thespaceopera: (hello)
Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-01-24 01:02 pm

Gumball Wishes and Taxicab Dreams

[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!]
ragazzina: (HMMM ✿ wait was i supposed to phone)

[personal profile] ragazzina 2016-02-13 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I just don't want to go to an eyeball planet if there really is one!

[In her reckoning, the eyeball planet is populated by little foot-shaped organisms with giant eyeballs attached just above the ankle. It is exactly as ridiculous and implausible as anyone might expect.

Godspeed, Anakin, you are doing the lord's work here.]


Actually I don't want to go to any gross planets at all...mm, what kinds of things do people lie about?
sandhate: (pic#9740329)

[personal profile] sandhate 2016-02-14 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs, less hysterical this time around. ]

Well, I don't think a giant eyeball planet would like anyone to step on its surfaces either! But there are plenty of "gross" planets out there. We're bound to orbit one someday.

You mean besides giant eyeball planets? [ He chuckles. No, he's not letting that go yet. He rubs his chin. ] Stories, rumours that might or might not be true, the price of things, directions. Anything, and there's a chance it's a lie.

It's part of every city, every civilization.
ragazzina: (KITTYFAIS ✿ lookit all that testosterone)

[personal profile] ragazzina 2016-02-14 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, that's gross, I don't want to touch an eyeball planet! I'll just stay on the ships if we ever go to one!

[Why is she so easy to tease. Why this.]

...Oh, I guess that's true. That's really not so different at home, either, people would say something is a bargain when it's really not, or try to pass off something old as something new. I guess here it's just...different-looking, and shinier, but about the same deep down.
sandhate: (pic#8584618)

[personal profile] sandhate 2016-02-15 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Still chuckling: ] Hey, it probably doesn't want you touching it either! Imagine having little people stepping all over you. That's not how I want to spend my day.

[ Anakin place a hand on her shoulder briefly and steers them away from the growing crowd. ]

You can talk about your home planet, if you want. I'd like to hear about it.
ragazzina: (HMMM ✿ wait was i supposed to phone)

[personal profile] ragazzina 2016-02-15 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, how generous. She doesn't resist in the slightest, letting him guide her to a quieter section of the surrounding area.]

Mm, if I tried to talk about the whole planet we'd be here all day! And I haven't seen a whole lot of it, either — really, all I've seen is the city where I live, that must seem really strange! But Venezia is a city where we have as many canals as we do roads, so people can get around by gondola! I think that's one of the things that make us special, most cities aren't like that at all. Um, let's see...well, my father was a glass merchant! He had a storefront and that's where we lived, too, when I was growing up. My parents, my three sisters, and me.