[Action/Video] First Emblem

[lacyprincess]

Who: Lucina and you
Broadcast: yes
Action: Marsiva and later Planetside
When: Marsiva (March 11th-16th for action, video 3/15), Planetside for the rest of March

[Action on the Marsiva]

[Waking up with no memory in strange places is not something Lucina is known for. Certainly, she's done a lot of crazy things in her time, but pulling something like her mother and brother? Not a chance. A few minutes of searching proves that Falchion is missing, as are the tomes, staves and lances she would use in battle. In fact, she's completely defenseless.

And she hates it.

What she does find is the butterfly mask she borrowed from Gerome all those weeks and months ago and she wastes no time slipping it on and pulling her hair up to hide the length. She knows it might be useless, considering she's obviously been kidnapped and her belongings pilfered. Still, it gives her some comfort as she tries to get her bearings. Until her fingers come across a strange...thing in her hair line.]

Who is in charge here?!

[After her outburst, she is stalking through the entirety of this strange ship, processing what she knows from her actual world, the past and the strange knowledge about the things she's never seen before a day in her life. And she's looking for anyone there to get some answers.]

Video on the Marsiva

[Yep, she sure is wearing her mask still and she's managed to figure out how to use the devices while stuck on the Marsiva.]

I've read some of the messages you've traded with one another. Going back further than a few months means absolutely nothing. What I want to know is who are these Atroma and have you yet determined their base?

Planetside

[The moment that Lucina's feet hit the deserted streets of Nariba Relia, she's searching the shops for anything to use as a weapon. She doesn't trust any of the other people in the Fleet yet. (She doesn't see a reason to do so.) And without Falchion, she feels too vulnerable.

Her first stop is in one of the many shops, hefting different objects to see if she likes the weight. Even if she can't find a sword, she can use almost anything as a lance.

After she's satisfactorily geared, Lucina isn't afraid to peruse the shops to find clothes and things to take back with her. (SOMEONE STOP HER FROM TRYING TO MIX PATTERNS, PLEASE!)

Once the shopping is over, she's out to inspect the rest of the world. The theme park and movie theater don't really interest her, but she's not above being convinced to at least try them out if someone's persuasive enough.]

Comments

[lacyprincess]

[It's not so much irtitation as it is a terribly painful reminder of a future she still fears might come to pass. As much as a she love and trusts her parents, anything could go wrong. And with Dragon Gods involved...

But she's grateful he doesn't pry. The Risen and Grima are a sensitive topic. To all the Shepherds.]

I've been trying to read as much about past events as possible, but there is a lot about these ships and people I have no frame of reference for comparison.

[vartex]

[He's no stranger to sensitive topics and the importance of keeping questions to oneself. He'd feel the same way if she started asking about certain issues from his world he'd get squirrely too.]

You're not wrong. There was once a guide of past events, and it's still available in the network's archive, but it's severely out of date now.

[lacyprincess]

[At least no one's been tactless enough to ask her about her family. That would make her angry, not discomfited.

And an angry Lucina is a dangerous Lucina.]

That's what I've noticed. I've gathered more information by looking through the logs of letters sent between the rest of the people here. [It's been kinda slow going, but she doesn't have anything else to do on the Heron except learn.] Most of them seem rather willing to share all the minor details if you ask the right questions as well.

[vartex]

[Considering how few people where he's from still have family, it's a really tactless question for even a decently social person. It doesn't even occur to Messer to ask it.]

The residents of the fleet are definitely lax when it comes to security, for the most part, though I suppose we have little reason to distrust our own, considering our shared situation.

[Meanwhile there's him, suspicious of literally everyone and everything. As per usual he's in the mental minority.]

[lacyprincess]

[Well, her brother is here, but they aren't attached at the hip. Still, she doesn't want to talk about him either.

And she's grateful that he hasn't pried that far in.]

I haven't heard or seen any reason not to trust the others here, at least superficially. In fact, a good deal of them seem to be good people.

[Not that it keeps a natural cynic like Lucina from watching them when they aren't looking. She's not about to drop her guard for anyone.]

How long have you served you country?

[vartex]

[Scrape, scrape goes the knife against the stone, and then he lifts it to clean the blade with a wet cloth, examining its sharpness. Not bad, not bad.

He shouldn't be surprised that she's assuming his military background- his attitude and methodical behaviour are solid giveaways. Still, the accurate observation is half the reason he's even answering honestly.]

Seven years in total, although the organization that more recently recruited me guards multiple planets across a galaxy's cluster, rather than a single country.

[lacyprincess]

[He might as well wear a giant sign that says 'I AM A MILITARY MAN AND THEREFORE AM THE MOST TACITURN OF THE TACITURN'. It would be the Gods honest truth, she's sure.

His answer is a little surprising.]

So you're actually from space. I suppose that this all seems rather normal to you then.

[vartex]

Very. We traveled frequently from place to place as well, though we didn't have a fleet split into multiple ships of this size. The shuttles are also... insufficient.

[God he really misses his mech.]

[lacyprincess]

Well, the ships here are faster than the griffon, pegasi and wyvern where I'm from. The only ships we have travel over water.

[She misses her pegasus. It was really sweet.]

[vartex]

[Oldschool + fantasy, then? It sounds like something out of a novel.]

Such creatures don't exist in reality where I came from. Is that your usual form of transport?

[lacyprincess]

[And her life might be a high-fantasy novel, but his is beginning to sound like a science fiction novel. So, perhaps they were meant to be friends.]

No, not really. There are special corps that train to fight on the back of such animals. Most people still rely on caravans and travelling by foot to reach other towns and cities, unless a boat or ship is necessary. That's why all of this seems a bit... odd.

[vartex]

[get these social malfunctions to a library.]

Odd as a matter of perspective. I suspect I'd be out of place in your world.

[He finishes polishing and sheathes the second knife, moving on to a third. How many knives does one man need? ...More. More is the answer.]

If you're struggling to adjust, you hide it well.

[It's Messer, so that's almost a compliment?]

[lacyprincess]

[Get them a far more social buffer to translate and make them be better?]

I suppose so, but I have a feeling that you might adjust easier on my world than I could on yours.

[Especially if the way he keeps sharpening all those knives is any indication. WHY ARE COMPUTERS?

Although, if she has enough time to chat, perhaps she should be sharpening one of the ones she has so that she can ready it to add it to the tip of the pole she's acquired. Instant lance. Time to get to that since she's there.]

I think because my brother is here is why.

[Can't panic in front of the baby brother. What would their parents think?]

[vartex]

[The loss of tech would suck, though. Bad enough to be missing his mech here, but a world that doesn't even have ships or space travel? No thanks.

Her brother, though... explains a lot, actually.]

That's fortunate. ...And unfortunate, I should say.

[Since it's kind of shitty to be glad someone else is trapped here, if you want to be technical. Not that he's guilt-free in that case.]

[lacyprincess]

[Funny. She feels the same way about worlds without pegasi and wyvern.]

Yes, I agree. It's nice to have someone I know but...

[Morgan is here younger brother and that adds a whole new level of both duty and work to and already dangerous, unknown situation.]

I suppose the upside is he can't dig pitfalls to train teammates and friends in spaces.

[vartex]

[Pfft. Sounds like his kind of guy, actually. Some people need that kind of tough training!]

Space has plenty of other dangers he could utilize for training, if he's creative about it.

[lacyprincess]

[Morgan is a good kid and means really well. He's just...overly helpful and enthusiastic. Poor Sumia and Cynthia.]

Oh, I'm sure if he's given enough time, he'll figure out something. [She shakes her head in amusement.] I feel sorry for his shipmates if he finds molasses.

[vartex]

...I hesitate to ask.

[What the heck would he do with molasses??]

[lacyprincess]

He's studying under our mother to be a tactician, so he has a habit of finding new things to do with mundane, everyday items. The last time he had his hands on molasses, he managed to trap our enemy in it.

[She sighs, remembering that battle.]

And three of our allies.

[vartex]

Wouldn't that have required a substantial amount of it to be effective?

[where the heck would one even find that much molasses at once...]

[lacyprincess]

Yes, it would.

[How Morgan even found that much, she's not sure.]

It seems he got some of our other friends to help him in that endeavor. He can be oddly charming when he wants to be.

[vartex]

Fitting, I suppose.

[Since molasses is used in sweets... okay, that was kind of an absurd comment, he just doesn't know how to respond to molasses traps. Anyway-]

Are you the tactical sort as well?

[lacyprincess]

[It's no easier for her and she was there! The fact that it worked is what still gets her, but then again, her brother and mother are pretty great at their roles of tactician for both groups.]

No, I'm more martial, like our father. He favors our mother. Although, our roles change in battle from time to time. [She frowns, missing her weapons a great deal now.] It doesn't matter since even if I were to switch roles, I lack the right equipment to make it worthwhile.

[vartex]

...Hmm. Same as me, then.

[Not so much incapable of forming tactics as preferring to leave it to more skilled parties. There's something to be said about the comfortable security of middle management.]

I'm on the lookout for experienced fighters to practice with, if you find a need for that.

[lacyprincess]

[She's not surprised to hear that at all. Yet another shared trait with Gerome that she can muse over later.]

I would be a fool to turn down the chance to train with a competent opponent. What ship do you crew?