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driftfleet2015-04-16 03:35 pm
poetontheinside) wrote in driftfleet2015-04-16 03:35 pm
01: I turn this corner, get on this spaceship...
Who: Ray Kowalski
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: 16/4, pre-Shuffle
[A]
[It's not like Ray's graceless-- he's a dancer, right, he can be light on his feet, one-two-three-end-up-in-space, but right now it looks like he's mostly forgotten how to move at all. You can laugh at him (and you could, because in the kerfuffle he's managed to turn on the communicator) but only as soon as you figure out that there's a person underneath the sheer amount of winter clothes currently on the Marsiva. There's a mostly-empty backpack, a hideous parka, a warm (holy shit too warm) middle layer, and a suffocating base core layer. Then there's the hat, the weird-ass circular scarf-thing, two types of gloves, snow boots, sunglasses--
There's some muffled cursing coming from underneath all of this, but eventually there's a frustrated groan and a thump as about half of the aforementioned layers fall to the floor. All through the process, there's muttering.]
Look, Frase, not that I'm callin' you a liar or nothin', but all this time you been bragging about how freakin' cold it gets up North, but I'm kinda disappo-- [He pokes his head out of his last layer, hair mussed, eyes big.]
Fraser?
[B]
[However things get explained to him, he suddenly knows a shit-ton about space. And spaceships. A lot about space ships, actually, so much that his hands get a little itchy. It's weird to be here, without Fraser, when they've spent so much time together since starting his undercover assignment-- especially after they'd left for their Northern Adventure. It makes him feel a little anxious, like he's not sure how to behave without the Mountie at his side.
And when Ray gets anxious, he has to find something to do. So he starts walking around the Marsiva, and he finds things to do-- because he's a Detective, more than anything, and Finding Things Out is his gig, his jam. Specifically, he finds things to take apart, carefully, decisively. With the world of knowledge now inside his head, it all makes sense, and he settles into the work, seeing it, feeling it. It's cool. It's really cool.
The communicator's with him, on a table or on the floor, and despite the whole 'Engineering Augment' thing he keeps turning it off and on accidentally. Feel free to tell him not to take the ship apart.]
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: 16/4, pre-Shuffle
[A]
[It's not like Ray's graceless-- he's a dancer, right, he can be light on his feet, one-two-three-end-up-in-space, but right now it looks like he's mostly forgotten how to move at all. You can laugh at him (and you could, because in the kerfuffle he's managed to turn on the communicator) but only as soon as you figure out that there's a person underneath the sheer amount of winter clothes currently on the Marsiva. There's a mostly-empty backpack, a hideous parka, a warm (holy shit too warm) middle layer, and a suffocating base core layer. Then there's the hat, the weird-ass circular scarf-thing, two types of gloves, snow boots, sunglasses--
There's some muffled cursing coming from underneath all of this, but eventually there's a frustrated groan and a thump as about half of the aforementioned layers fall to the floor. All through the process, there's muttering.]
Look, Frase, not that I'm callin' you a liar or nothin', but all this time you been bragging about how freakin' cold it gets up North, but I'm kinda disappo-- [He pokes his head out of his last layer, hair mussed, eyes big.]
Fraser?
[B]
[However things get explained to him, he suddenly knows a shit-ton about space. And spaceships. A lot about space ships, actually, so much that his hands get a little itchy. It's weird to be here, without Fraser, when they've spent so much time together since starting his undercover assignment-- especially after they'd left for their Northern Adventure. It makes him feel a little anxious, like he's not sure how to behave without the Mountie at his side.
And when Ray gets anxious, he has to find something to do. So he starts walking around the Marsiva, and he finds things to do-- because he's a Detective, more than anything, and Finding Things Out is his gig, his jam. Specifically, he finds things to take apart, carefully, decisively. With the world of knowledge now inside his head, it all makes sense, and he settles into the work, seeing it, feeling it. It's cool. It's really cool.
The communicator's with him, on a table or on the floor, and despite the whole 'Engineering Augment' thing he keeps turning it off and on accidentally. Feel free to tell him not to take the ship apart.]
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Nice to meetcha [Seeker?? Cassandra? Miss Pentaghast? Aaah shit he's just gonna not say her name now, moving on], Detective Ray V-- Kowalski.
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[She looks at the offered hand for a moment before it clicks that he is expecting her to shake it. Right. She humors him and shakes his hand, still wearing gloves herself.]
A pleasure, Detective. [She takes her hand back, folding her arms and leaning back into her seat.] Have you just arrived?
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He gives her hand a firm shake, smiling wide but polite. He doesn't sit down, instead remains sort of-- shifting, nearby her.]
Couple days ago, yeah. You too, I guess?
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[She does eye him as he shifts about. Either sit or stand still, jeez.]
Yes. I don't like this waiting around.
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[Cassandra is used to sitting still. But even when still, she still has something to do. This just feels like she's sitting on her laurels.]
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So what do you, uh, what'd you do back where you're from?
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[Of course, the Inquisition ended up serving a far greater purposes than that, something beyond what Divine Justinia could have predicted.]
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You gotta back up a little, lady. Who the heck's the divine, where's Thedas, and who were you inquisitioning?
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The Divine leads the Chantry. It is her duty to maintain the Chantry as well as to spread its message across Thedas, a continent does not likely exist on any map of yours.
In the past, the Inquisition protected Thedas from magic and heretics after the first Blight. It became two branches that are now known as the Templar Order and the Seekers of Truth after it became part of the Chantry. This Inquisition was meant to serve a similar purpose after the Templars and many of the Seekers turned their backs on the Chantry.
[The last of which is said with no small measure of disapproval. Cassandra, clearly, remained loyal to the Divine.]
Divine Justinia hoped to negotiate peace between Templars and mages, and end the war between them. But she knew it would be a difficult, if not impossible task. The Inquisition would have protected the Chantry and put an end to the war.
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It sounds rough. War always does, and he looks thoughtful when she finishes.]
'Would have'?
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A creature that called himself Corypheus tore a hole in the Veil between our world and the Fade, allowing demons to spill forth into the world. He did so at the Conclave.
[She's quiet a brief moment.]
Everyone in attendance died.
[It's both an old and recent wound at the same time. Cassandra lost a number of people to that monster, but she lost many in just that first day.]
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He's not a soldier, or a Seeker, or whatever, but he knows loss. He's seen what it can do to people.]
I'm sorry.
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Corypheus was dealt with.
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He's dead, yes. And he will remain that way this time.
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[And it had certainly seemed that way in the beginning at times.]
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Sounds like you're gonna have a pretty quiet time here, compared to that.
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[She doesn't know enough about this "space" thing to really determine it. It's better to simply be prepared.]
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Hey, uh, you ever need somethin', feel free to hit me up. [He doesn't know why he offers, because Cassandra seems more than capable to handle anything the world throws at her-- and he doesn't know what he'd do, anyway. He just doesn't know what to do when she's telling him about these horrible, shitty things that have happened to her.] Technology-wise, or something. [He waves the remote that had been in his hands when he walked into the room at her.]
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You are actually familiar with the technology here then?
[Fine, she'll ask, Ray. Because you are clearly unnerved by everything she's just said.]
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[He almost seems glad to babble a little, and he definitely seems glad to be off the topic of world-destroying nearly-immortal demons. Anyone would be unnerved, Cassandra, jeez.]
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It's one thing to know, but another to be able to apply it.
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