this is your captain speaking;

[firstrebel]

Who: All Goldens and Golden friends!
Broadcast: Shipwide to the SS Golden
Action: Golden!
When: All of March, probably.

[ Hera is on the bridge today, looking all business. ]

Hi, everyone. I'm Hera, for those who are new or haven't spoken to me before. I'm your pilot and - as of today - captain. I know it's not a big deal here, but I was a captain back home, so I take it pretty seriously, and I just wanted to lay out a few ground rules and make a couple of announcements.

First and foremost, if I give you an order, I expect it to be followed. I don't give orders lightly, or for my own entertainment. If you think I've given you an unreasonable order, you're welcome to talk to me about it, but trust me when I say, I do it for the good of everyone on board.

Second, as of right now, we have more than enough bunks for everyone, so no one should have to share, or sleep on the floor, or anything like that. As long as there aren't any funny smells coming from your bunk, I don't care what you do in there.

Next, and especially for those new here, we do currently have cargo in the cargo bay. I ask that you don't mess with it, because it doesn't belong to us. We've scanned it, and we're relatively sure there's nothing dangerous in there, but the station has flagged it as contraband, so there's no sense risking getting into trouble just to satisfy your curiosity. If you have a legitimate reason for wanting to get into it, come talk to me so I can do a risk assessment.

Also, guests are always welcome aboard, but I do want to know who is on my ship at any given time, so just let me know when you invite people from other ships.

Finally, I just want to welcome our new crew members and let everyone know that if you have any concerns, you can always talk to me about them. We all have to share this space, and I want everyone to be as comfortable as possible.

[ And with that, have a mingle! How goes it, Golden? What kind of shenanigans are you getting up to? ]

Comments

[throwsdown]

[Wow, what a nice compliment. He wishes he were so great at protecting people...

Instead, he shakes his head.]

It's better to protect others together...!

If there's more of us, there's more people saved when things go bad.

[precedented]

There is truth in your words. Do you foresee so much misfortune though? That's not very positive.

[throwsdown]

[Takeshi shakes his head.]

Positive stuff's gonna happen, but it'd be stupid if we thought there wouldn't be bad stuff, too!

We gotta be ready for it, even if everything's okay today!

'Cus it might not be later.

[He's learned quite a lot in his time being in a team. Both home and in space.]

[precedented]

[ He clicks his tongue. Nothing about his manner seems condescending, taking every word with a measure of seriousness that it deserves. Still, that smile never slips. ]

Indeed. It's always best to be prepared for the unexpected.

[throwsdown]

[Mhmm! He looks pleased by the response.]

'Cus you never know when you'll get attacked by monsters.

There's lots more room for things to happen in space, huh?

[precedented]

Well, I will have to say. Getting attacked by monsters would be a first in my space experience.

[ It's certainly not the first one that would come to his mind. ]

Do you have a lot of experience with monsters?

[throwsdown]

[He nods.]

Yessir, me and my team at home!

We all died in different ways, and when we woked up, we was in a apartment. And there was a man in a ball who made us fight monsters nobody else saw. If you get a hundred points, you got to be free again.

[precedented]

Charming and cliched. They do work hard on these scenarios!

[ One of the many hundred plots of the universe. Leto can barely restrain himself from rolling his eyes. ]

[throwsdown]

[Takeshi cocks his head to the side, thoughtful.]

What's a cliched?

[precedented]

Something that happens far too frequently and written badly to be a pleasant encounter.

[throwsdown]

[......... Yeah he's still confused.

But that's sort of... semi-followable.]

So spaceships are a cliched, because I keep waking up on them.

[precedented]

For you and me, certainly. It means they keep doing the same thing and it can get quite dull.

[throwsdown]

Mhmm. That's why you gotta take up lots of time with stuff like... drawing!

And playing with action figures.

[precedented]

I can't say I've ever tried those methods. I tend to play strategy games more, mostly due to not possessing any action figures.

[ The secret of Leto's childhood was that he had no childhood. He had to be a child to do that and he never was. ]

[throwsdown]

Strategy games?



....................



Like Tic-Tac-Toe?

[precedented]

Close. I was speaking of . . . chess, I believe you call it.

[throwsdown]

Chess? That's kind of a hard game, right? [Yeah. Yeah, that's the one! There wasn't much you could do in terms of games, what with how little games there had been... but that one existed.] I remember some people liked to play it, in the other ship I was in. But it looked like I'd get confused real fast.

[precedented]

It is a fun game if you wish to test people's mental limits, but I would not recommend it to everyone.

What is it that you like to play?

[throwsdown]

Mmmmmm... All kinds of stuff! I like the game Sorry, but I don't think that's here. But I also like bingo! And I like tag. And jumping rope sounds fun! But I never did it before.

[precedented]

I'm sure you can find people willing to play many of those games if you asked around.