"You Tried": The Ship

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Bloodsport crew and any visitors aboard their fine vessel.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Ship shenanigans!
When: While they're still on the Starlight.

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[time to check in on the Bloodsport... what antics has this well-behaved and perfectly well-adjusted crew been up to?]

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[combatready]

[ Penny is not used to arriving to fanfare and confetti. Still, the ship's new maintenance officer takes it in stride. She's more interested in checking out her new ship - well, not hers hers, but the ship she was assigned to anyway.

She immediately begins to poke her nose in everywhere she shouldn't - engine room, personal rooms, personnel rooms, the kitchen, the cockpit...

All while being followed by a gaggle of roombas small cleaning robots. ]


Um...

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[when she finally pokes her head into Robin's room (his is the hatch with the little bird keychain hanging on it, you see), he's sitting cross-legged on the bed and sewing up some shirt where the hem had started coming undone... he's got a couple of pins in his mouth when he glances up, which makes him sound kind of funny when he says:]

... Hi. Who are you...?

[combatready]

Oh!

[ She seems. Slightly surprised to find somebody. In a room. That obviously belongs to him. Why is she even surprised? ]

Salutations, new crewmate! My name is Penny. [ Simple, to the point. Who uses the word "salutations" any more?

One of the cleaning robots roombas that's following Penny around notices a pin dropped on the floor. CLEANING PROTOCOL ENGAGED! Vroom vroom, moving on into the room ahead of Penny to clean up. ]

[pneumo]

[ Sascha may not exactly be a member of the Bloodsport, but he sneaks onto the ship now enough late at night to hassle Bigby that he's seen a few of the crew members. This red-haired, green-eyed one though? She's new. And so is the nice smell she brings with her, of youth and vitality and blood, so that while she explores?

Sascha takes a detour from his intended route straight to the Bad Wolf's den to instead go and find the source of this lovely new smell abroad the Bloodsport. Which also means popping up behind her without a whole lot of notice. ]

Hi!

Bunk room: B Wolf

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby's room is not like anyone else's.

There's no furniture. At all. There's pillows, blankets, a couple of pillowcase like bags hanging up high. And there's fur all over the place. Long, thick, soft fur.

And then a throat being cleared.]

Can I help you?

[Yes, he's smoking on the spaceship.]

[namisan]

[Nami's in the kitchen, digging through the cupboards to find something that might remotely qualify as a fruitbowl with a pile of bags stacked on the counter next to her when Penny pokes her head through the door. She leans back to peer around the open cupboard door and blinks.]

Let me guess. New crew to squeeze in somewhere? [Despite the snark, her smile is friendly enough.] I'm Nami.

[hitbyakar]

[ Normally, Lisa Lisa really doesn't like having her private living space invaded by anyone other than Suzie, but this girl looks cute and fairly harmless. Hahahaha. So instead of telling her to get out, she regards Penny with mild curiosity. ]

Can I help you?

[hitbyakar]

[ Well, Lisa Lisa is well-behaved enough to compensate for however poorly adjusted she might be, so there's a plus. She can mostly be found doing one of two things:

Firstly, she can be found making her way to her room with several shopping bags full of clothing. She has a wardrobe of 20+ years to rebuild, here.

Secondly, she might also be found hiding away in a corner of the ship, having a cigarette. She's trying to be as discreet as possible about it, but it's always possible you might catch her ... ]

[nextlineis]

[Lisa Lisa acquires a ridiculous wardrobe and Jojo obtains a dog. Yes, that's right. Obtains. He didn't steal her.]

[...Technically.]

[Anyway, it's about time that his mother met Cloudy, he thinks. And maybe she has (or maybe she hasn't) heard about her from Suzie by now, but it's definitely time for a face-to-face. Joseph comes aboard the Bloodsport, Cloudy leading the way on her leash which is naturally pink like her collar. And said collar has some flowers tied to it right now. This dog is already a princess, okay. Don't hate. Joseph calls down the hallway.]

Hey Lisa Lisa? You around?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[man, he could smell cigarette smoke a mile away... though it doesn't help that it's really not a very big ship. he sneaks around looking for it, thinking it's Bigby (and that he can make fun of him for it), but his investigation leads him to...

Miss Lisa Lisa? she'll see him stop when he spots her, a little surprised, before he breaks into an easy smirk.]

You know... There technically aren't any no-smoking policies around here.

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby turns up with a packet of cigarettes as a peace offering. They haven't really spoken since the whole 'giant wolf' reveal.

He offers them out silently.]

[namisan]

[Nami runs into Lisa Lisa as she comes back from her room, having ditched her own bags inside, and just kind of zooms in on the fact that Lisa Lisa is apparently a woman after her own heart.]

Clothes! What'd you get?

[Do we have the same tastes. Is any of it borrowable. V. important questions.]

[namisan]

[Lisa Lisa isn't the only one who's been shopping. Nami offered up room space to the non-sleeping angel type, so hopefully he doesn't get irritated by the sudden appearance of a wardrobe full of women's clothing.

Her hair is shorn short now as of a week or so ago, and she's often absent the ship given she somehow ended up working at both bars on the Iskaulit. (Seriously, what the hell.) But when home (and not asleep) she's usually on the bridge or in the kitchen.

She bought a bunch of fruit, by the by. Anyone's welcome to try it, but as some of it's alien in nature you might be taking your life in your hands. Who knows.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[Robin'll find her in the kitchen, definitely. he's be all over that alien fruit in a minute, but first he's got to wave hello! he's been out of the ship a lot too, so they probably haven't crossed paths in a while...]

Oh hey, you cut your hair!

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[ZERO-G ► to his credit, Robin sent everyone a voice transmission saying that he was going to try switching off the gravity generator in the hopes of successfully isolating the effect to a single room... but just in case he screws it up, everyone's got twenty minutes to strap their sharp objects and fishbowls down. when that time is up, there's a noise from the depths of the ship that sounds like something winding down, before... things start... floating. including you.

so he couldn't get the single-room thing to work after all. like clockwork, anyone on the ship can hear cursing from the bridge. anyone on the bridge will find Robin floating around in zero-gravity, frowning, trying to stop what's otherwise a slow, full-body spin in the direction of the ceiling...]

[BAD DREAM ► with all these immortals, superhumans, magical creatures, and straight-up insomniacs, it's not all that odd for half the crew of the Bloodsport to be up and moving around at three in the morning. that sudden crashing, skittering noise from the engine room, though, like someone's tipped a table over... Robin's often heard tinkering and knocking things around down there in the daylight hours, but he usually tries to keep it quiet at night for the diurnal folks.

and the sharp metal bang that follows right after, yeah, that's maybe not a good sound. anyone with any sort of aura or mood-sensing ability can feel a low but horrible something starting to radiate out from the back of the ship, like an anxious dread, or maybe a seething malice...

(cw: blood, augment squick - let me know if you want to opt out of either!)]

[nextlineis]

[Okay, so Joseph tries to be patient and wait for Robin to get things under control again. But only a few minutes pass before he's decidedly had enough of this. Slipping off his boots and carrying them in one hand, dog tucked under his other arm, Joseph starts using his clinging hamon to first get a hold of a wall and then back down on the floor. It's not a perfect solution and it's slow-going from where he starts out to walking up to the bridge, but he gets there eventually and manages to stay on the floor.]

[If you're wondering about his socks, I got news for you. Socks are for the weak and Joseph Joestar is not weak.]

You need some help?

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[pneumo]

[ To be fair Sascha usually comes aboard the ship closer to morning, the equivalent of his night time. 3am is his late morning and he usually spends it wandering the Starlight, going here and there and mostly just observing people. It's not until it gets much earlier that he makes the trek to bother Bigby as he's only recently started to do (when Celeste won't have him), but tonight is somewhat of an exception because.

He has some bitchin' new shades to show off, seeing as Bigby gave him money to get them and threatened expulsion if he bought anything else with it. So he's coming in earlier than normal to assure him he was been good and responsible, decked out in his new (ridiculous-looking) gear...when he hears those very odd tinkering sounds. Followed by that much larger, not-so-good one. It's actually enough to have him stop and sniff the air a little, but he doesn't get more than the smell of old books--the usual scent that hangs around on the Bloodsport, despite his never really seeing those sorts of things here.

He doesn't smell blood yet though so whoever's making that noise probably hasn't injured themselves. Right? It shouldn't be a problem if he pokes around a bit and sees what they're up to. ]

1. HERE AS PROMISED

[nulliverse]

[She's been snooping around all the ships, really, trying to hunt down people she's spoken to but hasn't yet met in person. Might as well be friendly, right? People are unusually nice here, almost warm, and the doors to the ships tend to be open so it doesn't feel like she's breaching any barriers she shouldn't.

But the Bloodsport is immediately different. As soon as she boards, she becomes aware that she's having more difficulty keeping her feet on the ground, until she reaches the bridge and realizes there are no two ways about it - she's definitely floating. It gets a startled shriek out of her, until she makes a quick switch to anger and... a pretty understandable mistake, given where she comes from.]

Alright. [Her voice is loud and strident.] Whoever's got me, could you please put me down?

[In her world, a prankster telekinetic is much more likely than zero gravity. And anyway, even if they're in space, shouldn't the ships correct for this sort of thing? She's never had this happen before.]

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[enshields]

[He doesn't hurry to investigate. That it's a bad sound (or maybe more specifically, a Bad Sound) is obvious, and Steve knows what it's like to wake angry and hurting at the world and to need some space. It's the least he can do.

Instead, he heats up some leftover soup he'd made the day before - chicken noodle, or the closest approximation he could manage with their supplies - and heads for the engine room. He makes no secret of his approach, not bothering to silence his steps against the floor paneling. And he stops, at the threshold of the room.]

Robin.

[His tone isn't exactly gentle, but it is-- understanding, in its own way. He holds out one of the chipped mugs filled up with soup and waits.]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby is not around during the day. He works, in a lot of places, doing odd things and buying up pillows and blankets. And meat.

At night, he returns to his room. His room which has had the bed and all of the furniture shoved out. He keeps his personal belongings hidden in one of the compartments he knows about and his room is kept closed off, a small lair for a giant wolf.

Oh. And he has a lazy vampire who keeps sneaking on board to sleep with him.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[one of these nights, there comes a polite knocking on Bigby's door! the sound has that edging-on-obnoxious rhythm to it that means it's probably Robin.]

[namisan]

[Nami leans against his door at some point, arm up on the frame as she regards his emptied room thoughtfully.]

Is anyone using the bed that you're not?

[pneumo]

[ Hey now, he's perfectly active at nighttime! It's the daylight hours Sascha has trouble with. And this time he's showing up closer to the former for a change, meaning he imposed his loserly self on someone else for his daytime sleeping routine. But he's sporting the shades Bigby loaned him money for and is obviously in good spirits as he just swipes open the door. No knocking at all. ]

Good mooooorning~~

[pompous_today]

[Simon was starting to become bored and restless on this station. It had been weeks since they'd landed; where was this ship that was allegedly coming for the gumballs? Their bonus had already been spoiled- not that he could blame Robin for peeking- but still, he felt like it was past due for it to have been picked up.

So the crew could find Simon giving the cargo the side-eye every time he passed it. Sometimes he could be found peeking at the crates, though they never yielded any new insight.

As always, he could be found in the clinic when needed as well.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[Robin absolutely notices Simon side-eyeing those crates. he'll pause from where he's checking inventory (Bigby and Tek are doing a number on his blanket collection), to call across the cargo bay...]

You know, I'm pretty sure they're not going to get up and bite you or anything...