Night at the Museum (OTA)

[kyley_b]

WHO: Kyle Broflovski and YOU!
WHERE: The Underground of Coruscant (Level 4)
WHAT: A very wholesome field trip to the lost Galactic Museum.
WHEN: During the event. (Mid-ish?)
WARNINGS: The foulest of language. Injury extremely likely. More as needed.



Kyle's seen aliens before.

A group of them from the Jannex Galaxy, a spaceship full of greys, the Marklar, and Jeff Bezos. This is the first time he's seen quite so many different kinds in one place, but even so it doesn't take him long to feel comfortable enough to talk to a few of them at the Senate Tour that Obi-Wan had suggested he take. One of these friendly aliens had mentioned in passing that it was a pity that the Galactic Museum could no longer be toured, due to it having been lost and forgotten somewhere down on Level 4.

A lost museum seems to Kyle like exactly the sort of thing the Agrii would want them to find. And even if not, well. Kyle really likes museums.

Is it difficult to get to Level 4? Oh, yes. And extremely dangerous. This doesn't deter Kyle one bit, and so he puts out a call on the Network to let people know that hey, he's putting together a museum field trip and anybody is welcome to come! Provided, that is, that you don't mind finding your way down through huge portals/ventilation shafts into a world where sunlight is less than a memory and dangerous people and creatures lurk around every corner.

But hey, if you decide to come down, you'll find a too-tall ginger waiting for you with some flashlights and a notepad.

You bet your ass he's going to force you to use the Buddy System.

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[OOC: Feel free to skip straight to the Museum proper of course! Mingle away, create your own TLs, whatever!]

Comments

[lionunchained]

"Hmm... interesting. It seems to make sense the lower levels would be less desirable and eventually abandoned."

Such was the stand of life, unfortunately.

"A giant albino alligator?" he smirked. "I should be able to. But I'm not sure about one that isn't albino."

He's joking really.

[kyley_b]

"Yeah. They just kept building up and up. Sort of a handy metaphor for class systems, isn't it?"

Kyle grins. "Oh, that's fine, I think regularly pigmented reptiles avoid bizarre subterranean tunnels." See, he can joke back! "Cool, well, since nobody's on their own we can roll out. I know everyone thinks sticking with someone is dorky, but we gotta be safe.

"Hey, did you get to see the descent to the planet on your ship? Wasn't it neat? Or are you like, used to it?"

[lionunchained]

"Yeah, definitely an example of the class system. Seems to happen everywhere."

"True. True. Why would normal ones want to stay there? It's so strange that they would."

He nodded his head. "Always good to have someone to go with you. There's safety in numbers after all. Yeah, the descent was very nice. I've seen it a lot, but there's also something interesting about seeing a new planet."

[kyley_b]

"Which is depressing."

"Oh." Goddammit, is everybody used to space travel but him? He's pretty sure that's the case. "I've never seen that sort of thing before."

[lionunchained]

"Yeah, it is. Sad that it is so predictable."

Shiro smiled. "Well, you got to see it now. What did you think of it?"

[kyley_b]

Kyle beamed. He's not good at playing it cool, and in this case he didn't even try.

"It was beautiful. Just... yeah."

[lionunchained]

"That's good. I'm glad you enjoyed seeing it. It's always exciting see, arriving at a new world. There's something rather nostalgic with it for me."

Since he'd been doing this for so long.

[kyley_b]

"You've done this a lot, huh?" His tone was nearly wistful - he couldn't imagine the sort of life where you saw all corners of the galaxy.

"Have you seen a place like this before? Maybe you'll know some of the stuff in the museum already."

[lionunchained]

"Yeah. I was trained to fly ships in space so I had been doing that for my job. After that, we visited a lot of planets with the Castle of Lions and Voltron. So it's more of a common sight."

[kyley_b]

"Wow."

What else is there to say? Everyone has a fantastic history, it seems. They've seen things Kyle never could have.

Well. Sort of. Mostly.

"What's a castle of lions?"

[lionunchained]

"It's a large space ship that was meant for interplanetary travel and for housing the five lions of Voltron. It has a bit of everything on it, even a pool though it took forever to figure out how to use it."

[kyley_b]

"What are five lions of Voltron?"

He looks around. "I doubt there's a pool down here we'd wanna use. Also we should be heading that way over there, looks like."

Anybody lurking in the shadows could tail this little group easily between the lights shed Kyle's talking. He's not really quiet.

[lionunchained]

"Yeah, let's start heading that direction," Shiro said, not wanting to attract too much attention by the group of them just standing around and not doing anything. That would likely be more suspicious.

And as they start walking, "The five lions of Voltron are weapons in my world. Individually they have their own pilot and their own abilities, but then they can combine to form Voltron."

[kyley_b]

"Oh," Kyle says, nodding. "So like... mechs?" He's actually pretty chill with that idea.

The darkness around them is absolute, but so far they really do seem to be the only people around.

"And you pilot one. Are you in charge?"

[lionunchained]

"Yeah, they are mechs. Robot lions."

Shiro didn't mind dark. It wasn't completely dark at least. His arm prosthetic arm put out some light.

"I am. Well, it's complicated, but I was in charge. I piloted the Black Lion."

[kyley_b]

Kyle nods in approval. "Black lion. That sounds pretty awesome. Like if it were an action figure, it would sell well."

He consults the map Tommy made with his flashlight, moving forward confidently.

"So. Because you're used to all this sort of thing... do you find it easier? Being on a strange planet and all?"

[lionunchained]

He chuckled. "Well, the paladins and the lions were minor celebrities when we visited planets. Of course, probably helped we freed some of those planets from the Galra."

Shiro glanced over his shoulder to look at the map.

"Actually, yeah. Kind of used to it by now. At least, how to be diplomatic towards people when you really don't know much about them."

[kyley_b]

"So you're a space hero," Kyle states.

"And diplomacy is really important. How else can you get people to work together, right?"

[lionunchained]

"We are. Not exactly planned, but rarely things like that are planned. They just sort of happen."

He nodded. "Exactly. And alien races are harder if you don't know anything about them... or if you have century-old information from Coran that is no longer relevant."

[kyley_b]

"Shit, yeah, I bet." He thinks about that for a moment. "I can see why the Agrii would want your skills, dude."

[lionunchained]

He chuckled. "I suppose so. It would have been nice if they had asked first."

[kyley_b]

"Uh, yeah." Kyle swings his flashlight around as they walk, trying to see more of the abandoned underground. "You ever seen anything like this before? This old? But so... modern, still, somehow?"

[lionunchained]

Shiro chuckled at that reaction. But as they continued down towards the museum, he looked around in the faint light of his arm and the flashlight that Kyle was holding.

"Kind of... but certainly not this less."

[kyley_b]

"It's so weird," Kyle murmurs. Outside the museum proper he stares at the size of the building.

"I can't believe they just left it here."

[lionunchained]

"It is," Shiro agreed, looking up at the building to survey it. "I understand the concept of wanting to put in something new and better, but if their entire planet is like this, it's a horrible waste of space."