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.]
smallest: Quote by Emile ("The monster that we created.")

[personal profile] smallest 2014-04-15 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
His jaw dropped. That sounded terrible! Why would that be familiar at all? Did she think that he would do that? He shook his head; he would never.

This was not the first time someone assumed he was some monstrous killer, only instead of a monster, now he was apparently an alien. Experience did not make any of this easier. His felt his chest tighten and he squeezed his hands. He whined in a high, pitiful voice that seemed to be asking her not to think such things of him.
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[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-17 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard for her to imagine someone looking like he does not doing that, really, but since it's in the early days of the Human-Covenant war, she doesn't have any extensive intel on how they live or operate; there could be those that acted more like this guy.

She holds her hands up to try and shush him. "Okay, you're not like that. I get it." I think. "It's new to me."
smallest: Quote by Lucille ("Do you have a name?")

[personal profile] smallest 2014-04-18 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
He breathed out and his shoulders relaxed. It was important that she believe him. His hands unclenched and he looked up at her from his hunched posture. He opened his mouth, closed it, and then opened it again as if a lot of thought went into the next few chirps he uttered.

He smiled; it was small but genuine. Did she truly understand?
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[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-19 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
She continues to look at him blankly, a slight furrow etching her brow.

"Are there more like you?"
smallest: Quote by Raoul ("He's got your eyes and my hairy legs.")

[personal profile] smallest 2014-04-19 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
There were probably more fleas around, though their survival mainly hinged on remaining hidden. Of course, she did not mean that, did she? He shook his head. There were no others his size. The casual look on his face suggested that it did not pain him to be the only one. With the friends he had met, he never felt lonely.
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[personal profile] act_of_god 2014-04-23 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Kelly remains still for a moment, and then nods. "Good."

Because as nice as this thing has been, she doesn't trust that any more would be the same.
Edited 2014-04-23 18:36 (UTC)