EVENT: ARIMA ▒ APRIL 22-23

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Arima Mining Colony
WARNINGS: Potential for gambling, drugs, violence, sex work.
SUMMARY: Passengers departing for and arriving by shuttle at the Arima Mining Colony.
NOTES: Covers April 22-23. IC event start commences post-Gunnery announcement. Divided by locations; players are free to indicate which day, and to begin new subthreads wherever they'd like! April 24-26 log here.

You step off of the shuttles into one of the bustling, heavily-guarded docks buried deep within the rock of an asteroid. Everyone seems too wrapped up in their own business to pay much mind to the group pouring out with you, and the mechanical sounds of takeoff, landing, and regular maintenance fill the air with clinks and whirs. As you begin to explore the colony, you find dingy and worn streets filled with a ruckus that's easy to get lost in: pushy merchants, booming, scratchy voices coming from inebriated patrons, and the scurrying footsteps of opportunistic thieves darting through the crowds. The colony no longer seems to profit off its mines, but this waystation for undesirables does have a taste for myriad forms of entertainment.

Comments

Shuttle [Piloted by Wash]

[dino_zarf]

[Wash can't help being a bit excited to get to actually fly again. Sure, the place they were heading to might be risky. Risky was kinda his life.

He's a right friendly pilot, too.]

This is your pilot speaking. We'll be running through an asteroid field so I really recommend strapping in now. You're responsible for cleaning up the results of any avoidable injuries.

[likescats]

[Yay, friendly pilot. Meet friendly Death. Who is still fascinated by the things humans do. Sitting politely inside and watching everything.

Sorry he has a question.]

WERE YOU A 'PILOT' BEFORE YOU ARRIVED ON THE SPACESHIP?

[dino_zarf]

Ah!

[You don't really get that many giant skeletons that talk inside your head out on the border worlds. Or the Core worlds. Or anywhere, really. Takes a person by surprise when there's suddenly one.]

Warn a fellow before you do that.

I flew a cargo ship out on the border worlds. Sometimes meant getting real fancy.

[Like these upcoming asteroids]

[likescats]

I FIND IT'S RATHER HARD TO WITHOUT STARTLING THEM MORE.

[It's amazing what scares people, still better the mind speak freaking them out then them all asking if they're going to die the moment he shows up.]

SO SHIPS LIKE THIS ARE COMMON WHERE YOU ARE FROM?

[dino_zarf]

Right. Because you're a giant skeleton who talks in people's head.

[It's seriously disconcerting.]

Not the exact same technology, but we've been travelling in space for centuries. Sometimes go weeks without going groundside.

[likescats]

YES.

[The things you make do with when you have no vocal cords]

FASCINATING. I HAVE ONLY SEEN ONE SUCH MACHINE WHERE I AM FROM. IT WAS MADE OF WOOD AND POWERED BY SWAMP DRAGONS HOWEVER. IT ONLY MADE ONE TRIP OFF THE DISC.

[dino_zarf]

Shensheng de gaowan! It was made of wood? How did they even seal that?

[He's not even going to start on the dragons. No one gets to say his home sounds outlandish again]

[likescats]

YOU WOULD HAVE TO ASK THE MAN WHO BUILT IT. I ONLY SHOWED UP FOR A BRIEF PERIOD. THEY WERE RATHER MORE SUCCESSFUL THEN ONE OF THEM THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE.

[dino_zarf]

Any of them thought that would work at all?

[And he thought he worked with crazy people.

Well, he did, but this was a whole new level.]

[likescats]

TWO OF THE THREE SEEMED TO THINK SO. OR AT LEAST ONLY ONE VOICED HIS COMPLAINTS. THE MISSION WENT RATHER WELL FROM WHAT I RECALL THOUGH.

[dino_zarf]

Were the two who thought it was a good idea by any chance completely drunk?

[It's the only explanation. Wood.]

[likescats]

NO, BUT ONE WAS A GENIUS, WHICH I AM TOLD IS OFTEN IN A SIMILAR MINDSET.

[dino_zarf]

Could well be.

[Of course, who is he kidding]

The other one was the pilot, wasn't he.

[likescats]

THE OTHER ONE WAS A MEMBER OF THE WATCH.

[dino_zarf]

Watch... you mean a lawman?

[Okay, he didn't see that one coming]

[likescats]

YES. A CAPTAIN OF THE ANKH-MORPORK WATCH.

[dino_zarf]

He just... up and decided to go poke around space instead of... watch things?

[Mr Skeleton, you are from a strange world.

Which might explain why you're a skeleton and talking in his head.]

[likescats]

NO, HE WENT WITH THE WIZARD AND THE INVENTOR TO STOP A GROUP OF HEROES FROM DESTROYING THE WORLD. IT WAS THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD GET TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DISC QUICK ENOUGH. OR SO I BELIEVE IT WAS.

[dino_zarf]

[Well that's...]

I'm sending the next person who calls my world weird to you.