new player welcome post

[yhlee]

[Hello, new players! This post is for new and old players to get acquainted with each other in-character (IC) and out-of-character (OOC). I will be updating the character roster shortly for easy reference. Characters from the first arc who are still wrapping things up in Move 24, feel free to continue; I'll get to y'all shortly.

In the meantime, feel free to introduce yourself in OOC threads, including any information you want other players to have about you (including pronouns if relevant, or what time zones you're usually on, that kind of thing.]

[IC]
Ashari has just recruited a number of newcomers to the team in the hopes of shoring up its weaknesses and is, in classic Andan fashion, throwing a party on the Cantata (the moth ship formerly known as the Wasp and/or Bumblebee) so that folks can meet-and-greet. There are canapés, and Ashari promised Sulen that there are no recreational substances other than the alcohol if anyone wants it; Ashari is currently in the galley mixing drinks for anyone who asks. The public spaces of the interior have been decorated with somewhat lopsided and overly colorful artificial flowers (the matter printer was feeling cranky) as well as plush moths. There are in addition six friendly levitating baby moths, all wriggly tentacles and eyes, who will gravitate toward anyone who sings to them, and who like to be petted.

For the purposes of this post, "public areas" include the galley, the common room, and the storage hold, which has been temporarily pressed into service as a place where people can hang out. People are also welcome to hold private conversations elsewhere. For the moment, however, the cockpit, engine room, commander's office, and communications room/gunnery are off-limits.

[See this wiki entry on the Cantata-Wasp for more details on its layout.]

Comments

Re: Scoping the Room

[lleullawgyffes]

A foreigner, Virmad realizes, and relaxes. “And what civilization — if I may be so bold as to ask — would that be?”

Re: Scoping the Room

[mafyyil]

Mafyyil doesn't quite understand the question: surely there's only one civilization, although it doesn't surprise her this Barbarian hasn't heard of it. So she only gives Virmad a blank look.

Re: Scoping the Room

[lleullawgyffes]

Virmad raises an eyebrow expectantly, then clarifies, “I mean, where are you from?”

Re: Scoping the Room

[mafyyil]

Mafyyil smiles proudly. "I'm a citizen of the Hafn empire!"

[note on the Hafn for Sulen and Virmad]

[yhlee]

[Note to Sulen and Virmad: the Hafn did exist back in their time and they may well have heard something about them, although people with flowers/whatever growing out of them is new to Cheris's time, so that bit will be unfamiliar. If y'all think that Sulen and Virmad have heard scurrilous and outrageously inaccurate intel on the Hafn, that too would make sense--your call.

I leave you with this bluebonnet, because.]

Re: [note on the Hafn for Sulen and Virmad]

[lleullawgyffes]

[*cackles in Virmad* just you wait]

Re: Scoping the Room

[lleullawgyffes]

“A Hafn?” Virmad abruptly takes a step back, torn between horror and morbid fascination. “I’d heard about the bioengineered human bodies, but I didn’t know they’d be so lifelike. Did it — does it —” He pauses, trying to organize his thoughts. “I’m sorry, I suppose I shouldn’t pry into — what matters is that you’re not a Shuos agent. It’s just that it’s not every day you meet a sentient carnivorous plant.”

Re: Scoping the Room

[venndaai]

Sulen, who has heard absolutely nothing about the Hafn, stares at both of them.

Re: Scoping the Room

[mafyyil]

Mafyyil is surprised: what's a Shuos, and why would this Barbarian think she was one? Very confusing! And while she certainly is plant now, and occasionally eats meat too, she doesn't understand why that would be an issue: some of the canapés offered at this party also contained meat, so surely not all Hexarchate persons are vegetarian? And this thing about bioengineering is just downright offensive.

"Excuse me", she says. "There's no reason to be so rude - I'm not bioengineered! That's an offensive term!"

Re: Scoping the Room

[slybrarian]

"Did someone say sapient carnivorous plant?" Alaric says, meandering over with a plate for of baked deserts. Half of them are the wrong color, because his 'fix' for the the matter printer's color sensors hadn't been as easy to undo as expected. It hasn't stopped him from eating them. "And what's wrong with bioengineering? Very respectable field, bio-engineering, insofar as bio-anything can really be considered respectable."

Re: Scoping the Room

[mafyyil]

Appalled, Mafyyil stares at Alaric. That remark was in really poor taste, and she's now almost convinced these people are trying to bully her. How mean! Still, she decides to give the Barbarian the benefit of the doubt even if she cannot bring herself to actually answer that. It was probably just a rhetorical question, anyway. So she suppresses a sniffle and decides to change the topic. "I see you've been at the matter printer", she remarks instead. "Do you happen to know if there's a manual for these color settings?" She's hoping for one of these nice ones that come in twenty languages and with some instructive pictograms on top. The way the matter printer has been behaving, she'll need it!

Re: Scoping the Room

[slybrarian]

"Oh, there's a manual, sure, but that part's utterly useless. Some previous owner, or possibly someone at the manufacturer, had ideas about appropriate colors for anything child-related, and equally odd ideas about what might be for children. Attempts to change that have been... dubiously successful."

Re: Scoping the Room

[mafyyil]

Of course, this does somehow explain why the thing has so many blueprints for baby pacifiers. (It had been bleeping them out in various shapes and colors whenever Mafyyil, unaccustomed to its interface, had given a command the thing hadn't understood.) It's still not what she'd been expecting from fighters on a mission. These people are not only primitive and rude but also, as far as she can tell, quite unprofessional.

"For children?!?", Mafyyil asks incredulously. "Why do you keep a matter printer for children here? Do you have kids? Did you bring them?"

Re: Scoping the Room

[slybrarian]

"What? No, of course not, we're not the Federal Space Fleet. The rebellion probably got the printer second-hand from a residential station or something. There's no children here," Alaric replied. "Even if I wonder about Mishka sometimes. Oh, and there are the mothinglings, but they're part of a package deal and live in space anyway. So technically yes we have a bunch of kids along."