[Log]

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Crew Commons, Grace O'Malley [Haven]
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Wandering up into the commons as Aradia starts to shrug off her coat at last,wincing a little as she tugs it down over her strapped up arm. "You didn't get to hear it snap a second time," Aradia says mischievously to Josephine. "Of course I'm probably the only one that did over the gunfire 'n roaring bear."Tossing the coat over the back of the armchair, she continues on to take aseat on the bench at the table. With this much of a crowd, best to sit wherethere's seating enough for everyone.


Tasha stretches and shivers the worst of the cold from her bones as she finds a place at the table where she can see everyone without making her presence too much of a big deal. "So, Captain Sujiko." she says, wincing as she realizes her earlier faux pas with the man. Hard to play dead when you're waving at friends like an idiot. "How much parts did ya bring us?"

Matty nods to Josephine, still looking concerned, but lets her go to give Sujiko /his/ hug, while she turns to Tasha, giving her a crooked smile. "Nice t' meet you, Miss Rodimtsev," she says and lets out a little chuckle, deciding to just play along. "I'm Madison Radcliffe, XO of the Chaos Theory." She is, of course, saying all this while making her way through the ship to the commons with everyone else. Overhearing Aradia's last comment, she turns and blinks at the Captain. "Gunfire.. Bear? What th' hell've y'all been up t' out 'ere?"

Sujiko follows Aradia into the commons, stepping off to the side to not be in the way of others. He blinks a few times at the captain's comments. Hearing Matty take the words out of his mouth, he adds "sheesh, you guys been havin' an' interestin' few weeks, ain't ya?" He shrugs off his coat, laying it over the back of one of the couches before finding himself a place out of the way to stand, wanting to make sure everyone else gets a seat before he takes one himself. He turns to Tasha. "Dunno specifics, Sink... err, cap'n Fist picked 'em up, there's a few crates," he says with a light shrug. Didn't check inventory specifically.

Lucinda steps through the hatch into the Commons, moving around to let everyone shuffle in. "Four pins. Four I had to put into Aradia's arm. Wait..I thought the ship's name was the Salvation?" She asks the question lightly, trying to follow the conversation, though her attention is sidelong on Kael.

Sliding from the front of the ship is Bishop. Despite what his desc may say there is something very uniquely missing from the man. That being pants. "Cap'n, you're back. We have a slight problem, I ran out of rope to keep some of the panels in place so I had to use my pants and... we have company." The last is said as the man looks up at the folks that are not part of the crew, an impish smile and sheepish wave being directed towards everyone. - Hee, Bishop. Nicely unexpected and good point to riff off in the scene. Thank you. :)

"Captain? XO?" Aradia says with a quirk of her brow as she looks to Lucinda with the question asked and then nods, looking back between Sujiko and Matty again. "Sounds like we ain't the only ones who've had an interesting few weeks she says with a faint smile, leaning forward to prop her elbows, the left one a little more carefully than the right. While she was about to ask for their story, her pantsless pilot gets her attention (is he a boxers, brief or swinging in the wind man is the question EVERYONE is thinking, of course). "Do you want more rope or another pair of pants?" she asks rather calmly.

"I'm so confused," Josephine sighs, but decides she'd better just listen to everyone else's conversation for a moment while she goes to check on the status of the coffee urn and the coffee and to see whether or not they have enough mugs for everyone..plus one more person. She blinks at Bishop. "Well, if that isn't an interesting fashion statement... I have a dress you could borrow, if you like," she offers kindly. And she seems sincere.

Tasha does her best to ignore the pant less Bishop, though she can't help but chuckle a little at the man's antics. God knows, the mood hereabouts sure could use the lift. "Confused....Lord, Jose, but you ain't kidding." she sighs, settling into her sjieat. "So I take it you've just got your own boat, Captain?" she asks Sujiko with a knowing grin.

Matty shrugs out of her jacket as she goes to find a seat, blinking quietly Bishop, though she doesn't comment on his lack of pants. "Uh, yeah. Interesting might be the word," she says and tosses her jacket over the back of a chair which she then sits herself into, waving toward Sujiko with a nod. "I reckon Suj better do the explanin'."

;'s head pokes round from the door to the portside quarters as the noise in the crew commons increases. "Good gorram," she says, "We havin' ourselves a party? Ain't hardly the time for..." Then she sees the unexpected faces. "Well, mayhap this is the time for it after all." She steps fully out into the commons now (fully clothed and everything) and saunters over towards the galley, weaving between people to get there.

Sujiko regards Bishop with an amused sort of look before turning back to Aradia and the others asking him about his new command. "Yep, Th' Chaos Theory," he says proudly, perhaps an interesting relation to the sort of higher-dimentional physics going on elsewhere on this planet. That's movie-quality foreshadowing right there. "Cap'n weren't well at all... couldn't even move really," he says for the benefit of those who haven't heard this story. "Got 'im to a hospital... he ain't fit t' command no ships, so I took over," he explains, nodding in Matty's direction. "Got ourselves some crew, took a few runs o' cargo.." he pauses, thinking back. "Eh, other'n get'n the ship 's been mostly uneventful..." he says, glancing to Matty. 'Mostly' might be the operative word here..

Boxers. Duh. Little pink heart ones in fact splashed across a dark blue background. Looking to Aradia, Bishop blinks and fights down the reddening blush of his cheeks. "Either one Captain, rope, pants... I think it's starting to become all the same." He pauses then looks to Josephine when she offers a dress, looks down at himself, and shrugs, "I'm not sure it'd fit to well, but if it would set off my eyes properly and not make my ankles look fat..." Absent mindedly, Bishop reaches back and scratches his lower... back. Really. That's what he's scratching.

Lucinda resists the urge to give a wolf-whistle to Bishop, instead moving around everyone else to sink into one of the armchairs looking half way to downright weary. More or less staying out of the way as she listens to conversation.

Josephine has a whole bunch of unmatched enamel cups lined up on the counter by this time, enough for everyone. Now they just have to wait for the coffee to finish brewing. She smiles warmly to Saienne, but is distracted by Suji's story. "Wow..so.. Congratulations, Captain Tokari," she says with her gentle smile. "This is a good change," she decides. "Okay. So. Does everyone here know everyone else? Or do I need to do some industrial-sized introducing? Bishop, you sir are going to wash your hands right now." Very little escapes her watchful gaze.

"There should be rope in a crate up in the fore starboard corner o' the catwalks," Aradia says with a smirk as she shakes her head to the pilot and then adds, "As for pants, I hope you've got spare. I'm not sure you'd fit into mine anymore than you'd fit into Jo's dress." As more people spill out into the commons, she realizes that it's highly unlikely that most people don't know who's who and sets to a brief round table introduction, gesturing to each person in turn. "Folks, this is Sujiko 'n Madison. Suji 'n Matty, you already know Jo 'n Tasha. This here's Kael, Saienne, Bishop 'n Lucinda."

Kael Bowen slowly makes his way in the commons from the Aft corridor. His eyes are closed for the moment and his hat and jacket tucked under his right arm. His feet make their usual 'thunk' as they hit metal followed by the slightly softer 'thud' as they meet rug. His eyes opened quickly and with a smile pulling at the corner of his mouth he looks about before turning right and making a beeline towards the galley.

Tasha gives a little wave to all as she's introduced, nodding to the other members of the Grace's company that she hasn't met yet. Odd how that works, but it seems to somehow. Different sleep schedules and the like.

Matty is going through a pocket of her trousers, finding a packet of peanuts, giving a nod here and there in response to Sujiko's explanation. "Yeah.. Mostly uneventful," she repeats and rips the peanut packet open with a tearing noise. She glances around at a crowd that seems to be growing by the second, then shakes out a few peanuts to start popping them in her mouth, nodding to each of the people as they're introduced. A few of the faces and names are known to her, another few aren't, but everyone gets a nod of greeting, including Aradia and Josephine. Of course, there's a face missing, which she /knows/ ought to be here.. - Gloriously expressive and nicely evocative - as I have come to expect from Matty through our few encounters.

Saienne lifts her hand to her forhead in a lazy salute aimed as a greeting at Josephine. She doesn't speak either, but turns to lean on the counter and look out at the crowded commons - at which point she spies Bishop's trouserless figure. "Good gorram," she says again, "Ain't you got no shame? We got visitors an' everythin'!" She shakes her head, but the outburst is tempered by a crooked grin. "Legs ain't bad, mind." A pause. "Seen worse." As Ara introduces everyone, Sai nods a pleasant greeting to those she doesn't know.

Sujiko nods to the three (Kael, Saienne, and Bishop in no particular order) he doesn't know. "Aye, I've met Lu," he notes, referring to the earlier time on Persephone... Matty elbowed him in the stomach if he's not mistaken. "Sheesh, ya' got the whole gorram crew here on our account?" he wonders, but quickly realizes there is, indeed, a Hatch missing. "Nice t' meet y'all," he adds with a friendly wave to wherever most of the new aquaintences seem to be gathered.

Bishop looks at Josie for a moment then with an upbeat grin, walks over to actually wash his hands, only giving Saiene a quirked eyebrow. "Well we have company but no one told me we'd have company so I can't really be held overly accountable for the situation of greeting company in my state." Shaking the water from his hands he stretches and nods towards the folks when they get assigned names by Aradia. To Sujiko, Bishop pipes in. "I hope they're here for you, because if they're here to see me then this situation is even more depressing than we thought."

Lucinda looks over to Sujiko, settling down in the cushy chair, "We're a little pressed for good news of late. Guess we're drawn to it like moths to a flame." As Kael rejoins the group, she seems to keep a watchful eye on him.

Josephine narrows her eyes slightly at Kael as he approaches. She looks worried for a moment, but she's not the sort to make a scene. Instead she hugs his arm briefly. "You come to help me with the zillion mugs of coffee?" she says, smiling endearingly to the man. "And now you'll finally get to really meet Matty. Here..in the middle of a snow field. On Haven. Kind of wierd, that, but we can work with it." She pokes about in the cooler. "Oh dear. No more milk or cream or anything. We'll have to make do with the alarmingly tasty synthetic powered stuff. Sai, I don't suppose you know where that is? And even if you don't, would you mind poking around in the cabinets a bit?"

Tasha frowns a little for a moment, thinking of one rather significant 'someone' in her life who isn't here for this convivial little gathering. "Yeah, guess that's about the long and the short of it, Lu." she replies, nodding and stretching a little. "Just make mine black, if'n ya would please, Jose." she calls. "Just about all my 'get up and go' done gone up and went."

Matty pops peanuts into her mouth, leaning back in her chair and letting a grimace cross her face at Lucinda's words about good news. "Ain't all good news..." she mumbles, more to herself as she tosses a glance toward Sujiko, then continues eating her peanuts, glancing up toward Josephine and Kael. "Yeah. I'll take mine black too, thanks, Jose."

Kael Bowen reaches up, tossing a bit of a wave towards Matty and Sujiko, "Nice to meet ya two.. I've h-heard about you through Jose." He turns his gaze towards Jose then, wrapping her in a quickly family like hug before nodding, "S-Sure, Jose. How many mugs do we have to get?" His mouth tries to pull into a bit more of a grin, but falls a bit short at a smile.

"Well I'm sure everyone what's been working can afford to take a break 'n relax a little," Aradia says, pointedly looking from Tasha to Bishop to Saienne even as she grins. At the question of whether the whole crew is here or not, her gaze sweeps around the commons and through the galley to do a headcount before she looks back to Suji. "Nope, Ronnie, Ymir and Hatch are doin' repairs back in engineering and Max is with Finn, other 'n that, pretty much, yeah." Knowing Sujiko, she adds, "I'll take ye back there to have a look for yeself once you've had a chance to defrost 'n get settled."

"Is that so?" Saienne asks of Bishop. "Well, I suppose your condition is in the service of the Grace, an' I reckon that makes it eminently forgivable." Her attention is diverted from Bishop by the sound of Josephine's voice, and she turns around at the counter and nods at the other woman. "Surely can," she says, stepping into the galley and beginning her search. She glances once at Kael as she passes him, perhaps picking up the waves of concern coming from Lucinda and Josephine, but neither says or does anything other than stand on tiptoes to reach one of the higher cupboards.

Sujiko grins, looking around at the group. His attention is caught by the prospect of good news, and is stolen by Matty at the return comment, to which he shrugs. "Good news is we got what ya' need t' get off this rock, an' I'm fairly sure I know how t' get rid o' that singularity," he says. "Bad news is I ain't no expert, an' higher dimentional physics don't leave much room fer mistakes," he says. Turning to Ara, he adds "An' yeah, I'll take a look an' see what I can dig up. More we fix th' less we gotta replace an' the more ya' got fer spare, ya' know?"

Lucinda just watches, observes, and stays aloof. Its what she does best, afterall, but she's still looking fidgety. Maybe she's just anxiously waiting coffee.

"Just the ones on the counter," Josephine tells Kael, looking unhappy for some reason. "But I'll do the filling of them. Just get me the sugar..it's in the container just by the stove, the one with the happy flowers on it. Then you go sit down with Lucinda. I'm sure Saienne, bless her heart, won't mind helping me with the rest." She's already filling some of the mugs, knowing by heart just how everyone who's ever been part of the same crew likes their coffee. Interestingly enough, all the currently present Captains take their coffee black..and they're the ones that get served first, anyway. One of the priviledges of rank. Sujiko first, as the honoured guest. Then Aradia and Tasha.

Tasha shakes her head a little. "Okay, okay, I'll be the dumbass at the table and ask the obvious." she begins."What in the Sam Hill are you talking about?" she asks Sujiko, chuckling a little. "I mean, seriously. I've had my hands full pullin' the Yaga back together. So I'm slightly out of whack here. What's going on? What's this sing-u-lar-i-ty?" she says, carefully pronouncing the strange word "And why in hell not just call it a black hole and be done with it?" she adds quickly, nodding her thanks to Jose for the coffee. "And what's it got to do with the weather here? Or the malady that struck Finn and his people?" - I think most of us were in the same boat in this conversation, and this pose put across our collective ignorance very effectively. I'm looking forward to RPing with Tasha some more, if the opportunity presents.

"Thanks Jo," Aradia says with a warm smile to her before she looks over to Tasha, after a sip from the mug now in hand. "It's not a black hole 'n Suji can probably tell you what the reason for the weather being screwed up is but it ain't got no direct cause for why Finn's mum and everyone else got sick."

Kael Bowen makes his way over towards the container of sugar, his feet making their usual somewhat heavy falls as his eyes look about at all the people again. He reaches the stove, reaching out and snagging the container of sugar before making his way back and slips it onto the counter next to Jose. He whispers something quietly to her as he passes by, heading over towards Lucinda with a smile pulling at his mouth. He says back to her, "Oh and I would enjoy a more formal introduction, Jose.. After all you've told me about those two."

Matty seems to have spaced out with all this talk of singularities, black holes and everything else going on around her. She simply focuses on her peanuts until the packet is empty at which point she frowns and crumbles it up to stuff back in a pocket. She's not one to leave trash lying around on other people's ships, after all.

"Nope," agrees Saienne as she surfaces with the powdered milk. "Ain't no bother at all." She settles the jar down on the galley counter and then steps back, awaiting further instructions. She listens to Tasha asking her questions, and nods in agreement. "I've been meanin' to ask some of those things myself, an' all." She shrugs. "I reckon I got my head wrapped around the singularity an' the EMP an' all that - but the illness? Where does that fit in?" Aradia's comment causes her to muse out loud: "Mayhap they ain't too closely related."

Sujiko nods his confirmation with Aradia's statement. "A black hole's more specific. A singularity is basically a whole bunch o' stuff," he holds up a finger, "Compressed t' a single 0-dimentional point in space, makin' a gravitational pull somethin' wicked," he explains, visualizing an imaginary singularity at the very tip of his finger. "A black hole jus' means it's a singularity with an event horizon that nothin' can get out o', includin' light," he says. "Tha's why they call it black." He accepts his coffee from Josephine with a friendly smile and a quick "Thanks," before taking a sip and continuing his explaination. "'course, if'n this is what I think it is, it ain't never existed since th' big bang," he continues, "Which theory says started as a naked singularity. As fer th' weather, I ain't got no idea. It ain't never been observed before... god knows what th' hell it'd do to an ecosystem, 'specially an artificially terraformed one..." - Someone who knows what they're talking about! Good to RP with you, Sujiko, and thank you for the explanations.

"All things are related," Josephine observes, "Just not necessarily very closely. Thank you, Sai." She goes about pouring and mixing everyone's prefered coffee from memory and directing Saienne as to who gets what, although she does half the serving herself. "Hey, Suji..I wonder what would happen if you put this singularity thing in the gravity pull of an actual blackhole," she wonders, while handing Lucinda her mug and just before delivering Matty's.

Lucinda pipes up from where she sits. "Something akin to the Ice Age of the Earth That Was, I imagine." She says darkly to the comment of weather as she accepts the warm mug from Josephine with a quiet word of thank you.

Matty stares at Sujiko as he talks, blinking every now and then, but clearly most of everything he's saying about the singularity goes right over her head. "Uh... Could we get that in /English/, please, Suj?" she says and glances around as Josephine delivers her coffee. "Thanks, Jose." She takes a sip and gives a satisfied nod, looking up to give Josephine a broad smile. "Tastes great."

Tasha sips at her coffee and nods her agreement. "Please. Pretend I didn't exactly pass high school algebra." she smiles sweetly. "And this is great coffee, Jose." she adds.

"All right," concedes Saienne a bit gruffly, "Mayhap I ain't got my head wrapped round it after all." She frowns. "I expect somethin' like that in the heart of the rock'd throw all kinds of chaos up, ain't it so? Weather an' illnesses an' the like." A pause. "Rain of toads." She shrugs again, and looks across at Sujiko and grins a crooked grin. "Reckon from now on I'll leave the ponderin' to them that has an inklin' about what they're ponderin' on." Following Josephine's directions, Saienne takes a mug to Kael, offers one to Bishop, and keeps one for herself.

Kael Bowen moves over and sits down in front of Lucinda's chair, giving a bit of a smile up to her and nudging her leg with a shoulder. He looks around the room again before commenting, "Oh you think it's bad here.. should try by the singularity itself. Aradia was right. It makes the ship feel nearly like a vacation on a nice warm beach... not to mention the bears." He shakes his head, frowning a little as if lost in though, takes the mug offered by Saienee, giving a bit of a smile and a nod to her. - Kael's hints that something is wrong are pitched perfectly for the character. Good stuff again, and it's always a pleasure to be in a scene with Kael.

Lucinda's hand rests briefly on Kael's forehead. A moment of tenderness? Or maybe she's just checking for a fever. Whatever the intent, her hand only lingers a second or more and she leans down to mutters something in Kael's ear. Then, back to her coffee.

Sujiko takes another sip of coffee, pondering the situation carefully. Why in gods name would anyone try to do this? The risk involved is unbelievable. The comments about not understanding his explaination go unnoticed save for a light smirk and a quick comment of "if'n it goes wrong, it'd prob'ly be th' most catastrophic thing t' happen in all o' recorded history," and leaves it at that. The topic clearly has the wheels turning, as he stands quietly sipping his coffee, his gaze fixed at the empty space between his face and the floor.

Tasha winces. "Grrreeeaat." she sighs, slumping a little. "So, we've got two basic choices. Let this whatcha thing eat Haven alive and probably kill everybody on it. Or, we try and do something about it and, hey, if we screw it up, we destroy the whole Gorram 'verse! Shiny! No pressure..."

Matty looks at Sujiko, blinks and takes a sip of her coffee. "Right.. Well, it'll be fun bein' at ground zero, eh?" she says sarcastically and grins at Tasha as she leans back in her chair, turning toward Sujiko with a conspiratorial smile. "Kinda puts other stuff inta perspective, don't it?"

Josephine does not seem inclined to drink coffee herself, because she pours herself a cup of water, considering the gathered people with obvious fondness in her eyes. Knowing her, she's looking for details to see if anyone's cold or needs a pillow or a napkin or anything that can make them feel more comfortably at home. When she's satisfied that everyone will manage to survive for a moment without her constant care, she takes her cup of water and goes to hover around Matty whom she clearly still can't believe is actually here. "Yes, but what about my black hole in the black hole idea?" she asks Sujiko, curiously, while lightly drumming her hands on top of Matty's head.

Kael Bowen sips a little at his coffee before giving a quick look up towards Lucinda. His lips move, saying something quietly back. His left hand reaches up a little and pats her knee, slipping down along the front of her calf before pulling away. His eyes turn back towards the talk of the singularity, "No.. we can't let it eat t-the planet. It'll just sit there right for the Alliance to p-pick up. What we need to do is send it away or destroy it.." His mouth pulls into a bit of a grimace a couple times before it sticks.

"And I thought not having pants was a serious problem." Bishop comments before sipping his coffee and falling quiet once more.

Sujiko chuckles lightly. "I'd make a bigger black hole," he says simply, returning from Suji-land and taking another sip of coffee. "Best way o' get'n rid o' it so far's I can tell is see 'bout movin' th' whole containment unit over t' a ship or somethin' an' jus' sendin' 'er off into deep space," he pauses. "'course a rig like that... containment alone's prob'ly 'bout the size o' an Alliance cruiser," he says with a slight frown, going back to Suji-land for some more thinking. Putting something into it would only make it bigger...

Saienne takes a deep gulp of coffee as she leans against the galley counter again. She watches the group for a moment, then reaches up a hand to scrub at the stubble on the back of her head. She has a somewhat perplexed expression on her face, although whether that is due to the science or some other thing is not entirely clear. "Well," she says, quietly enough as not to intrude overly. "I reckon there must be some task Ronnie an' Ymir need a hand with..." She pauses at Kael's last comment, and her voice is raised to carry again. "Din't I hear it said by someone or other that it ain't possible to destroy it?" She shakes her head. "Or mayhap I didn't..." And, so saying, she gathers up a couple more mugs of coffee and wanders off in the direction of the engine room.