Reaching Out

[ghost_shield]

Who: Nicholas Reeve and all interested in his Native/Visitor Diplomacy group
Where: The Nadeisico
Summary: Nick proposes a group which can help mediate some of the tensions between the Visitors and the natives. But he may have a few side goals in mind too...
Warnings: Presumably none.

Nick's been through a lot of different things in his life, but he has to admit it's the first time he's ever been in a space battleship, let alone hosted a MEETING in one. Hell, it's the first time he's hosted a meeting, period. But something has to be done, and he knows it.

He'd seen the anger. Real or manufactured, something was threatening to explode unless they as arrivals -- voluntary or otherwise -- confronted it face on. To ignore such a thing during a period in time like this would be to invite disaster, and quite possibly this great and terrible danger the people who had disappeared had been sent to confront. Whether or not this world was truly his own, that just wouldn't cut it. After all, he's all too familiar with the notion of destroyed worlds...

He looks around at the setup. It's sort of weird, hanging out in a place with giant robots to conduct business. He hopes people don't get too distracted by that. At the same time, this is really the only place to do this. Some of Nick's ideas might be a bit, well, controversial. Still, even if people DON'T go along with his secondary objective, hopefully they'll still be amenable to the primary.

Still, his plans would work better with help.

Comments

MINGLING

[ghost_shield]

It's not a meeting if people don't mingle a bit prior to it starting. Which is fine with Nick. The more they know each other, the better this will go.

((Feel free to chat among yourselves in this thread.))

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

Pit shows up 15 minutes late with Starbucks.

...actually, the reason why he was "late" was because he was too busy taking in his surroundings. "Wow, this is an awesome place for a meeting!"

[electricyousei]

"Actually, if I had more time I would have set up one of the conference rooms. We can watch movies there."

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

"That would have been even more awesome!"

Because clearly you can get a lot of things done by watching a movie instead of discussing what you all came here to discuss.

[electricyousei]

Ruri is watching, its her ship after all, so she's waving slightly to people as they come in in her usual deadpan way. Occasionally she walks over to a flashing monitor, and fiddles with it, occasionally she can be seen watching the ramp.

[ghost_shield]

"Thanks again for this."

Nick walks up to her, looking over some notes of his. "A heck of a ship you've got. I've heard people lamenting losing theirs on occasion back home -- and occasionally getting them BACK -- but I've never actually been on something like this," he says.

[electricyousei]

"The Nadesico is... Special. She was a symbol of single minded stupidity and determination back home, and I don't want the tradition to die here. Still, without her crew she's not 1/10th of the wonder she can be."

[genkibot]

[One of the times Ruri is at the flashing monitor, Tachikoma comes up to greet the girl.]

Hello Ruri! What are you doing there?

[operationbox]

Pardon Io as she stares at everything. Space battleships aren't exactly common where she's from, either.

[ghost_shield]

Nick briefly wonders if he should've picked a slightly less distracting location. "Hey. You here for the meeting?" he asks.

[sorefeetman]

Ginko meanders onto the spaceship, following some steps behind other meeting attendees who looked like they knew where they were going. Hands in his pockets, he eyes the inside of the Nadesico and fights the urge to squint at how brightly-lit everything is, compared to what he's used to.

He doesn't engage, though he doesn't stay away from the group, either. He'll hover somewhere nearby the only one he knows so far; the meeting's author, Nick.

[ghost_shield]

Nick's still trying to make sure everything's just right. Gotta make a good impression, after all, especially considering... oh hang on. "Hey Ginko. Interested in helping out?"

[hetried]

Not being distracted...yeah that was definitely not something Daichi was managing. I mean, he had been all for the mediary stuff! He wasn't the best at PR, but he had seen people getting angry, and damnit, he wanted to help!

Of course he was...kind of completely distracted by their current surroundings. Don't mind him

[ghost_shield]

Yep. Definitely should've picked a less distracting place. "Yeah, uh, sorry. It's the best place I could think of," he said. Mostly for the security thing.

[pastalishe]

Thanks to her visit to the Nadeisco with Asem, Cloche can hide the awe she still feels walking into the massive ship. Since this meeting is, in her mind, a very serious matter for all the Visitors who choose to attend, she's wearing her full Holy Maiden regalia: rapier, feathery shawl, sun-shaped headdress and all.

She's pleased to see that so many other Visitors have come to attend the meeting; it's good to see that there are others who want to be proactive about reaching out to the local citizens of Hinoto-Ri.

[ghost_shield]

"Ms. Pastalia! Great, you made it!" He walks over, hand out to shake. "We should be ready to get started here soon, so just find a place to sit whereever."

[greyerrant]

"Cloche."

Loken booms, standing off to one side, his helm stowed under his hand, looking stoically at the group.

"It has been some time. I was worried about you."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Fancy," is the Jedi's only comment on the space battleship. She's practically lived on these things before, so really, the only difference is that this one's shinier.

Meetra was still recovering from her trip to the Tower of Animus, but as she hadn't been gravely injured, she made it here as soon as she checked her COMP backlog.

"Is this the diplomatic meeting?"

[ghost_shield]

He nods. "It is indeed! Take a seat. I'm just about to start, actually."

[greyerrant]

"Of course, that's why I'm here."

Loken snarks mildly, standing in a side hallway, clearly scoping the place out as if he's going to have to board it later.

Re: MINGLING

[acapriciousthing]

It's a bit strange, being back on the Nadesico in a new place. It's familiar though. So it's a bit of a nice strange. "Not a bad turnout."

[genkibot]

[Tachikoma was looking around too and there's a familiar face!]

Oh, hello there! Are you here to help too?

[ghost_shield]

He nods. "Yeah, it's pretty decent. Not as many people as I'd like, but it's a start. Hopefully we can recruit more the more our work gets out there."

[genkibot]

[There is a blue-haired girl looking around at everything, barely restraining from poking and prodding things.]

I've never been on a space ship before... I wonder if Ruri would let me connect to it later...

[ghost_shield]

"Er, connect to it?" He eyes the newcomer. Some sort of android maybe?