driftfleet | 003; Planetside and Catchall

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003; Planetside and Catchall

Who; Aaron and you!
Broadcast; Yes
Action; Various (Planetside and around)
When; All March

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[Aaron does clear his throat before speaking.]

So, this planet seems interesting. Does anyone want to go exploring? Maybe just get out into something a little more open than the ships? Personally, it's been way too long since I've smelled pine.

(OOC: If you'd like to do anything specific, like meet and greets or just hanging out, feel free to post a starter, or drop me a line on plurk (

vikael) if you want to hash out details. Individual starters for things we're already discussed below!)

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...A perfect rock? What makes a rock perfect? [You geology nerd, you.]

I don't know. [He chuckles.] I haven't seen it yet. I've been picking them up in the places we've stopped at. Mementos, I guess.

So, lots of rocks, all perfect, all different?

Well "perfect's" relative, but yeah. That's...how collections work.

[He scoffs, self-conscious.]

I've...always liked collecting things, like when we'd go to a new place. Memories are important. Items help to solidify them.

Mmm. [She just sounds thoughtful for a moment.]

Okay, I think I like you. [This is what normal human interaction looks like, right?] I'll pick you up on your ship in about an hour?

[Not what he was expecting...]

...thanks? I think? Uh...yeah. That works.

[She's smiling on her end, not that he can see it. She knows it's weird. She just likes the imagery of the things he brings up. It sort of reminds her of home in a nice way and she doesn't get a lot of thinking of the nice parts of home since it was mostly terrible.]

Great. See you then.

[And hour passes. Beep. Beep. Your shuttle has arrived, sir. It's in the cargo bay of his ship. She leans through the door to look for him. And when I say she leans through the door I mean literally through the unopened door so that only hear head and shoulders are visible. The rest of her is still very much in the ship. In the ship.] Ready?

[In the interim of her message and her arrival, Aaron makes about packing a bag with a few essentials: knife, rope, flint striker, utility knife, canteen; before heading down to the cargo hold to await his taxi.

In all the time he's known her, he didn't know she had abilities, and his brain was still adjusting to not assuming otherwise of people.

So, he, uh, blinks for a moment before nodding.]

Uh...yeah. Yeah, I'm ready.

Good good. [There's a little pause and he can see one of her arms sticking out of the door now too as it gestures up and down toward herself.] We hadn't already covered this, had we? Minor heart attack? Or you're good? You seem good.

I, uh... [He took a deep breath and nodding. This really was no more weird than anything else he'd encountered.] I'm good.

[And he nods as if to drive that point home as he heads over.]

I think you'll have to open the door for me, though. I'm not that flexible. [And he adds, as a bit of levity.] I guess I should stretch more.

[She pops back inside and then the door begins to slide open mechanically.] I can phase other people too, but you didn't look like you were up for that.

No offense, seriously. [Once the door is open, he makes eye contact for a moment, earnest.] I'm just, uh, not ready for my organs to stop being solid.

[It bothers her when people are afraid of her. It was a common theme back home. It was fine for her enemies, but when the people she was trying to save were the ones who were terrified it made things awkward at best. And for a long time she had a streak of wanting to do the most extreme things with her powers just to jar people into admitting they were afraid of her. So much of her identity had become built around the thing she didn't like and she didn't trust it when it was suddenly absent. She's largely overcome that in her many years as an abductee. Still, old habits can be very undead, you know? But he looks like he's trying.]

It would be bad if only your organs did that. I won't do it without your consent. Unless it's to save your life or something, but hopefully we won't run into any of that.

[He smiles at that, nodding.]

If you do it to save my life, I think I can forgive you. [And that smile says he's trying to make light of the situation instead of make everything worse.]

So generous. [She goes with the flow of his smile as much as possible as she gets the coordinates programmed into the shuttle.] Daryl and I were fighting the dead back on that space station I mentioned when I had to surprise him with the powers. I realize it's a lot when you come from a world where that's not a thing. Although the dead coming back to life is definitely a little out of the ordinary. Should be something of a primer.

You know, I don't know that I've ever seen Daryl surprised, at least not outwardly. That being said, I bet that would do it.

[He shakes his head.]

"Coming back to life" suggests something a lot more like resurrection and less like the ravenous herds we have. That's not....they're not alive.

He still held it in check pretty well. You'd be disappointed.

[She nods.] That probably wasn't the best way to say it. [She imagines it would be harder to kill them if you thought of them as alive. Well, she doesn't really have to imagine it. She was there on the space station. Granted, she was an assassin for a period of her life. Still, it's not justification only. There was no sign of consciousness from them aside from their hunger. Not even so much as true malice as they killed anyone they were able to.]

Did you ever talk to the others like we discussed? [Do they have to be worried about being contagious here? Is it already too late?]

Maybe. Sometimes you can see the cracks if you know what you're looking for.

[He nods.] I did, yeah. And...I know how it started. I'm looking for someone who might be able to determine whether or not it spread.

That could be.

[She looks at him curiously. So vague on the details, sir. Maybe she should leave it at that.] Was it someone from your world who died then? [But she doesn't.]

Anyone with a lab augment could probably help. I don't know if any of them are also doctors or scientists back home. Probably a few.

[He frowned at that, hesitant to throw anyone under the bus. After a moment, though, he decides that isn't conducive to the whole 'open' policy he'd started.]

Yeah. Someone who thought he was helping by trying to isolate himself. He...meant well.

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