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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[nerdeology]

[Mikleo glowers up at him, resisting for a moment just shy of unsafe before he relents and continues. He can handle plenty of things, but the threat of spit is a well-known weakness, unfortunately.

Doesn't stop him from reciting the poem in the most bored, reluctant tone he can muster.]

Alight on me, lord, anoint me anew.
For I am a pleb, a cur, a fool.
May your blessings fall o'er my unworthy head.
Show mercy, my lord, to your eternal friend.

[His hands are definitely wiggling out of sight, though. Don't think he's letting you get away scot free.]

[monolike]

I suppose I can show you mercy, [Sorey says, practically glowing with triumph. He's tormented Mikleo enough and so, like a fool, he lets down his guard and climbs off of his friend to free him.]

[nerdeology]

I suppose I should be thankful.

[Mikleo rolls over and stands up, casually dusting himself off like he hadn't just been trounced. While he's doing that, he subtly flicks his wrist- and the small bucket's worth of water floating above Sorey's head drops.]

[monolike]

[The cops show up right about when Sorey recovers from the shock. And, surprise surprise, he's the only one who gets berated for 'roughhousing and swimming in a public fountain.' It's only because of his extreme prostration that they let him off without any charges, but he does have to vacate the premises immediately.

Sorey tries his absolute darnedest to ignore Mikleo, wringing out his cloak on their way to the datary.]

1/2

[nerdeology]

[Please. You think the silent treatment is going to bother Mikleo, the seraph who is ignored by 99% of the population like, all the time? He's got this down to a freaking art.]

[nerdeology]

[.........

Okay, maybe it's a little harder to do with Sorey than everyone else.]

I hope you're not waiting for me to apologize.

[monolike]

Of course not.

[he's not...really mad. but he is curious to see if mikleo actually would apologize. for a little while.]

[nerdeology]

Well, good. Because you're definitely the one who tackled me.

[If you'd just stuck to splashing water at nothing like a normal crazy person this surely would not have happened.]

[monolike]

I was just asking for it then. [turns his head so mikleo can't see his smile. it's probably obvious in his dumb voice anyway, dang it]

[nerdeology]

They certainly thought you were.

[Silly humans, taking everything so seriously. Not like seraphim at all!

And he can definitely hear that smile in Sorey's voice, and it's very satisfying.]

[monolike]

You know, I probably can't go back to that park for a while. [nudges his side] Since that's your fault, you're going to have to make it up to me and keep me entertained.

[nerdeology]

[Mikleo scoffs faintly, his voice taking on the bored, flat tone he uses to imitate Sorey.]

"Oh no, I have to spend hours at the library with my best friend, what a terrible fate."

[monolike]

[Sorey does a little dance, outwardly squirming with satisfaction. Yeah, he's already over it. Annoying Mikleo is really rewarding sometimes.] And you're going to make the books float and we'll probably get kicked out of there too.

[nerdeology]

No doubt. You've cleverly deduced it, my new mission- to make sure that you're evicted from every interesting locale on the station.

[monolike]

If you just wanted my company Mikleo, all you had to do was tell me. [purposefully bumps into him]

[nerdeology]

[Bumps back. He can do this all day, too.]

Don't put words in my mouth. I was doing just fine on my own until you got us kicked out of the park.

[monolike]

Uh, you got me kicked out of the park. You can go back whenever you want.

[...now that he's thinkin' about it,] Say, if you infused me with mana, could you make me invisible?

[nerdeology]

[.........Only Sorey asks the weirdest questions]

I'm pretty sure it only works with non-living things.

[monolike]

So my clothes? Would that mean I'd just look like a floating head and a pair of hands, or would I just look naked? [the IMPORTANT questions] Hmmm.

[nerdeology]

[He will probably regret indulging this, but.]

Considering the objects infused are merely transparent to those without resonance, you'd probably look naked.

[So, you know, if you want to embarrass yourself.]

[monolike]

Hm, that's true. I guess that wouldn't work. [Not that he's looking to be invisible, but it'd be a fun experiment to try.] What about hair? It's technically dead once it comes out of your scalp.

[nerdeology]

Hmm... shall we find out?

[He reaches over, as if to pull on Sorey's hair. For the sake of science or something.]

[monolike]

Sure, do it! [But then Mikleo grabs his hair and he has sudden reservations.] Wait, you know how to reverse it, right? [Gramps did, but hell if Sorey knows if Mikleo knows.]

[nerdeology]

Mm, probably.

[Of course he does. But he's curious to see how far Sorey will take this.]

Still want to try?

[monolike]

[Sorey hesitates, but then looks Mikleo dead in the eye and grins.] Let’s do it. I trust you.