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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.]

Comments

[passingthrough]

I call it phasing. I can make myself intangible at will. [She'll just slip a hand through the table to demonstrate.] So being a witch is something you're born into where you're from? [Actually it was that way for all the witches she'd met in the prison too.]

[mistyday]

Yeah. Apparently I'm the descendant of one of the Salem Witches. You know about them?

[passingthrough]

I do, but I don't think they were actually witches in our history. Just women who got persecuted.

[mistyday]

How do you know they weren't really witches?

[passingthrough]

I guess I don't. Most people with powers I know of at home are mutants, but I've heard of magic users.

[mistyday]

[Misty shrugs.]

The rules are all so weird for all these worlds, I have a hard time keepin' track. Hell, I barely even learned my own rules... I didn't meet anybody else like me until recently.

[passingthrough]

Here or at home? [Because that is rough. The time before she knew other mutants was probably the hardest. Though there were some other reasons for that too.]

[mistyday]

At home. I found a Coven... Or they found me, I don't know. I mean, I always knew I couldn't be the only one out there, you know? But it was real lonely.

[passingthrough]

Any witches here? [Because it seems like it would still be lonely. It was lonely being the only mutant for awhile at the prison. Not much better when the only other one was a version of herself.]

[mistyday]

Oh yeah, and warlocks too! Or well, some of them call themselves wizards or mages, but the name’s not the important part. We all got magic and I’ve been learning a lot from them. ‘Course, not everyone’s magic works the same… you know some people actually have to have wands? Like it’s Cinderella or something! It’s real amazin’ though, all the stuff they can do with them, way more than I can do.

[passingthrough]

Does their magic sparkle too? Big puffs of colorful smoke? [Or maybe Misty's is.]

[mistyday]

Sometimes. Depends on the spell, I think.

[passingthrough]

Really? I was kind of joking. Is there rhyming? One of the witches I knew at the prison rhymed all her spells.

[mistyday]

Not that I’ve heard so far… it’s mostly spells in Latin. A lot of mine are too. So I guess that’s one thing that’s the same in a lot of universes.

[passingthrough]

Hmm, Piper and Zatanna but used English, but Zatanna said everything backwards.

[mistyday]

[She shrugs.] Either way, it's nice, havin' other folks like me around. I've been looking for a long time for a place like this... not that I ever thought it would be on a spaceship, mind.

[passingthrough]

Yeah, sudden spaceship voyages are something of a surprise. I get the part about wanting to be around people like you though. [Less worry of rejection if nothing else.]

[mistyday]

So I guess your powers ain't so common in your world either, huh?

[passingthrough]

There are plenty of mutants, but a lot less than there are humans back home. [Though the ratio was rapidly changing where she was from.] Not many in the prison though.

[mistyday]

In the prison?

[She'd mentioned it earlier, and Misty is curious.]

[passingthrough]

Another place like this. It's just a little more honest. I was there last for about a year.

[mistyday]

Well damn, how many places like this are there anyway?

[passingthrough]

Seems like a lot. It almost feels like most people I meet have been through another one. What about you?

[mistyday]

No, least not any place like this. I've been to another realm but I chose to go there.

[Like a dumbass... she's still mad about it, will be for a long time.]

[passingthrough]

What kind of other realm?