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[thespaceopera]

[The bunks are filling up, but the new faces just keep appearing!

Are you a travel-weary passenger having trouble keeping your crew roster straight? Perhaps you are a fresh new recruit, finding themselves dumped into a new (and much less shiny) home. Or, maybe you've been around for a little bit and just haven't bothered meeting the other weirdos on this ship yet--what is their problem, anyway?

Well, this is the place for you!

All new passengers from the last few Shuffles, especially those who haven't met their crews yet, are welcome to post starter-comments here to invite those living on and visiting your ship to come and interact. Newbies could be just arriving on the ship, busying around where others can find them, or you can offering multiple options for interaction--however you'd like to set up your thread is fine. Just make sure to include the name of your ship in the header, so your crewmates can easily find you!

Everyone else-- go meet those newbies! Whether they are new to your own crew, or on ships you frequently visit, now is a great time to bump into them.]

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[video]

[takeabow]

[ when Nova pops up on the screen, she looks engaged but reserved. her affect is overall fairly flat and quiet, but studying Lydia ]

Yeah, I was somewhere else before here. Aather. With Stiles, actually.

[ she lets it hang there, waiting for Lydia's response to decide which way to take the conversation ]

[video]

[intelligently]

He was in Asgard too.

( At least for a short time, and there'd been earlier times that Lydia had been in Asgard that she didn't remember. That happened a lot )

Usually when people leave they don't remember being there. I think it was to do with the god's magic problems.

( They'd only gotten worse )

What was Aather like?

[takeabow]

[ Nova is kind of unsure how to take that– Stiles being somewhere else. Was it the Stiles she knows, or someone else, like Ino's Katniss? She shakes off the thought and continues ]

Weird. Magic. Probably not too different than Asgard, in some ways. All of our memories were taken, except one, when we arrived, though. We had to win them back through "games" [ —the quotes are audible— ] which were either like social parties or execution parties.

[intelligently]

I'm almost glad that Asgard was what it was instead.

( Memory loss, execution parties to get memories back? It sounds awful. Worse than the war really )( Though there was killing )

[takeabow]

Yeah, it wasn't ideal.

He was in Asgard? What was he like there?

[ she's curious but reserved ]

[intelligently]

He was- Stiles. I don't know what losing his memories would have done, but in Asgard he had them all.

He was trying to help stop the war. We all did.

[takeabow]

Yeah. Sorry. It's just weird. Maybe it was part of the memories he lost in Aather, or maybe it was just another... him. Someone here recognized me from another place, but I don't remember being there at all.

[ everything is confusing ]

[intelligently]

Another him could be likely. People remembered me being in Asgard when I didn't remember being there. A time before I was there. I went, left, went back. It doesn't make going to somewhere new less confusing.

[takeabow]

Yeah, you're right.

I guess there's just a part of us that has to get used to being screwed around with.

...Anyway. I think it's good you're here. Stiles will be happy, for sure.

[intelligently]

Because it's just Isaac that's here?

( She's kidding. 50% kidding. Isaac and Stiles were never the closest but he's a good person to have at your back. Lydia knows that even more now due to Asgard )

You seem like you're good friends with him.

[takeabow]

Oh. Um. Yeah.

[ this feels awkward. she's not sure what to say, but just kind of blurts it out ]

We're dating.

[intelligently]

Oh. ( Well, that's definitely more evidence that these are different Stileses ) It's nice that you have each other.

[takeabow]

...Thanks, yeah. He's a good guy. Normal. It's nice.