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[strangerpeople]

WELCOME ABOARD


[The first sensation you feel is a headache. It's brief, slicing, sharp. It passes soon after you wake up, but it is there nevertheless, and the pain is not easily forgotten. Perhaps your eyes also blur as if roused from a deep sleep; perhaps your tongue also feels off, like you swallowed a bug. It's not pleasant.

More unpleasant, though, is the second sensation that dawns on you all-this is not your bed. This, in fact, is unrecognizable. It is not anywhere you recall coming to, willingly or otherwise. It's a room with a bunk, and there is a strange smell in the air that is hard to ignore.

No, you are no longer home. Any possessions you may have had on you are gone, save your clothing and a strange watch you can't get off, no matter how hard you try. And when you run into the hallway, well-you might find yourself running into others who might be just as confused and scared as you are as the area around you slowly sways, up and down, left and right.

What is this place? Why are you here? Who are all these other people?


What is going on?]

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[godspiousjasper]

Waking up

[ On the list of possible things he had expected to wake up to today, it certainly hadn’t been this uncomfortable splitting headache and the secondary realization this was nowhere he knew.

Something that said he’d been kidnapped without the faintest idea of HOW.

Once he’d regained his bearings, Roland realized he wasn’t alone and there appeared to be a woman on the other bed with him. To which he just raised a hand up in greeting as if his head did not still ache. ]

Bonjour, madam. Not to alarm you but I believe we’ve been kidnapped. Are you hurt anywhere?

[ Eventually he may realize she’s a vampire but either way he’s going to be amiable about this. ]


Patrolling

[ Humming a little to himself, Roland had taken it upon himself to go and start checking out various places. So it’s not unusual to see what looks like an oddly dressed man of the cloth at various points around the Gigantic, inspecting everything closely.

Only as he senses someone nearby does he straighten up and flash a smile. ]

Ah, Bonjour! I certainly hope I wasn’t in your way, was I?

[ He wanted to know everything he could about this place he’d woken up in, but at some point he didn’t realize he’d gotten carried away. The last thing he wanted was to inconvenience anyone else. ]


Rec Room

How strange! I don’t see any astermite powering this..

[ One could hear his voice as he was currently enamored with the TV, checking it from all various angles trying to figure out how it worked or how it turned on. Which meant tapping it, looking behind it. Everything.

It was truly fascinating. ]

…What kind of function could this even have?

[ Sorry if any of y’all wanted to use the TV to play games or anything like that. This is just too interesting to him. ]


Infirmary

[ After a thorough inspection of this room and some trial and error? Guess who found the poisons? Not that they’re remaining there long or anything as one can spot him gathering as many into his arms as he can properly carry. All with a very apt look of concentration to where he hasn’t even really noticed someone coming in yet.

There is a task to be done and he absolutely will complete it. ]


Wildcard

[ Absolutely surprise me if nothing catches your eye. ]

Rec Room

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes managed to find the rec room, but sees that someone's already doing... something to a TV screen. He does hear a word he's completely unfamiliar with.]

Astermite? What's that?

[godspiousjasper]

[ Roland straightened up instantly and turned to face the one who'd spoken to him. Some kind of sentient machine that he didn't understand how HE worked either. Though for now addressing the question at hand. ]

Astermite is a unique mineral that serves as an energy source for most things, which is strange that I don't see any around that could be powering these unusual devices.

[ He brought a hand up to his chin in thought. ]

Unless there's a large amount of it elsewhere that's powering everything here and that's why I haven't seen any.

[somuchshipping]

Is that your word for "electricity"? Cuz I've never heard of it.

[Hermes doesn't exactly know if electricity counts as a mineral to this person.]

[godspiousjasper]

Electricity? What is that?

[ He comes from 1800's France, sir. This thing you said is not a thing that really exists yet for him. ]

Rec Room

[hatesdeerstalkers]

I must confess I'm not familiar with astermite -

[WAIT WHEN DID HE GET HERE and why is he talking from directly behind Roland?]

- but it's function, as it were, is to transmit a series of moving pictures and accompanying sounds on it's screen.

[A black gloved hand comes out to tap at said screen.]

It's quite simple to power on, though I'm unsure if we'd get little more than static.

[godspiousjasper]

[ The voice speaking up from behind him certainly was enough to make him startle slightly in surprise because he hadn't heard them approach, and it took a lot to stifle his usual instincts here.

Either way, he straightened up and his gaze fell to the screen with an apt look of delight and awe on his face after such an explanation. ]

My! How fascinating! A device capable of displaying BOTH moving pictures and sounds at once?

[ He's almost sparkling at this realization. ]

Why, i've never even heard of something like this before. Is it a new creation?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[He laughs, swept up a bit in the priest's reaction.

(He also noted the stifling - used to combat? Ah, but then, that wasn't unusual from someone from The Church...)]

New to you or I, perhaps! But not from those after our time, Father.

Regardless, it's called a 'Television.' Let's see, where is the...Ah, found it.

[He's been touching the sides until he found the row of buttons on most flatscreens, turning it on - where it shows just a simple bright blue screen.]

As I thought - though looking around, I see a collection of dvds nearby. Tell me, have you heard of Movies before?

[godspiousjasper]

[ Years of training did tend to make it instinct to do things a certain way when others caught him by surprise, though only those who had similar combat experience would have been able to spot such things.

It's only at the older man's use of such a title that he chuckled softly and used one hand to rub almost sheepishly at the back of his neck. ]

Oh, there's no need for such formal titles. Please, just call me Roland.

[ There's a whole thing that could be said as he's not a formal priest but just worked FOR the church.. though he's more distracted by the whole TV matter at the moment. A surprised noise tapered off into sheer awe as the thing actually turned on. ]

Quoi? [ Such a question leaves him before he can even think to correct himself in terms of language, really. Though he did then clear his throat before shaking his head. ] I'm afraid not! This is the first time i'm hearing about any of this!

infirmary

[autonomousthought]

[Exploration takes time, and Ritsu has made it to the infirmary...someone sure is gathering up a lot of things. She watches him for a few seconds.]

What are you doing?

[godspiousjasper]

[ Upon hearing a voice speaking to him, he blinked and then paused in the midst of his task to look back to see a young girl there. He immediately offered a kind smile, carefully adjusting the poisons he was carrying. ]

It's quite simple, my dear. These are dangerous compounds and I would be absolutely remiss if I let them fall into innocent hands.

[ In other words? He has ZERO ill intentions for these items other than trying to keep people safe. ]

If someone unsuspecting were to come in contact with these, it could result in harm or even death and that is not an outcome I wish for.

[autonomousthought]

Oh, poisons. That makes sense, then. Although, unless they have medical applications, isn't it strange if a lot of poison is here?

[This is an infirmary, after all - and a ship's infirmary at that. It wouldn't have anything too advanced or specific, normally.

But nothing's been normal here at all.]

Do you have somewhere you're planning to store them?

[godspiousjasper]

It is. I still believe it would be best to keep them out of harm's way.

[ He let off a soft hum in thought as he considered her words, then nodded proudly. ]

As it happens, I do. They were so kind to give each of us a closet and I intend to keep them in there wrapped up in a towel or something similar.

[ Yes it wouldn't be locked or anything but it wasn't like he was going around telling everyone he was doing this or would tell everyone where he was keeping them. ]

How are you managing to fare under these circumstances, miss?

Waking up

[valkavian]

Uh... No.

[ This has got to be the most chill priest she has ever met. No one is this stupid, so he's probably already on to her. Is he with the Society, she wonders? Or something else? Wtf would that something else even be?]

[godspiousjasper]

What a relief. It would truly be a shame if we had sustained injuries prior to waking up here.

[ He already has words to say to the ones who decided that kidnapping people was a thing. Though he did note her very unusual attire which was indeed quite curious on it's own, along with something else very telling. ]

You do look quite pale, however. Is there anything I can get for you?

[valkavian]

...I'm good, but can you tell me what that thing over there is?

[ She points to an indefinite space behind him. If she can just get the padre to turn around, he might be good for something. ]

[godspiousjasper]

[ There'd been some strange things he'd been picking up on up until this point, though he masks anything on his mind by simply just blinking a couple times in mild surprise. ]

A lot of this is foreign to me as well but i'll do my best to give you an answer.

[ Sure. That was an opening when he turned around, but he most certainly was listening for even the slightest bit of movement. His posture relaxed and yet not. ]

Just what is it you were looking at over here, hm?

Rec Room

[superstylishsquid]

[Well, there's a stereotypical devil with glowing white eyes walking up to turn the TV on, so...]

It's a television. A fancy one, but still not exactly an esoteric concept.

[godspiousjasper]

[ There's a small pause as Roland took in the man's appearance, as it resembled something out of a book he's read at some point previously. So many tales and historical recollections of vampires but demons were absolutely unheard of. ]

A television? Do tell me more. What does it do?

[ Matters of what someone was or wasn't could come later. This was a more pressing matter here. ]

[superstylishsquid]

You've never seen one? It shows recordings, uh...moving pictures, either showing real people or drawings that show a story. Looks like this one's also set up to play games on it.

[godspiousjasper]

Not before today, no. Never!

[ He listens intently, nodding as it all sets in before his whole expression just positively brightens! If it were possible he'd be sparkling ridiculously after this little revelation. ]

Really?! How positively incredible! Amazing! I didn't even know such a thing was even possible!

infirmary

[exequte]

[She'd come to the infirmary to see how well supplied it was, among other things, and found a strange man with his arms full of bottles, trying to grab even more.]

Oh! Uh. What... what are you doing with those?

[She peers at one of the bottles that he's holding. Digitoxin?]

Do you have heart problems...?

[godspiousjasper]

[ Thankfully they weren't just ANY bottles but the ones of a very lethal nature but he was being slightly haphazard about it. Not to where he was dropping any but some of the not-so-fatal ones may have been grabbed accidentally. ]

Ah, I'm afraid not.

[ A glance down to the bottles he was carrying, then back up to the young woman here with him. ]

I am in the process of removing what appear to be dangerous poisons from the reach of any innocent individuals so noone can get hurt.

[exequte]

Oh.

[That seems a logical explanation, and she thinks about it for several moments.]

But where are you taking them?

[godspiousjasper]

I am to put them somewhere for safekeeping where it can be safely locked away.

[ He nodded his head surely as if this would completely explain it all away, though he did hum after a moment or so. ]

I would love to say where, but then it would defeat the purpose of me removing them from here, would it not?