SS Bishop April Mingle!

[briste]

Who: Crew of the Bishop and guests!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Aboard the Bishop
When: April!

[ Welcome new folks to the ship. Hang out with the crew. Invite your friends over. Mingle! It's what we're here for! ]

Comments

[evervigilante]

Huh. Sounds like an interesting world. Technology like this isn't my specialty but it isn't anything new either.

[unbridles]

Well, we're kinda finishing up a war, so we haven't really -- been doin' much with technology lately. Maybe later, but we gotta concentrate on gettin' our freedom secured first. And freedom for others, I hope.

[evervigilante]

War does take priority.

[unbridles]

Yeah. I was in a skirmish with the British before I got here. [Just, um, ignore those rather conspicuous bullet holes in his coat there.]

[evervigilante]

[ Yuri notices that, but he doesn't bring it up. John wouldn't be Yuri's first dead man walking. ]

At least now you get to have a breather.

[unbridles]

...Yeah, somethin' like that, I guess. [Hey, if he doesn't wanna bring it up, John won't either.] Oh, I'm Laurens, by the way. John Laurens.

[evervigilante]

The name's Yuri. Yuri Lowell.

[unbridles]

Pleased to meetcha. Where're you from?

[evervigilante]

[ Yuri shrugs. ]

You wouldn't have heard of it. A place called Terca Lumireis.

[unbridles]

You're right, I haven't. An' I dunno if you've heard of where I'm from, either. South Carolina?

[evervigilante]

Definitely not. My world has electricity and monsters, so South Carolina might be better off.

[unbridles]

Only monsters we got at home, 's far as I know, are some of the people.

[evervigilante]

Oh, we have those too. No lack of them in fact.

[unbridles]

....Yeah, I'm pretty sure every place has some'a those. Unfortunately.

[evervigilante]

We probably have a few here. That's life isn't it?

[ Yuri would also call it unfortunate, but it can't be helped. ]

[unbridles]

Yeah, but it doesn't mean we gotta sit there an' let 'em be awful.

[evervigilante]

And what do you plan on doing?

[ His voice is deceptively light. ]

[unbridles]

Dunno yet. Ask me when I've been here more 'n a week or so.

[evervigilante]

[ Yuri shrugs. ]

Fair enough. No one comes here having a plan in mind.

[unbridles]

'Specially not when they were dead beforehand.

[evervigilante]

I was wondering if you'd bring that up.

[ Dead huh . . . not like the old man though. ]

A war, right?

[unbridles]

Yeah, against the British. We were fightin' for our freedom. Gonna get it, too, from what I've heard.

[evervigilante]

So they plucked you just after your death and put you in a new world. I suppose that's one way to stir up drama. I can't say it's the better option.

[unbridles]

Yeah, I guess so. I mean, I ain't a very dramatic guy, so I'm not really sure what they're expectin'.

[evervigilante]

Probably expecting you to balance the rest of the dramatic people.

[ Sometimes, some sanity was required. Yuri looks composed and normal, but he is fairly Extra and he knows it. ]