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[passingthrough]

Who: Kitty and all the people of fleet!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Windrose if you want
When: At some point before the masquerade

We have a masquerade coming up, and I was bored so I thought I'd mettle in people's lives for my own amusement. First, the disclaimer, there is nothing wrong with going to a dance solo.

Now, for anyone else, who wants a date?

Sorry, not me. Taken. But there are probably some of you out there thinking a date would be fun, and sure, why not? So speak up. Let's make some love connections. Or, you know, awkward dancing connections. I'm a mutant, not a miracle worker.

(OOC: Please feel free to threadjack.)

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[girlverine]

Yes. [This was presumably the girl Kitty was talking about. Okay. She could deal with this.]

...Hi.

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[experiencepoints]

[Okay, Nightingale. You can do this. Be cool. Do not fuck this up.]

Hey. I'm Nightingale. Kitty said you were looking for a date for the masquerade?

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[girlverine]

[Was she? She had sort of agreed to it. Even if she hadn't expected anything to come of it.]

I suppose so.

[She doesn't mean to sound so unenthused, Nightingale. It's just that she's unenthused.]

...It was her idea.

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[experiencepoints]

[... okay, well. That does make things a little more awkward.]

... Did you not want to go?

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[girlverine]

No. I do.

[She kind of wilts a bit, drawing in a breath.]

I am not very good at...this.

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[experiencepoints]

Don't worry, then. I'm not either, honestly.

[Laura having expressed interest does help her calm down a bit, but now she's just sort of internally flailing for something to talk about. What are you even supposed to do in a situation like this?]

What ship are you on?

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[girlverine]

[That's a little reassuring, honestly. She knew people who were 'so good' at it, and it left her a little uncertain. It was one of those things she thought she should know how to do, but didn't.]

I am on the Red Fish.

[She had been planning a transfer, but so much for that.]

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[experiencepoints]

Red Fish... I don't think I know anyone from that ship. What's it like?

[Nightingale's social skills are... stunted, to say the least. But she's pretty sure she's learned enough to handle small talk here. People are generally friends with their crews, right? And people like talking about their friends? It's a good way to get to know someone, right?

Socializing is much easier when she can treat it like a puzzle with simple strategies, at least.]

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[girlverine]

[Asking Laura to describe a place and the people in it. Hm. She seems to think the question over for probably a bit longer than necessary.]

Some of them are dangerous. The ship itself seems to be similar to others. I have not seen many.

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[experiencepoints]

... Dangerous as in very strong and well-prepared, or dangerous as in poor impulse control?

[IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.]

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[girlverine]

Yes.

[She is so unhelpful.]

I do not think they will be actively attempting anything, though.

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[experiencepoints]

That's... good, then...

[holy shit, is this how she used to be. she suddenly has so much more sympathy for her team, back when she first woke up.

it's okay, nightingale, don't be discouraged. KEEP TRYING.]

Do you have anything you like to do here?

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[girlverine]

[Laura at least feels a little bad that she's terrible at this?]

I have been exploring the moon. I..am not used to places like this. I have never been off earth.

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[experiencepoints]

Oh, you're from Earth... I've never been there.

Though I would think not being used to places like this is a good thing, right? What with the poison.

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[girlverine]

Where are you from?

[Laura shrugs slightly.]

The poison is not a significant problem for me.

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[experiencepoints]

Delwight, Ashvara. If my planet has a name, I don't remember it.

How does that work?

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[girlverine]

[She didn't know what to do with that information yet, so she just filed it away.]

I heal rapidly from any injury or infection.

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[experiencepoints]

Like Regen magic?

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[girlverine]

...I don't know. It is not magic, I am a mutant.

[Laura doesn't know much of anything about magic.]

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[experiencepoints]

Oh, right, like Kitty. Something about 'atoms'.

[the way she says it makes it clear she's cringing about it. THAT'S NOT HOW ATOMS WORK.]

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[girlverine]

I...do you mean DNA?

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[experiencepoints]

No, I was asking her how she did her walking through walls thing, and it was a weird answer about atoms. It didn't make much sense.

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[girlverine]

Oh. I don't know how her abilities work.

Mine is nothing like hers.

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[experiencepoints]

How does yours work? If that's okay to ask.

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[girlverine]

I have claws.

[It was something of a lame explanation, perhaps. So she held up her hand, and a smooth metal claw emerged from between her knuckles, eight or so inches long with a bit of blood from where it cut her skin open.]

And I heal quickly.

[She let the claw retract, and the slit it had created in her hand sealed up almost instantly behind it.]