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Grumpy Bird

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.]

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Twelve. ...Why?

[Oh wait. Taako laughs suddenly.]

Oh shit, are you one of those nerds who pretends to be an adventurer? Some lady here was talking about our lives like it was some kinda game people who couldn't adventure used to play in her world.

[Tim joins in the laughter] I use to run those games for my friends back in high school. So I was the Dungeon Master as it was. [He says this with a air like 'when I was young' despite clearly still being a teenager]

It was a lot of fun but yes nerd would definitely be the right description.

Wait, you call yourself a Dungeon Master?

[Yeah, nooope. Taako is losing his shit with laughter. That is the nerdiest thing he's ever heard. Who would call themselves a dungeon master?]

Do you-- [He dissolves into giggles again.] Do you-- like wear-- [Wheeze] black robes and shit? Holy crap, I have to tell Lup. This is amazing.

[Tim calms his own laughter as Taako continues but you can tell he's still amused.] No, no hat or robes to be had. Just a lot of books and paper to keep all the rules at hand and Dungeon Master is just the title you get as, some use Game Master or Story Teller

What rules are there to even bother with? You go in and blow shit up until you get what you want usually. Unless you run into puzzles or some asshole bugbear or gerblin or something.

[Although Klarg was generally nice now as long as he didn't fritz the fuck out and suplex Taako into the ground.]

It's still weird to me that people would rather pretend to be a ranger or cleric than go out and actually do it.

Because all games have rules of some kind, even if you play fast and loose with them they are there to give the whole thing, structure. Although I can see how someone having a whole set of rules on our your world and life works would be strange.

And different worlds and different opportunities. People can become rangers and clerics in my world but the job description and abilities are vastly different and there are generally less supernatural encounters, [pause] depending on who you are. No bugbear, kobolds or mindflayers in my world.

If you want adventure and fighting you become a vigilante or criminal I suppose. If you want gold or loot, again criminal or businessman is an option; archeologist if you want to explore ruins.

Soooounds..... [He thinks for a moment, trying to find a nicer way to say this and? Nope, can't think of one.] boring. Even if I'm new to the adventuring game, I'd rather be one than play a game about one.

Because we get adventure, fighting, gold, and loot and don't have to choose one job or another. Pretty basic package for being an adventurer and, as long as you don't up and die, pretty easy to do.

Well to be fair, for me it was a break from the excitement to run a fun game for my friends and for them I imagine it was a form of escapism.

My life does have adventure, fighting and I'm not hurting for money or um loot I guess. [Gadgets will count as loot in this case.]
Perhaps that's why u chose to run rather than play?

I mean if you were ever interested I suppose I could run a version where you could pretend to be vigilantes. You could see what it's like to experience a different world.

[He'd have to care about the law in order to be a vigilante, Robin. But he does appreciate the offer to try a new world out.]

Mmm thanks but no thanks. I'm not into the nerd stuff and? I think I've had my fill of 'experiencing a different world,' what with being kidnapped from mine.

[He gestures to everything around him.]

Elves don't go to space, my dude. We like staying on the ground.

[He pauses and snickers.]

Unless you're a weird wood elf.

It's an open offer if space ever gets boring for you?

How are weird wood elves different?

If I ever get so bored I want to pretend to be myself, I'll let you know.

And wood elves live in trees - that's how.

You're supposed to pretend to be someone else normally, hence the escapism part.

And um- what kind of elf are you? [He doesn't know if it's a social taboo to ask but it's too late now. Good job Tim.]

But I'm fucking amazing as I am. Why would I want to be anything else?

[Seriously.]

High elf, subrace Sun Elf.

I actually envy your confidence.

[Also seriously]

I suppose I should have been able to guess that but I don't want to presumptions about your world based on a game in mine.

[Hahaha if only he knew that it came from a place of complete insecurity. Whoops.]

Not everyone can be as fuckin' baller as Taako, my dude. It's just one part of what makes me a unique, beautiful creation.

And thanks for not assuming. There's a shitload of weird elves here and weird magic systems and nothing really makes sense.

You've already broken a lot of assumptions before I ever knew of the connection. It feels silly to start now?

Life is weird, you just need to roll with it?

Gotta roll the dice and just hope you don't critfail, right?

[Yes, he knows that reference despite not knowing the game. Try to wrap your mind around that one, Robin.]

[Taako gets a look like Tim hasn't figured out if he's being messed with or not.]

Yeah, but you could always roll a critical success so it might be worth in the end too?

True! I mean, I've nat 20'd a few things, but it's rare. And-- [He snorts in derisive laughter] --considering I ended up here? I'm not too keen on how my luck's going to hold.

Trust me, there are many worse options than here. At least they're not pitting us against each other in gladiatorial combat? or using us for experiments? or attaching symbiotic creatures to us to indoctrinate us into a hive mind of planet conquering warlords.

[Mood killer, thy name is Tim.]

Or planting eggs in us that burst out of your chest.

Gladiatorial combat? Check and done. Lup and I kicked ass at that.

We're pretty much a giant experiment already - or did you not notice the augment they fucking stuffed in our heads? So check and done.

The symbiotic chest-bursters are the last one on your list, so uh? Thanks for jinxing us.

[Hello Mood-Killer, meet Cynic.]

I-I'm actually really sorry and I really hope that I haven't jinxed us. [He rubs at his chest just at his imagined chest bursty death]

You've had a very interesting life. Is there anything you haven't done?

Edited 2018-12-17 13:52 (UTC)

[Taako shrugs lightly. If he has been jinxed, he'll just take it out on Robin later. By infecting him with chest aliens. NBD.]

Uh.....Good question. Been in a rock concert maybe? I've been to one, but never been in one.

Would've said "died," but apparently I've got 19 black marks on my record so whoooo knows anymore.

Edited 2018-12-17 13:56 (UTC)

I haven't even been to one. Although I saved a pop star once, then she almost got us both killed.

19 black marks? I don't understand the reference?

(((OOC: If that's a DnD reference Tim should know as a bigger DnD nerd than I. Let me know and I'll change it. Sorry I've played a variety of tabletop systems but only DnD the once.)))

Isn't that a celeb for you, huh? You stick your neck out and they just get it almost chopped off.

[He grins and shrugs.]

No reference. I mean exactly what I say. I've died 19 times and the Raven Queen - yanno, the Goddess of Life and Death - put a bounty out on my head. 8 of 'em I don't even remember though, so I feel like it's not really my fault at all.

((OOC: no reference, don't worry!))

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