tampered | Mingle Log!

Mingle Log!

When; July 5th through July 7th!
Rating; G+
Characters; Open to ALL, 4th Wallers and Citizens!
Summary; The celebrations continue, and the Anonymous regime has summoned guests that Citizens might (not) prove very thrilled to see! As opposed to other Fourth Wall events, all visiting characters will have been invited to the City, or they must arrive here of their own will.

Mingle! Explore~!

Log;

There's so much to do and so much to see in this City of cities. From tromping through Xanadu, long walks along the shore, shopping in the Square, hunting in the forest, meeting a contact in the Underground, or getting as many answers as possible at the Welcoming Center how can anyone decide on just one. In three days time so much can be done!

Shops and restaurants are having specials. Happy hour has become happy days in some bars. This is quite the occasion! When the City decides to celebrate, it becomes contagious. Why not smile and strike up a conversation with a stranger? After all, a stranger is a friend you haven't met yet.

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[ she's going to think you did this is more like it, given his last stunt and that apology to the wrong orion she heard about. good job, jim. his voice is met with a look of pure... pure something caught between indignation, bewilderment, and the need to keep that reigned in, because he's in uniform and he outranks her. ]

Is this some sort of test, Captain? [ mostly reigned in, anyway. ]

[ Oh God, oh Jesus why me. ]

Where's your commanding officer? And ... [ Glancing around, he opts to go the Pulling Rank route to avoid getting bitched at for as long as humanly (or Orionly) possible. ] And where did you come from?

Presumably on Mars with the rest of my engineering detail. I beamed down with them, but... [ trails off, at a loss for a proper explanation. jim, this isn't mars. why isn't this mars?? ]

[ Calm down, CALM DOWN auuuugh. ]

God damn it, I f- really hate this place. [ He makes eye-contact and tries to reign in his annoyance with the situation. It isn't her fault, after all. ] I think you got sucked into the temporal anomaly that's been screwing with half my bridge crew near Earth. You'll ... be fine, Uhura's around. Somewhere.

Can I check your communicator to see if it's offline too?

[ definitely not her fault, but it might be yours. you may have her respect as a superior officer, but the trust is gone. she'll follow his orders, but she's going to trust him again so easily. ]

Temporal... [ she did not take that course, that's not even part of her specialization! she bites down on the, "do i look like a physics major to you?" comment that she wouldn't have hesitated to throw at him if he weren't wearing that gold shirt and those stripes. ] Um, yeah...

[ that, she can do. she can hand over her communicator and not think about how this is even supposed to be possible. ]

[ He accepts the comm and holds it up. ]

This is Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise to the Mars expedition, please respond.

[ They're not a couple, will never be a couple again, but the anxiety she wears does something unfairly squishy to Jim's insides and he tries again solely for her sake although he knows it's pointless. The same static infects his own device that Chekov has been recalibrating. ]

Mars expedition, respond effective immediately.

[ There's a pause of five or so seconds, then he snaps the communicator closed and hands it back, taking a far more ridiculously dated ... phone thing out of his back pocket. Just don't ask, Gaila. ]

Don't worry, it'll be fine. Uh. Hang on. [ There's only one person he knows who can handle this damage control and he punches in the number without pause for thought. ] Lieutenant, I need you down by the south-east end of the local festivities right away, please.

Fine? It's going to be fine? I just got separated from my engineering detail and transported through time or however that's supposed to work. It's not fine, Jim.

Alright, it's not fine, you're stuck inside a nexus but that's still not my fault and I'm trying to help. Relax. Just ... Don't freak out.

Do you know what the Orion thing to do in this situation would be? [ she doesn't give him time to answer (she also doesn't talk about her people very often, secretive about that by nature). ] Take advantage of it. Seize the opportunity and work it to your advantage. But, that's not the Starfleet way. The Starfleet way is to be calm and collected, to analyze and learn and not freak out.

[ so maybe she's freaking out. it's been a rough year. ]

How would you even begin to take advantage of this situation when you have no idea what's happening? I've been here for three days, okay? Half my bridge crew is here, Uhura is on her way ...

[ He takes a step forward, a hand outstretched as if trying to pacify a hissing sehlat. ~~To be fair, the sehlat would have ripped his head off already and Gaila doesn't look too far behind.~~ Jim can't quite help using a mixture of the soothing way he used to address her and his Captain's Voice to try and contain the petite Orion star from going supernova. ]

Gaila, I don't care what your people would do. I'm telling you, you are going to be alright. You will.

[ she wants to hurt him. hurting him would be the orion thing to do as well, to lash back out at him for using her and make him feel as awful as she had. but she's been immersed in the various cultures of the federation for far too long, has adapted to the starfleet way of life too much to allow the old ways to influence her judgement. even if it is very tempting. her career would be over and she's worked too hard at getting this far to give it up so easily. few orions who've opted to venture down this path have gotten this far. ]

Can we at least sit down until Uhura gets here?

[ She really needs to trust him more. He only has himself to blame for that, though, easing up when the stress gets to her. ]

Yeah, sure. C'mon. [ Nodding to some picnic benches, he leads the way and opts for smalltalk. Best decision or best decision? ] So, Mars. That sounds ... arid.

[ smalltalk is good. she can do smalltalk. smalltalk doesn't involve a mathematical engineer trying to do theoretical physics in her head. ]

We were beaming down to help fix some of their computer systems. The Mars training facility needed the back up, and Admiral Witham thought it would be a good hands-on experience for us.

Is he as much of a tough nut to crack as they say? Because I don't think he likes me.

[ Sliding onto a bench, he chins a hand. ]

If he likes you.

[ okay, maybe that was mean... but it was the truth. and witham really didn't like jim kirk. he'd been one of the admirals against him being assigned the enterprise after pike got promoted. ]

[ Mean admirals. Mean Gaila. :( ]

Well, maybe he'll get stuck in here instead of us. Gaila, I need you to alert Starfleet to the anomaly if you manage to get out of here somehow. I think it's circling Earth, snapping us up as we go from whenever and wherever it wants.

Mmm, beacause Starfleet Command is going to believe a cadet -- an Orion cadet. An Orion cadet whose job doesn't involve monitoring temporal anomalies.

[ that wasn't an insult to his request, more a statement of fact. the federation wasn't perfect, and she'd be kidding herself if she said they didn't have good reason to be suspicious of an orion. hell, orions were suspicious of other orions. ]

I'm pretty sure no one who knows you would even consider the fact you're Orion. Will you stop beating yourself up about it? Literally a ton of people liked you at the Academy.

[ Mildly frustrated with her self-deprecation? Yep. ]

[ stop that. that sort of view that turned the speciesist‎ outlook she was used to encountering on its head had been one of the reasons she liked him. she doesn't enjoy being reminded of that positive trait when she's still holding steadfast to her anger. ]

Jim, I say this as someone who used to be your friend -- watch out for Orions.

[ He can't help being a decent human being, sry2say. ]

I will, Christ, I'm not going to go out and fly the Enterprise into a slaving lane. I'm just saying, you're nothing like the rest of them and anyone with a single braincell would realize that.

C'mon, you're the scariest Orion I ever met; I've never seen anyone get dressed up for a night on the town as fast as you could.

[ Offering a smile, he tips his head in deference to her skills. ]

[ a decent, womanizing human being who dates people to hack testing simulations and apologized to the wrong orion. B| ]

I'm just saying, not every Orion is like me or the girl you thought was me. [ yep. she heard about that. she and your orion officer talk. ] And nobody -- not you or anyone else who likes either or one of us -- should use how we carry ourselves or treat other people as an example for our people.

[ yeah, that compliment and a smile is met with a look. ]

[ Wincing slightly, ooooooooh, boy. How did she even find out about that? ]

... In my defense, I liked you best.

[ this face, jim. this face. ]

What, I genuinely did like you!

[ Sighing, he spreads his hands where he's sitting on the other side of the picnic table. ]

I wasn't thinking about anyone but myself, I admit it. I was going to speak to you after the summons, but then we all got fired off into space and ... Gaila, I'm sorry.

And you saved the system, got a starship, and couldn't be bothered to even send a silly transmission to the girl you screwed over in the process.

[ she frowns because, ] I genuinely liked you, too.

rearrange your 4th wall timelines accordingly or play the selective memory game once it's over. ♥

you're so smart, i'll just do everything you say \o\

fffff :p

pecks cheek!

❤~

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/just making things up allasdkjf

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