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[detectivewonder]

Who: Tim Drake AND YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide video & text stream.
Action: The Marsiva.
When: 1/29; evening.

[Tim has been pacing the deck, finding every corner, every computer console, working furiously to research whatever he can since the moment he woke up. Knowledge is a form of control; secrecy is another, and he has far too much of one and absolutely no guarantee of the second, and it makes him edgy. But once he's gotten a grip on the basic concept, delaying makes no sense.]

[The video broadcast reveals a young man - eighteen, give or take a few months - in a trim blue suit and red tie, dark hair neatly parted but still falling into his eyes, which are blue and unmistakably angry or tense no matter how well we modulates his tone and keeps it off the rest of his face, crisp and professional.]

Good... evening, I think, is the local time? Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne, Pilot Officer reporting for duty - or I will be soon, if I'm getting the right idea here. I wanted to reach out and touch base before I was assigned - get an idea of what the ships are like, who I might be serving with, how long everyone's been here. Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.

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[detectivewonder]

A charity banquet, actually. I was on my way home.


[Friednly smile, open expression, no sign that this is weird. Maybe it isn't; who knows? He needs a frame of reference first. Until then, at least, trying to be charming is a great default setting. When talking to a girl, just think: What Would Dick Grayson Do? ]

[ladiesss]

[on the bright side, she seems very casual about all of this... seems pretty normal to her. she's been to charity banquets. she doesn't like them, but that's another story.]

Oh, okay. Sorry you got snatched up in the middle of something.

I'd be happy to answer questions, if you've got anything that hasn't already been covered by someone else...

[detectivewonder]

I'm still scouring the databanks for anything I can. Most important lesson that doesn't have an official memo, maybe?

[ladiesss]

Uh, yeah. They will surprise you with confetti when you change ships.

[she says this with a haunted expression... though her next point is probably way more helpful.]

It's also a really bad idea to try removing your augment.

[detectivewonder]

Confetti?

The other one doesn't surprise me.

[ladiesss]

In that case, there is also a complimentary pudding. It... might be made of protein, though. I'm not sure.

[detectivewonder]

I'll take what I can get, I guess.