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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!]
eyeforaneye: ({so when you bite you will not bleed})

[personal profile] eyeforaneye 2016-02-15 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
... you were taken from her?

Do you know where she is in your world?
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[personal profile] scrubscrub 2016-02-15 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She plucks at her dress, looking aside.]

Mm. I was -- taken from my father. We were fishing on his boat. He told me... to not cry, because slavers were very terrible, and he wanted me to live. I didn't cry, not a drop, sir. That's how I stayed alive. My father saved me...! Many times, he saved me.

[He never told her to smile, but Koala picks up survival techniques well enough.]

It's just my mom, now. There are very good pirates taking me back to her! Mr. Aladdin, he's a pirate with them; he was a slave before, too. And when I return home, I will complete my journey! I know the name of my island. I forced myself to remember, even though I was forbidden to say its name.
Edited 2016-02-15 22:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] eyeforaneye 2016-02-16 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ He almost wants to ask if she's allowed herself to cry since then, but that's not really his place. It'd force him to face his own emotional hypocrisies, too, and that's not something he's interested in getting into right now. ]

I see. [ He sees the potential for this girl's dream to shatter, that's what he sees. Maybe he really is just that much of a pessimist. What if her mother isn't there anymore? ]

... don't just focus on that end destination.