driftfleet | (no subject)

Who: Anyone!
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Iskaulit
When: Broadcast 12th / Action anywhere from 3rd -12th probably

[In light of certain updates from certain hunters, Nami is trying really, really hard not to take her impressive temper out on the person who's effectively her roommate on the Bloodsport. But being angry and trying to convince yourself not to lash out at someone you think may deserve it but might not so let's be nice about it doesn't really help your mood any. Nami doesn't want to lay into Cas. So Nami avoids Cas. Just for a little while. Because she respects their friendship enough not to damage it in a fit of anger, but also because she thinks trying to punch an angel might be bad for her hand. You know.

So Nami is avoiding the Bloodsport. Which isn't that hard when you've somehow found yourself working at both bars on the Iskaulit. She pulls all the extra shifts she can, keeps busy, works her temper off in fits and starts, and devotes some of her extra time to visiting the gardens to see how her mikan saplings are going, and generally explores what the Iskaulit has to offer.

Really, you can find her drinking at a bar, behind a bar, or anywhere else on the ship. Pick your poison.]

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[Today she's not working but lurking at the bar anyway, picking away at snacks and going through her comm and trying to find ways to waste time. So. Lucky network, have a bored navigator.]

Paradisa. Adstringendum. Luceti. [Kyriakos, she nearly adds, but nobody's officially given her that one.] They're all fun places, so I hear. Are there others? I'm curious to see if they have anything in common.

....

...has anyone ever died on the Fleet?

And I guess if that's too morbid for you: pirates or ninjas?

[...Nami. Either be serious or don't. Or-- have another drink. That works.]

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Precisely. It cannot be that they are all unrelated. It's too much of a coincidence for that to be so. Why would they be able to take us from those different places, unless they were somehow linked?

The trick is, learning how to defeat them in their entirety. They do their best to make it seem nigh impossible.

Yeah. Defeating them one at a time doesn't seem worthwhile, especially if it just lands you in another place. There's only so many hoops I'm willing to jump through.

All high-level organisations like to have that kind of veil of invulnerability, don't they? I guess the trick is finding the cracks. Doubly hard when your ability to interact with anything is highly controlled, though.

[Which isn't to say she isn't going to try.]

Likewise. I will not be made a fool of.

This is true. The augments mean they can manipulate whatever they wish. Our actions, or very memories. It makes it difficult. But not impossible.

Mmm.

[The trick is even knowing where to start.]

How long has it been since you've been home?

Around a year and a half.

[Without even a glimpse of home for himself. It's been...worrying. ]

[Yeesh.]

I guess we're in the same boat, there. But at least I wasn't forced to fight in a war.

The war was less trouble than the time travel it involved. That was...tricky. The slightest mistake could do untold damage. It was not enjoyable.

[The butterfly effect is the WORST, Nami.]

[Double yeesh.]

You were travelling back and forth timewise while stuck in this place? That sounds... complicated. Why?

It was to fight a war. We needed to destroy United Earth's hold on the universe, and the best way to do that was to go through time and take out their grip, piece by piece.

It was horrendously complicated.

Effective, provided you don't... accidentally change the wrong thing. I mean you can make it so they never took over, but...

[Well, she shuts up. He obviously doesn't need her to point out the complications, he lived it.]

That's such a headache. But I guess at least it's over. [For what it's worth.]

Yes, more than once we made the wrong choice, and things ended up worse. It was always a tightrope walk in trying to make things work out for the better. I do not miss it.

If you made the wrong choice, could you then go back and correct the choice you made?

Sometimes, but often we could not, and had to live with the consequences. The home we lived in was attacked by- I am not sure if you know what an atomic bomb is?

Bomb, yes. Atomic not so much, but I'm assuming it's big.

An atomic one is very big, yes. It also discharges something call radiation. It kills everything, sickens those who are far enough from the drop zone and destroys the land. One was dropped on our home. We had been evacuated to a moon base, when we returned many, many years later, the place was in an endless winter, the land dead and uninhabitable.

That was in reaction to something we did. Retaliation to our attempts to cripple the United Earth.

[...]

That's horrible. [It puts her in mind of Caesar's experiments with poison, but to last for years--] It can't be undone? Radiation can't be-- treated?

Not to the extent these people suffered. There was no saving them with treatments. We had to go back in time and fix our mistakes, end the United Earth's choke-hold once and for all.

But you were successful in the end, right?

[She hopes that's the important part.] These guys aren't a problem anymore?

We were. They were taken down completely and utterly.

...But sometimes, I wonder if they simply moved their focus elsewhere. Time travel aside, Atroma's abilities often ring familiar.

They do, don't they? I can't speak for Exsilium, but they're certainly familiar to Adstring.

Maybe if we can work out who the ultimate person is pulling the strings here, we'll have better luck fighting them.

That is my hope. I have no intention to stay trapped here forever.

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