raianet | username: ens

[The young man is looking... understandably nervous as he faces the camera. He makes an effort to smooth his hair down and then flashes a winning (?!) smile. Is that a piece of broccoli in his teeth? Crap! He scrubs the cuff of his shirt against it and then coughs to cover the embarrassment, before diving into his totally-not-rehearsed-like-sixty-times speech.]

So.

Uh.

Hello. Hi. I-is this thing on? Joking, I'm kidding, I know it's on. Annnnd that's the punchline ruined, great, I'm amazing at this.

D-disastrous introductions aside, I'm Ashley. You may remember me from such greatest hits as 'that guy who tripped into the Chrysalis and brought us all here somehow' and, uh, 'that nervous dude who handed me a towel in the shower once' and you would be right, uh, that is, correct on both counts. I'm really sorry, by the way. For the... you know, the... thing. The first thing. Not the towels. Towels are great. I love towels.

Captain Childe asked me like a month ago to do some work with, uh, getting everyone in and settled and doing what we can to make you guys comfortable as much as we can actually help with. We know that you guys don't want to be here any more than we do. Ethyraia! Not exactly a fun time at Grandma's, right? Right.

Anyway, if you have any questions, or... you know, anything, or you just want to chat, come say hi. Introduce yourself? I know I'm kind of setting myself up to be the basecamp whipping boy over here but please don't yell at me I don't do well with that kind of attention.

Or you could just... I don't know, tell me something about yourself? We're still figuring each other out, right? Iiiiiiiiiii am a Scorpio, and I'm afraid of cats. N-not big cats. Lions are fine? I mean... like, normal housecats. So there you go, that's the fun fact of the week.

[ooc note: Tags on this post will be boomeranged when possible over the next 4-5 days, but no tags will be done after August 1st.]

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You tripped?

Tripped.

oh are we doing text??? sry i'm bad at this!!

but yes i tripped. the chrysalis had been static for years. we couldn't even scan it and we'd TRIED!! actually i hate capitals it feels like yelling... did that feel like yelling? so sry.

i cut thru the pool bc i was late for my patrol shift and i slipped - i guess slipped is a better word actually bc tripped makes it sound like i stumbled over my own feet which isn't really what happened - and fell into it. i don't really remember much after that apparently i was unconscious for a while

it got all glowy and a few days later you guys showed up.

sry. again.

really.

did not mean to make you all into dragon babies :(

What is a Scorpio?

[A desert bug? A siege weapon? Ashley can’t be either of those things.]

Hello, Ashley - I'm Nina Zenik. [ She recognizes him, but a sheepish wave during interrogation doesn't really constitute an introduction. And even if it did, it doesn't hurt to introduce herself again. ]

I'm still not entirely sure I understand how someone [ see how she graciously leaves out 'YOU TRIPPING' ] bumping into the Chrysalis could cause such a strange... [ vague circular gestures with one hand ] this.

more text!! that's great, fantastic. hello, thank you.

a scorpio is???

it's

like a sign you're born under i guess? depending on the month. astrology. liiiike... you could be a leo! maybe.

[Hello, Porter! The robot looking back does not look nervous, as he completely lacks facial expressions. His voice, however, is very excited and friendly!]

Hello! I'm a CL4P-TP Hyperion-brand steward robot, but you can call me Claptrap! I'm surprised you haven't been completely shunned by the community yet!

Is there a sign for wolves? Leo sounds like lion. I would not like to be a lion. I was born in the eighth month. Early in it. I do not know if it was summer yet that year, or still only spring. There was a war, then.

[Oh, thank you for the video, he genuinely does dislike texting. Nasty thing! So many buttons! Says the navigator, who was in charge of many buttons!]

Nina! Yes, I-I actually remember you. Sorry.

[You know, about that interrogation business.]

I don't think any of us are really, um... I don't think we understand ourselves. I wish I had an answer for you, truly. Not every day a man finds himself ruining the lives of twoscore strangers, right...? Prep school did not prepare me for t-this.

sry mate, 8th month is leo month. unless you want to be a virgin.

ahhhh autocorrect!!! i mean, virgo. virgo!! sry so much i'm sure you're not a virgin.

although virgo means virgin anyway.

can i start over

[Oh, it's Cartagena's little buddy! Hello, little buddy! Why do you gotta be so hurtful? Ashley looks somewhat crestfallen by comparison, and grimaces before he remembers he is in fact on camera.]

Hi, uh... Claptrap... thanks for that?

I guess we aren't really big on shunning people for, um, f-for accidents.

[ Her brow furrows for a brief moment, because what she means is that correlation does not equal causation, but there's no point in pressing that if no one has any saints-damned clue as to what really happened and no one is going to go tripping into the Chrysalis to find out again anyway.

But then she smiles brightly. ]

I have been told I'm somewhat memorable. I choose to take it as a compliment. And I can't help but think you might be taking on too much of the blame here - after all, unless someone bumps into it again and more people show up, it's hard to know what actually happened.

You don’t have to start over. It’s not your fault that my birth makes me a lion. Only, it’s the sigil of enemies of my family. Their words are HEAR ME ROAR. But a man’s deeds show what he is, not his birth. Being a lion isn’t any worse than being a bastard.

[O-oh. Well. Nina has just earned his esteem and undying loyalty all at the same time so, there's that.]

W-Well, I... suppose that's a pragmatic way of looking at it. Thank you. I do appreciate it, you know. I'd send you all home i-if I could.

[Little buddy... or more?? God, he's so lonely.]

I guess so! Some extremely cruel people might think you're just a liability, though. Not that I have experienced such hurtful, unnecessary language because I've ever made a mistake in my entire life!

[That went... so much better than he expected? No yelling? Not even any angry capitals? Well, some angry yelling capitals, but Ashley doesn't feel they're directed at him.

Jon can't hear it, but Ashley heaves a sigh of relief.]

fancy that... i suppose things could b different on your world? on earth astrology is... you know, the placement of stars in the sky, and certain constellations...

sry i'm a navigator i like stars a lot

[When your robot friendzones another robot...]

I... is that sarcasm?

Where I come from, people don’t even call all the stars the same thing. Some see crowns in a constellation, some see cradles. Now we all only have these stars. Has anyone put names to them yet?

[ Tina is so close to the camera you can only clearly see one eye and her nose. She's added some kind of janky VHS flicker filter and has used a voice modulator that makes her sound vaguely like Christian Bale Batman. ]

You got some splainin' to do, son.

i actually have been working on a star map!! i mean

most of the stars already have names scientifically speaking but no one wants to say 'we're in orbit around kepler-1625', you know? so i guess i've just been... naming things that already have names.

but we are within the constellation cygnus, from an earth perspective!!

[Well, he's properly terrified, thank you. He doesn't quite cower, but he definitely looks uncomfortable.]

I-I already explained everything I know!

[He looks familiar, although Lance isn't totally sure if they've actually met; either way, Lance offers a small smile in an attempt to reassure him a little bit. ]

Hi Ashley. Aside from the whole Chrysalis thing and then dealing with us, what do you usually do here?

[He had tried to learn about the stars, back in New Amsterdam, but you could barely see them in the city, and you were barely allowed outside of it.]

Which one is that — the boat?

[There were never any Romans in his world, and Latin and High Valyrian are not the same.]

Edited 2021-07-27 02:24 (UTC)

[Thank you for Not Yelling, Lance.]

Oh, uh... Well, I was the navigator on the Adamant, and without that... I guess I'm sort of.

[Useless? No, he can't say that outloud.]

Between... occupations at the moment? I don't really have any other specialties. I sort of do a bit of everything. I help out where I can! And I-I'm learning basket weaving. There's a lovely lady that puts on classes. It's useful, she learned from Cartagena.

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