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.]
overclocking: (hair pampering)

[personal profile] overclocking 2014-03-09 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll make steak and lobster when you get us the money to buy steak and lobster."

Still, he closes the distance and takes the bowl, frowning slightly as the bread gets deposited. But... well... house guests and manners...

"Did she offer you tea?"

He asks, almost directly in spite of himself.
interneet: (021)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-03-09 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
"No?"

The bread remains untouched a moment more as he responds, a hint of honest confusion in the word.

"For something like that, isn't the replicator fine?"
soul_sister: (.....................................)

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[personal profile] soul_sister 2014-03-20 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
"I thought I wasn't supposed to-"
soul_sister: (Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2014-03-20 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"AH!" She suddenly cuts herself off and points at their new guest. "He fixed the stupid shelf thing!"
overclocking: (that's terrible. you're terrible.)

[personal profile] overclocking 2014-03-20 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Stupid shelf thing..."

His eyes go to the demonangel person thing eating at his table, then to the replicator on the wall.

"That?" No, no, no. With an air of mild horror, "We're not getting tea from the wall. I bought a box when we first got here."

He punctuates this by retrieving said box and setting about making it, because good lord we are not barbarians in this house.
interneet: (023)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-03-25 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
"You don't know how to use it either?" There's no surprise; it's almost as if Chrono's lack of technical acumen is only natural.

He reaches for a slice of bread without looking at it, attention very casually focused on Rosette and Chrono instead. "Where are you two from, anyway?"
soul_sister: (That's stupid.)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2014-03-29 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"New York!" There's a pause, for just a second, as she realized, yet again, that this may warrant clarification. "... Earth." It was hard to actually deal with how weird that sounded. So naturally, she took it out on the bread, sloppily tearing off the heel for herself.
interneet: (043)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-03-29 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Heeh, America . . ."

It's hard to tell if it's mild surprise or relief, but there's some small shift in his demeanour at that.

He tears a bite-sized piece of crust off his own piece, dipping it in the stew.

"From when?"
overclocking: moriyama would never do that (not from a shameless high school AU)

[personal profile] overclocking 2014-03-29 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Chrono turns away from the kettle, still pointedly ignoring the replicator. The prejudice seems to go above and beyond mere anachronism, for whatever reason.

"1922." He's gotten used to appending the year onto things by now, if the mechanical way he says it is any indication. "I'm guessing you come from one of those worlds with cellphones and food dispensers and all that?"
interneet: (022)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-03-29 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
". . . ahh, well, something like that."

'Come from' is a pretty broad term, after all.

"There's cellphones, but this is the first time I've seen a replicator. The only kinds of food dispensers back there are vending machines."

He tries the stew, eyes widening a bit.

"This is good!"
soul_sister: (Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2014-03-29 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"He IS pretty good." There's obvious pride in her voice, as if she cooked it. Nevermind it goes directly against her earlier comment.

She slathers a bit of butter on hers before chowing down. "Took a while to find all the stuff for it! Figures space would be short on carrots." The words are slightly muffled by the food in the mouth.
overclocking: —wait (gaaaaayyyyyy)

[personal profile] overclocking 2014-03-30 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Vending machine? he would ask, were the confusion not quickly swept away by fluster.

"It's not... anything fancy. We just got used to making stew when we were short on supplies."
interneet: (021)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-03-30 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
"This is when you're short? But there's so much in it . . ."

There's hints of longing behind the awe. He uses another small chunk of bread to shift the chunks of carrots and meat and potatoes around. Have you even looked at this?

"And this isn't fancy?"
soul_sister: (.....................................)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2014-03-31 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Ehhh? What do they feed you?" Instinct have clicked in as she eyes him critically. Young, hardly any meat on his bones, strange cunning smarts with weird wall shelves. Clearly another hard luck case.

She pushes the bread back towards him.
interneet: (010)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-03-31 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Whatever Ashiya can find on sale? Spending enough for something like this would only happen if we were celebrating."

He takes another slice, fingers deftly tearing it into one bite-sized chunk after the next.

"Though even then they just bring back convenience-store takeout instead of something good."
soul_sister: (Fifty of them?)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2014-04-01 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"No WONDER you think wall tea is fine..."
interneet: (041)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-04-01 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Replicated."

The correction is so natural you might almost think he deals with people holding views from fifty years in the past a lot.

"It's not like it's going to be much different from anything from a vending machine, right? And more convenient too."
overclocking: (GLOOOOM)

[personal profile] overclocking 2014-04-02 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Firmly, as he places a cup of real, actual tea in front of their visitor. Practically RADIATING disapproval.

"It's different enough. Why substitute if we have the real thing?"
interneet: (043)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-04-02 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"How does the real thing get ready to drink without you doing all that stuff to make it?"

'You' being Chrono, specifically, as his food-producing powers are probably just as convenient as a replicator when it comes right down to it.
overclocking: (oic)

[personal profile] overclocking 2014-04-02 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Arches a single, eloquent eyebrow.

"... All I did was boil water."
interneet: (029)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-04-02 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Looks to Rosette, because clearly Chrono's judgement is off here.

"Is that really all?"
soul_sister: (A little to the right. Yeah by the couch)

[personal profile] soul_sister 2014-04-04 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
"There's some wizardry involved. For one, he always makes me leave the kitchen." Rosette nods solemnly. "It's very suspicious."
interneet: (032)

[personal profile] interneet 2014-04-05 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds more like it. No one would worry about ruining it if it was really that simple."

No that he would have ever been scolded for almost ruining tea or anything.