mission 03: video, action

[unspangled]

Who: Steve Rogers (AU)
Broadcast: Network
Action: SS Blue Fish, SS Iskaulit
When: During drift

Network

What's your favorite kind of music? I ask because I'm still catching up on what I missed back home, but I like discovering new things.


Action

[ During the first week or so of drift, thanks to mostly palling around on his own in the last system, Steve Grant seems slightly more at ease in his own skin now. He's still not the most talkative guy around, but he's working on that. A little. Mostly he can be found on board his own ship or at work, but sometimes he'll go to the gym at odd hours or settle down in the art room with some paints or a pencil and blank sheets of paper.

Less often, but when he's most restless and can't sleep, he'll just walk around and make maps in his head of where his fellow passengers are allowed. And where they aren't. ]

Comments

[outstandingbalance]

That's a lot to get through. A lot of good music, though. I think you'll like him.

[Something about that whiff of Americana.]

When you get to Nancy Sinatra, you should call me.

[unspangled]

Sinatra?

[ That name rings some bells. ]

[outstandingbalance]

[She wondered if it would. She's still not sure how much this Steve remembers, and she doesn't want to fish too obviously, but if she drops a bread crumb every now and again, it might turn up something.]

Famous family. You might like her, though.

[unspangled]

There was this guy who sang with Tommy Dorsey.

[ He thinks it might be the same guy, actually. The way his memories come back isn't always linear. But sometimes, if he's lucky, they're nicer memories. ]

Nancy Sinatra. Okay.

[outstandingbalance]

[Proving he's old. She'll let that slide, though.]

So are you enjoying what you've listened to so far? Or this rock n' roll business not for you?

[unspangled]

[ He is old, Nat. ]

No, I like it so far. I think the songs I like best are the ones that tell a story.

[outstandingbalance]

[So old. It's true.]

See, there's something I can work with. I'll have to see what I can turn up on the network.

[unspangled]

[ a true relic. ]

Oh, so this is a mission now?

[outstandingbalance]

It's better as a mission. If it's not a mission, then it's personal.

But I'd like to find you something you like.

[unspangled]

And personal is bad.

That's why I'm doing it.

[outstandingbalance]

You said it, not me.

[But personal is dangerous, and more likely to scare him off.]

But if you start listening to American Pie, you're on your own.

[unspangled]

What's that? A band?

[outstandingbalance]

A song. The kind that tells a story.