Crux Fleet NPCs ([personal profile] crux_npcs) wrote in [community profile] crux_fleet2014-03-01 03:32 pm

0004: NEW ARRIVAL BRIEFING

Who: New Arrivals, Graham Baker
Where: Briefing Room
When: Late afternoon, Februaro 30th
Warnings: None

When awakening, you'll find the area you're in to be very busy. The people in the medical ward are polite and understanding, but firmly refuse to answer questions until the briefing. The same goes for the robots in the hangars. Either given hospital outfits resembling very comfortable pajamas, drone bodies, or their own bodies, they are escorted by polite, unyielding people in red and black uniforms to the briefing room.

The Briefing room is large. Not enough to accommodate a Cybertronian, but spacious enough for several dozen people. The chairs are high-backed and well-cushioned, more like comforting eggs floating a foot or so off the ground than anything else. A half completed, but still functional, holographic display is settled into the floor, showing a slowly rotating pyramid.

A few Security personnel, dressed in their red and black uniforms, stand at ease in the rooms in strategic areas. They seem fairly relaxed. One man stands at the head. Graham Baker, a middle-aged man, showing the first signs of balding and wearing a rumpled business suit perhaps a size too large, nervously clasps his hands together and smiles.

[Questions to the NPCs will go in the briefing thread. The rest of the post is there for people to mill about and do whatever with. The mods will not be doing hangar/medical awakenings unless it's specifically asked for.]
totallytrustworthy: (and all your troubles in the dark)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2014-03-02 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Hardly comfortable despite the cushion her chair provides, Chloe's half-tucked away at awkward angles (mostly elbows and knees) when she scoffs out a mild dose of skepticism. Far from anything harsh, it's been a long bloody morning far from anything even remotely familiar; she's not a happy camper.

"Sorry, I just-- you're in the middle of a war, yeah?" Her hand's raised, index finger crooked just slightly as if calling dibs on talking time during class. "So what you really mean is your greatest minds are busy working on getting your travel problem working as intended while our trips home get the knockoff teams."
totallytrustworthy: (and the dark is roaming)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2014-03-02 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
"All right." Not exactly, but it's a segue at least as she slouches back against the rear curve of the seat, edge of her mouth pulling slightly. Regardless of how she might feel at the moment, she's not here to piss on his parade.

Much.

"What sort of man are you, then?"
totallytrustworthy: (wtf is wrong with you)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2014-03-02 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
It wins him an earnest grin before there's a sharp drop off into-- "Flesh mongers." and the appropriately bothered expression that comes along with it. Naturally. Jesus Christ.
totallytrustworthy: (MP I spit on my nailclippers)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2014-03-02 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm, I can imagine given how civilized we all are." Diplomacy: easily managed via digs at oneself. But it's apparent that's as much of a nuisance as she cares to be for the moment before she's tucked one ankle under her other leg, settling in to grant him a bit of freedom from the conversation they've been having if he feels like taking it.

Spared sympathy for anxiety and all that.
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[personal profile] crux_mods 2014-03-02 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A great deal more civilized than they'd expected. Why, he'd even managed to convince Fleet Command to remove the hidden flamethrower turrets from the room last week!

He gives her another shaky smile and, when it seemed like she wasn't going to ask anything else, nods thankfully and moves on.
law_and_order: (Jonathan: uh oh)

Re: THE BRIEFING

[personal profile] law_and_order 2014-03-02 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Jonathan just looked lost. But he was trying!

"I gather from your explanation, sir, that we are not in Tokyo any longer. But I do not comprehend how we can be on a "ship", as you say. And what is a "galaxy"?"

Was thing being who had brought them here actually the White? Was this yet another world they wanted him to see?
Edited 2014-03-02 13:49 (UTC)
law_and_order: (Jonathan: sky)

[personal profile] law_and_order 2014-03-02 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's Maybelline

Jonathan wasn't quite sure where this was going, but he answered gamely enough. "If it is the stars you seek, they are plain for all to see on a cloudless night. Though it has been a while since I gazed on them myself."

Ah, memories of fonder times. Had it really been such a short time since he'd looked out on his own country from the castle walls?
law_and_order: (Jonathan: serious)

[personal profile] law_and_order 2014-03-04 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"You are saying that the stars are not really stars." Honestly, this all sounded crazier and crazier to Jonathan. And he could barely wrap his head over even a million miles.

"Then according to you, we are some insurmountable distance from 'Earth'? Do no Terminals exist here?"
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[personal profile] law_and_order 2014-03-05 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you for you apology," said Jonathan (who still didn't really get it, lbr). He gave Graham an earnest smile.

"But you did nothing wrong. You were merely trying to protect your home. It is unfortunate that things did not go as planned, of course. But if there is any way I might assist you in speeding along the process of our return, please let me know."

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[personal profile] strawberry_science 2014-03-02 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yumemi could barely make it through the entire orientation without wanting to roll her eyes or take a nap, though a few select portions of the briefing managed to catch her attention enough. When the man finished she took some time to consider the drastic situation and formulate her first question.

Then, rather than raise her hand, or otherwise try to get his attention, Yumemi simply stood up and raised her voice so as to be heard.

"How many of your greatest minds perished during that experiment?" There was no mocking therein, but it's still a morbid question. She crosses her arms, feeling not entire comfortable in the given clothes. The white robe just makes her long, blazing red hair and matching eyes stand out all the more.
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[personal profile] strawberry_science 2014-03-03 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
She just wants information. Sadly for others, she often ends up trampling on people's feelings to get that information. "Five hundred is a lot of people to trust with ensuring a breakthrough happens without a hitch. What was the small-scale test like? What went wrong?"

While she asked, she took a look around the room to see if there were any familiar faces. It's both convenient that she found none, and extremely disappointing. Where is Chiyuri when things needed fetching?
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[personal profile] strawberry_science 2014-03-03 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Professor," she corrected, though she did not take her eyes off of the hologram. There's a lot going on behind her eyes so her words come out distracted; kind of like telling someone that yes, popcorn would be fine, but please shut up this is the good part!!

—and then she plants the palm of her hand firmly against her forehead, her next words starting as a mumble up until the point she actually faces him properly once more. "This is a mess what year is it?"
strawberry_science: (cross † unlimited supply)

[personal profile] strawberry_science 2014-03-03 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
"That tells me enough." Enough to give her a small headache. It's one thing to land herself mostly-accidentally in a magical land where technology did not flourish because that happened to be precisely what she had wanted to happen all along!

But in this place, with this level of scientific development, and with supposedly no way out...

Wait.

"Since no one sought me out specifically when I regained consciousness, I'm guessing none of you have taken a look inside my ship just yet. Normally I'd like say this was a good thing, but since it would be answer to your dilemma I'm actually disappointed."

Of course, Yumemi has no idea that she arrived with nothing more than what was on her person.

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