the white noise is deafening silence

[thespaceopera]

[In the very early hours of January 20th, as the Marsiva and her captives drift nonchalantly through the depths of the universe, there is a call. Every single personal communicator and console springs to life, spitting out a stream of indecipherable static and showing only gray snow on screen. It continues like this for a few seconds longer, going black and then going staticky, and then the signal switches to the encrypted channel generally used for speaking to the Interceptors when something big goes down.

This is a little more successful. The voice may be familiar to some, at least through the static.]

Zhade here! I trust I ███ your attention? I'm having some ██▓▓ble ██tting through. Some of the ░▓██▓█ are missing. I can't ░▓▓▓ read on their loc█████ns. [A particularly long burst of static.] ███stening. I'll s█▓▓█ more inf██▓▓▓▓▓█ I get it.

Stay sharp! [There's the sound of someone actually doing the fingerguns wink noise, and then static.

Any messages sent back won't get through, and Zhade isn't there to answer.]

[ A blip of lost time passes right after those words, before every passenger mysteriously wakes alone in their own unfamiliar room. The style of decor resembles that of the Marsiva's Hospitality Deck, if any passengers should remember what that's like. It sounds and smells the same as the host ship as well, all clean and chrome.

Welcome back to the Marsiva, dear passengers. It's time for round three of calibrations. ]

[ This mingle will cover all non-calibration room interactions. Please continue to come back to it for the duration of the plot! You are, of course, free to post any other mingles/posts/etc. that you'd like. ]

Comments

[abracafcku]

[Taako takes a flourish of a stage bow, grinning ear to ear. It probably looks super freaky coming from Haggar's face, but he's counting on that disconnect.]

Should know better than to try and put one over on me, nerd. A quiet hallway after you went down it? Waaaay too suspicious.

[necromanswers]

Yooouuuu!

[She blows a raspberry at him, fiddling with her hair beneath the illusion, since the sudden collision mussed it out of place. She may not be able to see it, but she can feel it.]

Live in fear, Kokopuff, I'm definitely gonna get you for that one.

[abracafcku]

[No matter how much she threatens, Taako is going to ride this high as long as he can. Whatever fear should have been on his face is defeated by the beaming smile underneath the illusion and the triumph of having gotten one over on her. He watches her fuss with her real hair under the illusion which is weird as Loki's hair isn't fussed in the slightest. He's still giggling a little and sticks his tongue out at her in response to her raspberry.]

Yeah, sure, look at me quaking in my robes, Lulupop. I'm hella dumb, homie, you should know I'm not smart enough to live in fear.

[necromanswers]

Blehhhh. That's fine, that just means you won't see it coming.

[This might just be the start of a prank war, but oh well- that's business as usual for them. When they're not trying to one-up the people around them, it ends up just being against each other. Annoying on occasion, for sure, but... familiar, so that's nice.

...Hey, if he doesn't remember her, that means she can reuse pranks that worked on him before...]

[abracafcku]

Wouldn't be the first time. Just remember - I'm Lady Fate's hottest new emissary, so you gotta overcome the forces of fate.

[He smirks and then spins on his heel, waving his fingers at Lup over his shoulder.]

Also, I need to get back and replenish those spell slots for later. So catch you later?

[necromanswers]

Hah! Maybe I'll end up catching Fate's favour, as the vastly superior twin. Till next time, pussycat!

[She tosses him a two fingered salute and dashes off before he can shoot back a retort.]