Grumpy Bird

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

Who: Robin
Broadcast: Yes?
Action: Marsiva & SS Goldstone
When: 4/12 - 8/12

MARSIVA

[Tim wishes he could say he woke up alert and already assessing his environment but the truth is, he's very slow, very groggy and extremely confused when he first edges towards consciousness. It's only the cold from the barren Hospitality Deck that speeds up the process. He curls up and tries to reach for blankets that his sleepy mind tell him should be there. Only their absence has him sitting up to assess his current surroundings.]

First Hour


[Tim's first priority is his own body. He appeared here still in his Red Robin uniform and after a quick pat down, he realise that's all he's been left with. No grappling gun, no bo staff which he is not happy about but at least his identity is still safe.

Standing he notices the large viewing bay first and is immediately drawn to it. Hands find themselves against the glass-like surface and he cranes to see all he can. The constellations are wrong; well not wrong but wrong for any system Tim has in his memory. He takes a couple of hurried steps back as if to take in the bigger picture. Shoulders squared, breathes coming in and out to a precise mental count, his head cocks to take in the screen playing out the default Drift Fleet Encouragement Messages.

Deep breathe in, slow breathe out.

Stuck out in an unknown system, on an unknown ship, for entertainment purposes.

Perimeter check. Yes, we can handle that.]


First 24 Hours


[The perimeter check happens. Tim goes over the entire Hospitality Deck with a fine tooth comb. First he goes over it in a basic walk through, then he ransacks the entire place; strips the beds of any sheets, opens every cupboard and every container. Then he puts everything back exactly where it was before. If it wasn't so sterile to begin with you'd swear it was neater than before.

Anything small enough in the Medical Bay will be sneaked away into pockets in the belt.

Samples of the water is steamed and then frozen and then defrosted before the food get a familiar assortment of tests. Unless he finds something that resembles coffee he does not consume any of it.]

The Next 48 Hours


[Sleep doesn't happen, it doesn't even appear to be considered. He walks along each wall, running his fingers along looking for seams and he spends a little time using the kitchen cutlery trying to pry it away at the seams.

He gives up.

He spends a little time pacing in front of the large viewing windows.

He eventually finds or clears a large empty area and falls into a series of katas. This continues for hours until Tim is a panting sweating mess on the floor.

Tim approaches the showers and glares at the walls suspiciously looking for cameras. He glares at the showers. He leaves, stripping one of the cots of a sheet and ripping it long strips from it. He then weirdly flips his cape over his head and shoulders. When he emerges, the strips of cloth are being used as a make shift zorro style mask and the cowl from the Red Robin uniform has been removed. Shower is had.

Unfortunately after re-emmerging, Tim seems to have gotten an idea and anything resembling a sheet or blanket is pulled from wherever it lives, chairs and cots are rearranged however he can manage and over a couple of hours a blanket fort is constructed in the Hospitality Deck.

Anything that resembles alfoil/aluminium/or that makes a crinkly noise is placed around the perimeter and through the most obvious entrance as Tim disappears inside.


The Last 24 Hours

[Tim sleeps.]


SS GOLDSTONE

[Tim jumps and is on his feet in seconds when confetti and welcoming music suddenly break the absolute silence of the Marsiva; or what was the Marsiva anyway. Surprised eyes scan over what looks like.. a lounge? It certainly looks more lived in than the last one.]

Hello? Is anyone there?

[He doesn't drop his defensive stance as he turns to take in the exits to this room. His cowl is still down but his make shift 'zorro' mask remains on. It looks silly.]

If you're an alien who has kidnapped me, I'd very much like to speak to you?

[Speak to you, beat you up, he can multitask.]

Comments

video;

[abracafcku]

[Not an alien, not the kidnapper, but a voice from the communicator starts with a snicker.]

Are you wearing a bedsheet mask?

Re: video;

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim didn't jump. He didn't and he also didn't immediately pull his cowl back up, only tossing the bedsheet mask once his face is covered again before unclipping the communicator on his belt.]

The first place I woke up didn't exactly have many resources and my identity is something I prefer to keep to myself.

I'm Robin.

[Tim leans back against the nearest wall that can see all the exits.]

video;

[abracafcku]

Sure thing, Bird Boy, we all got weird habits, I guess.

[He snickers once more and shrugs easily. If Tim looks at the video feed, he'll notice that Taako has pointed ears. Are elves normal on his world? Who knows? The last newbie Taako talked to had said he killed people with pointed ears.]

Welcome to the Fleet. I'm Taako - from TV - and now this place. Charmed.

Re: video;

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[He's a bat; being told he's weird is his normal strangely. The ears not so much, although it's not his first encounter, these are longer but his eyes only stray for a moment.]

Nice to meet you, and is TV the name of the place you're from or were you an actor? or are you a being that exists purely on this communicator?

[I mean it could be possible?]

video;

[abracafcku]

So not just weird habits - got it.

[Who the heck asks if someone exists only on a TV screen?]

I was a celebrity chef - had my own traveling cooking show, the whole shebang. Now I'm a traveling chef again, but only because we're stuck on a reality TV show that's being broadcast across the entire universe while we're kidnapped onto an alien spaceship caravan that we can't escape.

Funny how life comes full circle, huh?

goldstone;

[youdontneedapictureofme]

[Maggie has been here long enough that the confetti and music doesn't even faze her. Their new crewmate was off to a reasonable start with that defensive stance too. Maggie would have laughed at the mask if he wasn't clearly as confused as they all were when they got here.]

Hey, there are no aliens here. That I know of.

[She raises her hands in surrender, taking a careful step towards him.]

We're just like you - the Atroma brought us here, too.

[Another step.]

My name is Maggie. What's your name?

Re: goldstone;

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim relaxes his stance as he looks Maggie up and down. He seems to realise the mask is ridiculous and pulls his cowl back on before sliding the mask away.]

I'm Robin. [Technically it's Red Robin but that is an obvious code name, if he loses the Red, he won't get questions about his real name.]

It's nice to meet you? Considering the circumstances; how long have you been here? where is here?

My apologies, you've probably answered these questions before

[youdontneedapictureofme]

Nice to meet you.

[She holds out a hand to him to shake his hand, obviously.]

I'm happy to answer questions. We all have them at one point or another.

[And she tries to take her job as Captain mostly seriously. She treats her crew here just as she did her people back home from the Hilltop Colony.]

I've been here about a year now. You're aboard a ship called the SS Goldstone and this is just one of several ships within the fleet. I'm the current Captain of the ship.

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[He steps forward to shake her back before taking a step back]

Well, I guess I'm part of your crew now, Captain. I've not spent much time in space I'm afraid but I still seem to know the defences that this ship has. Which I shouldn't.

[His eye travel and glare at the walls, as he's yet to see a camera but know they're present somehow.]

[youdontneedapictureofme]

Ah. Yeah, that happens. It's the augment that you've been implanted with. It's how they feed us information for our jobs and I think it's how they track us. I don't recommend trying to remove it.

[She tried it. It... didn't go well.]

video; first 48

[sassy_assassin]

[ Sara's bored, and there seems to be a new feed, so hey, why not pipe in ]

Nice mask, kid, but I'm not sure you'll need it here.

Re: video; first 48

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim knows he looks silly and returns to the cowl before dumping the mask and answering the communicator]

Consider it a precaution? or perhaps simply a long-ingrained habit. Afterall I don't know who watches this show?

I'm Robin by the way.

[sassy_assassin]

I mean, fair, but it's hard to even know in your universe, let alone that anyone would recognize you. Don't you have an alter-ego?

Hi, Robin. Sara Lance.

Are you a fugitive or something?

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim shakes his head]

No, I'm not, although depending on who you ask, a crime-fighting vigilante isn't exactly a legal profession either and if you know where I can find a domino mask I can at least get rid of the cowl.

What did you do before, this? [He indicates vaguely around at the ship]

[sassy_assassin]

That does depend on who you're talking to.

I am fresh out of domino masks, but I'll see if I know anyone has a spare.

And I am the captain of a time ship, actually. But before that, I guess you could consider me a crime-fighting vigilante.

action; goldstone;

[spellsteal]

[Belthazar jumps and nearly drops his tray of tea and scones when Robin appears in the room, and then he scowls. Then he notices the ridiculous thing that this man is wearing. Belth probably can't judge since he's literally some glowy-eyed elf boy, but still.]

What on earth are you wearing? Is that-- is that supposed to be a disguise?

Re: action; goldstone;

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim turns to face the new comer and then sighs]

It's a mask, a makeshift mask. Hang on.

[He pulls his cowl back on and slips the bedsheet off and tosses it to the side]

Better? Is this your ship?

[spellsteal]

It's not my ship, specifically. Maggie is the captain, and I'm the mess cook. This is the Goldstone.

[Belthazar still looks unimpressed, even as he expertly pours a mug of warm black tea. Then he holds it out.]

You're either new crew or a terrible robber. If you're the latter, then I should tell you that you picked a very bad ship to burgle. At any rate, here's tea and berry scones if you'd like a snack.

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim takes the cup and saucer vaguely in shock at the change in mood.]

I-er-thank you? and I'm not a robber. I'm Robin and I just appeared here from the Marsiva?

[Tim takes a sip from the cup, pinky out as Alfred taught him.]

I suppose that means I'm your new crewmate, fellow kidnappee depending on how you look at it.

video, first 24

[passingthrough]

[Oh the fun of life on the Marsiva which may just broadcast what you're doing whether you're using your communication device or not. Kitty notices some footage of a silent young man stalking through the ship, methodically trying out this, that, and even the other. Oh yeah, definitely going to town on the other. She keeps her eye on him for awhile, studying his movements and trying to get a better look at him. There's something vaguely familiar about him. She doesn't think he's anyone she's met before but there are hints in the uniform that remind her of various people she knew back in the prison—her first abduction. Of course, it's also been years since she saw any of them and she's seen countless suits like that in one way or another. She gives up trying to really place it eventually and decides to speak instead of stalk.]

I realize you're suspicious of the food but you should keep it on you if you can. It's better than the food on the other ships you'll be sent to.

[She also appears on screen on his communicator. She's not wearing her uniform though she does have it among her belongings. She's in just a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. No mask, but then she doesn't bother with such things with the uniform either.]

(OOC: How old is Tim? I realize this is a dirty question to ask of someone from a comics background. Kitty is at a comic-complicated + RP time 22ish.)

Re: video, first 24

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[He does tense and jump at the sudden voice in the quiet before realising where it's coming from and picking up the communicator.]

Who is this? and how long exactly have you been watching me?

[He doesn't address the food comment but makes a mental note to squirrel some away for later if need be]

(OOC: I've gone with 17 for this as I've gone with the end of his comic run before the big ole reboot and figured he'd been 16 for too many years XD LOL)

[passingthrough]

Kitty and I wasn't timing myself. Definitely short of being creepy though. [Maybe a little creepy.]

Who are you?

(OOC: Sounds good! Thanks!)

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

[Tim would really be a hypocrite for calling out someone on voyeur behaviour. He's not even sure how long would be not creepy.]

I'm Red Robin. Robin is fine though.

Are you my kidnapper or a fellow captive?

[audio, for now]

[wallcrawler]

Yeesh, and I thought I was super-ing on a tight budget.

[Sure, his super suit was literally just ordinary fabric that offered no protection whatsoever because some people don't know stupidly rich billionaire playboys, but at least he was like 90% confident it didn't look like he ran out of money at around neck-level. What even was that mask, anyway?]

Don't hold your breath on our esteemed hosts answering, either. I've been here about a year and haven't gotten so much as a welcome-to-the-neighborhood visit. Or complimentary baked goods. Just some cheap pudding cups.

Very inconsiderate, honestly.

Re: [audio, for now]

[permanentlyexhaustedbird]

Well, to be honest, I considering kidnapping into an alternate reality to be very inconsiderate so the lack of baked goods seems par for the course don't you think?

[The cowl comes up on and the makeshift mask is slipped off after.] and I don't usually have budget constraints but the first ship is very sterile.