Daily Routines & Handwaved CR Meme, VOLUME 2

[light_mischief]

Handwaved CR Meme

The passengers have been living on this ship for a while now, and it's likely that they've fallen into certain habits and routines. Little things have become part of their day, from lunch dates with friends, to quiet nights in the library, or long-standing blood feuds. Even the newest passengers have likely found themselves some common haunts and familiar faces. This is a meme to talk about, flesh out, and collaborate on some of those behind-the-scenes moments and routines!

1. Post a comment with your character's name & cabin number in the header, and give us an idea of what sort of things they get up to around the ship! Be as detailed or as vague as you'd like.
2. Talk about what kind of handwaved CR you can inspire! Is your character the type to stop and chat with friends on the promenade? Are they consistently the highest score on multiple arcade cabinets? IDK, you tell me!
3. When you look at other characters' routines, you might notice some moments that line up! Even if your characters are total strangers, they might see each other at the buffet every day, or maybe they're unwittingly competing for the high score on DDR. And close CR might mean weekly dinners, book clubs, sparring sessions every morning... like I said, this is where you shine!!
4. This is also a good chance to handwave characters exchanging contact information, generating some more inbox threads!

TLDR: write about your character's life on the ship and then compare notes with other people, find CR, ???, profit

(Last meme, for those who might need it!)

Comments

Cassandra de Rolo, cabin 128

[not_the_last]

Likely impressions of Cassandra, if you've met:

Her dress is a little formal and archaic, and her disposition matches it -- polite and even friendly, but with very polished manners and vocabulary that may be off-putting to some. She's perfectly capable of making those manners off-putting on purpose. She wears a rapier like that's a perfectly normal thing to do. The modern and the mundane can be very new and confusing to her, and she generally won't hesitate to ask about things she isn't familiar with.

Places you may run into Cassandra, in order by deck:

Stellar, the formal dining room, on occasional evenings. Usually dining alone. (Her table manners are impeccable.)

Photos at Sea, or rather lingering some distance away from it. She's been haunting the fringes of the place at odd moments since just after Halloween.

The Library. One of the three likeliest places. Usually tucked into a corner that isn't immediately visible from the door, making her way through the mostly unfamiliar books. Sometimes paging through the binder of collected information about the ship. Willing to discuss either.

Sand Dollars. For coffee and pastry, and peace and quiet. Often with a book she's taken from the library.

Mikabo. Never once had sushi before arriving here. Kind of likes it.

Windjammer. The second of the three likeliest places to encounter Cassandra, as she takes most of her meals at the buffet here.

Sports Deck. While she hasn't yet joined the group sessions, she has begun practicing swordwork here, either sparring with a partner or drilling alone.

Deck. The third of the likeliest places to meet her. Having never seen the ocean before coming here, she's fascinated by it and will spend a lot of time just gazing out to sea.

Hard Mode: Exploring. And finally, she's working on getting back into practice at moving stealthily. If your character is very perceptive, they may spot her slipping between decks and into and out of any location on the ship, working hard to not be noticed. If they do spot her, it's up to you whether they would let her know or not.



ADDENDUM: Anyone who was at the The Price Is Right game show would have seen Cassandra very publicly stand up in defense of Erin Peters after the captain called her a slaver, and may have noticed her leave with Erin and Crabb thereafter. You may also have seen her in Erin's company, both before and since.

[goodweather]

Phil has an owl’s sight and hearing, so getting past his notice would be a surprising challenge, even above the hum of the boat. I think he’s definitely seen her being sneaky at least once or twice, and he’s probably blinked/stared curiously in her direction each time.

[not_the_last]

I'm gonna roll dice a couple of times to see if she's ever noticed him noticing her. :D

Aaaaand she's definitely missed him staring at least once and noticed him staring at least once. She won't have stuck around to turn it into an interaction; would he have approached her about it later?

[astrogator]

Ooh, they could be passingly acquainted already, probably from seeing each other up on deck or in the formal dining room. Ari can also be overly formal, especially with new people.

Also! Ari's the one who yelled out 'is it true?' to Erin after the captain's remark. She was expecting a denial, to be fair. She quite likes Erin.

[not_the_last]

Passingly acquainted works, when they meet in the library!

And oh yes. That'll be another fun thing to talk about. :D

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Noticing humans being sneaky was a survival skill for Bastion early in life and they've held onto the habit of paying attention as best they can to who's in their presence (to the point of unhealthy neuroticism), so I think they would have seen Cassandra sneaking around at least once, but if she's a skilled sneaker she could have successfully snuck past them at least once as well. They're hypervigilant but their senses aren't dramatically more acute than a human's beyond having access to zoom and thermal imaging. If they noticed her, they wouldn't make it obvious by waving or staring or flinching, but she might notice them keeping her in view of their main optic or subtly moving out of her line of sight.

[not_the_last]

I can see that. Would you have any interest in having them meet on the subject of sneakery?

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Sorry I took so long to answer this! They should absolutely meet on that.

[not_the_last]

Excellent! I'll probably have a new top-level for Cassandra sometime soon.

[wedobonesmotherfucker]

Gideon regularly seeks out Cassandra if they're eating at the same place and likes to join her for a conversation if she looks open to it. She's probably still trying to pretend she's not new but it's become incredibly obvious by now that Gideon is both new and surprised by a lot of the things on the ship.

[not_the_last]

They've probably talked a good bit by now, then -- Cassandra is quietly pleased at being sought out, I think.

What kinds of things would you say Gideon seems surprised by? I'm wondering if any of it might align with the things Cassandra's not familiar with. (The variety of the food is one thing I'd guess.)

[wedobonesmotherfucker]

Swings back to this stupidly late to saaaay that Gideon's also thrown by the variety (and intensity of the flavours) of the food, the sheer amount of sunlight on the ship, all the natural materials/amount of stuff that isn't made out of plastic, that there's just real paper lying around all over the place and also generally confused by the utter lack of necromancy/bone magic from everyone else. She's confused by how old a lot of the tech is, but it's also similiar enough that she can use it. I figure she and Cassandra overlap on most of this, minus Gideon being more shocked to see a ton of natural products instead of synthetic ones.