[VIDEO]

[ontheline]

Tranquility, huh? Is anyone going to rename it anytime soon...? Because no offense, but it's like calling a big guy Tiny. 

[How's it hanging, guys!  Sure has been a weird week so far, right? Hughes wants to get some stuff figured out. Mostly, he wants to know more about the people he's being forced to be with now — it is essential that you get good footing with those who are handy and capable and decent here. And of course, it gives perspectives that a welcome entry, informative as it is, just can't provide in full.]

Lt. Colonel Maes Hughes, reporting in. I guess that doesn't particularly matter here, though I have to admit, this is way beyond my usual freak storms when it comes to crazy things happening outside of everyone's control. And some of you have been putting up with this for a while, huh? You have my condolences, and a metaphorical certificate from yours truly for keeping your sanity. 

... Assuming you have, anyway.

So!! The best thing to do while I'm deciding where I belong here — who's up for drinks? I guess I should precursor that with me really wanting to know particular information left outside of the welcome entries; the who's who, your own personal accounts of your stay. I'd like to act as a personal recorder of your own individual troubles within the Tranquility, how you're doing with your own individual departments. I'm still personally figuring out where I'd prefer; security sounds well and good, but I'm not a fan of putting myself into the danger zones — yeah, yeah, even in a place where it's pretty much a given. So communications is looking pretty nice, even if I'm still trying to figure out how the technology here works.

... My world's a little lacking in some respects, I'm noticing. 

[He grins.]



And hey! If you'd rather just grab a beer instead and just appreciating someone as annoyed as you about the place, I'm good for that, too. Besides, I've got plenty I can tell you about myself. And about fifty-million pictures I'm guaranteed you're dying to see! It's one of the few things I'd say this ship got right!

[.......................... fifty-million is a mild exaggeration]

... No guarantees I'll carry you home if you get dead drunk, though.

Last time I helped someone home, I ended up getting my shoes puked on; I only have one good pair here!

Comments

[voice]

[ryuuzaki]

[It's the low voice of a young man, and it may be hard to tell whether he's calm or bored -- either way, his speech is more precise than you'd expect from his tone.]

If you're interested in Communications, Mr. Hughes, let's talk about it privately.

I can assure you that it's arguably less dangerous here than in Security.

[If you aren't so drunk that you fall into the server pit and break something, and if you don't get held at knifepoint by an android, both of which are things he's taken steps to attempt to prevent happening again.]

[voice]

[ontheline]

Talking about it privately sounds like a good idea.

How secure are these networks, exactly? I have a feeling they're not, considering how many mysterious issues this place already has with moving hallways, monsters, and creepy red-font freaks.

[ryuuzaki]

Anonymity is secure, except from our red friend.

[Those last two words sound slightly sharper than the rest.]

Privacy functions, though... they aren't easy to break, but it's possible, and there's no way to know for sure who has the capabilities outside of department members. I wouldn't consider the contents of any locked message completely secure from anyone.

[video]

[circumitus]

[SUP.]

Comms is likely your best option if you don't like putting yourself in danger. [Speaking as someone who's been in SEC since... day one, really.]

...

Could use a beer, though.

[Need to take the edge off the post-jump spooks.]

[video]

[ontheline]

Sounds like a plan!

On both accounts. Though if I find that drinking a beer is more dangerous than SEC, I'll have to stop visiting the bars. How's the selection here, anyway?

[video]

[circumitus]

No glowing reviews for the selection, but what's available is satisfactory. Can show you which ones to avoid and which ones don't taste like camel piss.

text.

[brainsqueeze]

A recorder for what?

text.

[ontheline]

Whatever people find important!

Isn't it smart to get a first-hand, recorded account from people about how this place operates? Their biggest concerns or stories aboard the ship? The welcome entry is pretty handy, but I like to be thorough.

And it pays to know the people I'm trapped with better.

Doesn't it?

text.

[brainsqueeze]

You can usually get this accounts anyway. It doesn't take much for someone to warn people about what's happened here.

[mikangirl]

No guarantees back the other way, either.

[Drinking buddies yes but she is already wary of photo shenanigans okay.]

[ontheline]

Two great minds think alike!!

Since you're new, we could always brave the liquor selection together? I could use a drink.

[mikangirl]

Have you found the liquor selection, then? Please tell me there's a bar on this ship.

[She's mostly been investigating more important things like the existence of space and gardens. What are her priorities, gosh.]

[culver]

Pictures of what?

[ontheline]

Of the cutest family you've ever seen, of course!!

[And if you thought you were safe testing him, he attaches a bunch of different photos to this message. Like a horrible spambot.

He's learning fast.]

[culver]

[oh no
she can't even open all of them there are too many
but it makes her smile]

It looks like a nice family.

[but_civilization]

It IS like that, isn't it?

[There's an amused glance from Combeferre at the comment, and then...]

I can tell you that Engineering did NOT work out for me but it was a matter of the equipment deciding it hated me more than anything else.

And please, I would love the opportunity to get out what I think of being here, yes. My name's Combeferre, incidentally.

[ontheline]

Considering this place is a bit further along in technology, I'm with you there.

I'm more likely to break something. Could always learn how it works, but my skills are more widely helpful in communications or security in general. Would you like to tell me all about your blunders in the Engineering department over a drink, then?

[but_civilization]

It's funny. They were giving us courses, even, but when it came to the actual equipment...

[There's Combeferre miming sliding something sharp across his throat,there.]

I would like that. Very much.

[video]

[hirobotics]

[Someone has really raised an eyebrow here, and he just... has to say something.]

Sooo... You were in the military, and you've seen your fair share of "freak shows", but you don't wanna do anything too dangerous? I'm pretty sure the security guys here kinda need more people with that kind of training and experience.

[video]

[ontheline]

Hey! Military isn't all about being on the front lines, you know. There are some pretty important jobs on the inside; I'm specifically Investigations, and I'm not an alchemist, and frankly I have no desire to get my head blown off when there are way better people suited for the job!

[He sounds pretty chill about it, though.]

[video]

[ontheline]

[BUT HEY]

... Don't tell me you're out there getting yourself into trouble, huh?

[omg children pls]

[video]

[hirobotics]

[Hiro just nods a little, but it's clear from the look on his face that he's not buying it. Important jobs from the safety of a closed room and a desk, huh?] I'm not so sure how much investigating you'd be able to get done here without being on the front lines.

Who, me? [He puts on his most innocent, doe-eyed face, blinking owlishly in surprise.] Oh-- No. No, I'd never.

voice.

[wiped]

What's your usual kind of freak show like?

voice.

[ontheline]

Well... Just recently investigated the death of a man who fused his daughter with a dog.

He was taken apart from the inside out.

[He has no qualms about the icky details. Investigations rolls that way.]

That's just current affairs, though. Alchemy has a way of complicating things.

voice.

[wiped]

Alchemy fused that man's dog and daughter together? What killed him?