Welcome to the Illyria!

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Stardate 58561.8: Day One

Now that you've all got your room assignments and communicators, it's time to explore this ship. Please check out the deck plans to figure out where you're going. You can read about some of the existing crew members you might run into here.

Even those of you who may feel right at home on a spaceship will find that the Illyria is definitely a bit... different. Mostly because she's kind of a wreck right now. Whatever it was that threw the ship all the way out here to wherever we are, it really did a number on the ship itself. There's a lot of damaged areas, and several of the ship's systems have been compromised. You'll find that the replicators don't always work right (I asked for hasperat and I got pok tar!?), the turbolifts are unusually persnickety (I said bridge, not engineering!), and the environmental controls in your quarters may not do as they're told (why is it snowing in Room 4J?). Several corridors are blocked by debris, and more often than not the lights are flickering if they're on at all.

So what will you do? Help clean up the mess in the hallways? Try some bizarre alien food in the mess hall? Try and infiltrate restricted areas to get a peek at the ship's systems? Feel free to make your own top level comment, and treat this as a big mingle. Get to know your new crewmates, explore your new home, make friends or enemies, and whatever you do, don't try the gagh. If you need the captain or the first officer, please let a mod know, but try and stick to threading with your fellow new recruits!


(Don't worry about the entry tags for the moment, they will be added shortly. Before we throw ourselves into missions on alien planets, we wanted everyone to have a chance to get to know one another, so please use this opening log as an opportunity to kick off some CR with crewmates and bunk buddies, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask a mod!)

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[fist_of_hydra]

"Shellshock. Yeah, I guess that's one word for it." Bucky was pretty sure the term didn't even begin to cover what was wrong with him. Shellshock didn't take into account the fact that HYDRA had literally fucked with his head, for one thing. But it was a good enough description for now.

He reached out again, unable to stop himself and not really wanting to, and brushed a hand over her shoulder in a brief, reassuring grip. "Yeah. For sure. You, too, okay? Steve'll never forgive me if I don't watch your back here." Of that much, he was certain.

[senkan_yamato]

"Oh, I would not say that it is out of turn. It is just...not a question I have many answers for. I apologize for confusing you." A chorus of tiny high pitched squeaks rose in support of their 'leader' and Yamato glanced back at her crew and smiled at them. "Hush now, she's done no harm." Turning back to Peggy she bowed again. "They can be a little childish at times, do excuse them and don't leave sweets around where they can find them."

[nevermindtherunning]

"Ah, but it's not bigger than the outside!" The Doctor rocked onto his toes at the mentioning of this, a cheeky grin on his face before he realized Luke probably didn't have a clue what he was talking about.

"Erm, sorry. It's a joke." He tugs at his ear absentmindedly. "I'm having difficulty accessing the ships logs here. I was hoping I'd find some answers there, but some of the data has been erased." He pitches in and helps Luke move things to clear the area. Upon seeing the force, he's even more curious about the other man.

[nobettycarver]

She smiled faintly at the touch, and then her brows arched in surprise. "What, is that the only reason?" she teased, missing the fact that he'd referred to Steve in the present tense. "Just so you know, I'll be watching your back, as well. And not just because he would have wanted me to."

[nobettycarver]

Peggy blinked when the little creatures began to protest, even more confused than before. Maybe they were more like fairies? Though she didn't believe in magic, her grandmother's voice seemed to whisper that conclusion in her ear.

"Ah, well, no harm done, then," she said uncertainly. "Still, I do apologize for not understanding."

[fist_of_hydra]

"Not the only reason," he asserted, shaking his head. "And he'd kick my ass just as fast for not helping any of the Commandos, not just you. Still, the last thing I wanna do is piss him off." He managed a smile, but it was decidedly ragged around the edges. "We've had enough things come between us, lately. I don't wanna fight him again."

Ever again. Bucky would never, ever forget the sight of his friend broken and bleeding beneath him.

[notrosesshadow]

"Seventy years!" She counts back. "Blimey! So it was sometime in the late 30s or early 40s when you went down." A lot has happened provided his universe followed the same general path hers did. "The internet is very useful, but it's also a huge distraction. Tell me, it wasn't a group called Torchwood that had you cryogenically frozen was it?"

The question is innocent. Mainly she wants to know if he's one of Jack's.

[notrosesshadow]

Martha shrugged. "Some of it. Of course, the kidnapping part not so much. We'll figure a way back though I'm sure." She really isn't too concerned. Compared to ending up on a Dalek ship, this is nothing to panic over. And besides, people need help. She can definitely help.

Lol I finally figured out your username

[fist_of_hydra]

"Early '45," he confirmed. "Captured by a Russian soldier, only they turned out to be a branch of HYDRA."

His mouth tightened as he spoke the name, and he flexed his left hand in a subconscious gesture. "Crazy bastards who played nice with Hitler until they decided they'd rather take over the world themselves, if you don't know the name. Never heard of Torchwood."

[farmboyjedi]

"It's all right." Luke did wonder what he meant with the joke, but he didn't ask for elaboration.

"Strange." Luke replied. "Sounds like someone's trying to hide something from us." That was the natural logic when records were erased like that. "I don't think I like it."

Luke noticed the other man's curiosity, his instinct telling him he probably wasn't from the same area he was, probably didn't know about the Force.

"I guess some of these lifts look a little interesting, since the items are so big. Many of the beings where I come from can access and use a kind of energy called the Force. It flows through all living things, but not everyone can use it. I can tap into it and make it a little easier to deal with some of the heavier stuff."

[condemned_copper]

Louise nodded wordlessly as Yamato described her relationship to her weaponry; the redhead felt something similar to her own. Still, the unique strangeness of the situation she now found herself in lent itself more at first towards exploration than securing her firearm--one might say she'd been rendered 'temporarily discombobulated'. Since then, she'd more or less settled in by the end of the first 16 hours or so.

However, when the younger woman revealed her identity, Louise's brows swept up. "A...battleship. You." She shook her head, utterly confused. "But...you're--human?" What was the girl playing at?

[senkan_yamato]

Yamato demurely covered her smile and half-closed her eyes. "It was quite a shock to me as well when I awoke with hands and fingers and all this hair. I remember..." Her features lost some of their mirth but she only paused for an instant as she reached up to touch the flowers in her hair. "I remember the first cherry blossoms of April in 1945. I remember Operation Ten-go and my own death, but I was not...sentient. Not until I was awakened by my return to the land of the living in this style." She shook off the dark talk and pressed on. "As for this body-while it looks human, I would advise you not to try punching me. I am very strong as well-the exact figures are classified, but I can say that an Olympic weight-lifter would be put to shame. And my guns." There was a sparkle in her eyes. "They are every bit as fine and powerful as they ever were."

Which was all well and good, but meant that Louise was rooming with an unstoppable, if fluffy, juggernaut.

Ha! I love it, but yeah. I didn't even think about using underscores when I made it back on LJ

[notrosesshadow]

Martha shook her head. "Never heard of them, but I do know the type. Ran into a few of the take over the world types in my time. And been captured by them."

She frowns. "I'm sorry you had to go through whatever it is they did to you." He hasn't really told her anything, but she caught the mouth tighten and the flex of his hand. She heard how cagey he sounded.

[condemned_copper]

Brows remained arched neatly as Yamato described how she came to be in her current position. Quite simply, it was unlike any story the redhead had heard in her entire life; but then, her own story was rather heavy-handed, as well. She'd died and come back twice--the two women would have that in common, at least, and the copper chuckled to gamely to herself at the thought.

A 'fluffy juggernaut', the human battleship was, and the raven-haired woman had barely uttered the last syllable before Louise's hand came up in mock surrender. "No worries, I've absolutely no plans to knock you for twelve any time soon; especially as we're to be sharing quarters." The first genuinely warm smile spread across her lips, this time reaching her eyes, the formal pretences gone, if only for a few moments.

"And if you like tea, we'll get on like a house on fire."

I'm like, 'What's a notroses?'

[fist_of_hydra]

When she mentioned being captured, he finally looked up and met her eyes properly for the first time. There was a dark sympathy in his expression, and his personal horror lurked behind that. Presumably she hadn't suffered to the extent her had, because she was still a fully functional, seemingly normal person.

Then again, maybe she was just stronger than he'd been, and hadn't broken. He wasn't going to judge. And any amount of pain caused by enemies was too much.

"Sorry you did, too." His voice was gruff. "Nobody should have to go through that. But hell, I guess that's what I signed up to fight for. So the world would stay free, and people wouldn't have to."

[senkan_yamato]

"It is...difficult to understand, certainly. I do not blame you." Yamato reached up for the fairy on her head and helped the little one down, offering Peggy a uncertain smile. "I do not understand this all myself, as I have said. If you have had difficulty understanding, perhaps that is because I have difficulty explaining."

[nevermindtherunning]

The Doctor is continuing on at the task at hand before stopping, "All living things? Even non-humans?" He hadn't thought to ask Luke if non-humans existed where he was from, or come across.

"I'm beginning to think we've been pulled to a pocket universe." Because that's happened far too often in his life. "Where are you from?" Maybe the Doctor knew the planet and could figure things out from there.

[snapturtle]

She catches the look at her collar and Peggy will notice that B'Elanna doesn't have the same pips that the other Starfleet officers are wearing. That's going to take some explaining.

"Lietenant, Junior Grade. And actually, I'm new here too. This... isn't my ship."

[snapturtle]

"You made these?" This said with a bit of a mouthful of riceball. She looked at them. They were so... neatly done. Perfect triangles. B'Elanna is no child but she's pretty sure she couldn't make food look this nice.

"They're good."

Not really what she's used to but, they weren't bad at all. That ice cream looked like it was melting though, so once she finished her first riceball, she started on that. The drink though is given a curious look.

"What is that?"

[snapturtle]

"Or, you could try to act like a civilized member of society and ask what my name is."

Sorry, sir. But if she's going to help you, she'd like for you to at least try to be polite. She's pretty busy here after all.

[snapturtle]

B'Elanna sighed and stretched for a moment before moving back back to the open panel.

"It's all right. I should get back to work anyway."

[snapturtle]

Now B'Elanna is certainly not a weak woman. Far from it. Her strength is a little above that of the average human. However, moving this fallen chunk of metal is proving to be more than a bit challenging. In fact, she gets so frustrated, that she slams her palms on it with a snarl.

But when someone comes up from behind her and offers assistance, she nearly jumps out of her skin, whirling around to stare. A few moments of irritation and sheepishness later, she nods and replies in an exasperated tone.

"Yes... Yes, please.

[snapturtle]

It does seem that way.

"... I'm fine. Even though you've just added to our work load."

So now she'll be trying to move around him and and turns on a hand light so she can see.

[spoiledegg]

Letting out a long sucking sound of tongue against teeth, as if B'Elanna was the one being unreasonable here, Disaché points a splayed palm at her and asks, "Fine. What's your name?"

His tone is flat enough that it barely sounds like a question.

[senkan_yamato]

"I am more used to green tea than black but I have learned a great deal about the English style...though only from Kongo." Flashbacks to her enthusiastic colleague moved before Yamato's eyes-the tackle-hugs in the hallways, the yelling for the Admiral to bed her, tea taken at every hour of the day... How accurate was any information gleaned from such a woman?

Well it would have to be accurate enough. "I am sure we will have a pleasant enough time together."