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driftfleet2016-08-20 09:23 pm
electus) wrote in driftfleet2016-08-20 09:23 pm
01 | action
Who: Hartley and YOU
Broadcast: nope. once you put something on the internet it's there forever, you know.
Action: SS Paisley and the Iskaulit
When: upon his arrival and throughout the day
a. [closed] action for Paisley Captain and First Mate
[ hartley's stay aboard the marsiva is short lived, so he's managed to glean very little information. it's unsurprising; it would hardly be entertaining for an audience to watch him appear only to instantly disappear. if entertainment value is the main criteria behind every production decision, then he imagines he's not going to find his assignment to his liking; peaceful coexistence is a terrible bore to watch. steeling himself for the worst, he decides to tread carefully for now. he has a lot of learning yet to do, and it would be preferable if he isn't constantly interrupted to attend to petty squabbles. besides, getting into fights will increase his ratings which will increase the focus given to him by this show if he's to accept the premise and that - would limit his mobility. that means that, for now, he has to respect the hierarchy of the ship. from the little he's managed to learn so far, the fleet has two ranks worth noting - captain and first mate. so after locating his room and making himself as presentable as he's able (honestly, couldn't he have been taken with a better wardrobe than the casual wear cisco put him in? this is humiliating. he at least leaves the baseball cap and brushes his hair.), he goes to seek out those members of his crew he's meant to follow - and find out their qualifications because hierarchy or no hierarchy, he's not following an idiot. once he finds the correct hatches, he knocks, seeking admittance. ]
This is your new communications officer, permission to enter?
b. [OTA] action for Paisley crew and guests
[ the rest of the crew can find him wandering the ship, acquainting himself with every nook and cranny. before he settles in his bunk to start figuring out a game plan, he wants to know everything he has to work with. he pays special attention to the communications station, engine room, and laboratory, taking mental stock of the available equipment and supplies. he knocks before entering, but if there's no answer and no lock, he lets himself in all the same. ]
c. [OTA] action for the Iskaulit
[ once he satisfies his curiosity for his own ship, the next logical step is to take a visit to the communal vessel. his preliminary skim of the network informed him of the existence of a library on board, so of course that's his first stop. he expects any book of actual value to be out on loan but people tend to focus on the obvious, making them miss the immense, sometimes superior value in out-of-the-box thinking. he picks up a few books that would, at worst, help him pass a little time. he continues to systematically make his way through the ship, acquainting himself with every business before settling down in a strategic corner of the málum that allows him the best most hidden view of the patrons, with a virgin cocktail (it's not the time to dull his mind, after all) and one of the books he picked up ]
d. [closed] video for cisco ramon
[ upon studying the fleet manifest, he finds one familiar name. searching through the network proves that it is, in fact, the person the name suggests it to be. multiverse theory does suggest that it's possible this cisco isn't the cisco he knows, but from a purely dramatic standpoint - it would make no sense not to take them from the same verse, they would be far too entertaining. besides, it's a mystery easily solved - different verses would vibrate in a different frequency to avoid collapsing into each other. a simple test can let them know if they do in fact share a universe. of course, cisco is likely to be a annoying about allowing hartley to scan him after the way he put barry's scans into use, but that's really more of a mild annoyance at the moment than an actual problem. after mulling it over every which way, he decides it's better for him to reveal himself quickly and under his own terms than to allow cisco to happen upon his presence on the crew manifest or by running into each other unexpectedly.
dialing the man's private number, he clicks the video option, knowing the other is likely to think it some sort of time wasting trick. suspicion is so tiresome. ]
Boo.
Broadcast: nope. once you put something on the internet it's there forever, you know.
Action: SS Paisley and the Iskaulit
When: upon his arrival and throughout the day
a. [closed] action for Paisley Captain and First Mate
[ hartley's stay aboard the marsiva is short lived, so he's managed to glean very little information. it's unsurprising; it would hardly be entertaining for an audience to watch him appear only to instantly disappear. if entertainment value is the main criteria behind every production decision, then he imagines he's not going to find his assignment to his liking; peaceful coexistence is a terrible bore to watch. steeling himself for the worst, he decides to tread carefully for now. he has a lot of learning yet to do, and it would be preferable if he isn't constantly interrupted to attend to petty squabbles. besides, getting into fights will increase his ratings which will increase the focus given to him by this show if he's to accept the premise and that - would limit his mobility. that means that, for now, he has to respect the hierarchy of the ship. from the little he's managed to learn so far, the fleet has two ranks worth noting - captain and first mate. so after locating his room and making himself as presentable as he's able (honestly, couldn't he have been taken with a better wardrobe than the casual wear cisco put him in? this is humiliating. he at least leaves the baseball cap and brushes his hair.), he goes to seek out those members of his crew he's meant to follow - and find out their qualifications because hierarchy or no hierarchy, he's not following an idiot. once he finds the correct hatches, he knocks, seeking admittance. ]
This is your new communications officer, permission to enter?
b. [OTA] action for Paisley crew and guests
[ the rest of the crew can find him wandering the ship, acquainting himself with every nook and cranny. before he settles in his bunk to start figuring out a game plan, he wants to know everything he has to work with. he pays special attention to the communications station, engine room, and laboratory, taking mental stock of the available equipment and supplies. he knocks before entering, but if there's no answer and no lock, he lets himself in all the same. ]
c. [OTA] action for the Iskaulit
[ once he satisfies his curiosity for his own ship, the next logical step is to take a visit to the communal vessel. his preliminary skim of the network informed him of the existence of a library on board, so of course that's his first stop. he expects any book of actual value to be out on loan but people tend to focus on the obvious, making them miss the immense, sometimes superior value in out-of-the-box thinking. he picks up a few books that would, at worst, help him pass a little time. he continues to systematically make his way through the ship, acquainting himself with every business before settling down in a strategic corner of the málum that allows him the best most hidden view of the patrons, with a virgin cocktail (it's not the time to dull his mind, after all) and one of the books he picked up ]
d. [closed] video for cisco ramon
[ upon studying the fleet manifest, he finds one familiar name. searching through the network proves that it is, in fact, the person the name suggests it to be. multiverse theory does suggest that it's possible this cisco isn't the cisco he knows, but from a purely dramatic standpoint - it would make no sense not to take them from the same verse, they would be far too entertaining. besides, it's a mystery easily solved - different verses would vibrate in a different frequency to avoid collapsing into each other. a simple test can let them know if they do in fact share a universe. of course, cisco is likely to be a annoying about allowing hartley to scan him after the way he put barry's scans into use, but that's really more of a mild annoyance at the moment than an actual problem. after mulling it over every which way, he decides it's better for him to reveal himself quickly and under his own terms than to allow cisco to happen upon his presence on the crew manifest or by running into each other unexpectedly.
dialing the man's private number, he clicks the video option, knowing the other is likely to think it some sort of time wasting trick. suspicion is so tiresome. ]
Boo.
action - AIN'T NO SUCH THING! \o/
of course, he's one of a kind. expecting his level of skill from anyone else, particularly a child is, well, unrealistic and unfavorable to his sense of his superiority and competitive nature.
he wasn't expecting a kid and yet, maybe he should've. children are rather popular with certain demographics. hopefully this one has some composure, because playing nice until he figures out who's who on this fleet is hard enough for hartley, he doesn't need to be worrying about offending a child. he wasn't even good with them when he was one. ]
I'm the new communications officer - Hartley Rathaway. [ he would offer his hand but. grease. ] Would you mind if I have a look around?
[ all a refusal will get him is hartley returning when he's away. ]
\o/
Knock yourself out, just try not to mess with anything you can't fix yourself. I'm Kirito, the Paisley's engineer. Welcome aboard, I guess?
[Where was that grease rag, again? He should probably look halfway presentable... then again, the new guy might as well get used to seeing him in his natural state.]
no subject
[ he has to bite down on a venomous reply here - this is a crewmate, he's a kid, and he doesn't know he's in the presence of genius, a brilliant physicist and engineer who has worked on complicated, advanced, and expensive projects. his warning is fair. ]
You maintain the ship by yourself?
[ while he isn't phased by the kid's age, and it's obvious the augments instill them with the knowledge they need regardless to whether or not they possessed it to begin with - that is still a concern. he knows engines, he knows this work. all he needs to do is study these particular designs, is what he thinks. one by one, he intends to learn every single job there is to do on board these ships. if something goes wrong, he's not getting knocked out of the sky because of someone else's incompetence. no way. ]
no subject
[Aha! There's the rag.]
Did they give you an augment that suits you, or is it totally random? Some people get luckier than others.
no subject
[ a year of experience not letting the ship break is not bad, but he'd like to know the extent of his qualifications. ]
I wouldn't say it's - totally [ just the slightest hint of mockery in that word, the kind you can't ever be quite sure is really there ] random, but my training leans more towards engineering.
[ of course, there is no doubt in his mind he could excel at any position, he always has. ]
Have you had to deal with any malfunctions yet, or has it been all about prevention and routine maintenance?
no subject
[Normally he'd be glad to have a fellow
nerdengineer to talk to, but something about the way the guy keeps talking makes him suspect that conversations and questions might not be welcome. Is this guy looking down on him, or is he just awkward? Hmm.]The ship mostly runs just fine. There was this one incident in the first couple of weeks after I got here- we were under attack by a bunch of alien ships, and back then we didn't have any weapons, so that was fun. And then the whole system just shut down for a few hours. I thought I'd done something wrong until we found out that it happened to every ship at the same time.
no subject
[ must it be one or the other? hartley is extremely apt at multitasking. he can look down at everyone while also being extremely awkward because no one ever taught him how to play with other kids, only to pulverize them. he notes the way he says it - joined the fleet, as if it was a choice. here's someone who's probably trying to make the most of this experience, an optimist, possibly. ]
Did you discover the cause? [ that's disconcerting, though not surprising. if he were morally degraded enough to run this experiment - he'd make sure to have a kill switch, to guarantee compliance. ]
no subject
[Dude he just met the guy, he is not going to blab on about how he goes to the SAO survivor facility, even if nobody here even knows what SAO is. Talking about it's practically taboo, and it'd open up a whole different can of worms, anyway.
ignoring that canon has not given the school an official name]We assumed that the cause was "Atroma", as usual. They more or less coughed up to it a little while later. With zero apologies, of course.