Tarsakh 2 1369 DR - Awakening

[child_of_bhaal]

Who: Syeira and anyone!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Marsiva
When: Midnight April 2nd (mostly to avoid any confusing with the April Fools stuff going on)

[It is not a graceful waking. The figure covered in a shimmery cloak suddenly startles awake, over alert, mostly fighting with the fabric as it tangles them up like a net. The person falls out of the bunk, making a sound like a discordant windchime when they land. Only then do they fight the clasp open and fling the cloak off, taking in a gasp of air, as if they'd been choking.

It's a girl, with wild curly long hair, the color of freshly spilt blood. She's wide eyed for a moment, before whatever she'd been dreaming about faded. Then reality sinks in around her. Definitely not Suldanessellar, and she's definitely alone. A quick pat shows she's been disarmed.

She heaves a big sigh, running both hands through her hair -oh look, she's going pointed ears- and letting her ehad fall back against the bunk behind her with a controlled thud.]

Is it Second-day already? And here I thought I'd at least get one night to myself before my next abduction.

[She shivers, realizing she's still cold, when the chill from her nightmare should be seeping away. She rubs her arms, and then awkwardly yanks the cloak out from under her. Standing, she puts the thing back on, and if anyone has been watching this little scene from the start, suddenly that attractiveness she has seems to kick up a notch or two. Magic. Now huddled inside the shimmery cloak, she goes about getting her bearings. In doing so, she discovers her communicator, after having accidentally kicked it a little. Oops. Picking that up, she holds it in her palm for a moment, realizing she knows what this thing does. A think she's never seen before.

Tsk. Nod. Just great.]

And I've been force fed knowledge about things I've never seen. Gosh, is it my birthday too?

Comments

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[dadlife]

Atroma sure are nice people.

[congratulations you are literally the first person joel has ever decided to talk to of his own volition.]

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[child_of_bhaal]

[If she ever discovers that fact, she will be flattered.]

I feel down right spoiled. Is this Atroma always so generous?

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[dadlife]

Sure you'll be happy to know that answer is yet.

[the sarcasm dripping from his voice says about fifty things and they are all "i don't want to be here".]

[child_of_bhaal]

Thrilled.

I'm Syeira. [She says it like an invitation. And you are, Mr. Disembodied Voice?]

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[serpentis]

Ah, perhaps congratulations are in order. Welcome to the fleet, and all that.

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[child_of_bhaal]

[Congratulations on your third or forth abduction this year. Where is her frequent kidnappee punch card?]

Congratulations and a welcome aren't' something I usually get after being captured. I don't really think I can say thank you, it would be insincere. So perhaps a hello instead?

[Niceness costs nothing and is rarely the wrong way to go. Unless your talking to a Drow.]

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[serpentis]

[He inclines his head a bit.]

Hello works just as well. Dorian, of House Pavus. And you are...?

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[ladiesss]

[a pale, gothy-looking girl is peering at her over a video feed on the comm... she speaks very quietly, so the video kind of helps... with understanding what she's saying...]

Oh, jeez. Do you get kidnapped all the time too?

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[child_of_bhaal]

[It's a shame the pointed ears don't help Sye hear any better, but she follows well enough.]

Among other things. Are you a prisoner here too? Are you all right?

[Because other people's well being is way more important than her own minor inconvenience.]

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[ladiesss]

Oh, yeah. But I'm all right, I've been here for months.

[she sounds so apathetic, waving her hand like she doesn't even care...]

You get used to it after a while.

[wordmiser]

[Cool. New people. Jinx liked it when new people arrived. It broke up the boredom of Artless abduction.

Of course, it took her a while to find the New Person after hearing her over the network, but not forever. Jinx is really getting a hang of this ship and has found she can skip the hallways and phase through walls much the same way she had at home.

There is always a slight hesitation first. What if she phases herself out into space? She's pretty sure that would be bad.

Either way, she pops her head and shoulders through the wall into the newcomers room (rude to arrive without knocking, Boss Man had always said) and gives a little wave.]

[child_of_bhaal]

[This is, sadly, not the strangest thing she's ever seen. Though she might suspect that this young lady is a ghost until proven otherwise. And as such, she's not really on alert. Ghosts, in her experience, didn't often hurt people. That's what Shades and Wraiths did, and those didn't look like whole people.

So she waves back, a little awkwardly, but smiles a little.]

Hello?

[wordmiser]

[If Jinx knew that she would spend her life trying to make the woman think she was a ghost. Thankfully she doesn't.

She jerks her chin towards the woman. Sup? How's kicks.]

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[pompous_today]

Like Christmas and your birthday rolled into one, no doubt.

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[child_of_bhaal]

I'm sorry, I don't know what that is. The "chrismuss".

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[pompous_today]

Oh! [Simon remembers- different worlds, different times, right.] It is a holiday where I come from, and a large part of it is exchanging gifts with your loved ones.

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[unconfines]

No one knows how to do a proper abduction anymore, that's what I said. Not nearly enough pomp and circumstance for my tastes. Just pop into the tin can you go.

[He's very chipper about the whole thing, all things considered.]

You'll at least get little chocolates to look forward to.

I always assume it's video if it's blank up here ^_^

[child_of_bhaal]

Honestly, I'm happy to do without the pomp and circumstance. That usually doesn't turn out well for someone.

[Like two of her friends, her half-sister, and herself. But she only half counts herself, for reasons.]

And chocolate is all fine and good, but I really do take acception to being held prisoner.

[unconfines]

Well, sure, who doesn't? But you have to admit, it's a little bit of a step up from the standard, "Oh, we'll just lock you in the dungeon and throw away the key."

They even let us go outside sometimes. It's nearly cordial, the kidnapping.

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[justamobster]

[ The pointed ears catch his attention on the video broadcast, though he sticks to his normal, safe audio format to reply. ]

S'one helluva birthday present, yeah? Welcome to space.

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[child_of_bhaal]

Shame it's not really my birthday. They wasted the good gift.

[Probably. It's way more likely to not be her birthday than otherwise.]

But thank you, I suppose. At least this time I'm not here through any fault of my own. Well, as far as I can tell anyway.

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[justamobster]

Pretty sure it ain't your fault, no. Gonna guess most folks here ain't done anythin' wrong 'nough to wind up in some kinda... movin' space jail, yeah? [ He's not about to count himself among them, though. ]

Not your first time gettin' trapped somewhere?

[forcemageure]

[ Ahem. ]

Maker's breath. Have you been abducted as well? Like each and every other hapless victim surely too important to suffer such indignity? What kind of world do we live in when such occurrences seem commonplace, nay, average? I ask you.

[ ...he's done now. A beat of silence falls while his features adjust to resting state, which is 'just before giggling.' ]

Sorry, everyone you've spoken to has just been so blase about the whole affair I thought you might appreciate real outrage.

[ He beams at her, which somehow manages to suggest that he is holding out, perhaps, a tip jar. ]

[child_of_bhaal]

[For a moment, he sounds like Nalia's aunt, and she's afraid she's going to end up telling him to gently fuck off. And then he's smiling and amused and not a stuck up priss. Thank the gods.

She eases down, which is mostly a relaxing if shoulders and smiling back.]

Well it definitely was a change at least. Honestly I'm not sure if I feel better, because I'm not alone in my sense of kidnapping ennui, or worse.

[forcemageure]

For what it's worth this was my first time. Not what I'd hoped for, really, no soft lighting or rose petals or anything, but [ a sigh conducted with his entire body ] that's the world we live in, I suppose.

My brother did get snatched up in the name of making my life difficult once! By people who clearly didn't know much about my relationship with my brother.

[ Haw, haw. ]