004. ☾ Re-Intro { Accidental Video / Action }

[proteusmoon]

Who: Cecil Harvey and you
Broadcast: Fleet wide video
Action: Marsiva
When: 1/29

[ There is little more jarring than being suddenly snatched from your home, dropped into a new potentially highly dangerous universe with a bunch of strangers, going to sleep one night only to wake up a month later in a completely different place than you fell asleep.

Honestly, Cecil has no idea what she's been doing for the last month, but she likes to imagine she went home, even if she can't remember anything. Needless to say though, she's not happy to have been moved and her mood is making her feel pretty anti-social until she can clear her head. The sterile smell lingering on the Marsiva doesn't help much with that though.

It's a good thing Atroma clearly has other plans, right? The network panel nearest to her is broadcasting her little brooding session as she stares out a viewport at the stars, dressed in the red and ivory finery of her kingdom — mantle, crown, and all — completely still and silent, unaware her return is currently being announced regardless of how she feels about it. ]

Comments

[proteusmoon]

There are lots of ways: it's larger, cleaner, far better stocked... The other ships are much smaller and supplies depends largely on who is in your crew and what their augments are.

[detectivewonder]

But assignments are... arbitrary? Or is "shuffle" a misleading term?

[proteusmoon]

No, that is correct. It is a random — or seemingly random — process. You may request to move once you are assigned and information on the current crews is available if you dig around enough, but it's very likely that your assigned ship will not have all the necessary components of a typical crew.

[detectivewonder]

I'll be ready to rough it, then.

[Given the ironic tone in his voice, this might be a joke.]

[proteusmoon]

[ She legitimately cannot tell. ]

On the ships, at least, you should be relatively safe depending on who your crew is. It's on the waystations and the planets that you need to be most careful.

[detectivewonder]

What am I being careful of? Just inhospitable conditions? Unbreathable air? Alien attacks?

[proteusmoon]

[ She flinches a little at "alien attacks", but doesn't remark on that bit. ]

Inhospitable conditions, mostly, and occasional attacks on one's person, yes.

(ooc: new post for the ship is up, too!)

[detectivewonder]

Great.

Are these little excursions mandatory? or just a good way to boost ratings?

o7

[proteusmoon]

The latter. If you want supplies for the ship though...

[detectivewonder]

I like food, water, and air as much as the next guy. And, you know. Creature comforts.

[proteusmoon]

"Creature comforts"?

[ That's an odd phrase. She's not sure what it means. ]

[detectivewonder]

Silk sheets? Bubble bath? Punk rock?

[proteusmoon]

Er...

[ What in the multiverse is "punk rock"? ]

None of that, 'sorry.

[detectivewonder]

All the more reason to get back home.

[proteusmoon]

Mm.

[ She nods, then shuts off the feed, turns again towards the young man across the room and gestures for him with one hand to beckon him over to her. ]

Action

[detectivewonder]

[He'll head over, eyebrows arching, then lowering again.]

Hi.

[proteusmoon]

[ She gives him a curt nod. ]

Cecil Harvey.

[detectivewonder]

Tim Drake.

[He'll flash a smile and offer his hand.]

[proteusmoon]

[ She hesitates for a moment, but then takes his hand to shake. She obviously feels a little awkward though, unaccustomed to the gesture. ]

[detectivewonder]

[He sees that.]

Sorry, Your Majesty. I don't know what sort of courtesy is appropriate.

[proteusmoon]

Please-- I'm not a sovereign here. It's fine.

[ She just spent a year bowing to various royalty herself and in between those times, there was too much death and violence happening for handshakes to be exchanged. Before that? Well, people in Court said hello by landing in bed together.

That's definitely not going to happen here if she can help it. ]

[detectivewonder]

[Definitely not Tim's style, anyway.]

Miss Harvey? Cecil?

[proteusmoon]

Cecil is fine.

[detectivewonder]

All right. I'm pleased to meet you, Cecil.

[proteusmoon]

And you, Tim, though I do wish the situation was different.