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 Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:44 pm
Alexandria had forced herself not to laugh at the Captain as she found him in the bridge. Upon entering the chart room however, her eyes lit up with excitement and there was no way she could have contained the shriek of happiness that escaped her.
The first thing she noticed was that the room lacked much organization. The charts in racks didn't seems to correspond with one another at all.
"What a lovely room!" She clapped her hands together and turned to captain, her coppery hair dancing around her face in tiny curls.
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:05 pm
[Navigation Deck]
Daniel smiled at Alexandria who was obviously enjoying her new workspace. "I know its still a bit cluttered, its one of the few areas that hasn't been cared for yet."
Looking around the room, Dan spots several telescopes mounted on tracks that circled the room. Noting the drooping afternoon sun, Daniel turns back to His map maker. "I need to run some flight checks to get ready, if there is anything you need just let me know, or one of the clanks can always lend a hand."
Daniel tried to tip his hat, but realized the teapot still had it. "oh well, little guy will show up eventually." Daniel waves to Alexandria and heads back to the bridge to finish his tuning
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:28 pm
~galley~
Triskadeca holds a golden hand out to the little animal. "How do you do."
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:41 pm
[gallery]
He groans and sleeps through the announcement, shifting in the chair slightly.
Mochi barks in approval and begins chowing down his meal, sopping the food all over the place, pushing the bowl all across the kitchen.
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:59 pm
~galley~
The gleaming golden clank, noting that no one in the kitchen or galley seems to be interested in a greeting, leaves the room and climbs down the steps to the hangar.
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:06 pm
Alexandria curtsied happily to the captain, then turned back to the cluttered room and set about tidying it as best she could before take off. She carefully dusted off each of the telescopes, taking a peek through each of them as she went by. These were perfect for examining the coutures of the land they would be flying over.
As she was making attempts to sort the old books of charts she found one labeled simply as "Maris" (Latin for 'sea' )
Latin was one of the few things she had actually cared for at the school, and this was a favorite word.
She pulled the ancient book out, her fingers tracing the flaking golden letters on the green canvas cover.
Inside were drawings of coastline from around the world, each one carefully labeled in Latin, and sometimes english.
"Oh coastline....I've seen many charts of these before." she muttered still flipping pages.
Then she noticed a small number in brackets beside the page number at the bottom of one of the charts.
'page 7 (34) '
After a few minutes of pondering, she decided it was probably another page number and hastily flipped to page 34. At first it seemed to be the same map as depicted on page 7, but the etches of detail did not stop at the coastline. A thick line was drawn labeled 'ora' (coast-line), but there were no drawings of waves.
"This is...this is the sea floor!" Alexandria stepped backwards in amazement. She had never seen drawings of what the bottom of the sea looked like before! She stepped quickly over to the ladder leading back to the bridge.
"Captain! Where did this book come from?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:06 pm
[aft > crew deck corridor]
yousha grinned in satisfaction.. his project was now completed. it wasnt exactly presentable or sleek, but it certainly was interesting. and he couldnt wait to try it out.
he decided to leave it for later... he had to go back up to his room and clear it out... and fix the bunk also...
he wandered off nothing really filling his head.. he was in a daze, his eyes wandering as he drifted along, mouth slightly ajar, his right index finger twitching on occasion...
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:34 am
[cabins]
Martha had trouble sleeping. She turned in her bed a few times, put her head under her pillow, snuggled up in the covers... Nothing worked. She then put her fingers in her ears.
"Will that noise ever stop?" she grumbled, refering to the sounds coming from Yousha's tweaking.
Then, the noise stopped. Relieved, Martha closed her eyes back and hugged a koala ragdoll wearing a blue and brown sailor dress.
"Do not worry, miss Rosie Joeywright. The noise is over. We can go back to sleep", she finally yawned.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:30 pm
Alexandria waited for a moment at the foot of the ladder, then shrugged and turned back to her work.
After about an hour the room looked respectable again, and she was seated at the table in the center trying in vain to scrub ancient ink stains out of the wood.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:40 pm
{bridge-Nav deck}
Poking his head up from the stairwell came the captain. "most of these charts were already here when i aquired the vessel. the only ones i have are the newer maps." He said indicatiing a smaller stack of charts in one of the racks.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:31 pm
[crew corridor]
yousha rolled into his room, nothing with anything particular in his mind he began to drag the chest of junk he'd made out of the cabin, making a very loud noise as it scraped off of the floor boards and bits and bobs falling out due to its questionable structure.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:49 pm
[gallery]
Mochi ears perked up when it heard noises of scrapping wood against wood from one of the levels and goes off to investigate the cause of the sound and trots away from the kitchen.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:08 pm
[Corridors, making her way to the galley and then wandering about]
It seemed she hadn't missed much as the hall was vacant and there had not been any sign of life since Daniel's message faded out. Fumbling in her pocket Abigail produced a pocket watch and flipped the covering open. Taking note of the time, she proceeded to the galley as that seemed to be where most of the crew gathered lately. To her surprise it was empty as well.
"Oh my..." She muttered.
Before she set out for the day there was not a single place to stand that one would not be upon another's toes, now the situation was quite turned about. It was almost disheartening to not be met with someone bubbling about gear work or gorging on pastry. She desperately needed some person or thing to take her mind off the wolf at the door. Turning from the galley doorway, Abigail sighed a bit and stuffed the watch back into her coat pocket, trying to propel her mind into finding a suitable distraction as she walked aimlessly. Something immersive, something to keep her thoughts occupied until she was needed for something. Reading would do it; there were bound to be plenty of places about the ship to curl up with a grand story and she had such a story-
“Ach!” What on earth had happened to her book?
Patting her various coat pockets and skirts, Abigail turned in a bit of a circle, hoping she had simply dropped it. She began to retrace her steps through the hall and looked about the floor. Even as she walked though, Abigail knew she’d carelessly left the book with Bernard and her cheeks flushed at her own foolishness. She bemoaned her stupidity and returned to her aimless walk about the hall.
((You'll have to pardon me if there actually was someone sitting in the galley, I probably didn't see the post stating your presence there or something. If anyone was there, we'll chalk it up to Abigail being terribly flustered.))
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:10 pm
[cabins]
As soon as she heard the sound, Martha woke up. Then, she slammed the door, revealing her short, sleeveless nightgown and her flower-embroided bloomers.
"What is that noise?" she snapped, looking at Yousha and his oddly-constructed invention.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:29 pm
[crew corridor > entrance to Aft]
yousha paused, he looked round to see the oddly nosed dark elf standing in a questionable outfit, to his standards anyway, he was still crouched and tilted backwards tugging the long makeshift footlocker.
"huh? s'up" he questioned in his slang twang with a dazed indifferent look on his face, his eyes and brows hidden under the dark reflection of his goggles.
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