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come_sailaway2023-01-08 12:38 pm
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This is my fight song
Who: Arilanna Tayrey and OPEN
What: January catch-all including poetry club!
When: Approximately January 2-12
Where: Various
Warnings: Criticism of Christianity, possible trial angst, will update if necessary
Note: I use brackets but please write however you prefer!
1. Like a small boat on the ocean (Lounge)
[Ari Tayrey spent several days after their return sneaking around the ship, trying to escape notice, or at least escape anyone asking awkward questions about what happened. All her energy has been given over to looking after Nobunaga, to trying to smooth things over with people she feels she may have hurt.
Now, she seems back to herself again. The familiar figure in the familiar blue uniform. She's quieter than she was, less likely to approach people, but she's taking up space again. Catch her in the lounge, where she'll be working on one of her projects. Maybe it's drawing another map, or decorating a star chart. Maybe you'll see her using her new drawing board to create a very precise technical drawing of a starship. You might see her branching out and struggling to whittle - she'd better be careful of her fingers!
If it's getting towards mid-January, you may note that alongside her actual gun, she now seems to have a water pistol. Very odd and incongruous for someone as serious as her!]
2. Sending big waves into motion (Stairs)
[None of this is any excuse to abandon her training. Ari doesn't like jogging. It's still uncomfortable and she'd much rather be in the gym with the weights, doing something she knows she's good at. However, this isn't a starship, and chances are she's going to have to run from something someday. In the interest of efficiency, she does her cardio work on the stairs. Up all the flights and down again, as fast as she can.
Usually she chooses a time when this isn't going to bother anyone else, but her schedule has been erratic since she got back from the hotel. She fits things in where she can. The end result of this is that Ari Tayrey comes careening around the staircase corner at top speed - and if she doesn't collide with an unseen person on the other side, it's a very near miss! Of course she stops to make sure they're alright.]
I didn't see you there! I'm sorry!
3. I might only have one match (Poetry Club)
[Poetry Club is Oda Nobunaga's project, but Ari determines that he's not presently in the right frame of mind to be organising it, so who better to take over than his second? If you're a friend of Ari's, a friend of Nobunaga's, a regular attendee, or just someone she sees standing around when it's due to begin, she'll invite you in. There are complimentary drinks and little cakes. Share a poem you like, share a poem you've written, or just listen.
She has two contributions. The first ends up something of a performance piece - young Lieutenant Tayrey in her spacer uniform giving a quietly emotive recitation of a poem about love and tragedy out in the black. It's a departure from her usual choices, which tend to involve heroic battles of one kind or another.
Towards the end, she offers to share an Earther poem. Ari might not be comfortable with the religiosity of it, but something within it speaks to her all the same. Still, if you're from Earth, she might quietly ask you afterwards:]
Was Adam a very famous Earth engineer?
[Answer her, or else have general poetry chat instead! Threadhopping/mingling tags welcome for this one.]
4. But I can make an explosion (Wildcard!)
[For anything else. Ari can easily be found in one of the bars, the gym, swimming pool or sports deck, or gathering supplies from various places for prepping purposes - but I'm open to all ideas - PM me, message on Plurk, or just put up a starter and we'll see what happens!]
What: January catch-all including poetry club!
When: Approximately January 2-12
Where: Various
Warnings: Criticism of Christianity, possible trial angst, will update if necessary
Note: I use brackets but please write however you prefer!
1. Like a small boat on the ocean (Lounge)
[Ari Tayrey spent several days after their return sneaking around the ship, trying to escape notice, or at least escape anyone asking awkward questions about what happened. All her energy has been given over to looking after Nobunaga, to trying to smooth things over with people she feels she may have hurt.
Now, she seems back to herself again. The familiar figure in the familiar blue uniform. She's quieter than she was, less likely to approach people, but she's taking up space again. Catch her in the lounge, where she'll be working on one of her projects. Maybe it's drawing another map, or decorating a star chart. Maybe you'll see her using her new drawing board to create a very precise technical drawing of a starship. You might see her branching out and struggling to whittle - she'd better be careful of her fingers!
If it's getting towards mid-January, you may note that alongside her actual gun, she now seems to have a water pistol. Very odd and incongruous for someone as serious as her!]
2. Sending big waves into motion (Stairs)
[None of this is any excuse to abandon her training. Ari doesn't like jogging. It's still uncomfortable and she'd much rather be in the gym with the weights, doing something she knows she's good at. However, this isn't a starship, and chances are she's going to have to run from something someday. In the interest of efficiency, she does her cardio work on the stairs. Up all the flights and down again, as fast as she can.
Usually she chooses a time when this isn't going to bother anyone else, but her schedule has been erratic since she got back from the hotel. She fits things in where she can. The end result of this is that Ari Tayrey comes careening around the staircase corner at top speed - and if she doesn't collide with an unseen person on the other side, it's a very near miss! Of course she stops to make sure they're alright.]
I didn't see you there! I'm sorry!
3. I might only have one match (Poetry Club)
[Poetry Club is Oda Nobunaga's project, but Ari determines that he's not presently in the right frame of mind to be organising it, so who better to take over than his second? If you're a friend of Ari's, a friend of Nobunaga's, a regular attendee, or just someone she sees standing around when it's due to begin, she'll invite you in. There are complimentary drinks and little cakes. Share a poem you like, share a poem you've written, or just listen.
She has two contributions. The first ends up something of a performance piece - young Lieutenant Tayrey in her spacer uniform giving a quietly emotive recitation of a poem about love and tragedy out in the black. It's a departure from her usual choices, which tend to involve heroic battles of one kind or another.
Towards the end, she offers to share an Earther poem. Ari might not be comfortable with the religiosity of it, but something within it speaks to her all the same. Still, if you're from Earth, she might quietly ask you afterwards:]
Was Adam a very famous Earth engineer?
[Answer her, or else have general poetry chat instead! Threadhopping/mingling tags welcome for this one.]
4. But I can make an explosion (Wildcard!)
[For anything else. Ari can easily be found in one of the bars, the gym, swimming pool or sports deck, or gathering supplies from various places for prepping purposes - but I'm open to all ideas - PM me, message on Plurk, or just put up a starter and we'll see what happens!]
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[ Here's Jeff, landing flat on his skinny ass-- thankfully, on the landing, so he doesn't go careening down the stairs or anything. With a groan, he starts to get up. ]
It's cool... Uh, sorry...
[ Why's he apologizing? Well, maybe he's at fault, too, who knows. It takes two to collide! But, as he gets up, he recognizes Ari, and this being his first time seeing her (uh, as a human) since the trial... He winces a little. ]
Hey.
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Peace and prosperity.
[Perfectly ordinary Tradeliner greeting. She's out of breath, and it'll take her a minute or two to recover, but that doesn't mean she can't be polite - and Ari Tayrey is resolved to be polite. If anyone's holding grudges against her for what happened at the trial, she's leaving it to those people to make them known.]
Are you hurt? There's rarely anyone on the stairs this time of day, I didn't hear you.
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[ He accepts the offered hand and flashes a peace sign. ]
Oh yeah, peace and, um, prosperity to you too.
[ Said totally sincerely, in an attempt at like... showing respect? ]
I'm okay. I mean, my ass might be bruised, but that's nothing new. [ Does that sound weird? Jeff grimaces and quickly adds: ] 'Cause, like, I fall a lot!
[ Anyway... He rubs the side of his neck awkwardly. ]
Hey, um. I just wanted to... That is... I'm sorry for, um. Snapping at you, back at the... the trial.
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The apology is entirely unexpected, and for a moment she's not sure to do with it. Then she reaches out, pats him on the shoulder.]
I appreciate that. I do. But it's fine. It's not the worst I've had said to me while I was trying to fulfil my duty, you know? You were angry. I won't take it personally.
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Jeff offers a little smile, somewhat sheepish. ]
Yeah, but... I wasn't mad at you, so I shouldn't have... It wasn't right to take it out on you. And it looked like a lot of people were, and-- It just sucked. You shouldn't have been yelled at like that.
Nobunaga's lucky to have a friend like you.
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Tensions were very high, and it's better you yelled at me than at him. I might have gotten... defensive, otherwise. He'd been badly hurt and betrayed. I was only passing on his message, because he couldn't.
[What sucks, for Ari, is that there was so much yelling that she doesn't know who she needs to be wary of now. At least with Jeff she knows where she stands, and it's on better ground than she might have guessed.]
I'd say I was the lucky one, to have him. I guess that's the real proof of mutually beneficial contract!
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Contract? [ Jeff blinks. ] I didn't know you two were--
[ Wait, contracts mean something else, like, everywhere outside of Duplicity. ]
What contract?
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No, no, not partnership contract, he's- [with Klaus, she almost says, except that now he's not.] I'm sorry. It's how things are back home, the contract is the fundamental building block of society and and all. I think of everything that way. But Oda and I do have a formal contract. I'm second-in-command of his army.
[That sounds impressive, doesn't it? It just happens to be a very small army.]
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[ Specifically partnership contracts. ]
No shit? I didn't know he had an army here! Um, should I salute you, or...?
[ Jeff, you're not even in the aforementioned army. ]
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[And then when he asks about the army she grins again.] You can salute if you'd like! It wasn't the custom in my sector, but we do it here. Oda showed me how. [Which explains why she has absolutely no grasp of the relevant 21st century Earth etiquette.]
I'm surprised you didn't know, but maybe he thought you wouldn't be interested in joining. [Ari's allowed to recruit people, but her standards are probably higher than Nobunaga's, and she's not sure Jeff would be any good at following orders.]