driftfleet | And Let Us Gather 'Round [ Video + Action ]

Who: Kirk and The Fine People of the Fleet
Broadcast: Yes
Action: On the Iskaulit, Specifically at the Melting Pot - Note: After the Broadcast
When: After they start heading away from the system

Video
_{[ Kirk appears on the screen, and probably like many people he looks tired and a bit beaten up. Scratches not yet healed on his face, one even covered with a bandage on his cheek, that sort of drawn look around his eyes after all the sleepless nights and the battles and general horridness. A little to pale, perhaps.

Even so, he gives as warm a smile as he can as he begins to speak. ]}

For those of you who might not know, I come from a world called Earth - or at least, one of the versions represented here. On my world, in the country I hail from, we celebrate something known as Thanksgiving roughly around this time of year if I've done my calculations correct. Some people call it Friendsgiving, but it's all the same really.

Essentially, it's a time to a give thanks for the good things in your life, your friends, and your family. In the spirit of that, I've arranged for a gathering at the Melting Pot - a thank you to Jarvis for that. Everyone who wishes to come is welcome.

I just thought we all could use a day, a place, to be together and to just enjoy each other. So I hope to see you there.

Action: The Melting Pot
_{[ The restaurant is set up to allow as much mingling as possible when people arrive - places to sit, of course, but there's gentle music playing for those who might want to dance and just to give some atmosphere (but not loud enough to stop conversation at all). Food and drink is laid out - things to nibble on rather than the usual feasts associated with a Thanksgiving. Not particularly ideal, but it's what could be managed. Unless, of course, anyone decided to bring something else to add to the spread.

Not a fancy party, to be sure, but it's warm and inviting, which is what Kirk had hoped for. A place for them all to come together and enjoy each other and just be glad they were all there and if not quite completely whole, then, well, able to be there. ]}

_{[ooc: Open mingle! Feel free to create your own starters and do as you like - tis a warm Friendsgiving party for the Fleet! ]}

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Kasha, mostly. A porridge. Pies are for cabbage or meat or cheese, sometimes apples.

You celebrate Thanksgiving usually? With your family?

Yeah, with my sister and Eliza, her mother. We also usually have friends over. It's fun, sometimes dramatic, and always nice.

Oh yes, drama. An important part of any gathering.

...I'm very sorry that you are not with them and that you don't have a pumpkin pie today.

Thank you. I'm thankful that I can be here with you, though.

I'm thankful for your company as well. [He forgets that he's miserable long enough to smile. That doesn't last long.] Although I hope that you was a collective one and not a you that referred to me specifically. I'm not such good company lately.

Of course it was you specifically. I like you even when you think you're bad company, Pavel.

You're very kind, Kara. [He pats her hand.] The Tourist does not deserve you.

[Chekov's feelings about the Tourist as a whole aren't all that positive, though. He hasn't set foot on the ship since before the final battle planetside.]

What do you mean? Sure it does. It's a good ship.

Most of the time. Sometimes not.

No, sorry, I forgot that you had gone to the Goldstone before members of our crew chose to decorate the ship's exterior with corpses.

Wait—What? That's barbaric!

This is what I thought, and this is why I have been on the Twin Roses. It was not to avoid you, I promise.

I've been on the Goldstone, so no hard feelings.

Who was it?

A good place to be.

Anders and Hawke, I know. Possibly Fenris. In the interest of fairness, I have decided to be disappointed in all of them equally. I can't imagine... [He trails off, frowning.] I killed one of the Vieziri, Kara, and that was horrible. One of the worst things I have done. Enjoying the killing, feeling little enough about it to desecrate the bodies... how can anyone do that?

[This got dark fast, didn't it?]

[ she pulls him into a hug ]

I'm so sorry.

[He hugs her back readily.]

As am I. I'm glad that you were not there.

I should have been. I should have had my powers. But at the very least I could have prevented them from doing it.

I can't believe Fenris, though! Honestly!

There are many things in the past couple of months that should and should not have happened, but that you were not there then and that you had no powers are nothing to feel badly about.

[Chekov stares thoughtfully into his drink.] His world--the same one that Anders and Hawke are from--is very different from yours and mine. Still... that does not make it excusable.

It would have to be extraordinarily different for that to be okay.

I'm sorry that I left you there, though.

Extraordinarily, yes. [Much more extraordinarily different than he can imagine. Those guys aren't getting off the hook that easily.]

It's fine. You were worried about Mon-El, and staying with the Tourist would not have made you less worried.

I just felt useless, mostly. I hate not having my powers when it happens.

You're far from useless, with or without powers. You went through a forest of cannibals to reach the Goldstone. A useless person would not have lived through that.

Yes, that was profoundly... something. One too many viewings of The Hunger Games.

It was a questionable decision. Brave, however.

Sometimes you have to do something even if it's dangerous. And I'd much rather do something than nothing.

In the future, though... would you consider doing something slightly less dangerous? Only slightly. [You worried him, Kara!]

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