ataraxion | ( 002 ) video ✶ strangers waiting up and down the boulevard

[ sup, fellow space kidnapees. a considerably more relaxed jenna, here. ]

Okay: so here's a question that doesn't have anything to do with your spaceship related skills or why we shouldn't wander off by ourselves.

If we're all stuck here together-- the together part is key-- doesn't it make sense to get to know each other a little? I'm not saying we need nightly family dinner, but maybe one time so everyone can meet, exchange names, mingle, develop basic connections?

...And make a roster, maybe. Because asking if 'that really taciturn guy I met by the elevator' is okay doesn't have the same ring as a name. [ sup spock. ] And not to be looking at the negative already, but that way people without someone they already know here don't end up slipping through the cracks.

[ she spreads her hands wide and grins, teasingly. ]

So, are we in? Because if we all have to shower together, we should probably have dinner first.

Oh, and one more thing. [ jenna holds up an iPod, waving it a little. ] Can anyone in the science club tell me they can recharge this? I have an almost full battery, but that's not going to last forever. I can trade... I don't know, something for it. We can work it out.

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So. How-- [ are we ] are you?

[ are we still dating? ] We should probably talk, right? Even if it's just me getting advice.

I know it's selfish, and I know it's the last thing you want to think about but I don't want to do this alone, Ric.

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I thought I saw a couple common room type places just down the hall. And if all else fails, we can send up flares.

And by send up flares, I mean advertise we have food and booze.

-- Sounds like my kind of flare.

Do we have food and booze? I mean, I knew about the food, but I thought this was a dry ship. And didn't much like it.

Oh, no. We have booze. [ trust jenna on this. she asked captain sternface right off the bat, because girl's got priorities. ] Believe me, I wouldn't be this blase about space kidnapping without it.

Excellent. That is most definitely a marked improvement from the state of affairs as of ten minutes ago. What's the size of the store looking like?

If it was self-replenishing? Awesome. As it is, I'm wondering if it's worth the moral dubiousness that comes with stockpiling.

What we really need is someone who knows how to make moonshine.

Well, it can't be that hard, right? You just gotta find something that eventually turns into hooch, leave it along for long enough, and voila. Homegrown booze.

And then enjoy a rash of blindness. Like Russian Roulette, with more vomiting.

Hrm.

Is this from experience, by any chance?

I am from Virginia.

[ she's not exactly from a long tradition of shiners or anything, but she's had it before. ]

[that sounds very... promising.] What, so you're a blind Virginian victim of poor brewing choices?

No wonder you turned to drink.

I escaped the blind Virginian thing, but grow up in the South and you hear all the horror stories.

What, hear? Or star in?

I wouldn't know, thankfully. But look, hey. I'd be more than happy to help with this party. Maybe not calendars and ordering other people around, but the actual partying part, I can do that.

I take the fifth on star in, other than to say I never actually went blind.

It's not actually a party without people partying, so you're good.

That's what I like to hear. Any ideas on dates? I mean, it's not like night and day matter a whole lot when we've got, uh, a sudden lack of sunrise to watch out for.

I'll keep you posted? I have an idea, but I need to check something out first.

( 002 ) video ✶ strangers waiting up and down the boulevard

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