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driftfleet2018-12-29 03:15 pm
customplates) wrote in driftfleet2018-12-29 03:15 pm
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002; Some sightseeing and such
Who: Aaron + You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit/Planetside (Bloodsport common room for that broadcast if you wanna)
When: Throughout December (until they leave)
Audio; Broadcast Fleetwide
[Aaron is making his transmission from the common room on the Bloodsport, so if you're around, feel free to stumble upon him.]
Good morning, everyone. At...least I think it's morning. Anyway, I've been all over this ship, a few others, and the Iskaulit and I've found a photography studio, more than one restaurant, a library, two bars, several different times of relaxation and reflection spaces just to name a few, but no place that seems set up to get any firearms practice in. I think it might be important, seeing as a lot of our ship provide crew members with sidearms. Does...anyone know how we go about getting something like that established? Do we just...pick a space and take it?
Iskaulit - Library | OTA
[In his quest to find a place to train with the weapon provided him on the Bloodsport, Aaron finds himself thumbing through the library. If being stuck in outer space has taught him anything, it's that they aren't really pressed for time. Dorian's comments on the selection of the library have him intrigued at any rate, so he takes his times perusing the shelves.
Dorian was right, he thought as he did so. There was a lot of Earth literature here. Some of it was crap (was that really a copy of the 5 Love Languages?) but he stopped at a collection of classic literature and pulled a weathered book from the shelf. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray brought a lot of memories back, and thoughts of someone he was starting to fear he'd never see again. He couldn't just take it, of course, though he wanted to. Libraries did require their books to be returned eventually, after all.]
...where do they get these books...?
[If he had that answer, maybe he could find his own copy.]
Planetside - In Town | shopping | ota
[It's difficult to visit this winter planet and not realize it's some sort of holiday season. With all the feasts, parades, and gifts, Aaron is first reminded of the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons back on Earth, before the world ended, and that's just fine with him. What he was most interested in, of course, were the shops. Since the world ended, the only way to have new things was to scavenge them. The idea of using what credits he'd been provided to buy things was novel at the very least. His first priority was picking up a new pack, and with it strapped to his back, he's simply wandering the shopping district, looking at windows and waiting for a shop to catch his eye.
And then it does. The camera shop across the way is his destination as he makes his way across the icy road.]
I wonder what kinds of cameras aliens use, even.
[It's murmured out loud, yes, but he's not going to mind if someone wants to join him.]
Planetside - In Town | sightseeing | ota
[Equipped with a new camera and enough digital storage to film the rest of the planet, Aaron, newly excited to explore and document all the unique sights of this place, goes around town, snapping pictures of unique storefronts, trees with particularly intriguing ice formations, and just generally...looking like a tourist. He keeps eyeing that castle in the distance, too. If anyone stops long enough to look over to him, he smiles amicably.]
You want to check out the castle?
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit/Planetside (Bloodsport common room for that broadcast if you wanna)
When: Throughout December (until they leave)
Audio; Broadcast Fleetwide
[Aaron is making his transmission from the common room on the Bloodsport, so if you're around, feel free to stumble upon him.]
Good morning, everyone. At...least I think it's morning. Anyway, I've been all over this ship, a few others, and the Iskaulit and I've found a photography studio, more than one restaurant, a library, two bars, several different times of relaxation and reflection spaces just to name a few, but no place that seems set up to get any firearms practice in. I think it might be important, seeing as a lot of our ship provide crew members with sidearms. Does...anyone know how we go about getting something like that established? Do we just...pick a space and take it?
Iskaulit - Library | OTA
[In his quest to find a place to train with the weapon provided him on the Bloodsport, Aaron finds himself thumbing through the library. If being stuck in outer space has taught him anything, it's that they aren't really pressed for time. Dorian's comments on the selection of the library have him intrigued at any rate, so he takes his times perusing the shelves.
Dorian was right, he thought as he did so. There was a lot of Earth literature here. Some of it was crap (was that really a copy of the 5 Love Languages?) but he stopped at a collection of classic literature and pulled a weathered book from the shelf. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray brought a lot of memories back, and thoughts of someone he was starting to fear he'd never see again. He couldn't just take it, of course, though he wanted to. Libraries did require their books to be returned eventually, after all.]
...where do they get these books...?
[If he had that answer, maybe he could find his own copy.]
Planetside - In Town | shopping | ota
[It's difficult to visit this winter planet and not realize it's some sort of holiday season. With all the feasts, parades, and gifts, Aaron is first reminded of the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons back on Earth, before the world ended, and that's just fine with him. What he was most interested in, of course, were the shops. Since the world ended, the only way to have new things was to scavenge them. The idea of using what credits he'd been provided to buy things was novel at the very least. His first priority was picking up a new pack, and with it strapped to his back, he's simply wandering the shopping district, looking at windows and waiting for a shop to catch his eye.
And then it does. The camera shop across the way is his destination as he makes his way across the icy road.]
I wonder what kinds of cameras aliens use, even.
[It's murmured out loud, yes, but he's not going to mind if someone wants to join him.]
Planetside - In Town | sightseeing | ota
[Equipped with a new camera and enough digital storage to film the rest of the planet, Aaron, newly excited to explore and document all the unique sights of this place, goes around town, snapping pictures of unique storefronts, trees with particularly intriguing ice formations, and just generally...looking like a tourist. He keeps eyeing that castle in the distance, too. If anyone stops long enough to look over to him, he smiles amicably.]
You want to check out the castle?
no subject
[You know, get close enough to see all those expressions of terror, desperation, pain and the like. And feel the occasional bone shatter! It's the little things that make it special, really, and fighting from range just doesn't allow much room for it.]
I am not concerned with a single shot blasting a hole in the hull. Nothing they have given us is anywhere near that capable. Not even the rifles those of us with a security augment are given. My concern is what might happen after repeated strikes.
no subject
...right. Well, you're very capable of a personal approach. I like to take chances that keep my heart beating.
[And a nervous chuckle, because...man she's intense and...intimidating.]
Well, the idea is to improve with practice, but I'll make sure whatever area I find is good and secure. Don't worry.
no subject
And there will likely always be newcomers, unless our hosts see fit to stop abducting people.
[Just because she fills the role of a very large, blunt instrument in battle doesn't mean she's incapable of considering these sorts of problems. Sure, nepotism played some role in her commanding forces back home, but actual merit was a much larger factor.]
What do you have in mind for targets? I assume you won't just be painting marks on the walls.
no subject
[That being said, she's certainly got him there.]
I'm...not sure, but no. I wasn't going to just use targets on the wall. Back home, before the fall, shooting ranges had things called alleys and they had mounted paper targets that were replaceable.