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Steve Rogers / Captain America ([personal profile] assembles) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs2023-01-11 04:32 pm

january catch-all

Who: Steve Rogers & various
When: Throughout January
Where: Free Cities; outside Cadens, Aquila, etc.
What: Catch all
Warnings: Violence against bandits, probably

[ Find closed starters below! If there's anything you'd like to plot for this month, find me @ [plurk.com profile] demonology / demonology#1725 (Discord). ]
thearchangel: (have you heard my liara impression?)

[personal profile] thearchangel 2023-01-19 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Preach. They're sentient, worship an extinct species, and they want to make sure you know all about it.

[Some things are universal. Like the eyeroll Garrus just pulls off right there. It's been a long time since C-Sec, but you never forget having to chase hanar missionaries off of private property. Not fun. Way too many tentacles. There were always too many tentacles.]

Consider me jealous. If the hanar didn't have brains, we'd have a lot fewer headaches.

[He thinks maybe he can rig the gloves up to work okay. The extra fingers sort of flop around, the tips of the ones he's wearing are stretched around his talons, but if he tightens up the wrist straps... yeah. That'll work out. It'll have to.]

Think we'll really get this thing back in the water?
thearchangel: (amused turian is amused)

[personal profile] thearchangel 2023-01-29 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
No, they don't have stingers. They're... squishy.

[Not realizing what exactly Steve means by 'sting' in terms of jellyfish. He knows there's a Blasto line that has to do with jellyfish stinging, but he figured that was some cultural thing that didn't translate well. Besides, Blasto was all fiction, anyway.]

[Once again, he wishes there were a way to show people images from home. If only to corroborate the stories he has to tell. Or better explain things. So many other members of the crew would have been able to explain things better - except maybe Javik.]


All right then. Let's... [Garrus trails off, his mandibles tapping against his jaw as he surveys the extent of the creature. Damn, it looks bigger up close.] ... Get pushing. Too bad we can't just excavate the area under it. Get the ocean to do the job.
thearchangel: (Look at your drell.  Now back to me.)

[personal profile] thearchangel 2023-02-06 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jellyfish biology can happen later. If at all. There is a part of Garrus that almost misses discussing weird things between species - old elevator conversations. Mostly, he'd been teasing (read: harassing) Tali about it, but, in hindsight, it had been eye-opening for his younger self.]

[More important things at hand.]

[Like figuring out just how in the hell pushing and shoving is going to get a bag of water, jelly and tentacles into the surf. Ugh - hopefully they won't have to swim.]


Probably harder to repair than it seems like. Can't just dump more sand back in place or something. [Which seems like a solution to him. Scoop out the sand, and the jellyfish, dump more back in.]

[A deep breath, and, trusting the makeshift glove solution, he starts joining in on the tentacle shifting. He's not as strong as some, but long arms have to count for something. A good reach - he doesn't have to move as much to haul the tentacles from one place to another.]


You don't think they're just to make us look sharp? [His mandibles cant in a way that's meant to be a grin.] Damn, I was just thinking I should get a pair in my shape.
thearchangel: (Did I leave the gas on?)

[personal profile] thearchangel 2023-02-12 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[His head snaps around, concern flexing the plates of his face, drawing mandibles off his teeth.]

You okay?

[The answer is probably 'yes', given how Steve starts back working again almost immediately. He has to ask - it's out before his brain pieces together the probable cause. Right. The jellyfish shocks.]

[Time to be even more careful, he supposes. One at a time, more quickly than before, but still careful. Speed instead of quantity. Does it know they're trying to help? For a moment, he pauses, studying the thing. It's an animal. Isn't it? How the hell is it supposed to understand? It's not a hanar, or anything like that.]

[So he shrugs.]


Do these things have brains? It doesn't look like it's got much of a head...
thearchangel: (That... isn't good.)

[personal profile] thearchangel 2023-03-07 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Great - hate to think a pile of goo took you out.

[It's said with a grin, or, rather, the turian version. But there's enough amusement in the words to translate. There's something familiar in that little bit of teasing. Like old times. Like the people he remembers so well at his back.]

Right. Whole new world full of weird new experiences. And giant jellyfish with electric shocks.

[Liara would probably think it was incredible. Grunt or Wrex would try and eat it. More old memories. Sprung up by the suddenly easy camaraderie here. How used to working on mixed species teams he's gotten. Maybe this would be a lot harder if he weren't.]

[No reason to dwell on that. Every reason to keep transferring the tentacles to where they need to go.]
thearchangel: (have you heard my liara impression?)

[personal profile] thearchangel 2023-03-27 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
I could list off a few more, if you ever want to feel better about the goo.

[He's joking. No one wants to think about worse ways to die than jellyfish goo. No one wants to think about ways to die in general. Not even people who deal with death and violence every day.]

[There's something familiar about heavy work like this. Finding a back and forth rhythm. Just a physical task that doesn't require too much thought. Not much beyond where to put your hands and how to haul the next tentacle. No worrying about your situation. This weird world. And how to get out of it again.]

[He shrugs, shaking his head.]
I wish. By my time, the galaxy's pretty mingled. Anyone who has to learn that kind of thing is a colonist.

And I am definitely not the colony type.