Fleetwide Text Post, Action for the Tourist

[helladoomed]

Who: Chloe Price and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Tourist
When: Around the 12th.

Text Broadcast:

Wanted: Single person for valentine's day.
Requirements: Don't be a little kid, don't be really old, don't be a stick in the mud. Don't mind cigarettes. Don't be a prude.

Details: So I am not sitting alone in my fucking cabin on valentine's day. Or third wheeling it with one of the 'so happy couples' everyone I know seems to have turned into lately.

Rented a pretty nice cabin down on the ringworld because FUCK YES RINGWORLD. Ever notice that even after a year in space there's still shit that can surprise you? I mean, damn, a Ringworld.

Anyway.

Let's see. I'll cook, there'll be booze, a view, place has a lake. Maybe go swimming? Heard of worse things to do on valentine's day.

If we hit it off you'll probably get laid so. Yeah. Date with benefits. Happy endings all around.

Come one, come all. Applications start below.

[Action for the Tourist]

[After her funk over the last few weeks, Chloe has seemed a bit more...up, recently? At least, she's not sitting in her cabin or the lab all day anymore. She's been cooking again, singing along with her music again, just...getting back to normal. Maybe she's feeling better?]

[Or maybe it's a glitch, of course, since she's also way more talkative when people are around. But even if it was, it's better than all the moping and pity-party stuff, yes? She can be found all over the ship really, cooking, working, sometimes exercising..]

Comments

[text]

[spacebro]

What is a Valentine's Day?

[text]

[helladoomed]

...seriously?

[text]

[spacebro]

I'm not from earth. It sounds like some sort of couples holiday?

[text]

[helladoomed]

Oh right.

Yeah.

But your SO some fancy bullshit, go out to some fancy dinner, be all lovey, go home and fuck till morning.

it's only shitty if you're single i guess.

[text]

[spacebro]

[That is some interesting information to process.]

Is it more distressing to be single on that day?

[text]

[helladoomed]

[Chloe has to think that one over.]

Sometimes

[text]

[spacebro]

Can I switch to video?

[text]

[helladoomed]

Sure?
I'm not the boss of you

[video]

[spacebro]

I didn't want to be rude. Hi.

[Text]

[leftonjakku]

Never heard of the holiday and I've never been on a date. I wouldn't mind swimming.

[Text]

[helladoomed]

[The hyperactive girl. Well, she was pretty, why not.]

Hm.
I explained valentines to the alien up there. Lovey dovey couple holiday.

You might not want to roll with me as a 'seeing how dating works' trial run though.
I'm told I'm kind of volatile.
It'd be an experience.

[Text]

[leftonjakku]

[She is less hyperactive and she is embarrassed. Thanks, glitch.]

What do single people do?

Is that a challenge?

[Text]

[helladoomed]

Eat ice cream? Get drunk? Be sad? Find someone to hook up with? Make mistakes?

There are lots of options for single people, they just mostly involve doing things, or people, you'll regret in the morning.

No girl, it's a warning.
But if you wanna take it as a challenge, I'm not gonna stop you.

[Text]

[leftonjakku]

A holiday everyone can't celebrate seems pointless. Can't couples have anniversaries?

[Okay, she snorts at the "doing people" part.]

I don't need a warning. My name is Rey, by the way, and I'd rather you get to know the real me. [Not the glitched version.]

[Text]

[helladoomed]

It was made by greeting card companies to get people to spend money on jewelry and flowers.
So it's pretty pointless, except it gets a lot of people laid.
So...not...entirely pointless, I guess.

Alright Rey, I'm Chloe.

You mean instead of the vibrating-in-place you?

[Text]

[leftonjakku]

...huh. [She's not sure what to make of that, but everyone likes to make a buck.] They should just give out free booze if they want people to get together.

Hey, Chloe.

[And then...]

I got a lot done! But once the glitch wore off, I slept for a day.

[Text]

[helladoomed]

The sex is just a side-effect of the money making, not the other way around.

You know. I want to make a joke about the things you could've done while vibrating but it feels too fuckin' easy.

Glad you're back to normal, then?

text.

[vagabond_code]

[Clint hesitates a while before responding to this one. Something about the word 'kid' and the way that she uses it makes him feel like she's resentful of children in the way a teenage girl might be about her little-sister. But how does it look when you come out of the gate saying 'uh-huh, so how old are you?' -- he's thinking... not good.]

Call me crazy, but I can't tell if you're looking for a friend or a date or what.

[Then, out of no-where, he gets it - a lightbulb moment.]

How old is really old?

text.

[helladoomed]

why not both?

Eh

If you can remember the 70s you're probably too old.

text.

[vagabond_code]

[In which case, she's probably too young.]

I get your meaning, but it looks like the Atroma can pull people here from all over space and time. My 70s might be closer back than yours. Or it could be in my future.

It isn't, but it could be.

text.

[helladoomed]

It doesn't really matter since I found a date anyway.
But I was born in 94 so.
If you feel like a cradle robber, there ya go.

text.

[vagabond_code]

[It didn't help knowing when she was born, either, because he didn't know when her present was. There was no frame of reference. What year was she taken from, back in her world? Not that it mattered. The more he talked to her, the more convinced he was that she was a teenager. So that solved that.]

Have fun then I guess. Make sure you - stay safe, alright?

[Is he going too far? Probably. Is he going to stop? Well no obviously.]

If there was a kid born up here, who knows what the Atroma would do to it. Best we don't find out.

text.

[helladoomed]

okay first, my dates a girl
second, i get knocked up and imma throw myself down some stairs
third?

thanks dad

text.

[vagabond_code]

[Wow, yikes, okay, so he didn't think he'd ever hear himself think this, but suddenly if this girl was ever going to be within 10 feet of a child he'd almost rather the Atroma got 'em instead.]

Okay, well that's horrible. The stairs thing I mean.

[He couldn't care less that her date is a girl. Actually he's sort of relieved, what with the... stairs. Thing. Seriously yeesh.]

text.

[helladoomed]

[Chloe does aim for shock value.]

Well, I'm my ships medic, so I probably can't fix it myself the good way.
Physician, treat thyself and that crap.

Do we even have stairs on the fleet?