Crux Fleet NPCs ([personal profile] crux_npcs) wrote in [community profile] crux_fleet2014-04-01 02:35 pm

0006: NEW ARRIVAL BRIEFING

Who: New Arrivals, Graham Baker
Where: Briefing Room
When: Late afternoon, Aprilo 1st
Warnings: None

When awakening, the immediate surroundings are swarming with activity. The people in the medical ward are polite and understanding, but firmly refuse to answer questions until the briefing. They move with a practiced efficiency, already veterans of this kind of thing. 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 giant, but spacious enough for several dozen people. The tiles are black and featureless while the walls are nice, soothing colors. The chairs are high-backed and well-cushioned, more like comforting eggs floating a foot or so off the ground than anything else. Set into the ceiling and floor near the front is a large holographic projector. The floor in front of each seat also has a smaller projector, allowing people to see what the bigger device is showing without having to angle for a view. As of now, it merely displays a rotating pyramid.

Three Security personnel, dressed in their red and black uniforms, stand at ease in the rooms in strategic areas. One man stands at the head. Graham Baker, a middle-aged man showing the first signs of balding and wearing a wrinkled business suit, clasps his hands behind his back 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.]
driftlock: (heh)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-02 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hnf." There's almost a laugh under the sound, because he gets the message. Cute, considering she was, you know, half his height. Still, he'd faced off against mechs twice his size so he had to give respect for the attitude if nothing else. Deadlock might be a jerk, but he wasn't a hypocrite.

"Cybertronian. Decepticon. You know, the good guys."
act_of_god: (pic#7627034)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-02 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Half his height maybe, but the genetic and biological augmentations she's undergone means that even out of armor she's tougher than the normal human by no small amount.

She regards him carefully as she breaks down his answer. Cybetronian is self explanatory, considering he looks like a talking Pelican troop carrier, almost. Decepticon, Latin, derived from the stem dēceptiō. Infiltration, stealth, spy? "Who are you trying to deceive?"
driftlock: (defiance)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-03 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"The Senators who were trying to kill us. They had all the power. We had to fight with whatever we could." Guns, tools, anything in those early days. He'd been special, with his gun training, but even he'd made do with feet and fists when nothing else worked.
act_of_god: (pic#7627049)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-03 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
She looks at him flatly. It sounded like an uprising to her, but she realized she didn't exactly have enough information to judge.

"Why would they want to kill you?"
driftlock: (Default)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-03 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Hnf." Someone who wasn't automatically judging him as the bad guy. He wasn't quite sure how to deal with it. "Money. Power. They were doing it slowly enough, shutting down mines, walling off parts of the cities and scrap, but I guess we weren't starving fast enough for them." Too bad.
act_of_god: (pic#7627049)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-03 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
She nods. She's not going to exactly take him at his word, but it's good to get details and start a basis of understanding in case more of these guys are here, or show up later.

"I'm sorry you had to deal with that." Good or bad, war was never a pleasant thing. Comfortable, for Kelly, familiar, but it's not exactly something anyone would wish for.
driftlock: (heh)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-03 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
It's the truth, or at least the truth as Deadlock knows it. You don't stack up four million years worth of grudge based on nothing.

"Yeah, well we've been making them plenty sorry they started messing with us."
act_of_god: (Default)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-03 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"You do look like you could hold your own in a fight."

Must be one hell of a grudge.
driftlock: (deadlock watches you sleep)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-03 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do more than hold my own." But, he may preen. Slightly. "Hng. You too."

Compliments. They still kind of hurt. But she looks tougher than the average gross organic. "They've got a military here. It's not bad."
act_of_god: (pic#7627051)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-05 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
She nods acknowledgement at his compliment.

"I'm not usually in the habit of joining a random military." She's a one-faction kind of gal, but if what they say bout this place is true she may have to rethink her stance.
driftlock: (what the...?)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-05 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Hng. Neither am I, but they make you get some job and I'm not gonna wash fraggin' windows." Deadlock has his pride. And his pride is directly related to how many guns he has access to.

...don't think about that too much.

"Besides, you see how they run the military here, and you wanna feel safe at night? You join up." Because these people? IDIOTS.
act_of_god: (Default)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-05 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
She courses her lips into a thin line. Forced employment didn't exactly sound like a fun time for her.

"They don't leave much of a choice, do they?"
driftlock: (brooding)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-05 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Had worse choices." He shrugs.

"If they gave you the whole 'oops our engines glitched and here you are' speech," he didn't know, he came in after that part on purpose, "they told us the same thing. What do you call idiots who keep using broken equipment?"

O-other than 'idiots'. He's just trying to say he doesn't trust their military without his own special military specialness.
act_of_god: (pic#7627050)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-05 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Kelly's expression darkens. Idiot was too nice for someone making that kind of mistake. "Gross negligence."
driftlock: (dubious)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-08 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, well, that too." He'll concede the point. And maybe file that phrase away for future use himself.

"My point is, I don't trust these fraggers to keep us safe from a solar flare." Hence: the military.
act_of_god: (pic#)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-08 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
She shook her head in agreement; that didn't sound like anyone she wanted in charge either.

"Military it is." As if she would have considered anything else.
driftlock: (think carefully)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-09 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
"You got any special skills, they pretty much let you do your thing in combat." At least that's been his experience. "But I guess your kind doesn't have an alt mode or anything." Humans: so lame.
act_of_god: (pic#7627050)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-09 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Alt mode?" She did have her armor, if not at this moment.

She'd get it back, or there would be hell to pay.
driftlock: (confrontation)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-10 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
"You know, like what you turn into, like a jet or a car or something." He's still loose on the idea of humans not having them. WEIRD.
act_of_god: (pic#7627050)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-10 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
She just stares at him blankly for a moment. No, that wasn't anything like her armor. He did realize that organics didn't have independently moving parts, right?

"No, we're not really capable of that. Yet."
driftlock: (flare of conscience?)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-10 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Hnf. Well, I'm sure you've got, you know, some kind of combat skill that's pretty badaft." Deadlock wants to believe in you. Primus knows he's tired of being the only fighter he trusts around here.
act_of_god: (pic#7627051)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-10 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
"As a matter of fact, I do." There's a ghosting of a smile; Kelly's one hell of fighter and she's proud of it, and that's even without her armor. With it she's nigh unstoppable.
driftlock: (heh)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-11 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Hnf. We should go to the range sometime." Because that is the only way Deadlock knows how to bond: with high caliber weaponry.
act_of_god: (pic#7627050)

[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-11 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
That gets the ghosting of a smile; she's of a smiliar mind. "I would look forward to it."
driftlock: (heh)

[personal profile] driftlock 2014-04-12 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Good. You need anything else, let me know."

Because he knows who to threaten to get it, most likely.