sansseraph: (And see through angel's eyes (3))
Lailah ☼ Fethmus Mioma ([personal profile] sansseraph) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-10-08 05:32 pm

Why'd You Kill the Merchant?!

Who: ALL O' Y'ALL
Broadcast: If you want
Action: FRICK YEAH PARTY AT THE JUNKYARD...I mean, Waystation. Junkstation.
When: 10/07 - Event End

It looks more like a junk heap than a waystation, but luckily there aren't any math fetishists to add you to the pile (hopefully). Talk to the scavengers and heed their warnings...if you want. Or perhaps you'll approach a shady individual for purchasing or selling stuff.

"Welcome, stranger!"
wolfehawke: (Small smile)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-10-10 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[As expected, the idiot pulls out a knife and Hawke just sighs at the ineffectual swing he easily sidesteps, throwing his hand out in an almost lazy gesture towards his chest, one that doesn't even touch him yet still sends him careening head over heels into a scrap pile more than three meters away. He'll be spending quite a lot of time digging himself out, if he doesn't die of tetanus on the way. You know, once he comes to.]

'Salright miss, you're safe now.
hot4engines: (unsure)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-10-11 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
... whoa... how... how'd you do that?

[Kaylee was awestruck, but she moved toward her protector anyway, staring at the man who'd almost attacked her... now facedown in a pile of rubble and not moving.]

I'm glad you can, but I ain't never seen anything like it.
wolfehawke: (hopeful grin)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-10-17 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Um. Magic, actually.

[Which he expects to send her running. He wouldn't be surprised, anyway. Many people he's rescued with magic still thought of him as just as bad by virtue of being a mage. It hasn't been the case in the fleet, but it's hard to break years of experience.

Doesn't mean he isn't going to try and be friendly though, at least.]


Are you alright?
hot4engines: (eager)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-10-19 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Wow...

[She still sounds awestruck, but looks a lot less shaken.]

Yeah. Ain't never seen any magic yet, but I heard it exists. I just... needed to see it with my own eyes, I suppose. Pretty great...
wolfehawke: (Sassy)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-10-19 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Her not running away in fear or calling him malificar is certainly encouraging. He grins at her.]

I can do all sorts of other things with it too. Why don't we get somewhere a bit safer and I could show you? Pretty girls shouldn't be alone in a place like this, you know.
hot4engines: (giggle)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-10-20 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kaylee giggled at that last bit and reached over to loop her arm through the man's.]

Well now, how could I say no to such a polite request? Especially after you was kind enough to be my magician in shining armor.
wolfehawke: (I see what you did there)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-10-23 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well I wasn't about to see you leashed to some slaver, that would be awful.

[He guides her gently back towards the main parts of the station where it's more crowded and less likely to have anyone just grabbing people with so many witnesses.]

Where you're from must be quite safe if you normally feel so secure wandering around alone.
hot4engines: (rly?)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-10-23 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Woulda just been my luck, too- end up here in this Fleet, then get pulled away afore I can really establish myself.

[Kaylee laughed.]

Not especially, but I got tough people who know their way around a fight within callin' distance most of the time back home. I... I guess I got distracted looking for them, and at all the salvage, and forgot they wasn't here to look after me.
wolfehawke: (who me?)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-10-24 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you from somewhere similar to this, then?

[He can't imagine being so at home in space of all places as to forget where you are and think you're back home at the back your mind while distracted.]
hot4engines: (eager)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-10-26 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh. Didn't get to visit salvage yards as much as I'd like, but me and my crew went from place to place, took jobs as they came. I was our ship's mechanic.
wolfehawke: (You're kidding)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-10-28 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, mechanic, hm? I don't have a mind for that sort of thing so anyone with engineering or mechanical expertise is someone I admire. I mean, I know my way around a communicator just fine, but that's because of the augment.
hot4engines: (earnest)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-10-31 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Well, thanks so much for sayin' so! [Despite not wearing a skirt, Kaylee dipped a small curtsy.] I've always had a thing for ships. It's kinda like they talk to me... I have a knack for figurin' out what's wrong and what to do to fix it.
wolfehawke: (wuzzah)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-10-31 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Ships can talk? So you're some kind of... ship doctor?
hot4engines: (giggle)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-10-31 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kaylee giggled.]

Suppose you could call me that, but it's not speech, it's more like... I've always had a gift for figurin' things out. I can look at a ship and just see right away what's wrong with it. I know how things is supposed to look and sound, so when something's wrong or off balance or not working right, I can tell that right away.
wolfehawke: (smug)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-11-01 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Well, that makes more sense than some kind of technology magic. Technomag... Technomancy!

[He totally just made that up, be impressed.]
hot4engines: (hee)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-11-01 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Technomancy... [Kaylee repeated the word, savoring the sound of it.] Makes it sound real fancy. I might take to callin' myself that anyway.
wolfehawke: (catch yur drift)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-11-07 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You could! The fleet's first technomancer.

[He likes her smile, it's infectious.]
hot4engines: (sly)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-11-08 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Why, I could even charge for my services. Make myself a company logo and everything.
wolfehawke: (total innocence)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-11-15 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
You could, though I think your captain might be a bit put out if he has to pay you to fix your own ship. Or maybe not, I guess we're paid to do those jobs.

[Weird that he hasn't really looked at communications as a job until right that second, just a thing he can now do because of the augment.]
hot4engines: (shy smile)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-11-15 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, that's true. I wouldn't dream of chargin' Takeshi or any of my crew, though. They seem to be a good lot so far.
wolfehawke: (I see what you did there)

[personal profile] wolfehawke 2016-11-15 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Most people here are, I find. Which is surprising considering the jerks in the rest of the universe.

[He thrusts his thumb back behind them, indicating the guy he'd knocked out as a reference.]
hot4engines: (:|)

[personal profile] hot4engines 2016-11-18 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ain't that always the case, though? It sometimes feels like I managed to latch myself to the only decent crew in the galaxy. Oh, some of the Cap'n's buddies are okay, but some of 'em are real shady and will cross ya as soon as look at ya.