Dog's revenge and stargazing

[arcadiasailor]

Who: Crew of the Mistress
Where:sailing due east
When:19th-29th
What: Talk like a pirate shenanigans and comet watching
Warnings: cursing like sailors imminent
Style:any
Status:closed to crew


19th: Talk like a pirate day! *Now with mandatory costumes and maybe missing body parts!*

21th-22th: Weather permitting the Maiden's Hair comet should be visible in the sky! *Likely chance of White Comet Empire invaders low.

26th-29th Mist-ery Event! A few of the crew are a bit shimmery and they might not recognize you and trying to touch them will result in loss of a memory.

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21st | on the deck or wherever they've pulled in to anchor

[facelesshunter]

Hester's sitting back on her hands, having come out early with a secret wish to see the comet. She's squinting at the stars with her single eye. She hasn't bothered with a blanket.

"...don't recognize any of these."

She's disappointed. The constellations are one of the only things she has left from her parents.

[followthecread]

James had come out for the same reason, but for the moment, he's bored as hell. So he saunters over next to Hester and casually leans back against a crate.

"Nor I. Makes naviga'ing a mite harder."

Understatement of the day.

itt two cynical people vehemently deny that they like looking at the night sky

[facelesshunter]

Hester stifles a smile at hearing his (what she perceives as a) London lower-deck accent.

"Guess we'll have to make some new ones. That one kinda looks like..." She points. "A fat man spilling tea on hisself."

we don't have feelings we don't like things ALL LIES

[followthecread]

"Drunken Tea it is, then," James says, glancing at Hester with an amused smile. He points at another. "What of this One? Looks like a ferocious Lass fightin' a Leopard."

[facelesshunter]

Hester looks at him with her head cocked, like a curious hound.

"What's a 'le'pard'?"

[followthecread]

He furrows his brow at her, confused. How can someone not know what a leopard is? They're so often a part of his life that he forgets most sane people don't go skulking about in jungles.

"It's a large Jungle Cat. Ye often find 'em in Trees, stalkin' their Prey, though you'd soon regret it. Sleek and mean Things."

[facelesshunter]

Though she spent years wandering the Great Hunting Ground, it's cities that stalk there, not large predators, long driven out of Europe by Municipal Darwinism.

She's about to express skepticism when it happens: the night sky lights up as the comet burns a blazing scar across it. Her finger goes unconsciously to the scar on her cheek. "Oh..." She says, under her breath.

"Not that great. Don't see what all the fuss's about." She then says, being very convincing.

[followthecread]

"Ah . . . There she is."

He looks to the sky, and his eyes light up as bright as the comet. Jim smiles warmly. The spark in his eyes isn't all from the comet's reflection. It brings back images of hanging on deck with his crew, of sitting 'round the fire with Kenway, Thatch, and Hornigold, before it all went to shit.

At Hester's very, very convincing denial, James glances over at her, now with a more offhand, lopsided smile.

"Funny 'ow much Noise Folks make 'bout somethin' so small."

Because they don't care, right? Right.

[arcadiasailor]

Harlock's lying on deck arms crossed behind his head. It's been a while since he stared out at the stars. He'd done it often the first few weeks here keeping an eye for unnatural streaks in the sky just for the small chance this was some stop on the Galaxy Railways he'd just never heard of.

"The moon always throws me off, looks way to much like earth's if you ask me."

[facelesshunter]

Hester raises an eyebrow and glances at her captain.

"What other moon would it be?"

[arcadiasailor]

[ He props himself up on his elbows.]

Plenty of other planets have moons. Earth's moon is large compared to the size of the planet it's orbiting. Just about every planet in Earth's system has at least one. A few like Titian have colonies in my time. Friend's mother keeps swearing she'll move there.

[facelesshunter]

"I know they have them." She says, all huff. "Just didn't think anyone had been to them." The possibility of space travel died with the ancients and their Sixty Minute War in her time. There are many who still hold to medieval views of the universe, but not her.

[arcadiasailor]

Traveling the Sea of Stars is common, booking passage can be a bit expensive.
[Harlock had a best friend with a passion for building ships.] I guess it just means despite butting earth behind me it's still... [He trails off, still torn between love of his home world and the utter disgust at government controlling.] Sometimes this place is like being sent back in time.

[facelesshunter]

"It's a bit...primitive to be going back in time..." To her chronology, farther back is more advanced. Her civilization has repeatedly fallen from grace. "But I guess I get what you're saying."

[formerabyssinian]

"Are you surprised?"

Aya was coming from behind, having stepped out onto the deck for some fresh air. He looked up as well, so see what she was gazing at. "Nothing about this world is really familiar."

[facelesshunter]

Hester startled, turned towards the source of the sound. She narrowed her one eye.

"'Course I'm not surprised. Only an idiot would expect the sky to be the exact same on another world."

In other words, yes.

[formerabyssinian]

Her reply had him a bit confused, but he wasn't going to push the subject about her earlier pondering. Aya gazed back up to the sky.

"Are you any good at mapping out the stars?"

[facelesshunter]

"Well I had most of the constellations memorized back home. Only really reliable way to navigate in the outcountry." She says, a small note of pride in her voice. She gives him an evaluating look (mostly for hidden weapons).

"You're new here."

[formerabyssinian]

"Then you've starting mapping out these?" Aya was always curious about how people went about mapping out stars, and found that those who did were invaluable.

Her statement made him smile a little. Wonder how many weapons she can guess he was carrying.

"Just arrived not too long ago. I'm Aya."

[bloodheels]

Lenalee was glad to have some free time and with that she used it to come on deck and walk over to whoever she could see at the time.

"Are you talking about the stars?" She looked up staring at them. "There's none I recognize either, they are all new. At least that is what I think. Are you disappointed about that?"

[facelesshunter]

She is. In addition to being a legacy of her scientist parents, they're one of the few pleasures available to you when you're pennyless in the outcountry. But damned if she'll admit it.

"...It's just confusing, is all."

[bloodheels]

She pauses for a moment, taking the sky in. Even if she had been here for months she still wasn't use to the stars being so different.

"I can agree they can be confusing and I'm sorry that is so. But at least we can learn about the new stars, maybe"

she's tsundere for astronomy or something

[facelesshunter]

"Guess so. Can at least get a start on it tonight. 's why I'm out here."

Not to see the comet, not to see it, not to see the god damn comet, OK? OK.

[bloodheels]

She glanced up once more a hand lifted up and placed on her head, looking at the stars and watching them twinkling.

"I can always help if you'd like. Though, I can't say I'm good on this type of thing."

[facelesshunter]

"What are you good at, besides cooking?" Another of her abrasive questions. Though Hester has already judged Lenalee as naive, she has to admit she can cook like a (literal) top-tier chef.