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!]

Comments

[therewerefifty]

Mm. I haven't seen any-- I arrived a week before you did. But I'm told the last land the fleet visited was very cold and icy, so I suppose we'll see all sorts of climates.

[She wants to see a place isn't a beach, personally.

...also she'll be happy when they get back to the park because all this walking is tiring her out. But then she can sit and drink and that'll be nice.]

[heavenonearth]

[ thankfully they didn't have to go terribly far to begin with, so it's not long before they're approaching the park again. ]

Right. That's too bad, I could get used to a place like this.

[therewerefifty]

[I have no idea what I was trying to say in those last brackets because Makie loves beaches, but shh. Also yes, the park with its delicious fresh grass smell and trees and fake sun-- it's really quite nice, even though she knows the light's not real out here.]

I would hope we get to visit more places like this. It should be an interesting tour, in any case.

[heavenonearth]

[ hmm brackets what brackets i saw nothing. ]

Tell me about it. I like it here.

[ he gives her arm a pat, before he's disengaging and settling back down beneath this nice, shady tree. ]

[therewerefifty]

[She folds herself gracefully down under the shade, kneeling to put the bottle down and wiping some of the dust away with her fingertips. It occurs to her he only got the one glass, and she holds it up with a questioning look. Perhaps he means to drink straight from the bottle. She'll feel a bit guilty if he doesn't intend to have any.]

[heavenonearth]

[ cas leans back on his hands in the grass, and it.. takes him a moment to understand what she's getting at, with the glass. ]

Oh - hey, no, don't worry about it. It's a small bottle, and that stuff is hard to track down. Make it last as long as you can. [ an easy grin. ] It's not really my drink of choice, anyway.

[therewerefifty]

Ah. That's a shame. It's always better to drink in good company.

[Can't blame him. Perhaps he's worried about sharing the same bottle; she pours herself a finger's width of sake anyway, lips twitching at the idea of pouring it into this over-large glass.]

What is your drink of choice, may I ask?