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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[pyroelectric]

[She follows, though the crowd of newly-minted fangirls follow too, so Azula doesn't seem too out of place.]

Will you be coming back to the fighting pits again?

[She already knows the answer before she asks it, but Greed played his part, so she'll play hers.]

[avaricious]

[He glances over his shoulder back at the crowd, seems to consider it, and then shrugs.]

With shmucks like that? Hardly even worth my time. You on the other hand...

[Well, since they're in the act anyway, he just casually drops an around her shoulders.]

How about you come back with me instead. [The other girls will be so sad. Alas.]

[pyroelectric]

... Me? [She does a good job of sounding surprised, and the other girls all whine. If they're seen leaving together, though, it could arouse suspicion.]

... I'm ... not sure Father would approve. He's a powerful man ... it would almost certainly get back to him.

[She hopes her meaning is clear.]

[avaricious]

[Yeah, yeah. He gets it. His arm slides back to his side and he gives a shrug.]

Your loss, sweetheart. But you change your mind, you know where to find me.

[The Huntress. That part goes unspoken. Instead that goes unspoken as he instead starts chatting up some pretty green girl instead. They'll rendezvous later on. He doesn't like letting her out of his sight, but the last thing they need is to bring heat down on them and causing an incident. So he hangs back for about another hour before finally making his own exit.]

[pyroelectric]

[Good. That's business taken care of, then.

And true to her word, he'll find a fat stack of cash in his room when he returns to the Huntress, too.

Of course, since she's not there with the full amount in person, there's nothing to say that Azula's given him exactly half... but the amount is sizable enough.]

[avaricious]

[Hm. So she's already took off. It does look like a lot of money, but he can't help but be suspicious about her taking off. Still, it's more than he would have earned just entering the match - and he got the cash prize for that as well to add to the pile that hasn't been split.

He'll consider that a win. So he rounds up the cash and goes to make a deposit.]