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Who: Nelkeila "Trashbag" Tarid
Broadcast: Video, fleetwide
Action: Any ship
When: Noonish

[while all passengers of the Drift Fleet should have the augment-given knowledge needed to pilot the SR shuttles without help, some people need their hands held a little bit to actually get started. so, now that someone has finally 'taught' him to fly, (thanks for leaving that legacy, Shawn,) Nel can be found zooming around through space, buzzing the various ships of the fleet.

he just wants to say hi, okay. a couple times, he even gets close enough that he can practically wave through the windows at the faces inside. hello, friends!

also, he may never have gotten the fact that drivers are supposed to stay off the phone while catapulting through space. with something blaring in the background, a video feed pops on from inside an active shuttle-- seemingly from Nel's lap, until he jostles the device around and props it on the dashboard.]

--Hey! Does anyone race these things? They go way faster than I thought they would!

[...are those proximity alarms in the background, or just part of the music? who knows!]

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Oh-! Excuse me! I've got a question, are you going to be heading to Huntress from Golden any point soon? Can I hitch a ride? I really need to get over there.

Oh, hey!

[grinning like he has any idea who this is, he turns his music down to a manageable level.]

Say that again?

Will you be going to the Huntress from Golden at all? You're a pilot, right?

Oh! No, I'm not a pilot.

...Well, I mean. I guess I'm piloting something right now. But it's just a shuttle. I don't think that's the same thing, really.

I'm in Comms, normally.

Wait. We're allowed to use those even if we aren't a pilot?

The shuttle things? Yeah! Anybody can use them.

Oh man, that's great news! Thanks so much for telling me!

[...except] Though if you are going that route, I still really would like a ride. Any chance of that?

Oh... sure!

[this is the sound of a potentially terrible decision being made.]

I'll be there in a minute!

[once he... figures out how to use all these navigation doohickeys to tell one ship from another...]

Hey I can see you out the window! Hi! [sorey you fucking idiot he can't see you from there, don't wave]

...wow. Y'know it's kind of hard to tell from here, but you look like you're going pretty fast. [in the direction of an object much more stationary than u bro]

[Nel is probably waving back, guessing in the direction where his soon-to-be passenger might be on the larger ship. this is the worst.]

Yeah! These things go way faster than I thought they would. It's pretty crazy. I don't know why people aren't racing these things just all the time.

[shuttle incoming. it won't take him too long to get to the dock with the speed he's going.]

All the ships are pretty much the same, right? Like, in how they're built? I've only parked this thing once, so...

Don't worry, you've got this. [he has no basis for his confidence] You just get it where you want it and then stop driving it, right? That's not so hard.

Well... not really...

[space-driving is a hell of a thing.]

Because it keeps moving forward, so you have to, like... make it stop. Or it will just... smash right into whatever's in front of it.

Oh.

You can't just, you know. [mimes something that makes no sense] Just make it stop? Tell it to stop?

[nah, man. he gets it. that gesture makes perfect sense to him.]

Well, yeah... I mean, you do tell it to stop. But you can't just, like... stop driving. It's a little more complicated than that--

[and hang on, he needs to focus while he gets this thing docked up to the cargo bay.

...just ignore the distant thud that goes shuddering lightly through the hull.]

Whoa. Hey! You stopped! [sorey he ran into the ship] Good job, I knew you could do it. I'll be right in! [pressurizes the landing bay and jogs right over to the shuttle, ignoring those scuff marks, doot doot]

[and Nel triumphantly shoves open the shuttle hatch... revealing a rather cramped interior. Nel's a pretty small guy, but that bench seat is still only made to fit one person and half-a-person's-worth of cargo. like a duffel bag or something.]

Hey, hi! [and then, in his best rich-person voice--] Your carriage has arrived, sir.

Nice! Oh. Uhhh you don't mind me just... [Sorey doesn't have a huge problem with close quarters. He's had four people living inside of him at a time for a while now, but there's a difference between that and the cozying up he's doing right now. Well, it's probably fine.]

Oh. Yeah, just--

[hang on. let him just brush a couple molded-protein wrappers off the seat, there.]

Scoot on in, I guess.

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IM SORRY im finally back