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: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[zuhrovet]

"Oh, you don't want everything to be a game?" Sasha's grin widens. "I used to work with a lot of kids who had failed the exams for Shuos Academy, or didn't stick it after the first year. It's a hazard of independent security analysis. Some of them were reasonable once you gave them a win condition other than collecting imaginary tokens, but I was so grateful when I got people who had gotten into grid-diving by some other route."

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[kese_seyli]

"I might be more inclined to throw myself out an airlock than playing useless games. I like practical, hands on teaching." A brief pause. "Fuck, are you a Shuos? How many Shuos will I be dealing with, and is it too late for me to space myself?"

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[zuhrovet]

"Fuck, no." Sasha's finishing her second tequila, which might be why she gives the medium-long version: "I took the Nirai exams, but they asked me to prove something that wasn't true in characteristic seven, and it turns out a page and a half of 'what the fuck were you thinking' isn't a passing grade. So then I had to get a day job. About the Shuos, there were two on our last mission, probably three on this one. If you have to space someone, I recommend starting with Mishka; he's the teenager."

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[kese_seyli]

Seyli nods, like they know what the hell Sasha's talking about in regards to characteristic seven, whatever it was, it certainly left an impression in her mind. At least she's not a fucking fox. "A teenager?" Their eyebrows shoot up again and they glace back toward the woman with the flowers. "Another teenager? I clearly should have asked more questions before I signed on," they say, with a huffing little laugh.

Re: let's have a sensible conversation about maps

[zuhrovet]

"Yeah, we've got a tiny foxling who doesn't know the meaning of fear. With luck, one of the adult foxes will get stuck with the babysitting." Sasha shrugs. "I don't know if you see traveling in time as an advantage? I think that's worth the price of admission, most days. But maybe it's different if this is your past, and not your future."

[If you want to start a new thread, so we're not quite as far sideways, I'll follow you!]