Gumball Wishes and Taxicab Dreams

[thespaceopera]

[On today's episode of the Drift Fleet:

The cargo holds are full of mysterious crates! The crews are filling beyond capacity with new faces! Official alerts are informing the passengers that they are signed to contracts that they've never agreed to! They are docking at the dazzling FS Starlight, but are flat broke!

What are they going to do!? Stay tuned to find out!


...Meaning, this is a kickoff mingle for you all to enjoy the beginning of the latest plot setting. This is a convenient place to start threads relating to the first week of the event-- meeting new crewmembers, reacting to the mysterious cargo, arriving on the station and discovering that you're all broke, etc.

Tag around, start whatever you'd like, have fun. And, as always, feel free to make your own posts and mingles from here on in, as this will be the only mod-posted one for this event!]

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[actsmagnificent]

The contents aren't really mine to control. [ The contents are now potentially gearing up to pour into her clothing, as well.

Haruka has no issue with this. Her stomach goes taut against Michiru's hand. ] ...I could explore.

[incousinswithyou]

[that almost counts as a compliment. If you squint a little.]

And what are you hoping to find?

[any profoundness to be found in that statement is belied by the way her hand trails lightly along the plane of your stomach, before she efficiently tugs the pants over your hips.]

[actsmagnificent]

We'll see.

[ Efficiency is valued in a Soldier of the Outer Solar System. That must be why Haruka's breath just caught and a flash of pink appeared on, then vanished from, her cheeks.

Her fingernails run along the edge of Michiru's bra. ]

[incousinswithyou]

[it's a good thing she wasn't planning on responding to that anyway.

She's going to gloss over that little shiver and tingle down her spine by leaning up and kissing you again.]

[actsmagnificent]

[ Great. She won't mention it if you don't. But she will half-moan, half-grunt into this kiss, thumb pushing under, up, and across. ]

[mikangirl]

[She breaks into a wide grin because yeeesss that's the spirit. And then--]

Computers... not so great. Everything I know is via augment. But I'm a fast learner!

[Clearly she can go from can conduct general file searches to hacking them in just a few easy steps, right? Being so greedy should...help...]

[incousinswithyou]

Mmm. [it's getting harder to prioritize staying quiet, not when there are much better things to focus on.

Like the taste of you or your hands on her back or how she's tugging your underwear down to join your pants.]

[actsmagnificent]

That's...dedication. [ When Michiru wants Haruka to undress for trying on clothes, she does not play around. Commendation duly deserved.

She decides to just infiltrate the bra instead of unsnap it, though. ]

[huaaaaagh]

...Well, okay. Maybe you can learn on the fly. Lucky for you, I'm well-supplied.

[He shrugs a flat-faced bag he'd had slung around his shoulder, unzipping it to reveal a laptop, which he promptly opens and turns on. There's a big sticker pasted above the keyboard that says Property of Club Karma.]

The first step is to get access to a network. Sort of like our communicators, every system that connects together with another has to have a network. Some are wired, but the best ones to work with are wireless. Like this bar, for example- it's connected to a few things, I bet. Back home a lot of places come with free wi-fi, digital payment systems- heck, even the radio can be linked to some other network.

[mikangirl]

[Did you steal that from Club Karma or are you a member-- no wait, she's distracted by all the technospeak. Um. Ah. She followed it a little to begin with. Then he starts talking about wiring and--]

Okay! With you so far.

[No she's not. But she lives in hope he'll say something that makes more sense. :|]

[huaaaaagh]

Great!

[Does he believe her, or is he too buzzed to care? Who knows. Maybe not even him.

But since she understood that much-]

The easiest way to get through a network is to use an existing code or program, modding it as needed to fit your goal, but if you can't do that, it's possible to write your own. If you're really good at it, it only takes a couple of hours at most and you've got a system up and running that can track all kinds of information. I was practicing outside a club the other day with this one code designed to connect to the company's music set-up, and it's a pretty common system around here, so it's easy to make it work with other locations. Look-

[He loads up a window and turns the laptop at an angle so she can see the screen. It's covered in illegible code.]

[survivalistcookbook]

Depends on what you want. For the upper crust out there we have water and clever concoctions involving moonshine brewed in the depths of space.

[Which isn't to say he can't scare up more, but he's selling an experience here, and that experience is at least partially spacefarer-themed.]

[onlyburnhotter]

How about a strawberry sunrise?

[steeledskin]

[ too many questions -- and many of them cut deeply. so instead, she tells the single truth attached to his final inquiry. ]

He is a traitor, to them -- regardless of the truth. We all are. Joffrey hated you especially.

[mikangirl]

[Oh my god help numbers and symbols and--

--ah. Yeah she's good at navigational equations on the fly, but she has a knowledge base for that and--]

....right.

[She didn't understand any of that at all. Possibly this look might clue Kirito in. Depends how buzzed he is, really.]

[incousinswithyou]

[hands resting lightly on your hips, as she tries not to push her chest against your hand]

Shall I wait?

[she might have called you slow]

[actsmagnificent]

[ oi

Haruka laughs, since the idea of Haruka Tenoh being slow is completely unworthy of serious debate. ] I'll meet you there.

[ Here. She'll push herself against that chest if it isn't coming to her instead. And she'll search for Michiru's mouth again, too. ]

[huaaaaagh]

[He's starting to get that impression, but he's too deep into the groove and it's a bit too tempting to show off.

Type, type, type, type-]

Okay, so here I've triggered the algorithm I wrote to unlock their system. Once that's up and running, it's just a matter of inputting some basic command codes, and their entertainment is at my mercy.

[A couple of system codes later, and the computerized jukebox in the corner bursts into song.]

[stefanged]

Sounds good.

[He can't exactly pay for a dress while she's changing, so he'll wait. The murmurs are getting louder, though - and for a brief second, Stefan almost wonders what that means.

Nothing, right? Has to be nothing. They're confusing him for the male model (read: himself) or confusing her for someone else or - something.]

you just rickrolled me in tags HDU

[namisan]

[Look at that, her hair found this way too confusing. Shh just pretend She leans forward anyway to watch him, as if squinting at the screen might make it suddenly resolve into anything that makes sense. She gets the gist of what he's doing but--

Then she jumps as the jukebox whirs to life with some... insipid dance number. Someone across the bar even boos and throws an empty peanut packet at it.]

Was that you?

[incousinswithyou]

[her quiet groan is cut short by that kiss, even as her fingers curl instinctively.

She'll take that as a promise.]

[actsmagnificent]

Nn...

[ Haruka makes that kiss a little rougher, even as her fingers spread out and begin rubbing. That hand is in an...nnnmmm...interesting place right now. She can think of some other places she'd like it to go, too. ]

[lord_wizard]

[He smiles back, though it's more to see the expression on Crowley than it is for the revelation]

I've never really thought about it before, but you're right. I always thought of it more of being too stubborn to accept everything I'm told, but that's far simpler.

[onlyanapple]

And I know if there's one thing you're not, Felix, it's simple. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

it was that or the pussycat gag and idk if he'd know that one |D

[huaaaaagh]

[Have a grand shit-eating grin. Yes, he's very pleased with himself.]

Yep. That's hacking, in a nutshell. Generally inconveniencing other people for entertainment.