Heron Mingle

[stabsbothways]

Who: Heron Crew and Guests
Broadcast: n/a
Action: Aboard the Heron
When: May (feel free to backtag)

[ The heron has had a large exodus of people recently, and a few new members. It's almost like a new ship. ]

Comments

[nonono7]

[ Yuri can find a tall pink-haired girl, of all places, sitting in the middle of the hallway, directly in front of the open maintenance closet.

She seems to have a bunch of paper in front of her, and is folding origami cranes. Badly. And trying to teach the roomba-like maintenance droids how to do the same. (They are trying to vacuum the paper instead.)

She'll look up, mid-fold, when Yuri speaks though. ]

Ah, I'm sorry. Who are you looking for? What do they look like...?

[pork_bowl]

_{[He is as captivated as he is confused. This is charming and hilarious in a sad way. The poor cranes that weren't folded with precision and the poor roomba was destroying the best of the flock. He remembered making these things in school as a child. He used to make some for the hot springs as decorations every year, he hadn't made them in a long time but he could go it. It was like riding a bike, give him some paper and his muscles would remember.]}

Ah, hi. I'm looking for a tall Russian man with silver hair named Victor. He's got a gold ring like mine. If you see him tell him Yuri was looking for him? Ah... actually... can I help you with those? I think that robot is trying to eat your cranes.

1/3

[nonono7]

I don't know what a 'Russian' is, but there's a tall silver-haired man around sometimes. I'll let him-

2/3

[nonono7]

[ The roomba-like robot has made its way over to the stack of paper and just. Pulled in the entire stack.

It then coughs and sputters and dies because it is not meant to clean an entire stack of actual paper. ]

-AH!!

[nonono7]

....It ate the paper instead.

[pork_bowl]

_{[He gasped as the roomba died. Poor machine, it died in the line of duty.]}

I see... ah... well it won't eat any more paper. If we can find more maybe you can make cranes without worrying about it.

_{[Or, you know, just use a table next time?]}

You mentioned a silver-haired man. I think that's my guy... also hi. My name is Yuri Katsuki.

[nonono7]

I've still got a long way to go. I think that if I make enough skylarks, onee-sama will arrive here. [ Nono, they're cranes. Also, that's not how any of this works. ]

My name's Nono.

[pork_bowl]

Nono... well I used to make cranes like yours when I was a kid. Maybe I can help you?

_{[He's new here and this whole situation has him very anxious and on the verge of a meltdown so he gravitates towards soothing things. Especially soothing things that remind him of home so paper cranes? Done and done.]}

We can find more paper and we can make new ones... you want to make them so your sister will come?

[nonono7]

You know how to make these, too? Amazing!

Are you from Earth? Wait, with your name- are you from Japan?

[pork_bowl]

Ah-huh. I made a lot of them when I was little.

Ah... I'm from earth. And Japan. Is that... a good or bad thing? _{[She looks so different now, she's very excited. He's not so sure...]}

[nonono7]

My hero, Nono-riri, is from Japan! And onee-sama's from Earth too!

I've never been there. [ Well, on it anyway. ] Do you think you could tell me about it?

[pork_bowl]

Japan? It's pretty cool. Ah... where are you from? I've never been off the earth until I came here.

Japan is... well that's a big subject. Is there something, in particular, you want to know about it? I'll do my best to answer.

[nonono7]

I'm a ne'er-do-well haling from the Valles Marineris on Mars, but I've always wanted to visit Earth.

Does Japan have a lot of skylarks?

[pork_bowl]

You.... You're from Mars? How? Is there a space colony there? What year are you from??

Ah... skylarks? _{[He calms down.]} Well sure, they're birds that live in Japan. I don't know if there are a lot of them. I can't say I paid that much attention to them.

[nonono7]

Year 14,292. [ Said in the most blase, matter-of-fact tone possible. ] Mars has been terraformed for a long time.

But we don't have birds there. Nobody really knows why, but they all died out.

[pork_bowl]

_{[He is, of course, dumbstruck by this. That's so far in the future! DEAR GOD! he can't even imagine that.]} Forteen THOUSAND? I didn't think people would live that long...

No birds at all? But you had them before... huh. We have birds in Japan. Not only skylarks, we have other kinds. Pigeons, crows, eagles, things like that.

But... Nono, can you tell me about where you live too? We can answer questions back and forth, is that okay?

[nonono7]

Okay!! Nono can do that! ASK AWAY!!

[ She is pumped for this now that it's, like, a game. Ish. ]

[pork_bowl]

Alright! Thanks!

So... what kind of buildings are on Mars?

_{[He wondered if it was underground bunkers or if they managed to make an atmosphere that was livable there. Or if they had big domes like out of a lot of Sci-fi movies.]}