I'm over the moon

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: Arriving on The Liberator and preparing for battle
When: Today, from 9AM to 3PM
Where: SPAAAACE
Summary: The draftees are in space! On a ship! IN SPACE! SPACE!
Rating: SPACE

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!

But no really. The draftees are in space. The mod post about it is here, so familiarize yourself with the details. This log is for general interactions, where you can tag around as your characters familiarize themselves with the ship, look out the windows, try on their space suits, and run simulations for the Tyr-Fighters. (Among other things.)

Specialist Davis can be encountered and will have a thread available on the log to talk to him on.

Comments

[knightofratatosk]

Whoa!

[Emil is a little surprised to be climbed on like that, but she's a kid so he can't get too annoyed, and besides, he's too happy for anything to bother him right now.

And from the looks of things, Yotsuba is every bit as excited about this as he is, which just makes him smile more.]

I can't believe we're really here! I didn't think I'd ever get to see space for myself while I was in Luceti.

[rollypolyclover]

Yotsuba can't believe it either, this is the stuff dreams are made out of! Dreams and space.

[What's more she might even be shaking a little from all the excitement. Who cares about the battle, war related such-and-such when you are five years old and in space.

But still, this situation is meant to be all serious and stuff, so Yotsuba takes a moment to smack Emil on the head.]

Don't get too excited Emil, this is super serious! Read the atmosphere!

[knightofratatosk]

[WELL THAT SMACK STARTLES HIM.]

Oww! What was that for?

[Then the whole 'five years old and in space' thing finally occurs to him and he blinks, tilting his head with a confused expression. Are the Malnosso really that desperate?]

Wait a minute, what are you doing here? I mean, you're just a kid, so why are you on a draft?

[rollypolyclover]

[Huh. Good question. Allow her to think about this.]

Yotsuba's name was on that list with lots of other names so Yotsuba had to come. Yotsuba got picked to come to space!

[And then somehow she takes offense to that and starts shouting.]

Kids can be on drafts too!! They just have to stay away from the bad strangers!!

[knightofratatosk]

They picked you to come fight? Wow, and I thought even the Malnosso weren't that cruel...

-- h-hey, wait, I didn't mean...! You should be fine as long as you don't get involved in the fighting. Just stay somewhere safe, okay?

[rollypolyclover]

Everyone has been telling Yotsuba the same thing.

[Kids these days get no respect. She's a full five years old, she knows well enough to stay out the way.]

Yotsuba can't do any fighting. I can't even make the wind go whoosh like Elicia can. These are some very dark times we live in, someone turn on a night light.

[knightofratatosk]

Right... um, anyway, I'm sure there's something else you could do to help even if you can't fight. Maybe you could help carry supplies?

[rollypolyclover]

[GASP!]

Yotsuba can really do that?! I can do something that isn't sitting out of the way and doing nothing even though we're in space?! Wow! [She will carry all the supplies and she will be the best damn supply carrier out there.]

If anyone asks why Yotsuba isn't hiding and staying away Yotsuba will tell them it's Emil's fault.

[knightofratatosk]

I don't see why not-- hey, wait! That's not what I meant! I was just trying to suggest something so you didn't have to feel like you were doing nothing...

Maybe you should just stay out of the way after all.

[rollypolyclover]

... Now Yotsuba has to stay out of the way anyway even though you said I could help carry stuff? Liar. Liars are bad. [Therefore Emil is bad.]

You got my hopes up and now Yotsuba has nothing to do, what do you have to say for yourself young man? Was it worth it?

[knightofratatosk]

What? I don't even know what you're talking about anymore!

[rollypolyclover]

Yotsuba is talking about you lying to me and now Yotsuba has nothing to do and it's all your fault!

[Just for that you're getting demoted from ladder. Yotsuba hops down and lands on the floor.]

... I can't see out of the window now!

[knightofratatosk]

... that's because you climbed down off me.

[What even, Emil is no longer sure.]

[rollypolyclover]

Can I go back up now? Yotsuba wants to see.

[Aaand just like that it's as though she wasn't just accusing Emil of being a dirty liar and everything is sunshine and rainbows again.]

[knightofratatosk]

Huh? Okay, if you want to...

[Um. How does he ladder? Should he just stand still, or should he try to help pick her up?]

[rollypolyclover]

[Picking up works! Being picked up, carried, piggyback rides, it's all good. Plus next to running piggyback rides are her second favourite form of transport.

Buuut she's just as happy to crawl all over the place and make her own way up Emil the human ladder. Both options are appealing for their own reasons.

It's your call Castagnier. Choose wisely.]

[knightofratatosk]

[Let's try picking up, if that's okay! Slightly awkward because he doesn't really know the first thing about kids, but hey, at least he's trying. She can squirm around for a piggyback if that's what she'd prefer.

It's a much better option than playing human ladder, at least.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Picking her up it is! However rather than climbing around like a possessed koala this time Yotsuba just stays there in Emil's arms and waves her hand towards the window.]

Turn around now so Yotsuba can see.

[Congratulations, you have been promoted from ladder to. Little girl holder. Or something.]

[knightofratatosk]

Like this?

[And turning to a better angle so that they can both look out the window now. Emil's a little unsure about his new position as babysitter but he's going to do his best! ... or something.]

[rollypolyclover]

Just like that, stop! You're good at this, Yotsuba can tell.

[Happy nod. And now, back to space viewing. Look at all that nothing. It sure is pretty.]

Hey! Why can't you breathe in space? Why does everyone need helmets? [Legit question, what's up with the helmet thing anyhoo.]

[knightofratatosk]

Huh?

[Emil blinks, having to consider this for a moment.]

I think it's because there's no oxygen in space, or at least that's what I think I remember reading. Since there's no air, you need to have the helmet to keep air inside so that you can breathe it.

[That's not... quite how it works, but he's got the basic idea down, at least!]

[rollypolyclover]

Ohhh, helmets keep the air in. Is oxygen a grown-up word for air? Yotsuba has never heard of that before!

[knightofratatosk]

[He nods.]

Something like that. I think it's just the scientific name for it.

[rollypolyclover]

Ohhh I get it. [Except not really.] What's scientific?

[knightofratatosk]

Scientific? Um, you know... the names they use in science textbooks and things like that.