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

[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."