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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8115 on: April 29, 2010, 10:58:13 PM »
Elayne turned to look at the stranger who entered the Bar, and nodded to Mar as he left her side. Then her eye was caught by Trey's movement as he went towards the bathrooms. Good, she thought. He'll clean himself up and feel much better, and by the time he does, his father will be ready to be respectfully interred. Poor kid.

Once he was gone, she returned her attention to Terenia. When the nothlit expressed her willingness to help bury Trey's father, she nodded in gratitude. "Thanks," she said, her raised eyebrows betraying her surprise.

Just then, a more familiar face--that of Mike, who she had briefly met when she had been speaking with Myitt quite a while ago--entered the Bar and headed for them. Elayne's expression settled again to a neutral one when Terenia chose to remain at the Bar instead--although she was interested in how Terenia smiled at Corliss; perhaps she did have some friends here after all--and she moved away from the pair to follow Belzar who was carrying the body. "Don't know if you were ordering for me, but I've got to see to something. Maybe later," she told Mike, glancing at him over her shoulder.
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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8116 on: April 29, 2010, 11:25:28 PM »
Corliss looks up from the comm link and smiles back at Elayne.  "No worries, love.  Glad to see you're doing okay."

He watches them prepare to bring the dead man's body outside.  "Looks like I missed quite a bit," he murmurs. 


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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8117 on: April 30, 2010, 05:29:03 AM »
The man watches the new addition walk into the bar, avoid the body, and pay for one of the human's drink. He walks up to him and says, "Don't much care for the dead, do ya? This is an interesting place yeah? A real mystery, this place." He takes a swig of his lager as he sets down next to him. He raises his glass and nods towards the woman the new guy bought the drink for.
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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8118 on: April 30, 2010, 06:06:52 AM »
Trey finds the bathroom, a tiny, decrepit room that has signs of previous vomiting and smells worse than he does. For a moment Trey almost turns right around and walks out, content to live with the blood on his hands, but he steels himself and makes his way to the sink.

Turning the water on he takes his time wiping down his hands, lifting his sleeves to wash his forearms, cleaning off his face. He even ducks his head under the faucet and allows the cool water to soak his hair, bits of dirt and oil and dried blood flaking out and swirling around the drain.

Trey only stops when he can see something that looks like himself through the grubby mirror. Tanned skin, cautious, wide-set brown eyes, light brown hair that verged on the edge of blond when he spent a significant amount of time in the sunlight. His appearance was a conglomerate of healthy genes, one of the few positive side effects that came from being the son of two nothlits.

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Terenia returns the nod with a stiff smile, one hand clutching the whiskey and sour that Corliss had ordered for her. She doesn't know this new person, and he seems a bit...odd. Immediately that makes her guard go up. New people are a threat until determined otherwise.

"It certainly is a strange place," Terenia assents. She raises the tumbler to her mouth and takes a small sip. When she is finished her gaze is back on Corliss.

"I am sure Myitt is fine," she says, "for whatever reason, she trusts Ossanlin and I believe that he finds her useful. You don't destroy your own tools. As for the Imperials involved...well, Myitt seems resourceful enough."
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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8119 on: April 30, 2010, 02:14:25 PM »
Corliss nods at Terenia.  "Yeah, Myitt can handle herself.  You're right.  And Ossanlin wouldn't let anything harm them, not if 'e could 'elp it."

When the newcomer comes up and leans into their conversation, Corliss fixes him with a curious stare. 

"I've seen more than enough of the dead, really, since I could see at all.  Still wigs me out.  Are you saying you're a fan of corpses?"  He purses his lips, amused.  "You sound like you're from the North.  Maybe Yorkshire?  But it's strange.  Out of place.  Who are you?"


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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8120 on: April 30, 2010, 02:35:43 PM »
The man smiles slyly, "No, I'm not from Yorkshire; and I'm not a fan of corpses, jost a bit desensitized after the years." He puts his lager down and holds his hand out, "I'm The Director, nice ta meetcha."
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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8121 on: April 30, 2010, 02:48:53 PM »
Corliss hesitantly shakes the man's hand.  "'The Director'," he repeats.  "I'm Corliss, pleased to make your acquaintance.  That's it, then?  Just 'The Director'?  Director of what?"


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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8122 on: April 30, 2010, 02:57:49 PM »
The Director returned the shake, "'Corliss', fantastic name. 'Corliss', it jost rons off the tongue so easily. Who's your pretty friend 'ere?" He intentionally let Corliss's last question alone, he was more interested in learning than explaining.
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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8123 on: April 30, 2010, 04:22:34 PM »
Terenia snorts and raises her eyebrows sardonically. A mysterious man with a British accent calling himself nothing more than The Director? That certainly didn't help her ability to trust him. The way he smiled didn't either. Something about it seemed...somewhat odd.

"I'm Terenia," she says curtly, giving him a nod.

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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8124 on: April 30, 2010, 04:36:58 PM »
He gave her a warm smile and rose his glass to her, "Cheers love, glad to meetcha." He directs the next question to anyone who could answer, "So, the where is solved, know what about when?" He looks to the bartender who stays quiet, "Anyone?"
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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8125 on: April 30, 2010, 04:43:00 PM »
Corliss watches the strange man, eyebrows furrowed.

"Well, loads of us from loads of times, I expect.  I'm from Earth, sort of, in 2003.  Where and when are you from?" he asks skeptically.  "There aren't many planets that 'ave a north of England.  Then again, technically, I'm not from England, either."

<Though there is me mum's old poker mate, Mrs. Reginald Corliss.  Good old Betty Cor.  That gave me a right laugh when we first met,> says Mike silently.

<It sounds much better ultrasonically,> Corliss sniffs.

<I mean, aliens come round Merseyside, and what're the bloody odds they're related to the neighbors?  Hahaha...>

<Yes, it's hilarious, Michael,> says Corliss flatly.  Outwardly he clears his throat and his eyes refocus on the man who calls himself The Director.


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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8126 on: April 30, 2010, 08:10:59 PM »
Terenia nods at Corliss and shrugs, "and I haven't got a clue what year it is, honestly. I stopped caring to keep track, honestly. Hard to bother when you have to spend all your time translating from Earth to Andalite to Yeerk calendar systems.When I was on Earth it was the nineties, but that was a long time ago. I reckon I'm from around the same time as Corliss. Same universe too, I'd imagine. Seems we have enough in common."

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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8127 on: April 30, 2010, 08:21:08 PM »
"Yeah, the calendars really are a headache, aren't they?" says Corliss sympathetically.  "The only reason we bother to keep track of the Earth date at the base, on a place very far from Earth, with a different day and year length, and filled with people who keep different types of calendars...is, I think, because so many of us are in humans, and it's just useful.  Reckon somebody's got to track how many Earth years the occupation's gone on, or remember it's Boxing Day."  He shrugs.  "Couple of us even keep a few other types of human calendars, but it's hard when you're so far removed from it.  All those traditions seem kind of trite in the shadow of a deadly war."

<'ey, I like Boxing Day,> Mike says sulkily.  <Are you listening to me?>


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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8128 on: April 30, 2010, 08:22:11 PM »
((Ohgod. This homework at the end of the year business is starting to make me feel like the hangover after three shots of tequila. And I don't even drink. XD Joanne and Keshin are still gone because I still have no idea how long it takes a Yeerk to feed. <__<; ))

Mar casually watches the conversation between Corliss and the Director and rubs his head irritably. For some reason the man's existence has caused a really irritating but catchy song to get stuck in his head, and the sense that the Director might have chosen his own name. And...that's it. Mar rolls his eyes. He dimly wishes that he had taken more care with this avatar's mind when he had entered the Bar; these utterly useless blips of omnipotent information were getting on his nerves.

Mar then wanders near Corliss and states, "Interesting to see you again, Yeerk. You're Myitt's ****ney-speaking brother, if I remember events correctly. Do you happen to know how she is? They have been out of the Bar for some time now. Two people I care about dearly are on that ship, and I have no idea what they're doing."

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Re: Galaxy's Edge Space Bar
« Reply #8129 on: April 30, 2010, 08:39:25 PM »
Corliss fixes Mar with a hard look.  "Well, we're in the same boat, then.  I came here looking for Myitt, too, she 'asn't been answering.  Ossanlin's ship is one bugger of a tough ship to access signals in, I suspect they may have done it on purpose as a result of masking their tech readouts."  His eyes narrow.  "And for your information, Michael did not grow up on the 19th-century streets of London, thanks."


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