[open] august starstruck mingle

[wingedman]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: n/a
Action: Starstruck
When: August 1-31

Everyone on the Starstruck is regretting their life and their choices. Why does anyone want to visit this ship again?

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Max | OTA! | Sometime around the 3rd

[theroadwarrior]

[Score one for Peggy, she's managed to drag this one back from the planet. With promises of tea. Or mostly because she really seemed like she wanted him to return -- damn her and her iron grip. Max eventually comes back, unshaven and scraggly from his days of utterly abandoning self-care so that he could wander aimlessly aboard the planet. First thing, shower. Because he doesn't want complaints from the captain that he really shouldn't leave shuttle oil on his skin.

Second, replacing the wheel on the shuttle. He's not going to say he's back, but usually they somehow have a knack for telling anyway.

One thing: his limp is far more pronounced than usual.

And there is an obviously new pair of injuries. One is a cut across his hairline, and one is the smallest of discolored bruising on his cheekbone. There's even still a little blood on the corner of his shirt, but it's hard to say if it's his (it isn't).

... What? You should see the other guys. Most important thing is, he's brought back some fun stuff after a bit of dangerous and illegal shit for credits; he knows most people on the ship would lecture him on it since they're usually keen on following moral law, so he's not gonna even mention what the jobs were.

But anyway. Cool stuff. Probably his best 'pointless objects' haul, if he did say so himself. Sitting on his desk, there's a really nice 'oldschool' earthian steering wheel (that he totally stole from illegal happenings), a couple of vinyl records (nothing recognizable, but there's some soothing melodies in there), a 'vintage' replica train set, just a few funny road signs, and a little something for the oldtimers on the ship:



Obviously not an original either, just a gimmicky sort of thing people're selling. The numbers on it aren't even in normal numbers, but some kind of alien sort. But, you know. To him it reminds him of his youth. It's funny.

Maybe someone can make it work, somehow.]

[Common Area]

[kill_switch]

[It's later in the month, and she's not sticking around for long, but she does stop by to leave a manila envelope on the table in the common area. It just said 'I had extras'. Not necessarily for Max exclusively, but it's something as a gift extended to his crewmates as well.]

[Inside the envelope are some packets of seeds, with little notes stapled to each explaining what they are and how best to cultivate them in careful, neat writing. There are some assorted herbs, ground vegetables, a tuber, and one fruit tree with the added note 'good luck'.]

[theroadwarrior]

[Max does eventually stumble upon it, likely as expected; when he picks it up and opens it, a confused and furrowed brow smooths out. Furiosa, huh? He thinks of their work unpacking the crates back on the planet - the talk of her green place, however short and meager the conversation. It was a lot for her, you know. Reminds him of their trip across the fury road, even if that time had been darker in the moment. Now it's a bit fonder. The start of things... changing. Haa.

He seriously thinks she puts too much faith in what his hands can do, though.

Still... Max smiles a bit, reading the instructions.]