<> <> <> <> <> <> (*climbs over the wall of text*) (See anything up there?) (There's a game in them there words!) (What seriously?! *climbs up*) (You are all bastards :( ) (What? No I'm not. My background clearly states parentage) (Same here!) (Yeah, well, from reading way too much CBB - who is, like, my favorite author ever - I can tell you that your parentage might not be as certain as you think it is.) (Yeah well... stfu) (That got me where it hurts. :( ) (I love how nobody wants to be first although I was on the phone.) (I was actually posing.) * Hestia arrives by cab! And then unfolds from the back of it with typical langour, 'printing in the mileage and a meager tip because... one, bad service, and two she's about to leave the planet for a very long time. A suitcase in one hand swings out behind her as she pushes sunglasses up into her hair, glancing at the... box of a building. "Charming." (AFK, cats demand food, wtf) * Zeke has apparently decided to hoof it from somewhere as he approaches the building. Maybe he didn't want to squeeze his giant metal ass into a cab. 6'5" of dull grey and red exo-suit does that. Although the large grey case that he's got with him looks like a good reason #2 for no cabs. It's at least a meter in two of its three dimensions, and seems to be hanging off the back of his exo on an extension arm. * Amadeus gets out of a taxi not long after Hestia has her stop and looks around. He's an Asian man of average height for someone of that descent, with a roundish face, kind of spiked, short black hair, and wire-rimmed glasses. A little on the pudgy side, he's wearing a button down shirt, slacks, and nice shoes and a jacket. (Realized I didn't put age in there - think late twenties, early thirties. Description is hard!) (Oh right, physical description.) (My detailed desc is on the wiki!) * Amadeus spots Hestia because... hey, she's right there, and goes over to her, holding his hand out and smiling. "You must be Hestia? I'm Amadeus Cheung. I think we'll be working together." (http://eck.chamelaeon.com/atcdex/index.php5?title=Hestia_Richter has the desc, I don't feel like retyping or copy/pasting.) (You're... exactly my height. What a weird thing to notice.) (is it? e_e/\ ) (QUICK! FUUUU-SION-HA!) ('kay, now I'm scared.) (wtf would a fusion of Amadeus and Hestia even BE like?) (For starters it would have really scary mind control powers.) (And it would be... 5'7".) (Amazing!) * Zeke does also have an ovoid insect-robot on his shoulder as well, its small head looking around and thin silicate wings fluttering slightly. He, himself, has that holoscreen on his front displaying a pale caucasian with brown eyes and black randomly-spiked hair. He slows to a stop in front of the building for a moment, as Amadeus and Hestia meet. * Tomas hops off the bus, waving to the driver, and heads toward the building. He's a little over 6' tall with a strong jaw, a large frame, and shortcut blonde hair and a blonde lumberjack's beard. He's wearing what looks like the loose-fitting, faded blue jacket and pants of the DunnoCorp militiamen, but the DunnoCorp logo looks to have been clumsily pulled out. The pack over his shoulder occassionally let's out a clank as he walks. When he spots the group he waves and smiles big, revealing a quick, dull glint in his mouth. * Hestia turns to watch her cab peel out, spies Amadeus' cab doing the same, and then seems to notice the person standing... right there. An eyebrow goes up, but she shakes his hand anyway... though there's the distinct impression that being touched is not on her list of favorite things to do. "Tia is fine. Cheung... well, you're the other person with a background I wouldn't have expected for this sort of thing." * Lexi arrives by cab. She gets out and pays the driver then gets out with her bag floating behind her. She is relatively thin, fit and attractive. She has short red hair which is fanned out into wide spikes at the neck line. She's wearing a tight T-Shirt which has the letters "LC" on it in large bubble-letters and a frilled skirt that stops about 3 inches above her knees. The other? Who would be the first? * Lexi has a pad and pen floating in front of her and she is writing something idly on it as she looks around. After noticing the group she struts over to them. * Amadeus then spots Lexi and says, "Ah." * Kyle arrives via subway, whistling to himself as he walked from the nearest (likely somewhat distant) stop to the building. He's just under six feet tall, with a solid build, pasty-white skin, very dark blonde hair, and blue eyes. He's pretty normal-looking with nothing really outsanding. He has a backpack on his back, and is obviously using a headputer as he walks over to the building. * Hestia follows Amadeus' gaze, and then flips her sunglasses back down over her eyes, glancing at Lexi. "Not quite what I meant, but it's good to know we'll be safe if any alien cocktails threaten us." * Amadeus chuckles. * Zeke 's insect's head turns to look at the people coming, and then he turns around to face them. The holoface is still fairly neutral as he looks towards everyone. * Kyle smiles and heads over to the assembled once he notices them. When he gets closer he starts talking. "Hey! This where we meeting for the, ahem, business trip?" * Tomas looks at his watch anxiously and spins around watching for their employer to arrive * Amadeus nods to Kyle. "That would be it." Pause and a flick of his eyes that shows he's accessing a headputer. "Kyle Maksimov?" (Spin spin spin!) (Dreidel dreidel dreidel!) * Lexi makes it up to the group and grins. "Hey everyone. You must be the rest of the crew." * Kyle nods. "Yup. And you're Professor Chung, right?" * Zeke regards each person in turn, but doesn't respond. Well, okay, who are you going to mistake him for? * Amadeus smiles with a nod, and he pushes up his glasses. "That would be me." so'd any of you manage to find out where we're going first? * Lexi waves to each person and the floating notbook flips shut and returns to the bag behind her along with the pen. (notebook, rather) * Zeke replies to Tomas, without moving, by saying in a slow voice, "There isn't enough information to say, and it is not likely to be named." * Hestia turns her head slowly to look at Zeke. The best she can manage is a raised eyebrow. But boy, is it raised. Not at all, um... *eyetwitch* Tomas. *offers a hand to shake* OH. Hi. I'm Tomas. Kyle, yes? * Lexi shrugs. "Besides. It's way more fun if we don't know before hand, dontcha think?" * Kyle smiles. "Yup." Er. * Amadeus is clearly getting a bit confused by all of the introducing going on, and says to Lexi, "I'm sorry, know what beforehand?" * Kyle slowly looks over the group, and then looks very strangely at the exo-man. "You okay in there?" Where we're going, of course. * Hestia tilts her head up, looking at the sky like someone watching fireworks, little round sunglasses still hiding her eyes. "Naming planets. Oh what fun that will be." * Zeke looks down at Kyle. "I am well." His bird flutters its wings, and he adds, "We simply do not have much to go on. Although it's likely we will be going inside the building." * Lexi looks over to the building. "Hey, you think we should just head inside now?" She doesn't exactly wait for an answer, and instead heads towards the door the bag floating behind her. * Mr_Charles swings the door open wide rather suddenly, a wide grin on his face. "Welcome! Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our first little meeting. I'm gratified to see you've all started to get to know each other." * Lexi jumps a bit when the door flies open. "Hey, Mr. Charles. I was just about to head in to make sure this was the right place." She smiles. * Mr_Charles moves out of the way and holds the door open. "Indeed it is, Ms. Calhoun. If you'll all head inside, we can get started without any further delay." * Amadeus nods and heads on in, because that is so the thing to do. It's important for what we're doing. * Tomas adjusts the pack on his shoulder and walks on in * Lexi heads on into the building along with the rest of them. * Hestia heads inside! Mainly because after seeing the BOX the ship is going to be... amusing. <> * Kyle walks in! * Zeke's robot turns around to look over at Mr. Charles, then he turns around as well. He waits for other people to enter before following, twisting the case his back arm is holding so that it goes through the door. (the building....is the ship!) * Mr_Charles lets the door close when the group is all through, and takes over the job of leading. "I've taken the liberty of renting a conference room in this facility for our use for the day. If any of you are thirsty, there's coffee and water available, or I'm told there's a DunnoCola machine on the far side of the building." * Lexi nods. "So when do we take off?" A grin flashes onto her face and her eyes seem to brighten at the prospect. Eager to get into space, aren't you Lexi? * Mr_Charles smiles. "As soon as possible, but there are things to take care of first." He heads through a door into a smaller room, which has been set up with fairly comfortable-looking chairs - at the back of it is the promised coffee and water. There are several cloth-covered objects at the front of the room. (AFK a brief second) * Lexi shrugs to Kyle. "Aren't we all?" * Hestia waves a hand at that. "Oh, I'm sure it will be interesting, but flying off into the dark without a compass isn't something you just leap right into." * Lexi chuckles. "Maybe it's not something YOU leap right into." * Kyle grins. "A 'bit, I want to see what we're going up *in* first, though." * Hestia glances at Lexi with a vaguely perplexed look. "...yes?" * Amadeus brightens at seeing those objects, and his pace quickens as he enters that room and claims one of those comfortable seats. * Lexi takes a seat as well and leans back in her chair. * Tomas eyes the objects and snags a seat, "I've been waiting for an opportunity like this for years" Amazing, isn't it? * Kyle heads into the room and snags a seat. Next to Lexi. * Mr_Charles heads up to the front of the room and turns around. "Let me be the first to congratulate you all on becoming chainjumpers! Yes, it's certainly very exciting, isn't it? The thought of all that unexplored something out there." * Zeke again heads in last, and sets down his case slowly before sitting on it. The third arm, now free, comes up to grab the bird on his shoulder and move it to the other shoulder. His face switches to an interested look as he stares straight at Mr. Charles. * Amadeus blinks at Charles and shakes his head. Unexplored something? (It doesn't make sense to call it unexplored nothing, now does it?) (I want to explore something, not nothing) (Amadeus: "I thought we were playing Donkey Kong Jr. :(") (I DID. omg.) * Hestia has a seat, finally taking off the stupid sunglasses because she's indoors and it's getting hard to see. I must stress that even if you've signed the contract and returned it to me, you're not yet locked into this venture. I'm not here to force anyone out into the galaxy; we're all here for various reasons, but it's important - to me and to my company - that we're all here of our own will. * Mr_Charles looks at Lexi for a second. "More or less, of course." Now, I'm fairly certain I covered the basic mechanics of the profit process with most of you, yes? (It's fine. I need to find the power stars anyway.) * Zeke's holoface nods slightly, as the rest of him remains unmoving. Well, except the twitchy robot birdsect. * Amadeus nods, looking unconcerned about that. Yup. * Lexi nods. "Yeah." Good, good, glad to hear I was on the ball. (Good god, they still play Enzyte commercials?) * Hestia seems content to listen to Charles, folding one leg over the other and leaning back in her chair. A datapad comes out of the satchel at her side, and she occasionally glances at it but doesn't tap on it or anything of the sort. * Mr_Charles paces slowly at the front of the room, keeping fairly active with his hands. "Then let me start off by introducing myself. You all know me as Mr. Charles, but I'd like you all to call me by my first name, Preston. It's my job to be your friend, but I can honestly say that even without the monetary incentive I'd like to be friends with each and every one of you, and I encourage you to think of me as your friend." * Lexi shrugs and smiles. "Sure thing, Preston." * Amadeus looks at Mr. Charles oddly, clearly off guard by that, but doesn't say anything. * Kyle blinks, and shrugs. 'kay Preston. (Tomas pulls out of his pocket a BFF necklace, handing one half to Preston and putting the other half around his own neck) (Man I totally wasn't suspicious until he said he wanted to be friends.) (I know.) (that's such a lie.) (That's cake and you know it.) If there's something wrong, I'd like to know about it, especially if you think it's preventing you from doing your job. That's my job - I expedite things for you. If there's something wrong with the ship, I'll get it fixed. If you've got a problem with another chainjumper, I want to hear about it. It's that simple. * Lexi telekinetically lifts small hand mirror from her bag and places it behind her head as she fixes her hair idly. "No problem. When do we get to see the ship, anyway?" Soon - it's right outside, as you'd probably guessed. It is not the world's best craft, but if you can manage several successful missions I'll have a good case at getting you a better one. * Hestia smiles faintly. "Well, there's a bit of refreshing honesty. I like it." I like that in a boss, really. * Amadeus nods. "As long as it's serviceable and contains the right equipment, you'll hear no objection from me." * Hestia shrugs her shoulders. "Plus if the rivets fall out and it dumps up into the blackness of the void, we're not likely to file a report with HR." Well, I'll take a good look at it, but I'm guessing you already have it at least in spaceworthy shape. True enough, but the paperwork I'd have to file would take the rest of my natural lifespan, and believe me I have a vacation on Io I'm looking forward to. (A volcanic moon. Looking to get a full body tan?) (Lawrence Welk makes sad face at you) (Haha.) (God we're not very quippy so far. GET THIS BOAT MOVING.) (it's a slow boat! You haven't been shot at yet, we're behind ATC1 and 2) (Sorry, I made Amadeus and was super into him, and then it was a month or so, and I kind of forgot. ^^; ) (Yeah, Lexi should be much more energetic than she is. =/ I'm sure I'll be better next week) (The obvious answer is that THIS Amadeus is a Skrull, and you reroll the 'real' one who attacks us next week.) (Clearly!) Well, what're we waiting for then? * Mr_Charles stops pacing by one of the cloth-covered objects. "I should mention that you get first chance at naming plants, animals, and a suggestion on the name for the planets you discover. Unfortunately the stars will retain their existing names or operating numbers." Hey, we can give ones with numbers nicknames, right? You can try, and hope it sticks, but it won't be official. * Mr_Charles puts his hand on the cloth. "But more importantly, what's keeping us from getting started is a hopefully brief glimpse of some of these samples." He pulls up the cloth, and inside is a plant! * Amadeus is so very, very paying attention. * Lexi leans forward to look at the plant. * Hestia is too. She has no intention of being Rick Moranis. <> * Amadeus raises his glasses and rubs at his eyes briefly, then goes back to looking at the plant. "Astonishing. I've never seen anything like it." * Tomas sits a little more upright, examining the plant (Is the *plant* glowing, or the case?) * Zeke just regards the plant. (There's a light at the top of the case.) * Amadeus turns his attention to Mr. Charles and asks, unable to hide his eagerness, "May I have a closer look at some point?" This is the LSD Lily. It comes from the third planet orbiting Barnard's Star - a red dwarf not so far from good old Sol itself. Getting closer every year, actually. The first chainjumpers to make it there loved these things - figured they'd be the next big hit among florists. Of course, Amadeus. (When friends, you use first names!) (*pouts* You put the glass there on purpose, didn't you?) * Amadeus nods and goes back to peering at the flower. * Mr_Charles gestures, and the lights turn out. What actually happens, though, is the petals of the flower glow an eerie purple, and every white object in the room glows the same color. This thing is like a portable blacklight. * Hestia raises an eyebrow. She's already wearing black and purple, so this makes her look... really interesting in this light. "So much safer than the image 'LSD Flower' conjured." * Lexi widens her eyes. "That is so schway. I want one." "Beautiful, isn't it? Unfortunately it releases a very powerful hallucinogen twice in its planet's daily - hence the name. Not exactly what you want to send a bouquet of to Granny." ....now I REALLY want one. Man, that's gotta get you really high. Which would be exactly why you shouldn't have one. You're never any fun. Unless we get you talking about socioeconomic principals, that is. * Lexi waves off Amadeus' comment. "Bah. You're no fun." Yes, I get that from my students a lo- wait. * Amadeus goes back to eyeing Kyle. * Hestia crosses her arms over her (reasonably ample, making it an interesting sight) chest. "I'm a big fan of lucidity, myself." (Not that he ever was eyeing Kyle, I realize, but eh.) * Kyle grins. * Zeke nods slowly, face glowing in the darkness as well. (I should really just hueshift a pic of Venus.) * Mr_Charles gestures again and the lights flick on. "Better living through chemistry aside, not everything dangerous is going to have teeth or stripes." He moves over to the next cloth and pulls it off, revealing a tiny furred creature that reacts to the sudden light by immediately shedding all of its fur into a lump at the bottom of the cage. * Amadeus flicks his eyes in that headputery way, eyes Kyle again, and then gets very distracted by the furry creature thing. This little fellow comes from the single planet of the Alpha Centauri binary star system. They don't like shocks very much, but watch this... * Hestia does not look thrilled to hear 'watch this' follow 'don't like shocks'. * Mr_Charles slips a tiny pressed disk of something into the cage. The creature catches it, and devours it... within seconds hair has started growing again, and by half a minute it is again furred. When it has hair on, it looks a lot like a lemur. What was the disk? * Lexi nods. "Good question." That's... really cute. And disturbing. A type of kelp that grows in the shallow lakes there. It's just its favorite kind of food. oh, the hair growth was his work * Amadeus nods. As you may have guessed, the genes in this creature are incalculably valuable to men with male pattern baldness. You may snicker, but that kind of thing is exactly what my company is looking for - things everyone else is going to overlook as being too "cute" or "obvious" to capitalize on. Yeah, it's got, like... rogaine or something. Regrows hair really damn fast. * Mr_Charles moves to the third object and uncovers it. Inside a case is a piece of technology - it doesn't look human, and it doesn't look quite sleythin either, for those of you who've had any experience with it. "This, my friends... this is the third type of thing we're looking for." After planets and interesting genetics. * Lexi looks more closely. "What is it?" None of the boys at the lab have a clue. It's some sort of alien device, scavenged off a planet. * Hestia does seem a little more interested when it comes down to technology, sitting up a little. Apparently Amadeus isn't the only one with an area of specialization resulting in otaku attention! * Zeke also shifts forward slightly. The bird leans forward on his shoulder as well. * Amadeus looks curious, but not as interested as he was concerning the fuzzy guy or the LSD plant. * Kyle huhs. "Aliens other than Sleythin, huh?" * Tomas looks at Kyle, "That's not Sleythin tech?" Indeed. Any information or devices you can back may prove to quite literally be invaluable, especially if you can figure out what they do without putting yourselves at too much risk. * Hestia waves a hand. "According to the lizards, there's plenty of planets out there that had technologically advanced civilizations, before the Bugs blew them to bits. At least, that's what I was told," she finishes, raising an eyebrow at Charles for confirmation. * Zeke looks over at Hestia, then back to the tech before adding, "The Sleythin were not known to expand, as well." Oh, that's pretty cool. * Hestia glances at Zeke, then leans back in her chair, crossing her arms behind her head. "History's not exactly my strong suit." * Mr_Charles nods to Hestia, and then Zeke. "Between the Bugs, possible trans-species migration, or from not getting lucky like we did and blowing themselves up before escaping their planet.... there are plenty of ways for a species to have exterminated itself." (Why do I not have anything but water to drink. I am dying here.) (Water is good.) (So is this tiramisu. *munch*) * Amadeus nods, following the conversation but not really having anything to offer on that front. * Lexi finishes fixing her hair and the mirror floats back into the bag. She seems not super interested in the weird thing that apparantly does nothing. "So... if that's all can we see the ship?" So plants, animals, and tech. What about rocks and planets and stuff? (Man, I am typoing like crazy today. I'm still not entirely awake, though.) First I'd like to make sure no one has any questions, Alexis, and then we can explore the... ah yes. Geological surveys are part of the mandatory information for the Galactic Registry, or as you're likely to hear me call it, GalReg. Registering the planet under my company means we get first crack at both mineral rights and colonization, neither of which are small apples. That's reasonable. Just make sure you let us know which samples we need once reaching a planet so we can check them off of the list. Speaking of which, who *is* your company? * Zeke looks at Amadeus in an odd fashion, his holoface actually tilting to the side. "Why would we know which samples are needed until we examine the geology ourselves?" Several of your teammates have already asked, Tomas, but the truth is I'm not quite at liberty to say. I can prove we exist, and your paychecks will hopefully be convincing enough. * Lexi shakes her head. "Lexi, please. Lexi." I'm sorry. Lexi, then. * Amadeus turns to the hologuy and says, "I'm sorry, I meant which tests we need to run. I misspoke." Considering the competition, there's good reasons to be a little secretive about this, one would think. * Zeke's face re-rights itself and he nods just slightly. His birdbot continues to eye Amadeus as he looks off towards the conversation of secrets. Precisely. I hope at some point I'll no longer have to dissemble, but at the moment it's just necessary. Are there any other questions, before we go explore the ship? Yeah. Oh, no questions for me, you got mine. Not at the moment. * Lexi shakes her head and grins. "Nope. Let's see it." * Mr_Charles starts walking towards the door. "You all should have my contact info, if you think of anything else while you're still in range of the comm satellites, please do let me know." * Hestia packs up her things, which as far as she's concerned says enough that she's ready to get a move on. * Lexi stands up and walks towards the door; her bag follows her. * Zeke rises from sitting on his metal case, and that third arm reaches down to grab it up again. "Are your examples simply samples, or were you intending on us to examine the technological one?" * Amadeus stands and leaves, though he does pause to get a better look at that plant and lemur thing on his way out. You can take a look at it later if you like, Zeke, but for today they were mostly examples. * Mr_Charles leads the group out the door and into the ships, ignoring the sometimes sullen stares of the workers as he rambles about other various things. * Zeke's face turns into a frown for a second, and then goes neutral as he waits for the others to, once again, go out before he tromps along. * Kyle gets up. "Let's see the crate then." * Tomas hops up and follows the crew out ( >:( ) * Kyle heads out. (Zeke is totally a walking emoticon) (He is the TV emoticon face guy from Run From The Future) YES (Er, YES) (OH SHIT THE NPCS CAN HEAR OOC COMMENTS.) (HAHA, SECRET IS OUT oh wait) (Now we know what happened to Koez. She got emo after all our bitching and killed herself.) (*dies*) (Where did you hide that pic of the ship, Todd?) (Sec.) (http://www.chaoticblue.com/misc/salyut.jpg, I think.) (I am unpleased. X|) * Hestia watches Zeke as she walks, but heads along with the group. * Mr_Charles stops in front of an average-sized ship, which UNSHOCKINGLY resembles the pic Todd just linked to! ... in most respects. It's not nearly as smooth-looking, and it's quite clear that a lot of the recent bodywork was done without actual consideration to the final look of the ship. It's made of multiply colored panels, but thankfully at least most of it is unpainted plasteel color. There's a registration number on all four sides of the front nose.>> There she is, your home away from home. * Lexi tilts her head and frowns a bit then shrugs. "It'll do." * Amadeus looks it over, but clearly this is not his area of expertise. <> * Hestia walks up and raps a knuckle on the hull. Presuming that the ship doesn't crumble to dust instantly, she nods once. "It's not pretty, but sufficiently sturdy things rarely are." She turns to Charles. "State of the art computer systems, or close to it, I hope." <> * Zeke's insect flutters its wings once, and then once it's clear where they're going, picks up off of his shoulder as it goes to look around the ship. It doesn't buzz, but it does hum. * Mr_Charles nods. "Very advanced. The navigation calculations when taking the spin of the galaxy and the expansion of spacetime into account are rather tricky to do, I'm told." * Lexi nods. "Nice. So... can we go inside?" aye, I want to see my galley * Kyle stretches and starts looking over the ship, using his headputer and peering closely at the ship. "Hull's well setup enough. Definetly spaceworthy." If you look closely, his features change slightly as he looks around the ship. More... asian-like. * Hestia can't help but turn to Tomas and raise an eyebrow. The best she can say is, "...galley." * Amadeus ignores the others, taking a walk around the ship and looking at it carefully. Of course we can go in. * Tomas truns to Tia and smiles, "I've been working on my spaceship-talk. That's the kitchen" (:D) (=D) * Mr_Charles walks up to the ship and handprints near the hatch, which folds down into a stairway up. * Lexi nods and grins. She rushes towards the stairs and ascends them. * Hestia can't help but smirk a little at that, firing back "Yes... it is," before following Charles and Lexi into the ship. * Amadeus will head up the stairway when he's done walking. It's a pretty long walk! * Kyle heads into the ship and starts looking around. Is there a bar? Tell me there's a bar! * Tomas heads in, seeking out the "galley" * Zeke moves into the ship as well, carrying his case in if he can. It's good to go places. (sorry, had to afk a sec) (we didn't decide on an internal layout, did we?) (It's a hamster tube layout, I believe) (... really?) (No.) (I'll produce logs after the session confirming so!) (Someone punch Ogles) (From what I recall the flight deck is the middle of the ship with crew quarters and lounge/galley, cargo and lab space are on the bottom deck with the cargo ramp, and the bridge is the top deck. There's either ladders or stairs, I forget which, in the center of the ship.) (And the engine room is in the far aft on the flight deck.) <> * Mr_Charles points. "Through that door is the cargo area, and a small lab space." He starts up the ladder. "Up here, of course, are your quarters, and the galley and commons area." (Did we keep luxuriant interior?) We're totally going to need to fix this up. (No) * Amadeus heads up the stairs and looks around, then asks Mr. Charles, "Where is the lab space again?" (Say what you like about Vernon and Tim, they know how to pimp a ride) (They had more money than we do.) (Anyhow once we get the condor ship from Cities of Gold this will be irrelevant.) In an room off the cargo area, doctor. For easy access to samples and the like. (NO SHUT UP) (Ha ha ha ha ha ha.) (NOW YOU HAVE TO DRIVE HERE AND SING SOMETHING TO GET THE THEME OUT OF MY HEAD) (At least our ship is a bit more ship-shaped) (Only out of sheer necessity.) * Hestia gives Amadeus a tight smile. "Should we just set you up a cot here now, and use your quarters for storage space?" * Mr_Charles reaches the top of the ladder and gestures, probably oblivious to Hestia's comment. "This is the commons area. Back there is the galley, and down that way the engine room. Towards the fore are the crew quarters." (Oh right, the map room is on this deck too. Ahaha.) (I meant to draw a map but I was too lazy to buy graph paper.) <> (I could get around to it.) (It's in the nose, at the end of the hallway where the quarters are, anyway.) (YES) (*nod* That was where I guessed at it being.) (We can all watch you work.) * Amadeus grins at Hestia. "Tempting, but I like to pretend I'm not actually *that* much of a geek." * Zeke looks around slowly as he moves through the ship. * Lexi follows Mr. Charles. "Where's the flight deck?" * Tomas heads into the galley, "Very nice." "Oh! Good." "ooo, I didn't expect a junker like this to have---OH, that'll be convenient too" <> * Hestia watches Tomas go, raising an eyebrow. "Takes all kinds. Amazing." * Tomas returns to the common area, "I think I can make the galley he's given us work." <> * Lexi heads up to the bridge to have a look around. "Ah. This is going to be fun." <> * Hestia follows into the bridge, seemingly more concerned with the computer systems and monitoring stations. She runs her fingers across a few of the controls, just brushing them with her fingertips, and glances around like she's looking for something. (Okay, we can do one of two things here. If people would like to RP a little more we can reconvene in the commons room, and Mr Charles plus anyone who's tired can quit for the evening. Otherwise we can finish up any outstanding questions about the ship and close for the week.) (Either's fine with me.) (Think I'll pass on the extra roleplay. I'm just having trouble getting into it. ^^; So more roleplay likely won't help me on that front atm. It's been a rough series of days, and I'm rusty from having spent so long from creating Amadeus in general.) (I actually vote for option B. I think I could use a week to get reaquainted with Lexi before I try and play her anymore like this. I think any more RP at this point wouldn't really be up to snuff from me) (I won't deny I'm rusty at the GMing, so. Also, TIREDZOMG, I have been asleep before 10 every night this week) (I'm freakin' tired at the moment. ^^;) (I expect things will pick up when we're not expositing.) (yeah. Okay, option B. Any other ship questions?) (How are the quarters?) (Can I get a brief description of the bridge?) (They covered both my questions.) (Can I fit my big robot butt in the thing reasonably well? With the case? If I had the drones attached?) (I dun have questions.) <> <> <> <> (That cover it?) (We never chose a name. We'll have to do that next week) (Yup, thanks!) <> <> <>