Charlie Fox
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Post by Charlie Fox on May 11, 2021 21:42:25 GMT
[Costa - Future site of Costa Couriers, LZ-2, Kerelia]The Diamong Dog was dirtside, had been for almost a week, and the ship's natives were restless. They were also uncomfortable and complaining, because people born in space were made for space, and their bodies did not perform as well down a well of gravity as they did far, far away from it. But Alexa Costa had spent many of her formative, developmental years on planets, even attending Starfleet Academy on Earth, of all places, and so she wasn't uncomfortable at all. In fact, she was very comfortable indeed as she lay in a sun lounger, about twenty meters from the Dog's ramp. The chair itself was falling apart; the canvas seat was torn, looking like it was about to give way at any moment, the metal legs were rusted with gaping holes in important parts that needed support the most, but Costa looked like some sort of impoverished, bikini-clad queen. She sipped a fruity concoction from the husk of something purple and hairy, making obnoxious slurping sounds through the straw. On her head was a large, Earth-style sun hat, the kind a grandmother might wear while gardening, and her eyes were protected by dark glasses with lenses in the shape of stars. "Im da liviting,"[fn] It's the life[/fn] she said with some contentment as members of the crew trudged passed her, carrying locked, steel crates up the ramp and into the ship's hold. Their looks for their captain were not kind, but it didn't seem like she noticed. "Okay," she continued muttering to herself as she put her tropical drink down on the table beside her, and picked up a PADD. "Costa Couriers: Milowda ge to kaka im needs fo go."[fn] Costa Couriers: We get your shit where it needs to go[/fn] She tapped her chin, then shook her head and deleted 'kaka'. "Tings."
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Avi Moz
Civilian
Scientifically, as a species, we are absolutely obnoxious.
Posts: 124 Likes: 13
Position: Mechanic
Species: Bolian
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Post by Avi Moz on May 15, 2021 18:25:57 GMT
At least one of the dirty looks aimed at yon queen of the mountain was not helped by the worst daughter of Bolarus IX, mechanic and asshole Avi Moz, whose introduction had not been well received by the engineer Baggy. Avi stood in the cargo bay wearing half a boilersuit leaned on a leg-length, double-jawed wrench and grinning her yellow-toothed grin at said engineer. He wanted her to carry something. "Break something and I'll carry something," she said, utterly uninterested in being conscripted into grunt work again. "I'm sure you can manage that - breaking something. Little arms like yours in this gravity." Avi didn't answer Captain Costa's help wanted just to bicker with her people, but it just came naturally. Charlie Fox
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Charlie Fox
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Position: Journalist
Species: A human of some kind
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Post by Charlie Fox on May 16, 2021 21:43:46 GMT
[Baggy - Cargo Bay, Diamond Dog]Baggy dropped the crate he was hauling to the ground, making a loud crashing noise that probably would have echoed around the cargo bay had the Dog been bigger. Still, it was noisy enough to satisfy his temper, and probably alert the hed[fn]boss/captain[/fn], too. Baggy didn't care though, he was sick of the sight of this blue interloper. "Mi arms wowk gut ere to neck!"[fn]"My arms will work good enough around your neck!"[/fn] The engineer spat out, then raised one of them to shake a fist at her, eager to prove a point. "Milowda kowl wowk xiya. Bera fo da hed pensa to gut na mean mi du."[fn]"We all work here. Just 'cuz the captain thinks you're good doesn't mean I do."[/fn] He kicked the crate, and then pretended it hadn't almost broken his toe.
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Avi Moz
Civilian
Scientifically, as a species, we are absolutely obnoxious.
Posts: 124 Likes: 13
Position: Mechanic
Species: Bolian
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Post by Avi Moz on May 21, 2021 23:02:27 GMT
The particular dialect of Costa and her sort was not new to Avi's long ears. She'd come to appreciate it in her life before Frontier. Someone had once told her it was a human pidgin of some kind or creole, but whatever it was, Avi appreciated its suitability for directness. Baggy was blustering, but he didn't square for a roust, so Avi didn't move. He had to do what he had to do.
And, sadly, the thick one had a point. As vital as it was to set expectations early that one was a professional, Avi had also come to understand that relationships were just as crucial to avoid being marooned on a dry moon.
"Eh, you've got a point."
Avi stood up from the fuckoff wrench and hefted it up from the deck with a scraaaape. She brushed past him and hefted something up onto her shoulder. She moved towards the hatch then gave Baggy a snide smile.
"He's a slow shitter isn't he?" she cackled at him.
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Charlie Fox
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Post by Charlie Fox on May 23, 2021 19:22:22 GMT
[Baggy - Cargo Bay, Diamond Dog]Baggy was gearing up for more words, but when the blue one agreed with him, he wound his head back like a buzzard. "Keting to xox fo..."[fn]"What are you up to..."[/fn] He muttered, instantly suspicious. His eyes narrowed to slits as he watched the mechanic heft a massive wrench off the floor and on to her shoulder. His jaw tightened in a grimace at the scraping sound it made on his ship's floor. Then she started helping and that just seemed to piss him off more. He wondered if she meant that he was slow in the mind, not just in the toilet, and his cheeks flamed through the bristles of his sparse "beard". "Mi gonya vedi kowlting to du, Avi Moz, chek kowlting, write im ere mi buk."[fn]"I'm going to watch everything you do, Avi Moz, check everything, write it all in my book."[/fn] He patted his utility belt, where he kept the small, old-fashioned spiral notebook. But he stepped around the crate he'd dropped and opened up the hatch for her anyway, because he wasn't going to say no to free manual labour. At this rate he'd finish early and get to visit the "fun tent" some enterprising lady of the evening had set up on the beach for folks such like Baggy.
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Avi Moz
Civilian
Scientifically, as a species, we are absolutely obnoxious.
Posts: 124 Likes: 13
Position: Mechanic
Species: Bolian
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Post by Avi Moz on Jun 28, 2021 1:58:19 GMT
Avi had a moment to be pleased that even her compliance had been hostile enough to keep Baggy in a bother, just before the old hand countered with his own promise of accountability. Avi scoffed at him as she passed him, lugging the load down the gangway and down the path to the build site. However, not long on her way, she found their enterprising captain sunning herself. Avi had to stop. She set down her load and ran a hand over her smooth bald blue head, fingers tracing the ridge. "Oye, bos," she greeted in the woman's adopted tongue, Avi wearing the language like a taunt. "What are the chances that Baggy's literate?" Charlie Fox
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Charlie Fox
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FOX NEWS
Posts: 730 Likes: 81
Position: Journalist
Species: A human of some kind
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Post by Charlie Fox on Jun 30, 2021 12:38:21 GMT
[Costa - Future site of Costa Couriers, LZ-2, Kerelia]Baggy stared after the Blue Disturbance, his narrowed eyes boring holes into her back. Then he whipped his notebook from his belt and began to scratch in it with pencil. Shaking his head, he wandered off to take care of some business. "Hello, Avi Moz," Costa returned the greeting in basic standard, her smile sardonic as she, too, watched the Bolian, though from behind her fancy shades. She snorted at the query. "Bera pictographs," she chuckled, reaching for her tropical drink again. "Im lik drawin' women tings." With her free hand she grabbed one of her own breasts, for added emphasis. "That count?"She was slipping in and out of the lang with what might appear as ease, but it often happened when she'd been in the company of only her crew for too long and was suddenly thrust back into normality.
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