driftfleet | festival day!

Who: EVERYONE
Broadcast: Up to you
Action: Everywhere in the Yadrolla system!
When: 5/30

[At last, the day has come: Festival Day! Once again, the Starstrikers have taken the trophy this year. But that doesn't mean members of other teams, or those who didn't play, can't celebrate with the rest of them!

There are parties everywhere. Ribbons, streamers, and confetti litter every major street in the system. (Remember what they say about glitter...) There is food on every block, and people cramming into shops to get in on the merch.

Don't forget about the reason for the festival-- the pet adoption drive! A large playground-type area has been set up on the Starstrikers' desert moon where people can play and interact with the lovable creatures needing new homes. Whether you're looking for companionship or just something to do, there's plenty to coo over! Every pet comes with an info card listing a fanciful name and a general description of their age and temperament. Maybe Sir Pringle the puppy or Marquess Mariana the fish can become your new best friend.

Sadly, the Fleet will be drifting in about a week... but feel free to party until then!]

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[It does take her a while to notice since she's pretty caught up in the music, flailing her limbs with the best of them. Though honestly even if she is drunk her movements are both more controlled and more graceful than many around her. This isn't the kind of dance she was ever trained in, but that doesn't mean she has no practice or that some of the lessons don't rub off.

As the songs change she does look around to see if anyone new has come in who got her text when she notices the staring and walks over.]

Manji, right? [She hadn't talked to him in person yet, but it's hard to miss fleeters in the crowd. Especially time displaced ones.]

[Manji makes note of the way Kitty moves. It's not the same as watching someone fight, but he can still see practice grace when compared to some of the others on the dance floor.

When he's caught staring he doesn't look ashamed. He has assumed that a woman wears that sort of outfit when they wish to be noticed.] That's right. Kitty. Makie's captain. Correct?

Right on all counts. [She leans in closer which helps a bit with the noise of the place.] So did you come to the club just to stand around looking creepy or do you dance?

I don't dance if that's what you call that weird flailing you lot were just doing. I came here to see what all the loud noise was for and what all the excitement was about.

[He then stayed for the view.] Don't see why the "music" needs to be so loud we need to shout to be heard. [It shouldn't be too hard to pick up on those air quotes around the word music with the way he spits it out. Clearly, he's not much of a fan.]

[Shaking her head at him.] You don't look nearly old enough to be this grumpy and set in your ways. Maybe try something new and actually give it a chance. You could like it.

[Manji's eyes scan the club. No, it still looks like everyone here has lost their mind.] I highly doubt I'll like this.

You could have left. Why stay if you aren't a little bit into it?

[How to tell a woman that he was liking how much skin he could see in this club without getting slapped?

....

...he's going to need to give her an answer very soon or this is going to look even worse.]

I have reasons.

[Yup. That's enough of an answer probably.]

Yeah? Stalking someone? [She'll just start making some up if you're going to be like that.]

What!? No! [He quickly defends himself against that at least.] Like I said, just wanted to see what all the noise was about. Thought I'd just wait a bit to see if there was something more.

[Crap. Fine. He'll act interested in the stupid dancing.] So what's the point of this dance? It doesn't look like even half the people here know what they're doing. [Where is the grace? The point?]

[It makes for an adequate distraction because dance is kind of her thing. Dance or killing and she'd much rather be dancing.]

The point is fun. Had fun been invented by your time yet?

Of course it has! [Although he's a bit distracted thinking about if fun could be "invented" for a moment.] We just don't need to be so loud to have fun.

[Yes, good. Take that question very seriously as it was obviously sincerely intended.]

Maybe you need to be this loud to have this much fun. Try it and find out.

No, I'd rather not embarrass myself.

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It's a room full of mostly aliens you'll never see again who are not paying attention to you.

You're here. You're paying attention. And I have a feeling I'll see you again.

Manji, I'm touched. I had no idea my opinion meant so much to you.

It's not. [Manji scoffs and gives up.] Fine. How does this dance go?

You just have to move with the music. It's very freeform. Like this. [She starts moving her hips to the beat.]

[This time Manji has the idea to look away from the way her hips move. A woman showing that much skin and moving like that? It just wasn't normal.]

That doesn't exactly look like any kind of dancin' I'm use to seeing.

True. It's different. Different isn't bad. Come on, give it a try.

[Manji scoffs and grabs the back of his head with his arm. Digging his fingers through his hair in disgust. He puts the barest of effort into swinging his hips before- nope, nope, this feels just as stupid as he thought it would. He stops and drops his hand.] No, this is stupid.

[It feels like everyone is looking at him. Even if they're not paying any attention.]

You don't get better at something without trying. What are you good at?

I'm really good at killing. [He grins wickedly. Trying to sound threatening to cover up how awkward he feels? No, never!] That's generally my specialty.

Uh huh. [Just going on as if he'd said a perfectly normal thing.] And you probably weren't great the first time. You probably had to practice, right?

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