Business as Usual. Probably.

[namisan]

Who: Nami and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Space Bar, Iskaulit
When: Day after Shuffle.  (A few days after the Marsiva was v. rude.)

I'd say it was really intimidating to know the Marsiva has that kind of weaponry, but honestly it's overkill.  You gotta wonder why they didn't use it in defense of us when the raiders came and went, don't you? 

Or not.  [She can think of a few viable reasons.  Mostly it comes down to:  the Atroma are manipulative jackasses.]

Anyway, I'm not here to be bitter.  We've lost a lot of people the last couple weeks, which may or may not be a coincidence.  [But Nami, you just said--]  The Space Bar staff has taken a hit and we're short one bartender.  If you're stir crazy enough you'd like to try your hand at it, drop me a line.  The pay's good, I'm not a slavedriver.  Much of one.

[Pause.  And then deliberately cheerful and kind of... tone deaf, all things considered.  If you don't know her well.]  All that aside, great party, wasn't it?  At least there's that.  I had a lot of fun with a lot of different people.  Drop on by and I'll tell you all about it, it'll make for good blackmail material for your crew.

[Because hell if she's going to pass on even the most innocent of messages over this thing.]

Comments

[spacebro]

[No positive affirmations forthcoming. He sees how it is.]

What's the most surprising thing then?

[namisan]

[She's not insulting you, that's affirmation enough!]

The sudden celebratory game land they manifested and invited us to. Or the pet care centre.

Or there was that time they dragged us all back there and combed through our heads for a while. [Hey look, this won't be relevant at all in the near future.]

[spacebro]

[He would never survive a pirate crew!]

Dragged us back there and combed through our heads? ...What?

[namisan]

It was a long time ago now. A lot of augments were on the fritz for a bunch of reasons and the Atroma brought us all back to the Marsiva to fix the problem. It was... weird.

[And annoying. And invasive.]

[spacebro]

Oh... Well, so they won't break again, right?

[namisan]

They break all the time. Remember when I was sleeping a lot?

[spacebro]

Oh. Right. They don't do that on purpose?

[namisan]

I think some do. But when most of the Fleet goes on the blink, that's probably more mechanical error.

[spacebro]

Hmm. I never thought about it like that before. That could be a good thing, right? A weakness?

[namisan]

Potentially, yeah. Learning how to exploit it without getting screwed over in the meantime, though... that's the tricky part.

[spacebro]

That sounds like it's going to take some research and some luck. I'm not sure I'm that good at either of those. [But it doesn't mean he wouldn't try.]

Hey, I need to meet up with Kara. Good luck on the staffing. Just let me know if you need extra help from me, and I'll see you at the bar.

[namisan]

Yeah, no worries. We've had a couple bites. [One of them pretty uh. Odd. But whatever. She waves him off.] Have a good night.