driftfleet | [Video] + action for the Tourist

Who: Chloe and open
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Tourist!
When: The 27th? Sure why not.

[Network]

[The feed clicks on to show Chloe's room on the Tourist, Chloe sitting cross legged on her bed, unlit cigarette between her lips. Once the feed is working she tucks the cigarette behind her ear and grins.]

I have spent for-fucking-ever over in that stupid game room they set up over there playing those games. They are so boring and I am so good at them now that I never want to play one again, but it was totally worth it because-

[She reaches off-screen for something, then frowns, clearly not finding it.]

Hey where did you...come back here you little shit!

[This last part is muffled a bit as she goes crawling out of sight, the camera feed bouncing. When she returns a few seconds later, there is a squirming ball of fur between her hands, and Chloe is smiling one of the more genuine smiles she's had in months.]

[She lifts her hands up and the tiny creature she's holding finally stops squirming...and settles in to reveal a blue kitten with streaks of purple fur, looking so unhappy as she hangs there from her hands. She's maybe ten weeks old.]

Tadaa!

[Chloe sets the cat down on her lap, scritching her, and the kitten seems comfortable enough to not go running away for a second, at least.]

Haven't named her yet, but I sure wasn't gonna leave her wherever the hell they were storing her with the other prizes. I mean, they pack us in like sardines already right? What if she was sitting in a cage in a back room or something.

[Chloe was clearly more of a softie than her attitude would imply.]

Anyway, just totally showin' off my fancy alien kitten. Feel free to be jealous. [Chloe snickers.] Tourist peeps, she keeps finding ways to sneak out of my room so if you see her running around don't scare her or anything alright? Just...pick her up and I'll come get her. She doesn't bite hard.

[Action for the tourist]

[And Chloe can indeed be found chasing a kitten around the ship on several occasions. Also there's a litter box in the bathroom now? And some food from the Marvisa's pet room in the kitchen. Yeah...the ship has a cat now. Oops.]

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[ one crew member doesn't wait til the cat finds him - he knocks on chloe's door to say hello himself! he may have. already. made a little collar and a name tag ready to be engraved as soon as she settles on a name, which he's holding in his non-knocky hand.

he's on a creative roll. ]

Hi Chloe - it's Winn - I got your friend a welcome gift.

[Chloe raises an eyebrow as she opens the door, considering the collar for a second.]

...Cool. Think she's probably too small yet for it but it'll be good later on!

[The kitten is behind her, on the floor, gleefully trying to murder a stuffed turtle.]

It's ready when she is, and when you get a name chosen, I'll engrave it for you.

[ he smiles, and looks beyond her at the cat. ]

Can I...?

Name is gonna be a problem. She's started answering to 'little shit' though so gonna have to think of something.

[Chloe grins adn shrugs, heading back into her room.]

Sure, come on in.

That's not a name for her -

[ she's a blue cat - she reminds him of kitty, he's already sold on the new pet. coming in, he kneels down and tries to coax her into his arms. ]

How about Cloud?

Well it's what I've been shouting at her when she starts acting up.

[The cat is more than willing to be coaxed...as long as he doesn't mind her viciously nibbling on his thumb.]

Cause she's blue you mean?

[ he doesn't mind the nibbling - the viciously on the other hand - ]

Hey, hey, I'm all maxed out on being eaten - [ he was chased by a t-rex and nearly eaten by a sheol, time to move on to other life threatening situations! he pulls his thumb, but keeps trying to pet. ]

She's blue, it's low-key nerdy - [ which is more for him than for her but, you know. ]

[At least she basically still has kitten teeth and is mostly harmless. The little kitten sighs when her new chew toy moves out of reach and sets about exploring his hands instead.]

...I'll put it on the list?

[She seriously had no idea what to name the cat.]

What else is on there?

[ he plays with the cat, scratching and petting here and there, tempting her to get at his hands but pulling them out of reach when she gets too close. ]

Other than 'little shit?' [Chloe grins.]

I've got a few names in mind. Normal girl names mostly.

[Rachel. Max. It's not a great personal list...]

[ pretending to cover the cat's ears when she says 'little shit' again - just hovering his fingers a small distance away from them, not wanting to upset or hurt her - it's an alien cat, he doesn't know how its anatomy works! ]

She's not a little shit she's -- spunky. You can always go classic with Kit-Kat or something, and 8-bit or Widget are cute -

[ all his suggestions will forever be nerdy, sorry. ]

She is. So was I. It's half a compliment. [Chloe was drawn to troublemakers, after all. The kitten didn't know what was going on, and promptly tried to climb the hand near her left ear.]

Kit-Kat's kind of cute in a...ugh I'd start to hate it after a while I think.

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