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[norwaysown]

Who: Signy Mallory and Open
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Wonderduck
When: Just after shuffle

[ Signy has paid the confetti and pudding no mind at all, and if the transportation was jarring, she’s still relieved to be somewhere else, with people around. With a view she can take in and maybe start to do something with. Her posture is pure military commander, and if she’s wearing rather and repaired clothes, there’s a Captain’s patch on her jacket. She looks mid thirties, other than her eyes and the silver-gray of her hair. She should really do something about that, since Norway isn’t part of Earth Company any longer. Then again, she’s not part of Norway at the moment.]

This is Signy Mallory. Formerly Captain of the Norway in the Merchanter’s Alliance. If there’s anyone here from Union or Mazian’s fleet, I’m sure we can find a way to get along.

[ It hurts to say ‘former’ more than she expected. Damn her pride, and, too, her worry for her crew. Di can handle it, of course, but until she believes why she’s been taken, there could easily be some greater threat that her abduction is a part of. ]

I have to say, from what I’ve seen of this fleet so far…I’m still waiting to be impressed.

I’m given to understand that the Atroma are controlling us. What resistance attempts have been made to date?

What other active threats are there?

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[all7seas]

Ah, I see. How many guns is your vessel, typically? When you go after the pirates, I mean? What's your weaponry?

[This one might be scary. Norrington-ish or worse, Becket-ish...but what can happen here in the Fleet? It's safe here.]

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[norwaysown]

Four rider ships, separate from the weapon system on Norway herself. For the most part, though, it's not pirates that I've concerned myself with.

The Merchanter's Alliance fights to preserve the neutrality of the stations and ships that make it up.

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[all7seas]

[Weapon system. But at least she's not concerned with pirates! That's good!]

Spaceships? Like these, love?

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[norwaysown]

You can call me Mallory.

[ That's harshly enough commanded. ]

Like these, and larger. Mostly larger.

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[all7seas]

More bigger, eh. Tell me something, Mallory darling -- [harshness ignored] -- do you like a man with a VERY large boat?

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[norwaysown]

I like a man who can take orders.

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[all7seas]

...On his very large boat?

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[norwaysown]

Come now. What he can do with that boat is more important than the size of it.

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[all7seas]

[That brings about a relaxed grin.] You've hit the mark, lovely! Now I so happen to have a lovely gorgeous huge-ish boat. Sometimes frightens the ladies. Fast! Lists to port slightly. Named the Black Pearl. Ever heard of her?

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[norwaysown]

Can't say as I have. Merchanter?

[ It sounds like a Merchanter name, more so than Company and certainly not Union. ]

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[all7seas]

Used to be! Fastest to cross the Atlantic, she was. Is. [Almost. Nearly. The Flying Dutchman is faster, always.]

She's got black sails. Bit of a legendary lady, if I may so boast.

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[norwaysown]

[ ...Oh dear. Signy knows Earth geography well enough for this. ]

You're talking about a boat. In water.

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[all7seas]

Aye! She wouldn't work so well on land, would she? [He laughs, uncomfortably, maybe a little too much, though it is a debonaire laugh. He has thought about maybe bringing her on land. There are fewer krakens trying to kill him, there.]

What did you think I meant, darling?

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[norwaysown]

Like what we're in now. Or at least the same idea. A starship.

Also, you can call me Mallory.

[ She says it a little stronger than a suggestion. ]

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[all7seas]

You see, lovely, I'd hate to call you Mallory. Brings up horrible memories for me.

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[norwaysown]

And I'd hate to feel like you were disrespecting me.

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[all7seas]

It would be highly disrespectful to call you "Mallory," on account of that was what Beastface Bob Six's daughter were called. Had a tiny head growing out of her actual head.























I think.

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[norwaysown]

You'll have to replace the association with me instead. I wouldn't think that should be so hard.

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[all7seas]

Dunno. You'd have to make an indelible impression on me first, to drive out that horrible Mallory-related memory, lovely....

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[norwaysown]

I'm capable.

But I might decide to make a different kind of impression, if you keep calling me lovely. I don't like it.

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[all7seas]

But you don't want to be worse than Mallory, do you? She used to bite. Twice.

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[norwaysown]

I tend to prefer a gun, if we get into that kind of altercation.

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[all7seas]

Very well. You are Nonbiting Mallory because I do not want to die.

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[norwaysown]

That's a good boy.

[ She can do casually patronizing too. It's great. Still, he understood her message and he behaved, so Signy isn't inclined to keep making a deal out of it. ]

I'll probably regret asking, but what year are you from?

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[all7seas]

Seventeen-twenty. It's the year of Blissful Snogging. [Maybe she'll believe that.] I'm missing it greatly.