Detrevni
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Post by Detrevni on Oct 29, 2007 22:21:52 GMT -8
Anton chuckled. "Perhaps you'd like-" the speakers cut out. The airlock door at the other end of the umbilical opened. A man stepped out. "-to meet me in person?"
He moved quickly to the door, powerful strides covering the twenty-odd feet to the shuttle's hatch quickly. He held out a hand to Annie, whom he knew from the sensor feeds. "Anton Credeiki." His hazel eyes smiled with excitement along with the rest of his face at seeing other human beings. These were the first in a long, long, time.
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Post by Sorrows on Oct 29, 2007 23:05:20 GMT -8
"Anton.. what an odd sounding name. Though, comparitively, you can't really call something like that odd here.." His sentence died down as it went, as though he was being distracted by something. Ace was flexing his arms, his gaze upon his upturned palms. As he clenched and unclenched his fist, a small haze appeared around them, like when heat ripples the horizon under a sweltering sun. Ace's eyes became increasingly wide, as his grin became more and more wild.
"What.. indescribable power.. how can such a thing exist..? And to be manmade... Who would have thought..?" His breathing slowly became a low cackle, barely audible.
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Post by Dark Beauty on Oct 30, 2007 6:42:34 GMT -8
Annie held out her own hand and took Anton's, giving it a firm shake. She had always hated those girls that gave weak, rediculous handshakes. "Annie Getchyogun. Funny last name, I know... so just call me Annie please. I am happy to actually meet you, Anton." She turned, pointing to each person respectively as she named them off. "This is Ace, my husband Tion (he's a karath), Kimmy, Scheema the goblin, and Rubric the gnome. They are only some of the people from our village." She then turned back to him, her pink ponytail flipping about as she did, and her matching eyes bright with intensity, though calm-looking. "Now then, what is it that we can do for you? And what year are you from?"
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Post by Zeffa! on Oct 30, 2007 13:35:02 GMT -8
Scheema kicked Rubric, who had pretended to pass out in a fit of overdramaticism, while nodding toward Captain Credeiki. "this sure is some crazy place here.. what exactly is it?" asked the little green being, looking around with a finger to her lips thoughtfully.
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Post by Thistle on Oct 30, 2007 16:21:06 GMT -8
Kimmy waved dutifully when she heard her name and then walked right up to Anton. She gave a little smile and a gesture. "Excuse me. I would like to explore. Could you please move?" It felt strange not having to talk up to people. Well, she still did need to but she didn't have to look stright up anymore. Now all she had to do was angle her head so and voila.
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Detrevni
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"Balllttttttaaaaaaaaaarrr!!!"
I'm not a cylon!
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Post by Detrevni on Nov 6, 2007 10:32:40 GMT -8
Anton was taken aback. Wasn't this woman just a girl when she left the planet's surface? He shook his head. No matter. He had a feeling he'd see stranger things before the day was through.
"Slow down, there. I'll take you all on tour but all together. It's dangerous to run about on a starship when you've never seen one before."
He redirected his attention to Annie. "As for what you can do for me, we'll discuss that shortly. No need to get right down to business. As for the year? Well to my understanding the trans universal drive doesn't jump forward or backward across timelines, just laterally, but by ships reckoning today is November 5th, 3430."
Towards the xenoform He said. "This is a starship.. Scheema, was it?A vessel for traveling between the stars."
He noticed Ace's rippling hands and his right arm twitched towards his sidearm nearly imperceptibly. "What are you doing?"
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Post by Sorrows on Nov 6, 2007 10:40:25 GMT -8
"This heat.. there's so much of it.. How can you not feel it?? Such intense power.. With this much power, I could..." The last was a mumble, and as a wicked expression crossed Ace's face, it was immediately replaced by one of wide-eyed suprise. He shuddered, shaking his head visibly. He also shook his hands, heaving a great sigh, obviously recollecting himself. He turned to Anton, looking at him for the first time. "Ahh, it's nothing.. I was just.. taken aback by this great machine of yours.."
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Post by Dark Beauty on Nov 6, 2007 11:11:23 GMT -8
Annie looked sharply in Ace's direction, a worried look on her face. "Ace... was it really a good idea for you to come? ...I should have thought about that in advance..." She then turned back to Anton, her eyes widening considerably at the year he mentioned. "3430? From Earth? Something must have gone wrong in your strictly lateral jumping, because I left less than three years ago, and it was 2043 when I was taken here." Could this man be from an Earth so many years into the future? It did not seems possible... she figured in so many years they would have advanced so much more. She secretly grinned to herself, however, when she realized that this man was proof that the theory of evolution really was incorrect.
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Detrevni
Gangsta'
"Balllttttttaaaaaaaaaarrr!!!"
I'm not a cylon!
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Post by Detrevni on Nov 6, 2007 11:30:17 GMT -8
(oops crap I meant 3430 check his bio a few quick edits and all will be better, apologies.)
Anton shrugged. "Sometimes I get different year systems or planets haven't advanced as far as my world did.. but we've never jumped time before. This universe doesn't seem to have an Earth. This planet is where humans came into being, or so the sensors tell me."
He glanced again at Ace. "It's fine... just don't.. do whatever you were doing.. again."
Turning back to the others he smiled again. "Shall we get started? Phoenix is a large ship and I have much to show you."
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Post by Thistle on Nov 6, 2007 20:59:29 GMT -8
"Huzzah!" Kimmy clapped her hands together excitedly and bounced on the balls of her feet. "Let's get going then!I think there will be lots of interesting things for me to look at." She had tuned out thier little conversation when she had learned that she could not go and explore by herself. That had put a slight damper on the trip. But nothing could really make her day really bad. She was back to her normal self after all.
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Post by Sorrows on Nov 6, 2007 22:26:41 GMT -8
"Ahaha, no, it's nothing, really. It's just a lot to take in. Let's be on about this tour then, shall we?" If the fact that he was scratching the back of his head, or that he was laughing nervously didn't give away the lie, the lack of life to his grin certainly did. He'd never felt like this before. He wanted to draw in the fire, to live and die in its flames. It was like standing in the midst of an avalanche of molten fire and ice, walking a razor's edge. He felt... Alive.
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Post by Zeffa! on Nov 7, 2007 5:46:38 GMT -8
Scheema and Rubric saluted, then marched in sync along behind Anton as he began the tour, arms bent in a proud soldieresque stance. Boldly.
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Post by Dark Beauty on Nov 7, 2007 17:35:36 GMT -8
Annie bit her lip in confusion, but kept silent, waiting for this Anton to lead them around the large ship.
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Detrevni
Gangsta'
"Balllttttttaaaaaaaaaarrr!!!"
I'm not a cylon!
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Post by Detrevni on Nov 8, 2007 14:09:32 GMT -8
Anton led the way through the ship, making his way to the lift nearest to the docking ring. He palmed it open and stepped aside. "After you, " he said, gesturing for all to step inside. As he waited for them to shuffle in, he began his tour guide duties. "Our first stop will be the bridge, the command center of the ship. We'll be going deep into the center of the vessel as it doesn't make much sense for the ship'd brain to be located anywhere vulnerable on a warship."
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Post by Thistle on Nov 8, 2007 17:16:20 GMT -8
"Bridge? Why would you base your command center on a bridge? You people have strange notions." Tion took Annie's hand into his own as he said it and looked around at the strange design of the ship. It was nothing like he had ever seen before.
Kimmy kept one hand on the wall as she walked. Right behind Anton so that she could get to anything that seemed interesting in a hurry. She thought it strange that her hand didn't feel any bumps at all as she ran it along the wall. It all seemed perfectly smooth. "How do you get it like this? Do you use magic?"
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