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[cactusy]

network | text | OTA

Sameen Shaw, 32, Marine Corps veteran. Skills include medical work, weaponry, and combat. Formerly of New York City circa 2015. Currently of the Glitter Food crew, I guess, though whoever named these ships needs to rethink their life choices.

Three things.

1. Who's in charge here on the human side of things? I'm seeing rosters, I'm seeing specialties, but I'm not seeing rank. I don't even know who my own captain is.

2. I saw a guy has his baby with him. Anybody know how I can get these aliens to abduct my dog for me?

3. Anybody with access to hard alcohol want to be my new best friend?

[... And that's it! What a friendly, sociable sort she is.]

action | OTA to Glitter Food residents

Knowing what the Data Points do is all well and good, but that intel only goes so far if they're unlabeled. Shaw studies the six identical Expertise Data Points, vaguely wondering if she's supposed to just be able to tell somehow - but if that's the case, then that part of the orientation clearly skipped her over. And playing trial and error with her brain? Not a very enticing prospect at the moment.

"Hey," she says, flagging down a passerby at random. "You got any idea which of these can get me into Security?"

After that, she wanders, giving herself something of a self-guided tour of the accessible areas of the station: find her walking through the greenhouse, furrowing her brow at the library's empty shelves, or sampling the food paste dispensers (giving them some impressively disgusted looks as she does so). She can also be found taking in the beach, and after a moment's consideration, stripping down to her underwear so she can go lounge in the hot spring area for a while. Her sports bra and boyshorts both provide more coverage than the average bikini, so she's hoping she's not violating any ship decency laws here - but she'll try to stay submerged up to her shoulders just in case.

Eventually, she makes her way to the training area, where she appreciatively inspects the gym equipment on offer and uses her newly-acquired Security expertise to open the door to the security center. And this, finally, is what makes her... not light up, exactly, but her pupils definitely dilate and her mouth curves up in a small half-smile. Ah, yes. This is absolutely what she'd picked that Data Point for. Good job, Agra 10.

"Now that's what I'm talking about," she breathes, hoisting up one of the glowing guns with her hands, testing the weight and feel of it. And then, practically salivating with anticipation, she heads straight for the shooting range. Sorry to anyone else who might be interested in using the space, but she's definitely going to be here for a while. Care to share?

Comments

[cactusy]

"It's my first time using something like this," Shaw says, patting the butt of the energy gun appreciatively. "At home? I'm a handgun girl. Bigger firepower is nice for special occasions, but on a day-to-day basis you can't go wrong with something powerful and compact."

All this is to say, yes. She very much likes her weapons.

[newmemorywhodis]

"Hand...gun?" Link says, a faint frown crossing his face. He raises one of his own hands, looking at it. What is a hand gun? Was it...some kind of glove?

[cactusy]

"Small. You hold it and fire it with just one hand."

She measures out the approximate dimensions of one with her hands now.

"About this long. This tall."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link makes a soft noise of understanding. He gets it now. It's like the difference between a bow and a crossbow, perhaps.

"You like them?" A question to which he knew the answer was yes; she'd admitted that much already. But why those, in particular? What was it about them that made her so fond of them?

[cactusy]

Shaw is, in many respects, something of a slouch when it comes to social skills herself - but in a way that means she instantly gets, rather than misses, what Link is really asking.

"Like I said. They pack a good punch, but they're still small and convenient to carry around. I can conceal two, three on my body easily if I want to, and they can still take an enemy down just as well as a big gun can. I appreciate the balance."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link hums, a sound that conveys both consideration and approval. Something being small enough to conceal never used to be a consideration for him. But now that he’s had to get by without a korok-enchanted pack to carry all his weapons for him, Link can see the benefits.

At this point though, it doesn’t seem that Link has anything else to say. Instead, he just says nothing at all.

Though he does take another shot with his bow. He wants to see if he can hit that bullseye.

[cactusy]

This guy, she thinks, is quite possibly near the top of the running for favorite people that she's met here so far: he appreciates weapons, and he clearly appreciates the value of a good companionable silence, both of which are big pluses in her mind. She'll keep experimenting with the energy gun herself, but she'll also make a point of holding off on shooting it whenever she sees Link readying his bow, not wanting the sound of her firing to distract or startle him and throw off his aim.

[newmemorywhodis]

Well, if you want someone who doesn't talk much, Link is most definitely your guy.

And for a little while, he's happy to just shoot alongside her. He does start a little, at first, at the sound of her weapon - but after a little while, he gets used to it a bit. (Seems inconvenient, though. How can you sneakily take out a foe from afar when your weapon is so loud?)

Eventually though, he gets bored of just shooting the targets. And he starts looking around the range, wondering around and leaving Sameen to keep shooting. But he manages to find an interesting set of buttons while exploring, which he of course has to press...

"Hah!" he exclaims, as something goes click. And suddenly, rather than being static and stationary, the targets are moving.

[cactusy]

Oh, hell yeah; that sure is a good reason to break the silence. Shaw immediately joins him over by the control panel, standing on her tiptoes to try to peer over his shoulder.

"Hey, show me how you did that?"

She's clearly going to need to repeat it again in the future.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link gestures towards the panel, and the button he just pressed. It's not marked in any way that makes it particularly obvious what said button does -making it all the more clear that he was just pressing it to see what happened.

He presses the button again, and the target grind to a stop. Then presses it once more, and they start up again.

There seem to be a few other buttons and levels - maybe ones that will affect speed and direction? Link doesn't know, he hasn't pressed them yet.