For lastvoyages Fifteenth Vision (video+pubspam)

[can_has_vodka]

 Hello loves!

[Arkady appears on screen in a straw hat decorated with peacock feathers, with a fake mustache made of the same feathers held to her upper lip.]

A very clever fellow I met recently posed the question: why is there no live music in the pub? Perhaps we can fix this. Do we have any musicians on board whom I can lure out of the closet?

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[Arkady is humming as she wanders around, putting single daisies in bud vases on the tables between serving drinks. She seems just a little dreamy and spaced out, and teleports more than usual to get around the room, forgetting herself. La la la...]

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[can_has_vodka]

Eee! Hullo Chief! [She actually bounces in a small circle.] Having a good day then?

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[umgekehrt]

I am. Don't tell anyone. [It's almost a return to form, and about as convincing as it ever is.]

And how are you? [Difficult to restrain a smile-- which manifests as a smirk, but he doesn't have a face for honest pleasure.]

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[can_has_vodka]

Well, I got daisies, and for Breach I had a lovely time as someone whose life was good and just taking a great turn for the better...so that was lovely.

I think the Doctor's a bit embarrassed, though.

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[umgekehrt]

Some of their folk are odd about sex and more's the shame... I don't know that you aren't more in his sphere than most of us.

Incidentally, I hope that young lady wasn't cherishing any illusions that her employer didn't know precisely what she was up to with that Scotch eccentric.

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[can_has_vodka]

I understand. I suppose I never get in a bundle about sex. For one thing, my mind was connected with about eleven others, and once we hit fifteen, that was rather it. Constant thoughts and images and sensations intruding. One of us got so grumpy about it that he put on a tinfoil helmet.

[She blinks, and then a torrent of giggles.] Oh, she and I both should have guessed. He was terribly good at looking after his crew.

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[umgekehrt]

There's a gentle on Ragnarok with similar tolerance-- by telepathy, just the gossip circles of a static crew on long assignment together. Wheatfields. They'd have gotten along.

I'm pleased that didn't change, that he looked out for his folk. Less pleased about other changes. But folk look after me, too, and it's all right.

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[can_has_vodka]

He squirted KK with his hose. It was funny.

You in need of anything from behind the bar while we're talking?

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[umgekehrt]

I'm set for the time being though some time or another I'll need more tea. I've got enough for now, though.

Just came in to harass you. [Another smirk.]

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[can_has_vodka]

Oh, well, I do like being harassed by you. Though that's just you and a handful of others, mind. I'm picky about who I let harass me. The rest get teleported above a lake. [Doo de doo.]

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[umgekehrt]

[He laughs, delighted and wicked.] Splendid. How are you, possible post-breach awkwardness out of the question. Is there something I can get for you when I'm out and about.

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[can_has_vodka]

Never refuse any gifts of kittens.

...wait what?

Oh. Um. Well...I'm all right, though if you come up with any needed expansions to my drink list I'd love to hear them.

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[umgekehrt]

Wish I could, but I'm Fleet and we drink anything... although keep asking the admiral for Cortac, assuming it was you who asked and he simply didn't have it stocked. Or at least good brandy.

[He pauses.]

And any variation on coffee drinks you care to try I'm interested in.

Haven't got a kitten on me, though.

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[can_has_vodka]

Aya-Aye, Chief. [Little salute.]

Not sure where the kitten comment came from. But at least it's not like back when I was wandering around telling people the conditions of their deaths. There was this one bloke...well, it involved a donkey....

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[umgekehrt]

[The horrified mental image he has may not actually be all that the mark.]

I took it as a suggestion-- but I'll take it as a stray thought as well.

Hey, Arkady. You've been good to me. You're aware?

[Some of his people don't seem to understand that. It's a damn shame and he can't have that.]

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[can_has_vodka]

[Actually it probably would be.]

We've a good thing going on, Chief, I like it. What's on your mind?

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[umgekehrt]

It seems folk who've helped me in one way or another, made the barge more livable, may not be aware of it. [The Marquis, primarily, and Hoffman.]

I just want to make sure we're all on the same vector.

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[can_has_vodka]

Two most comfortable things about the Breach were that the Doctor was the one I snogged (the rest isn't even Stildyne's business), and that you and I were teamed together. That should happen more often. We do well and it's fun.

I figure we're on the same vector.

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[umgekehrt]

Excellent Then that's all I'm here to bother you about. [He squeezes her shoulder.]