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fierybluebird) wrote2013-01-26 11:31 am
fierybluebird) wrote2013-01-26 11:31 am
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4th Wall Break Time!
[Wow, this is a lot of people. Marco gives up fighting his way through the crowd and just switches to hovering. Don't mind the half phoenix, half man above you, okay? He's relatively tame...ish. After flitting about for a little though, he gets tired of trying to spot everyone through the crowd.]
[He gives a sharp piercing whistle and yells out loudly:]
MARCO!
[One might wonder why he's calling his own name, but he's trying to see who will call back Polo. For science! Or you know, so he knows who will be interesting to go fly down to.]
[And later on, he'll be playing hopscotch, and that night he'll be hanging out on the roof of CH3 drinking and saying a toast to his father's memorial. Anyone care to join him?]
[He gives a sharp piercing whistle and yells out loudly:]
MARCO!
[One might wonder why he's calling his own name, but he's trying to see who will call back Polo. For science! Or you know, so he knows who will be interesting to go fly down to.]
[And later on, he'll be playing hopscotch, and that night he'll be hanging out on the roof of CH3 drinking and saying a toast to his father's memorial. Anyone care to join him?]
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A good friend of mine. She's kinda tall compared to an Earthling. Long blonde hair. Pretty.
I've gotta warn ya, though: don't fall for her. She's a damned good fighter, and any wrong move is gonna land ya a swift yet painful death.
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I MEAN NO.]She sounds a little like Daisy, eh?
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[
he would eventually--he lived on the floor above her's.]But, she sound's fun. Your girl does too, if ya don't mind me saying.
[He wasn't talking romantically either. Egalitarian fighter is egalitarian.]
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But thanks, I'll keep an eye out for your friend, eh.
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Anyway...Marco Polo? I ain't from Earth or anywhere in Federation space--care to refresh me on the rules?
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Basically you call Marco, see who yells Polo back and then tag one of them. I think there's supposed to be a blindfold and water involved, but I don't swim.
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And a like a game for a group. Might be better to organize than hold a few rounds off the cuff like this, especially during a 'shift'
How's about a few rounds in a bar instead?
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Drinks are always preferable, eh?
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Let's go get a few cold ones and think about the game later.
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Sounds like a plan to me, eh. [Gestures a thumb to the bar.] If nothing else, at least half of my nakama are likely to make their way there eventually.
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[Cliff nodded in agreement at the gesture--let's go, bro!] Question. Whaddya mean by 'nakama'? Sounds like an old Terran word to me, before they made a standard.
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Nakama are people so close that no matter how they fight, or even if they really dislike each other, they'll find a way to get through it. For the sake of each other and their other goals, eh? People who'd give their lives to protect each other. So family, eh.
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Y'know? That sounds kinda the crew I'm a part of back home. The Diplo ain't a big ship, but there's no better crew in the galaxy.
It's...kinda like a home, ya know?
[Notwithstanding the fact that he used to be the captain of that vessel, and is indeed the founder of the organization that the vessel represents.
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Our own ship, the Moby Dick, was our nakama too. [Was, was. Blah. Not going to think too hard on that.]
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They kick me outta strategy meetings, saying that there's no room. The nerve of them!
[At a height of six-foot-five and with the build of a rugby player that could bench Marco himself, Cliff had no right to complain.]
I, uh, thought that Moby Dick was the name of a novel from Earth, written 'round the late 1800s by their calendar.
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We have a book named that too. It's my father's favorite. Our ship is a big white whale, and we coat it to go under water so when she surfaces, she looks even more like one. Plus white things and vengeance, it's what we're the most famous for, eh. Same with Moby Dick. He was a whale getting revenge for his brothers who were being hunted and killed for oil.
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Sounds like a wild bunch, if ya have a name like that. What kinda ship is your Moby Dick anyway? I dunno of too many kinds that can go under the water...
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Oh, we can get a bit rowdy. And normally it wouldn't be able to, but we coated her with Sabaody bubbles... you kind of have to know my world to get it. Basically tree resin that makes a giant bubble for the ship.
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[Quick mental conversion from the old Imperial system on Earth to the Metric that was used in Federation space and adopted by the rest of the developed galaxy...] Seven meters?!
[That...yea. That was almost as big as the Marquis.]
Wow, that's--
Huh. Some world.
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Everyone says that. Pops and my brothers had nothing on Little Oars Jr., eh? He was about three hundred feet tall.
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Wow. And I thought dragons were bad.
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What were the dragons like where you're from?
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