Crux Fleet NPCs ([personal profile] crux_npcs) wrote in [community profile] crux_fleet2014-02-21 06:51 pm

THE BLACK EYE OF SHAREF: PART ONE

Who: Everyone who signed up for it!
Where: The Eye of Sharef space trading hub
When: 21st of Februaro

The new arrivals may have gotten short notice, but the people aboard the Teuberg have been waiting over a month to arrive here. But the call goes out to the new arrivals all the same. The Eye of Sharef, a massive space station many miles in diameter, a glimmering collection of concentric circles connected by cables, bridges, and supply tunnels, is the 43rd Scutum-Crux Fleet's next stop.

It's explained in a rush. The Fleet can't keep any of their warships stationed there for very long, otherwise it would seem like an occupation. Galactic neutrality laws don't necessarily forbid it, but they've decided to err on the side of caution. Instead, they've opted to send a few supply shuttles and what can only be referred to as space buses to transport civilians and military personnel to the Eye's outer hub. The rest of the Fleet will scout ahead and then they'll return in roughly a week. Room and board has been paid for and, luckily, the Eye accepts credits as a form of payment. For those who haven't blown through the credits they were given in order to establish themselves, this is an excellent place for it.

Inside the station, the ceilings have plenty of room for gigantic beings and there are many floors, filled with booths, storefronts, stalls, and even carpets covered in trinkets, as far as the eye can see. In many languages, not just the choppy Common Galactic Trade tongue everyone has been sleep-taught, merchants peddle their wares. Sometimes in an extremely aggressive manner.

On other levels, the smell of cooked and uncooked foods fill the air. There's something to tickle every tongue, even the mechanical ones. In some places, though, it's probably best not to ask where they got their meat. Entertainment is in abundance, with alien arcades, movies (some even featuring the Fleet! Largely as villains are clueless bumblers, but there are some with a more positive leaning. There's even some originating from the Fleet.), music, and all sorts of other pleasures can be found just by turning the right corner.

You're here for the next week, at least. Largely unsupervised, though there are still some Fleet personnel there to protect civilians just in case. Not that they'll be needed, of course. The station's security is supposedly rather excellent. What now?

[So, here's the opening part of The Black Eye of Sharef event. If you haven't heard of it, I strongly suggest reading up on it. If you join, you cannot simply back out as your characters will not be on any Fleet vessels just yet, so be sure before you sign up. However, we'll not prevent anyone from backtagging or simply claiming new threads took place before they left.

I request that as many posts regarding this be kept to the marked event posts as possible. However, as long as the main community doesn't get flooded, we won't be preventing anyone from posting outside. Note that as long as they are separate from the Fleet from this great a distance, their Network posts can only reach each other. The Fleet itself is simply out of range.

For this first part, the mods will be largely hands off. Don't go crazy with the NPCs, but we're probably not going to be spending a lot of time writing NPC comments for Part One.
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-02-26 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's just my stomach. [ And his head, too, but-- ] I'm used to this.

[ Which doesn't mean he's not going to sit down just as soon as they come up on an empty bench, relieved to at least have found a modicum of sanctuary. Just that he's going to continue to study his feet in depth, as he does. ] ...Thanks.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-02-26 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's the least I could do. Do you need some water or anything?
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-02-26 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
No. Just for everybody to stop moving around so much...
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-02-26 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well I can't really manage that. -Part of her wonders, having seen how her powers work, if she could, though... not a good time to experiment, of course.-
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-02-26 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
I know. [ Regrettably. But he's not about to take out his frustration with a simple fact of life on somebody who's actually trying to lend a hand. ] ...Talking helps, sometimes.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-02-26 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we can talk, then. How are you holding up, for example. As in I'm asking you that question right now. -Maya was never a good conversationalist. But bless her heart, she tried.-
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-02-27 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow, she might actually be worse at this than he is. ...And that's really saying something. ]

Um, I'm okay. Like I said, this happens... Pretty much all the time. I can't ride in an airship or a truck or anything like that without getting sick, either.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-02-27 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Motion sickness, then? Living on the ship must be really killer for you, in that case.
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-02-28 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't be on one, if I had a choice. I don't even like ship-ships...
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-02-28 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Think there may be some medicine that can help?
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-03-01 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. Tranquilizers kind of do, but... They also kind of knock me out.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-03-02 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I almost want to see if my powers could help...
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-03-02 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Your-- Um. Wh-What?

[ Did she say - powers? (Hopefully this isn't some weird new-agey stuff.) ]
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-03-02 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh... Well, yeah, I mean, I have, like... powers. And stuff.

Look, this is the part where I awkwardly confess that I'm not exactly human. I mean, I'm not NOT human, but I'm not... this is weird.

I'm a Siren.
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-03-03 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of people around here aren't... Human-human. [ He gestures kind of vaguely to the crowd - just look at all those-- interesting-- individuals.

And shrugs. ]
I don't know what a Siren is. Unless you mean the emergency kind.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-03-03 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Siren's are... Well, I don't actually know. So little is understood about what we are. We don't even know what we are. We were given all of this great cosmic power, but no idea how to use it or why we have it.
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-03-07 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
So... What can you do with it?

[ Since "great cosmic power" encompasses quite a bit, in his experience. ] ...I mean-- I dunno why you'd want to use something like that to help me. Unless it's really specific - great cosmic power.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-03-07 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Mostly, I use it to hurt people.

Erm, bad people I mean. Not, like, random bystanders. Like, guys I have to shoot at, because they're shooting at me.

But I can use it to heal, too. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-03-09 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's... Not such a good idea to use it on people you don't want to hurt, then.

At least, um. Until you figure it out.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-03-10 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
-Maya could only laugh.- You're probably right. It was a thought, at least.
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[personal profile] meteorshots 2014-03-11 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
Well... Thanks, though. I mean, I feel pretty much okay, now, anyway.
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[personal profile] blight_phoenix 2014-03-11 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
So talking helped? Because I thought it would.