Crux Fleet NPCs ([personal profile] crux_npcs) wrote in [community profile] crux_fleet2014-02-15 04:37 pm

0003: NEW ARRIVALS

Who: New Arrivals, Captain Jack Hollis, Science Captain Urist McEngineer, Graham Baker
Where: Briefing Room
When: Late afternoon
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 room is large, but not quite large enough for some of the bigger Cybertronians. They've been given drone bodies at least, skinny little things with no real features beyond primitive masks made of paper plates. There's seats for everyone, at least, well-cushioned and comfortable, and the room is pleasantly lit.

A few Security personnel, dressed in their red and black uniforms, stand at ease in the rooms in strategic areas. Three men stand at the head. One is Graham Baker, a slightly nervous-seeming middle-aged man wearing a multi-layered business suit that seems rumpled and oversized. The other two men are dressed in military uniforms, one with the blue undershirt and piping of Command, while the other wears the gold of Science.

[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.]
tinywife: (Happy!; big smile)

[personal profile] tinywife 2014-02-16 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Really? What else can you do? Can you shoot fireballs? Can you transform like a magical girl? Do you have a secret identity?"

Pinoko. Pinoko stop. Lina's not a magical girl!

She was sparkling by this point. But she did remember her manners. Briefly.

"I'm Pinoko. What's your name?"
dragonspooker: (You see...)

[personal profile] dragonspooker 2014-02-16 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can do a great many things, which does include throwing fireballs, yes. I'm a magic-using girl, but I'm not a magical girl," Lina explains, then tosses her hair once more as she winds up to introduce herself. SET EGO FOR MAXIMUM! "I'm the beautiful, perfect, invincible sorcery genius, Lina Inverse!"
tinywife: (Blink)

[personal profile] tinywife 2014-02-16 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. That was... some introduction. And Pinoko blinked at all of those adjectives.

"You're invincible? So... if someone shot you, you wouldn't die?"

It was a valid point. Bullets were scary. Not even Big Mask was invincible.

She wasn't even touching the other adjectives in that sentence. It wasn't nice to tell a lady that she wasn't pretty.
dragonspooker: (Slightly smug.)

[personal profile] dragonspooker 2014-02-16 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a snort of laughter, and Lina waves her hand in a limp-wristed wave. "Please, those gun things are borderline useless against magic. Heck, you douse 'em water and they stop working half the time! No barriers needed!"
tinywife: (Really?; Sigh)

[personal profile] tinywife 2014-02-16 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Pinoko blinked. "I don't think guns work that way..."

As far as Pinoko knew, it didn't matter if bullets got wet, they could still kill you. Same with laser guns on Big Mask or whatever.

"Well... what about getting blown up. Or like, a horrible supervirus. You mean, you never get sick? And you could survive getting blown up?"

Yeah, Pinoko doesn't believe you're invincible. Sorry, Lina.
dragonspooker: (You are very suspicious.)

[personal profile] dragonspooker 2014-02-18 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
"What, are they actually useful here, or something? They were pretty new back home, and were fairly useless, at least in the hands of the guys I saw usin' 'em," Lina answers. Granted, Jillas was using his against Lina and her friends, and the Seyruun Royal Army was using theirs against an eldritch magical beast known for being nigh indestructible, so Lina's perceptions of guns isn't very good.

"Barriers help with explosions, while white magic works with sickness," she explains, then frowns. "What's the big idea, anyway, tryin' to poke holes in my introduction, squirt?"
tinywife: (Hmph)

[personal profile] tinywife 2014-02-18 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, guns are actually pretty useful where Pinoko is from. And since this is the future and all, I'm pretty sure they work even better in space." Space guns didn't care about water after all. Pinoko was still pretty sure they could wreck your day.

As to Lina's second point, Pinoko blinked. "Pinoko's a nurse. We don't really have magic where I'm from. And medicine can only do so much. Besides, it isn't like Pinoko called you ugly, or said you weren't perfect. I'm just not sure you're invincible. Not even the Doctor is invincible."

And now Pinoko is sticking her tongue out at Lina. Clearly, this is the most reational exchange between two grown individuals ever.
dragonspooker: (I am very very annoyed.)

[personal profile] dragonspooker 2014-02-21 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, crap. That'll take some getting used to," Lina answers in a half mumble with a side of frown.

"Well...alright, fine, geeze. I'm not literally invincible, but you're not supposed to take such an introduction one-hundred-percent seriously, kiddo, geeze!"

Lina will not retaliate tongue-wise, but she will make a frowny annoyed face at Pinoko, and probably consider dumping water on the brat's head far more than she should.
tinywife: (Angry cat face; WTF IDEK)

[personal profile] tinywife 2014-02-21 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Pinoko is not a kid! I am a trained nurse and I'm 24 years old!"

Oh my, that was some volume. That said, she straightened her dress as if she hadn't just yelled that at full volume. That said, she smiled as if absolutely nothing had happened.

"I thought it was a cool introduction. I still think it's really neat that you can use magic."

And that was at completely normal volume. Well, if nothing else, Pinoko probably had the lungs of a 24 year old.
dragonspooker: (Say what?)

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[personal profile] dragonspooker 2014-02-21 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
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dragonspooker: (Hey! Hold on a second!)

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[personal profile] dragonspooker 2014-02-21 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
It was less the volume that surprised Lina - mostly because she was capable of some pretty high volumes herself, as was Amelia, and they were both fairly short - and more the facts that just hit her in the face.

"...twenty-four? ...but...but..."
tinywife: (Hmph)

[personal profile] tinywife 2014-02-21 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
"You shouldn't judge things by appearances. Pinoko is short. Not young."

My, that was a touch snippy.

"Pinoko is just as capable at Medicine as you are at Magic."