driftfleet | Log 002 | Video + Action - Can't Kick Those Old Habits

Who: Jim Kirk & Anyone
Broadcast: Yes, fleet-wide
Action: On the space station
When: Feb. 14 (or any other day you want to work out for the action)

[ Video ]

Okay, so I think I have the money situation figured out here.

We get money by being popular on this "show" and being "ranked" -

_{[ Can everyone hear his continued disbelief of this load of crap they are being fed, but fine he's playing along for the time being. ]}

But we can also get it on the station by offering to do work. Am I right? Which, by the way, just seems like it's adding insult to injury.

So aside from my making a cardboard sign and tacking it up in the space station, I'll set it out here too - I'm generally good with technology and fixing things in general, so if you ever need anything fixed I'm more than happy to get whatever it is you need running again for a fair price.

And if anyone has a recommendation on someplace to get good, cheap clothes on this station, I'd appreciate it. And real food.

_{[ He can only live so long between his uniform and the gray jumpsuit and replicated food items. That buffet on the Blue Fish ruined him to early. There are limits. ]}

[ Action ]

_{[ As he said, he made his way down to the space station to see if he can drum up some business and start earning some cash. He hates being a free loader or being put on charity - he just hates being non-useful in general and he's terrible at sitting around and doing nothing. Besides, job hunting might also come with info hunting, so it's two birds with one stone in a sense. So off to find a job and some food that hasn't been replicated. It never tasted the same, no matter how much the product might say otherwise.

One really should not be surprised to see him chatting someone up, male, female, green, tailed, scaled ,or otherwise. It might be equally common for him to be getting slapped, and there's about a 65% chance of catching him in the midst of a bar fight if you find him later in the evening, or leaving in the company of someone. He did mention he had a reputation to keep up, and everyone needed some outlet for dealing with their situation. This was his.

He will try not to look to chagrinned making his way back to the ships come the morning though... ]

_{[ ooc: feel free to hit him up anywhere on the station as he will literally be going around every inch of it. And by all means, be the one being hit on, or just interrupt his night/morning because he's made poor life choices somewhere along the way! ]}}

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The love interest.

_{[ He waggles his brows at her and runs a hand through his fluffy hair,
but his laugh says he's totally joking. He's not the romantic type, but
hey, you give him an opening he's going to take it for the humor, Kitty.
]}

Or maybe I'm the best friend - you know, the one you tell everything to and dish out sassy life advice with occasional problems of my own to solve.

[She manages not to take "the love interest" as seriously as she did the casual "date" term that was thrown out earlier. She just smirks back.] I don't know. Is the audience going to be into your occasional problems? My life is really fascinating. But maybe. Let's hear some sassy advice.

I don't know if you noticed, but I was just in a bar fight. Everyone loves watching a good bar fight. I think I'll be fine.

_{[ He snorted as he gulped water, looking at her quite seriously.
]}

Kitty, you don't give sassy life advice all the time. Otherwise it loses it's emotional impact on the show when it happens. You actually have to be in trouble, and as far as I remember, we just left that behind. Hopefully. I don't think anyone would follow us to want to finish what I did not start.

Wow, there are a lot of rules to do this. Should I get a notepad? [Yes, she still thinks in terms of paper products.]

Don't worry. The protag doesn't need notes, just us supplementary characters.

So you're also like personal assistants? So many things I didn't realize. It does explain all the montage sequences though.

Well, you know, no one wants to get mired in the little details, just the overarching idea.

Sure. Hey, and if I'm sad I just need one good shot of me staring out a window into the rain and then life can move on. Then again I'm probably the protagonist of a sci-fi horror movie so I'm not sure any of this counts.

Well, even sci-fi horror has to have moments of introspection, get you connected to the character. And those seem like times sassy life advice could really liven the mood.

Fewer than you'd think. [But that's the real answer that evokes just how busy and painful life could be. How dangerous it was to stop and consider it all. It's not the fun, pretendy answer of what he's building here.] But I guess you have to keep the audience on the hook. [Trying harder, but it does make her curious.]

Do you think about them much? The audience?

_{[ No, it's not. He knows it, but the pretendy answer served the
situation right now, and he wasn't going to bring it down with deep talk.
He was to inebriated for that, and there was pizza. ]}

You mean the people supposedly watching us? No, not really. There's no proof they exist, after all, and I don't much care what they think even if they were real. All I have to say is that they're sick bastards for condoning this - if they're real.

Agreed. I was surprised to learn some people do things just for their benefit or at least for the benefit of earning extra money. [A practical concern that's never been a reality in her life. Earth used currency when she was a child, but her parents handled the money. And then civilization fell and people stopped giving it the agreed upon meaning it once had. Then came the prison where everything was free and there was no payment for anything. She's not unaware of its significance, but it doesn't mean much to her.]

Hmm, it's not really that surprising. We need the money to survive, after all, and if you need a little more of it - well, I can't fault people for playing whatever game it is we're being made to play here.

_{[ Money had never been much of an issue for him. Poverty and hunger
were no longer issues on Earth, and while he was on his ship he had little
need for money besides perhaps buying a few trinkets, but nothing necessary
for his own survival. He actually had few recurring bills besides the
apartment he kept on Earth and the bills that went with it. ]}

It's just another method of survival, I feel.

[Still surprised her, but she takes his point.] I suppose so. I did pick up a job here so I could upgrade the food situation. Seems more like a distraction than anything else though.

I won't argue there. I'm sure that's probably what it's meant to do, but unfortunately they've rigged in that to be comfortable and not live like a pack of sardines in a can, we have to.

_{[ He sighed and shrugged, because there wasn't much else they could do about it, right? Not unless one of them suddenly won enough money to keep everyone flush for years to come. ]}

Mysterious overlords plan these things well. I really should have gotten into the mysterious overlord business instead of taking dance classes as a kid.

An opportunity sadly missed. You have to start that kind of thing early, you know.

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