ataraxion | 004 - Video

Good evening, Tranquility. My name is Nathan Petrelli, and prior to my arrival on the ship three jumps ago I was a New York Senator. Now I know what you're thinking, and you're right, I'm not the Senator of anything here. That's the first thing you've gotta know about this place; don't matter what you were at home, whether you were a leader, a villain, a scientist, student or salesman, cause now we're all in this together the only thing that matters any more is what we can do for each other. We gotta work together and we gotta support each other, protect each other.

Now me, I work in communications despite not knowing a damn thing about it, and I moonlight as a flight operator, seeing as Hotspur had the decency to show me how to handle the shuttles here before he died. We still need to fix up more of them, so consider this a call out to you engineer types. Need a hobby, something to do in your off time? Well we need your know-how getting these things flight-ready.

Some of you are gonna feel lost. This isn't a city, it's a ship; it runs by ship's rules, ship's laws, and the most important thing to remember when you're at sea is that the ship itself is what is keeping you alive. Outside of these walls there's a vaccuum just waiting to suck you all out and explode your heads, and while a case of cabin fever is expected, if you let it get out of hand you endanger all of us. Don't go to the war with the goddamn ship, got it? In the Navy you'd be taken off duty and tranquilized for pulling that kind of crap.

I'm guessing some of you don't think you can be of any use around here cause you've not fallen outta some cable network Sci-Fi. Maybe you're just a teenager, and all this 'war' talk and hacking stuff sounds like fun, but if you want to get involved in the crew, if you wanna really help out, then you should get involved, maybe take a crash course in one of the professions we got on board. We've got a handful of doctors and next to no nursing staff, a security team that's full of detectives who only really care when you're already dead, a garden which could be expected to provide both food and medicine for us for a while yet, but which we're having trouble finding green fingers to tend, next to no flight officers--the list goes on.

I know what you're thinking: what can I do; I haven't even graduated high school, I can't fly a shuttle, wrap a chemical burn, fix a computer. But there's already people younger and more inexperienced than you doing just that, and if you don't give it a shot then you can expect only one thing for sure--that the opposite wall from your bunk is gonna get pretty boring real fast.

I'm looking for senior staff, experienced crew members who're willing to open themselves up to a group of apprentices each month, give them a crash course in whatever, expand on their natural skills. There's no reward, short of the chance to fill in where your own sections of the ship are short handed, just like I can't offer any of the students any advantage to taking a post short of the opportunity to learn new skills and not get bored senseless. Fact remains that we need this just to survive, nevermind find a way home, and I want to encourage all of you to give it a shot.

So here's how it's gonna work; this post is just to get people talking and try and work out how many people are interested and what sorta placements there's gonna be available. Try and think about whether you have the time to train someone in your field, and what number of students you can stand to take. Soon as we straighten things out, I'll make another post to get everyone reporting to the right places. Simple right? That's the plan, anyway.

Ah, and one more thing before I sign off. Chapel's open to all faiths tomorrow morning in the oxygen garden, same as it is every Sunday at 10am. Anyone is welcome to attend.

[ OOC: No logs go up for the chapel, but tomorrow there will be some brief words said about those lost during the last Jump, and Nathan might even try to be nice about Isaac. You're welcome to assume your character attends this Sunday as any other. ]

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All right, do you eat sugar?

Only right after the Jump. Plain black is good for me.

No I'll make cinnamon rolls!

Well, see, how can I turn that down? I haven't eaten anything that wasn't just heated up or had water added to it for months.

I think I can find the ingredients in the kitchen.

I'll look forward to it. Sounds like just the sort of thing I need to cheer up.

All right.

See you then.[ You want to action this? ]

In the kitchen, then.

[Ooc: yes please~]

[ Nathan will be there, then, an hour before he's meant to be in the oxygen garden, looking strained and a little tired but at least upright and hunting for coffee. It's better than nothing. Not seeing her there he gets right on with brewing, even if the coffee beans aren't strictly coffee beans at all.

What he wouldn't do for a Starbucks right now. ]

[She comes in a few minutes later, a plate balanced on one hand and in her other her violin case. The plate has a few cinnamon rolls, glazed lightly and clearly homemade. She smiles when she spots him and heads over, setting the plate down and slipping her slate from her wrist, then setting her violin case down and taking a piece of chalk out of her skirt pocket.]

Good morning, Nathan!

[ Nathan pauses just for a moment, reaching into his own mind for a distant bit of information from a million years ago. No, he can’t really do sign language, but he can just about manage ‘good morning’, and so he gives the physical and verbal greeting at once with a bright smile of his own. ]

Good morning, Seraph. [ And perhaps just to show off. ] How are you?

[ It’s a shame that that, goodbye, and the words for ‘cat’ ‘fish’ and ‘plane’ are about as vocal as he can get with his hands, but at the very least it seems like he’s making an effort. ]

[She laughs but it's like someone hit the mute button, because she doesn't make a noise. She just scribbles on her slate instead]

I'm all right. Good morning to you too, can you do that with flags, too?

004 - Video - PSA No, 3

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