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[onlyanapple]

Who: Crowley and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Málum - Iskaulit
When: Right now

[Crowley had checked the vast majority of his people were where they were supposed to be- annoyingly, Allen was passed out, but he's not going to share that with everyone because, well, he had more exciting news to share. He'd gone to check on his bar, and found the upgrades he'd paid for had finally borne fruit.

As such, he turns on the camera with a sharp-toothed grin. Bohemian Rhapsody can be heard faintly in the background (sometimes, the jukebox got stuck on it) as Crowley pans the camera to a slushie machine. Look at how that coloured ice sludge spins slowly. So delicious.]

So! While we were having our fun little time in our own heads, it seems Málum has had a bit of an upgrade! We now have a bona-fide slushie machine. Which means we can have alcoholic slushies. So while you lot are drowning your sorrows about unwanted memories or...apparently celebrating coming out of a closet, you can do it with a boozy cup of flavoured ice.

Isn't that great?

[He could have bought him and Felix a bigger bedroom, he could have done that but no. This is what he devoted his credits on. This right here.]

If you come by with some emotional scarring from your calibrations, come by and I'll give you a single little slush for free. Just one mind.

Comments

[cloakand_danger]

Something I picked up in the last system. It doesn't do a whole lot, but it lets me take notes on things I don't want to risk posting to the network by mistake. [Or rather, lets him keep track of information he doesn't want the Atroma to have immediate access to.

He takes a cautious sip of the drink, lets the taste sink in.] ...Huh. It's not bad. I expect the vodka helps.

[onlyanapple]

Oh. Handy. Atroma haven't been able to hack it, yet?

[He's curious, because they're sneaky bastards. ]

Yeah? Can you work out what the 'blue' is?

[cloakand_danger]

Well, if they have they haven't let me know. It doesn't have the ability to connect to the network, at least.

[A slightly incredulous look.] Four thousand years of not being able to taste anything, and you expect me to be able to identify unknown flavors after six months?

[onlyanapple]

Maybe you're actually safe, then. Good for you.

[He nods, looking at Yuan seriously. ]

Yes, Yuan. I expect you to do just that. Use your imagination.

[cloakand_danger]

[Yuan is half-inclined to ignore that and change the subject, but...Crowley is his friend now, and friends get occasional special privileges. So instead, he takes a long drink from the cup, and swallows thoughtfully.]

I haven't tasted one in ages, of course, but I suppose it tastes a bit like a melange gel smells. Or a Quarloomen berry, but if that was in here the cup would probably be levitating.

[He's trying very hard to do the poker face thing, but the corner of his mouth keeps curling upward despite his best efforts.]

[onlyanapple]

[Lucky Crowley, he'll consider himself...well, not blessed, but something. ]

Wow. You sure have been studying hard in your made-up-words dictionary today, haven't you? Almost had me for a second there.

[cloakand_danger]

[The barely-hidden smirk spreads out, and is now in danger of looking like an actual smile instead.]

I'm not that good at making up words. Quarloomen berries are from an old children's story - I just had to take a guess that no one here would have heard of it.

[He doesn't think to bother clarifying that melange gels are real, because of course they are.]

[onlyanapple]

[Good. It's good to see the guy almost-smile again. ]

Oh, so you were sneaky instead? I like it, quite the improvement.

[cloakand_danger]

I do have some experience, after all.

[His gaze falls on the device he brought with him earlier, and the smile slips just a little.]

...I'd been meaning to ask you...you've been in the Fleet for quite a while, haven't you?

[onlyanapple]

Hmmm, since the first day of this cycle, in fact. Why? Do you have a burning question that needs answering?

[cloakand_danger]

I was just wondering how much you remember of people who were here before. Back on the Marsiva, I'm sure you remember all those glitches people were experiencing. ...Well, I found a note I don't remember leaving myself.

[He taps the screen of the PDA a couple times, then turns it around to face Crowley. The screen shows a block of text:

There's a huge list of passengers, some of them listed as 'inactive' (whatever that means), including some names that are familiar to me. The inactive names I recognize from home are:
Colette Brunel
Lloyd Irving
Sheena Fujibayashi
Zelos Wilder

There were other names that stand out to me - I feel like they're important, like I should write them down, but I'm not sure why:
Chris Halliwell
Delirium
Gaignun Kukai Jr
Piper Halliwell
Tony Stark
Yamanaka Ino]

Do you remember any of those names going by? Anything else stand out to you?

[onlyanapple]

[He leans in to look, nodding. ]

All of them. Some a little more than others. I knew you best, out of the people from your world, but all of that lot were in Paradisa. As were the people who weren't from your world.

Ino was here for a while, Del and Tony, too- briefly. I haven't seen the others in a long, long time.