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[Broadcast (locked to Bloodsport)- Sunday Morning, 3/3]
[Calibrations sure were a mixed back of emotions. She's sure everyone's dealing with their own feelings on the matter, and sometimes a distraction can be a good thing. What better one than two new, honestly unexpected crew members.]

Good morning, I hope everyone slept well-- better than the past few weeks at least. I've got a few things I'd like to address, so I'll try to make this brief.

First, we'll welcome two new crew members. Messer Ihlefeld should be familiar to most of you by now. [Since he half lived in her office for the past year. She grins.] He's maintenance, so please feel free to make use of that. And Pavel Chekov, who is communications. I'm familiar with both of them, and I think everyone has the potential to get along just fine. I look forward to it. [Judging by her tone and smile, she sincerely does.]

Next, Messer and I are going to be in the kitchen this afternoon working on some dinner, enough for everyone. I think it'd be nice if we could all try and have a meal together-- voluntarily, of course. Please feel free to show up if you'd like to join us. No pressure if you're not comfortable with it, there will be leftovers if you'd like. Around 6:30 this evening should do it... [Kaname glances off screen for a moment then looks back.] Yep, consider dinner at 6:30 tonight.

There is another matter, but I believe that can wait. As usual if anyone has questions or concerns, you know where to find me.

[With that, the broadcast cuts out.]

[Action (OTA)- The rest of the time]
[Sunday Kaname will be checking on everyone after lunch, if she can find them, mainly to make sure they're doing all right and might be interested in dinner. She'll knock on the doors (and says her name) of personal quarters, but leave eventually if there's no response or no one answers. Anywhere else is fair game. With a smile and friendly greeting, she is happy to see her crew.

The rest of the month? Who knows? Try your luck.]

Edited 2019-03-06 06:00 (UTC)

[Lorden clicks the video on and waves back, happy to be back in his armor after entirely too long without it. He sounds happy.]

Dinner sounds great! If we find some place that has decent stock and vegetables, I can fix up some ramen some time. The hot sauce we have is pretty good, but the rest of it just isn't up to caliber.

[A. Very, very happy to get back to his armor (what had the Atroma been thinking, not giving it to him during Calibrations?), Lorden can be found around the ship checking on its integrity, trying to scan different parts of it with an app on his communicator and failing, and messing around with the weapons systems. Got a piece of junk you don't mind spacing? He's happy to use it for target practice.

B. A fair amount of his free time is in the armory, cleaning and charging the sidearms as well as his own rifle. He got to do a little combat inside his dreams, but that's not the same as having a real enemy, and he's getting a little antsy. They wouldn't give them weapons if they weren't expected to use them at some point, right? He hadn't fired on the Marsiva when the opportunity arose, mostly because he didn't have a good enough reason to. It's not the same.

C. He can also be found in the kitchens, trying out various noodle recipes. Warning: he is using the hottest hot sauce known to man, and doesn't seem to realize it might cause problems for someone not expecting it. Gonna take him up on that taste-test offer?

D. Anything else that catches your fancy!]

[Kaname can't help but grin at his enthusiasm.]

Good. There are some vegetables in the community garden on the Iskaulit, but I don't know if they'd meet your requirements or not. If dinner with the crew becomes a regular occurrence, then I think switching off kitchen helpers would be a good way to add variety.

Uhh, as long as someone goes with me to make sure I don't mess anything up. I only know how to pick, like, three vegetables.

Whatcha gonna cook? Or is it a surprise?

[A]
[Prompto's first order of business is to grab all his guns and make sure they're still in good working order. He was gone for a long time - anything could have happened. They're also overdue for maintenence. His room lacks the space to really spread out, so the dining table is good, yes? Yes.]

[B]
Getting back into a routine is paramount. He spends a few days checking the ship over for any potential repairs. While still undecided on how he feels about Messer being on board, he's a little excited to have someone else around with repair and maitenence knowledge. And droids!

They're not Eeny, Meeny, Miney, and Jack, but he's happy to see cleaning droids again. (He's calling one of them Jack anyway.)]

[C]
[Any other time? He can be found with a camera in hand, in weird and awkward positions, trying to get interesting angles. Or maybe he's in the cargo hold, playing with the dogs, Umbra and Pryna.

Or surprise me!]

Something smells good.

[Hello, this is Prompto, and he loves spicy food.]

What are you working on?

[Lorden grins in response and ladles out a little bit of broth into a cup, offering it with a "try this" gesture.]

Trying to figure out how to make stock with what we have. The noodles aren't bad, but I'm missing something besides greens and I'm not sure what else it needs.

I'd be happy to tag along if you'd like. Maybe collect some for our stores as well.

[That has her grinning.] He's going to be making some common Ragnan cuisine. That's the planet we're settled on back home.

[He happily takes a sip from the cup. A moment later, he sucks a breath through his teeth in an attempt to cool the burn.]

Wow. Damn.

[He coughs lightly. That's good stuff.]

Any meats?

[The engine room isn't where she expects to find him, but she's glad he's taking stock of things. Kaname knocks lightly on the door frame to get his attention, only stepping to the side when Delta 1 whizzes past her feet.]

Hey, you.

( a. arrival )

[Shuffles are always weird. This one in particular is disorienting because he shouldn't be going anywhere, right? He's already assigned to a ship. All his attempts to transfer in the past have been ignored, and he'd all but given up on it.

Yet... here he is, on the Bloodsport. Not the Blameless. Finally.

He takes some time to make sure- finds his room, checks for his belongings, make sure everything is in order. After that, the first day is spent essentially pilfering the Blameless of all of his belongings that weren't in his room- the bike, some cookware and spices, the extra cleaning bots that didn't automatically move with him, his... weird dog thing. He seems to be doing okay on his own, unloading the shuttle or reorganizing his new room, but he won't refuse help. Or maybe you just want to say hi to your new crew?]

( b. it's probably a lost cause. )

[Hey, it's Messer, hanging out in the hallway! What's he up to?]

You can't just live in there. Kaname doesn't like when you startle people.

[He's... talking to an air vent! That's weird, probably.]

( c. wildcardish )

[Messer will be visibly around and about more often than he usually is, kind of self-indulgently enjoying the fact that he's able to live properly on the Bloodsport now, instead of just skulking around and living off the office couch. He'll be working regularly in the kitchen whipping up something tasty, or fixing and tweaking the equipment on the ship, supervising his little space roombas... keeping busy, in other words.]

[He looks over from where he's got his hands buried in machinery, smile lighting up instantly. He wipes his hands with a rag after pulling them free.]

Hey! What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?

[He pauses briefly to sidestep Not-Eeny.]

Nothing much, just checking in on our resident engineer. Maybe see if he'd like to join some of us for dinner if he could find the time.

[She smiles back, laughing a little at the droid.]

I see you're all getting to work fast enough.

Oh. Right. Dinner. [He saw the broadcast, but had gotten distracted.] Dinner sounds good. Whole crew, yeah?

[He gives the metal next to him a good knock.]

I just wanna make sure nothing happened to the ship while we were away.

[He was going to squeeze on by and not say anything. Really. But he slows a squints at the vent, then at Messer. Um.]

Is there someone living the vents now?

That's the idea. If not the whole crew, at least as many that want to. [She does raise a brow at him, looking a little hopeful.] So I can include you on that roster?

[Kaname nods, stepping aside for Delta 3 this time.]

I think we're all right.

I'll be there.

[Two thumbs up. Ah, and there's Not-Miney. He swipes it with the rag as it whizzes by.]

Yeah. Looks like we're okay. But can't be too careful. I'm just about done here, anyway.

Glad to hear it. [Her smile relaxes in relief. There's no real reason to think he wouldn't be, but it still makes her happy to know.]

I do appreciate the forethought, too. [With the droids out of the immediate way, Kaname properly enters the engine room to join him.] So these are just touch ups, right?

[He'd give her a kiss or a hug if it would help, but he's covered in grease and dirt at the moment.]

Believe it or not, I do know how to be responsible. [He grins with a wink.] Yeah. I haven't come across anything worrying. She's getting a tune-up.

[Lorden grins. The food on these ships is only so-so, but the hot sauce has great kick. It makes up for some of it.]

All I got right now is what the dispensers give us. I tried some powdered chicken-flavored protein, but either it's not close enough to real chicken or the recipe I'm trying to duplicate uses pork.

[He pulls a couple of spices down off the rack: salt, ginger powder, garlic powder, rice vinegar.] Or maybe some other spice? I gotta say, I usually either get it from a shop or from an instant packet. But it is kinda fun to work it out with what we've got.

Sure, as long as it's all right with whoever runs the garden. [It is, he knows, important not to take more than their fair share.]

Ragnan food, huh? Guess I'll see what it's like soon enough. Back where I'm from, humans are really only on Earth anymore.

[Messer glances over, looking... kind of tired, which is weird for him. Things have been stressful for a while now because of what just happened with the fleet, but there's also a layer of exasperation, with regards to the current predicament.]

It's just the... dog. Daisy.

[Is it a dog?? He doesn't even know.]

I believe that very much, despite what other people might say. [She smiles playfully in return, leaning in to give him a quick kiss on the cheek.]

Umbra and Pryna must be happy to see you again.

Last I heard it was community run, so as long as we leave a good supply, it shouldn't be a problem. [A nod!] Ragna's mainly a water planet, so a lot of what we had was sea food. This should be a more adaptive sort of meal.

[Oh. She blinks.] Where I'm from, humans are spreading out far from Earth. I've never been there personally.

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