space coast pcs: charles

[drymonster]

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[riverbeans]

[GLAD TO NOT BE ASSIGNED CREEP

but at the sight of the beach, he looks around in mild awe.]

Right? If we can't actually go outside, this is the next best thing.

[drymonster]

Takes some of the edge off the whole cold-void-of-space thing, anyway. The cabin fever must have been rough up here before they invented things like this.

[riverbeans]

Haha, I don't even want to think about it. One day of being trapped in the bay was enough, never mind our future of being stuck on this ship for a week without any outdoors.

[drymonster]

There's definitely a big difference between staying inside because you feel like it and staying inside because you're not allowed to leave.

[ even if you wouldn't be going anywhere anyway. said with all the authority of someone who came from spring 2021. ]

[riverbeans]

[help.

he nods.]

And it sounds like we'll be arriving at the next destination in a week, so hopefully we can get some real air then.

[drymonster]

Hm... maybe? I don't think most other planets even have air, but I guess these places must be able to sustain life somehow if they're sending out delivery orders.

[riverbeans]

I'll be honest, I'm completely out of my league here so I'll take your word for it.

[he's a ye olde he doesn't know shit about space]

[drymonster]

That's about the extent of my space knowledge, to be honest. Kind of seems like they could have done better as far as choosing a crew for this.

[riverbeans]

...

You're right, why did they recruit a bunch of people inexperienced with space for a space crew? Isabel and Margaret are the only ones I've met who're right at home.

[drymonster]

Right? There are even kids and a huge shark guy. Unless this is supposed to be a slapstick comedy sketch, I don't really know what they were going for here.

[riverbeans]

[internally, charles wonders what a slapstick comedy sketch is supposed to be, but he can guess from context....]

Well... if nothing else, Sidon's a friendly guy, and the kids seem smart—but it is pretty messed up.

[NUTS & BOLT WHY DO YOU SUPPORT CHILD LABOUR]

[drymonster]

The whole thing's still so shady, too. I mean, not a single person remembers signing those contracts??

[riverbeans]

Tell me about it... Baiken talked about the possibility of someone else like an unhelpful acquaintance or an enemy signing our names for us, but I don't know how much I believe in that theory yet.

[hard to say one way or another.]

D'you think there's anything that would get you to sign, in theory?

[drymonster]

[ considers this ]

...Yeah, probably. But if I don't remember getting it, then this is a total ripoff.

[riverbeans]

Well, allegedly the pay is coming at the end?