was confident enough it hadn't snowed again over the morning, but the weather wouldn't hold forever.

Kind of... you know. Want to get her staff and his clothes and his brace before they get buried.

She finds her way down the cargo area on directions, carting an armful of gear. If he's awake, her heels will give her away before she ever gets there. Nami pls, it's winter outside. Get practical shoes.]

VISITING YEAH YEAH

[repths]

[Atoli was feeling really terrible about Max's situation. She felt that she had to do more for him somehow. Guess who's dropping by with some get well gifts? This girl is. In her hand is a tiny basket with some healthy food.]

You're Nami's friend right? My name's Atoli. I came to see how you were doing.

[Hopefully she isn't disturbing him! Atoli will just come back later if she came at a bad time!!]