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

Sorry for the delay.

[blackflames]

[No, he can't. The fact that he can't swim is moot, but his weight still might be enough to break the table. Instead of joining her, he pantomimes blowing a whistle while displaying a whistle on his screen. Hopefully, that will be enough to tell her he's being a life guard.]

No worries!

[rollypolyclover]

[Blink. Oh yes, she knows what a life guard is. But Canti doesn't have a big chair to sit in so the entire image is ruining.

That's a nice looking whistle though!

Yotsuba flops over onto her side so she can stare at the screen whilst waving one arm and leg in the air as though she's still swimming. This is a new kind of swimming, the Yotsustroke.]

There's a whistle on your face.

[blackflames]

[Yes. Yes there is. He nods his concession to that fact. Said whistle vanishes a moment later, because even in space it's important to preserve power and prevent burn-in. Because there are few things more awkward than having a whistle emblazoned on your face for all eternity.]

[rollypolyclover]

[And now it's gone. Well that's interesting. Since her arm is getting tired she rests it down on the table whilst her leg keeps kicking. This still counts as swimming.]

Ohhh, can you do other stuff too? Yotsuba wants to see a cicada.

[blackflames]

[Cicada? How oddly specific. But he knows what they look like, so yes. He can do that. This appears on his display.]

[rollypolyclover]

Cicada!!

[This makes her very happy. Spinning in the table she shuffles over and pushes her face right up to his screen and stares at the cicada on screen.]

It's a cicada, whoaaah!

[blackflames]

[That can't be good for her eyes. For that reason, Canti backs off slightly. Once he's regained his personal space, he extends one hand in a "stay back" gesture. Can't have her ruining her vision.]

[rollypolyclover]

[... Okay. She'll stay where she and watch from a safe, less eye damaging distance.

It's like she's watching TV. Expect someone paused the video she was watching and now nothing is happening.]

Press play. Please.

[blackflames]

[Well, he doeas have a good cicada video... only one and it's kind of short, but still. His screen blacks out, and a short video plays.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Cicadaaa. Cicadaaa!]

Bweeeeee! Bwee bweeeeeeee!

[That is her best impression of the sound cicadas make. She even tries timing her own cicada impression with the one on screen.]

Can you hear the cicadas too?! Bweeeeee!

[blackflames]

[He's cheating by looping the video, but it's not that noticeable. At her question, though, he pauses it to nod. Yes, he can hear the cicada. Which is surprising, because he thought his speakers were offline.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Eventually her throat starts to feel sore from all the bwee-ing so she stops her cicada impression for now and settles for just watching the adorable bug in all its cicada glory.

After some time she does end up noticing something about the video.]

Is the cicada going to move?

[It's just sitting there. Making noise. Isn't it going to fly away or bring along more of its cicada friends?]

[blackflames]

[Ah, the one flaw in his plan. How to correct for this... As this loop ends, he freezes the video and shrinks it so it only fills a quarter of the screen.]

That is the end. [Not technically a lie. It's just the sixth time he's shown the end.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Oh, the end.

...

She starts clapping her hands to applaud the cicada, but she feels a little cheaped out since it was just the one cicada.

But at least one cicada was better then no cicada at all!]

Now you bow! Good job Robo Canti!

[blackflames]

[He doesn't have much data on cicadas, or he would have provided a better video. But the applause is still nice! Clearing his screen, Canti stands and takes a bow before sitting down again.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Clapping and bow done with, it's time to move on to the encore.]

Again?! Can Yotsuba see the cicada some more?!

[ :D? ]

[blackflames]

That is my only video. if you do not mind watching it again...

[He restarts the video, ready to loop the same number of times. It's nice that robots record everything.]

[rollypolyclover]

Ohhh okay, Yotsuba will watch again.

[At that she puts her hands in a her pockets for a second and tilts her head.]

No money, can I still watch it again without Yotsuba renting another video? I like cicada videos.

[blackflames]

[The video is playing, so he can't very well nod or communicate with text. Instead, he gives a thumbs-up affirmative. Everything's free here, anyway.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Even after being here for eight months she still sometimes forgets about the whole money thing.

Plus there might have been space money.

But anyway, cicadas! Abububu they're so cute and awesome and she could just sit here and watch this forever. Or take Canti home and use him as a TV.]

[blackflames]

[It stops again after a few more loops, to equal the same number as earlier. Once it's over, he turns his head slightly and looks out the window again. No stars... it's so weird.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Yotsuba tries to turn as Canti does so she can keep looking at the screen, even with the video having stopped. When she realises there's no more cicadas she too looks out the window.

...]

Space! [Yes. That is where they are and have been for some time now.

It's still cool.]

[blackflames]

[... It's unlikely that she only just realized this was space. This is an excellent point to change the topic, however.]

Is this your first time in space?

[rollypolyclover]

[Nodding.]

Never been before, it's new! Space is new!

[blackflames]

[Technically, Canti hasn't been either. Atomsk has. He lived there, in fact. But he's his own person.]

I haven't either. It's interesting.