Opening Phase (backdated to Fairy Park)

[emorangerpink]

1.
[Late on the last evening before the Chalice departs from Fairy Park, a new face appears aboard - a pale, petite young woman with long red hair and the look of someone who isn't sure where they're supposed to be headed but doesn't want to admit it. It doesn't help that she appears to be steering around whatever concentrations of people exist at this hour, with the side effect of routing her away from most interesting locations. After a while of fruitless wandering on the Promenade, she gives up and hesitantly approaches the nearest person.]

Um, hello... I'm new aboard, and I need to see the captain, or whoever's in charge... do you know where I can find them?

Ah, I'm Laura, Laura Ericks. I'm here to join the crew, so I guess that means we'll be teammates - it's nice to meet you.

[Her left hand is tightly grasping a sealed envelope, while her right fidgets with a metal wristwatch on her left arm. Is this girl afraid of you, or just afraid of everything?

Laura's looking for the Captain - does she turn to you for help, or do you run in to her on her way there?]

2.
Hello... Dan?

[Laura pokes at the terminal uncertainly - she knows how to use a terminal, but not where a ship's AI might be found on one.]

Comments

[mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com]

Laura...!? Is that really you?

[emorangerpink]

Frank!?

Wh- I didn't know you were aboard! What have - I mean -

[Laura gives up and glomps Frank hard, burying her face against his front. You wouldn't think to look at her that she'd have the strength to make much impact on a trained soldier, but Frank may quickly find it difficult to breathe.]

[mydutyisnotover.livejournal.com]

[Frank can survive that crushing bear hug for a while. He doesn't want to break it and take away from Laura the comfort she clearly needs.]

Yes. A lot of other people from SECT are here too. Including her.

[bakaribbon.livejournal.com]

[Well, avoiding people is all well and good, but this girl here is aggressively friendly. She'll be coming up after a while, whether Laura needs direction or not.]

Huh...do I know you...?

[emorangerpink]

I don't think so... I haven't been here before. Have you heard of SECT? If you know anything about them you might have seen something about me there. I'm not sure how well known we are, though...

If we have met I'm very sorry for not remembering. Er... you are?

Oh god how could I forget this

[bakaribbon.livejournal.com]

Oh...I'm Amami. Haruka Amami. I pilot Imber, the iDol.

...SECT...Devon worked with them, right? But...I heard that they all died...

[roarofliger.livejournal.com]

[Laura's avoidance brings her to a corridor with a large window, through which Van is looking down at Fairy Park. But even Van can hear pronounced nervous shuffling from behind him. After Laura's introduction:]

I'm Van Flyheight. Nice to meet you too. You said you were looking for the Captain?

[emorangerpink]

Yes - or whoever's in charge of new people. I think they should know I was coming but it's hard to be sure, so I'm supposed to give them a letter and make sure it's all right to come aboard and all that. Do you know where to find them?

[roarofliger.livejournal.com]

[A frown.] I do, but... the Captain's not all there. You're about as likely to get hit with a golf ball if you go in there. [He seems concerned.] You look... a little light to take a hit like that.

[zetahatsudo.livejournal.com]

[Said person is lying on a beach chair, sipping a fruity drink in from a straw and in full on island-vacation regalia. There's also a wheelchair nearby.]

Laura, huh? Well, Laura, I'm Kamille Bidan, one of the Mobile Suit Pilots aboard the ship, and I look forward to working with you.

... Though I think you're better off not dealing with the Captain, the man's not in his right mind.

[emorangerpink]

A pilot, really? And you don't look much - I mean, you look younger than me; that's really impressive...

Not in his right mind-! What do you mean? Is there something wrong?

As per our OOC talk

[emorangerblack.livejournal.com]

[It's inevitable that sooner or later, Laura will locate Devon and the cell she's currently in. And when she enters into the prisoner's field of view...]

...

[Devon just stares and says nothing. But you never saw her stand so ideally still and motionless before. Almost like if she was frozen in shock or something like that.]

Re: As per our OOC talk

[emorangerpink]

[Laura fidgets nervously. She waited until the next day to settle in and figure the ship out before visiting Devon, and she knew who she'd be running in to, so the surprise factor is much lower for her... but that doesn't make her any less nervous.]

...Hello, Devon. Ummm...

[Laura looks around the brig - it's not an environment conducive to polite small talk.]

...Are you doing okay?

[thestrayhawk.livejournal.com]

[Due to Ichitaka having his head in the clouds, he pretty much just nearly crashed right into you while turning a corner of a hallway.]

AH SORRY.

[emorangerpink]

Eeek!

[Laura jumps back a pace, not very gracefully, and takes a moment to regain her balance. Her grip on the watch on her wrist is white-knuckle tight.]

Ah - I'm sorry - I wasn't paying enough attention!

[hobo_lantern]

A small black robot coolly look at you, before looking aside and reaching out for a handshake with one hand on his hips like... you think he's attempting to act like cool guy or something? you're not sure.

[emorangerpink]

Hello there!

[Laura crouches down to nearer the robot's height, being careful with her dress as she does so, and gingerly takes its hand.]

Are you part of the crew or part of the ship? Can you talk? I'm Laura. Do you have a name?

[lightning-1.livejournal.com]

The captain? Well he is this way, just follow me. My name is Fate Testarossa.

[emorangerpink]

Thank you!

Ah... what do you do on the ship, Miss Testarossa?

On the way out from Devon's Cell

[subject-0057.livejournal.com]

[A young man with a tray of base rations pauses as the newcomer passes on the way out from the brig. The single grey eye follows her as she approaches; there's something oddly familiar about her presence, though he knows he's never seen her before.]

... Are you a friend of Devon's?

[emorangerpink]

...Yes, I am.

I guess we haven't met... I'm Laura. I just came aboard.

Is that... are you bringing her food?

[chozo_girl]

[Laura runs into Samus in her walking around the corridors. Because Laura's life apparently just didn't have enough intimidating blonde women yet]

Do you want to see the captain, or do you want to see someone in charge? The answer will be different depending. [Samus is expressionlessly deadpan yet very obviously calm and peaceful, as usual]

[emorangerpink]

Well... I have to see someone in charge in order to find out whether I can stay and what the arrangements are. And I'm supposed to give a letter to the captain as part of coming aboard. So I might need to do both, unless whoever besides the captain who's in charge can handle the formalities as well as the practical stuff.

[Huh. For all her intimidating deadpan it seems the straightforwardness of Samus' question has grounded Laura's nervousness a bit.]

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[srwuga_mods]

Well hello!

[There's Dan, his face taking up the whole screen.]

[emorangerpink]

Oh, hello!

I was supposed to talk to the captain, but everyone seemed to think I should talk to you instead. Er, to report aboard. Mr. Dantoinne should have been in touch already but I have this letter to confirm it. And if there's anything I need to know or watch out for...