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[championhawke]

[Count on another ren faire escapee to trigger an accidental video (or...perhaps not so accidental, although he's certainly ignoring the device at first) as he wrecks electrical mayhem in the holodeck. It's an impressive lightning storm, if you go in for that kind of thing, the figure in the center of it blindingly illuminated as electricity arcs and scorches in wide blazing bursts, the triggered sprinkler system doing nothing to quell it.

Eventually, it dies down, and the man in the middle of it with a rather ragged beard takes a swig from a bottle.]

You know, [he says, conversationally; this isn't an accident, then] I think we ought to vote on a name change for this Maker accursed ship. My darling friend Isabela hinted to me once--pirate captain, lovely woman, would rob you blind in a flash--I believe hinted to me that renaming a ship and properly anointing it with--ah, 'dancing' and alcohol could shift a curse. What with all the murder and mayhem and general poor attitudes I believe we're overdue!

I say we call her the good ship Meredith. But that's only after an old friend. Absolutely mad and murderous. I think it's fitting--oh, oh, or The Death Trap! Something spooky and doom inducing, at least. Who's with me?

[He fixes the camera with his most dazzling (soaked, drunk) smile.]

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[grandseigneur]

Ah, it is bad luck to change the name of a ship on a whim, sir.

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[championhawke]

I say we couldn't have much worse luck, really.

[grandseigneur]

Oh no?

[he sounds politely curious, which would be a warning flag to anyone who knew him. alas, most here did not.]

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[darkholme]

The Death Trap is ..accurate, but we should probably avoid naming it something like that, just on the off chance some nice ship flies by that we could hail for help. I don't think they'd stop for us if we were named The Death Trap.

[ weirdly, Raven's been thinking about the name of the ship too. though maybe that's just because she's been trying to think back to the beginning, trying to focus again on getting off of this thing instead of just trying to survive it. ]

-- Wait, were you just. Was that you? The lightning? Or was the room ..malfunctioning. [ ...should she be calling a doctor or something?! ] Are you alright?

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[championhawke]

We could always explain that a mage did it. Usually clears up most misunderstandings!

[And you are asking about his magic, you are his favourite person right now. Garrett beams exultantly at her.]

Yes, yes, that was me. I'm the mage in question. It's nothing, really. Just a bit of practice. I'd hate to get rusty in such a precarious place as this--who knows what could happen?

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[darkholme]

[ ... HAH! Oh! ]

Mage... so you can do magic, right? 'Do magic' sounds wrong. Create magic? You are- magical. Okay, not the point. That point is, that was incredible. [ allow her to gush over the fact that you have abilities that are really, really groovy, drunk sir. ] I understand wanting to stretch your muscles though, I'm the same with my abilities. [ she holds up her hand to let her skin flutter from the pink tone it is now to her natural blue and back. but only real quick, just a yeah yeah this is what I'm talking about so anyway ] Tell me more about what you can do?

[birdhousesoul]

Have you gone mad?

[championhawke]

What? Do you not like the names?

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[birdhousesoul]

I don't like careless lightning spells being flung about in a spaceship, is what I don't like. Are you trying to get us all killed?

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[jurisimpudent]

That's a very stupid idea.

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[championhawke]

Your face is a very stupid idea.

[Thirty-one years old, ladies and gentlemen.]

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[jurisimpudent]

...How old are you, precisely?

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[shoyu]

[ after boggling at all that lightning for a moment, as politely as he can: ]

Isn't that -- ah. Just a little bit dangerous, sir?

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[championhawke]

Oh, absolutely.

[He positively beams.]

[shoyu]

... oh.

[ gosh, how can he say anything faced with a smile like that? have a moment of fidgeting, and then sounding a little confused: ]

Well -- I, ah -- you just don't seem very worried about it.

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[cheerioless]

[ quinn can't help but be impressed by the lightning storm. she doesn't think she'll ever get used to seeing anything that isn't ...normal, is that the right word? ]

I have a feeling if we renamed this ship The Death Trap, the powers that be might decide to have fun with that.

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[championhawke]

As if Tranquility isn't asking for trouble?

[But since she's young, he elides most of his bitterness.]

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[cheerioless]

Never said it wasn't, but some things might be better left alone.

Are you new here?

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[the_vishual]

Uhm, sir?

Are you intoxicated?

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[championhawke]

Not even slightly.

[Extremely so.]

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[the_vishual]

Do you have explicit control over your actions?

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[hisfinestact]

It would have to become far more effective to warrant a name like Death Trap. I've heard of weddings with more deaths.

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[championhawke]

What kind of awful weddings do you attend?

[RED ONES?]

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[heterophobe]

[ he's left blinking at the light show because what the fuck? ] There's no shortage of dancing or alcohol on board, yet somehow our luck's shitty as the day the gravity couch first spewed me out. [ it couldn't hurt though. ] But by all means, if you want to try it, feel free to deface the walls with Meredith or whatever else warms your stomach.

[ that last line because it takes a drunk to know a drunk. ]

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[championhawke]

I meant ...dancing.

[That eyebrow waggle. So suggestive.]

But kind thought, serrah, I appreciate the lack of all the--judging and pouting and so on.