redmarsshit | june 2020. welcome to the void.

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a. welcome to paradise.

What at first appears to be an odd glint in the sky over Anchor slowly broadens and brightens into a truly enormous...cruise ship? Yes, that's a cruise ship, and it's coming down to rest just outside of Anchor's exit doors. The ground shakes as it lands. A bubble forms over the ship and connects to Anchor's exit, and there's no two ways about it: the ship comes with its own radiation shield.

This sucker puts the Titanic to shame. Nearly as long as Anchor is wide, it's more like a floating city than the cruise ship it resembles. Little satellite ships hover and dart around it, occupied by alien lifeforms with too many arms to quite fit the Hawaiian print shirts that they're wearing.

The Daisy Darling Interdimensional Cruise Barge has come to Anchor.

b. anchors away!

And it's quite accessible to residents of Anchor. In fact, the people (of every shape, size, and coloration that can't be considered human) on board will be delighted to host the creatures they've been watching for the past few months as they orbited the planet. Not only will Anchorites find themselves accosted for photos, but they can also find figurines, keychains, and small novelty items of themselves in almost every knick-knack store on the promenade deck. The souvenir shops will also come heavily stocked with red shift-themed items, including toys and decorations featuring some of the monsters that have appeared from the wastes. You always wanted a slinky sand worm, didn't you?

Anyone who can sing, dance, play music, or otherwise perform will be encouraged to do so and showered with gifts - both useful and useless - by the vacationers. Have an instrument, or a good voice? Go busking! Sell your art, give lectures about your home worlds, teach salsa dancing. The vacationers are just waiting to give you money for helping them have a good time.

There's an alien casino, with machines both familiar and very very not. It's a rollicking place with neon signs, free-flowing drinks, and even more free-flowing money. You might not have any use for alien currency in Anchor itself, but it couldn't hurt to check out the shops with a little extra cash from the poker tables, could it? At one side is an all-you-can-eat buffet of everything under the sun, from alien fruit and vegetable platters to...is that a whole giant squid? I never knew they came in quite that color...

You can sneak around the casino without too much effort, stealing from pockets, tables, and platters, but that could get you caught and thrown in the brig, which. Well. We'll get to that, but you don't really want to go there.

The uppermost level of the ship is a beach and water park. There's sand, palm trees, a wave pool, water slides, and a lazy river with inner tubes big enough to support even the heftiest alien. Oh, and a regular old pool, over there. Where all the old aliens are hanging out and playing hover-shuffle-board. Swimming gear is required in this area, but not to worry! There’s an automated booth that will supply you with just the suit you need.

In addition to these places, there's a whole ship to explore, with all the amenities a weary traveler could want. A spa (manned by real (alien) people!), jacuzzis, restaurants that actually function with food the bold can actually eat, clothing stores (though not much of it is designed with humans in mind), deck chairs on sunny promenades, gardens full of alien flowers, and an enormous library filled with books that are checked out based on the honor system. So, y'know. Be honorable. Or something.

c. the first rule of daisy darling.

For those unentertained by the above-board offerings of the upper decks, there's the ship’s more hidden amenities. A fight club filled with creatures of every shape, size, and level of power. A drug den with everything from euphoria-inducing cigarettes to hallucination-causing body paints. A thriving black market, though the offerings are comparatively innocent - bootlegged episodes of Anchors Away, mostly. What's that? Oh, just the reality show of your lives over the past six months. Let's hope no one comes across any awkward vids showing things you don't want people to know about.

Attached to the fight club is the brig. Can you see where this is going? People who get caught breaking the rules on the Daisy Darling can expect to face the music by being put opposite some of the ships more powerful monsters, or its more powerful and reckless vacationers. Who wouldn't love to test themselves against a giant robot or an honest-to-god cowboy? Don't worry! If you get too badly hurt, there's a repair suite on the medical level that can fix up almost any injury. Just don't die before you get there.

If anyone asks about staying on board, escaping the planet with the ship, or tries to convince an alien to help them stow away, they'll be told it goes against both the prime directive and the Daisy's petting zoo rules. Try to stow away on your own? Well, if you're lucky, you'll get caught by a benevolent guard and booted back to Anchor. If you're unlucky, get those boxing gloves ready, because you're headed for the brig.

d. the network.

Need to get hold of someone, call for help, ask the city at large a question? Need to ask a friend to back you up and tag team in the fight club? Maybe you need to hold your sat phone up to whatever crazy thing you're seeing and send out a recording to double-check if your eyes are deceiving you and what you're looking at is real?

Whatever the reason, the network is going strong, so feel free to include a post to it in your top-levels.

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Yamamoto may be distracted more than usual as he moves through the crowd. Usually agile on his feet running into someone is not a normal occurrence for him. When he goes to pivot sideways to avoid a rather dangerous looking alien (at least to his way of thinking) his shoulders make light contact with something solid and warm.

It is his training that keeps him on his feet when he pulls out of the backward stumble into Finnick, curving into a smooth rotation that lands him facing the person he almost hit. His grin is instant and sheepish as he rubs the back of his head.

"Sorry! I didn't see you there.." And that guy looked like he may sting if Yamamoto hit into him so he sure is glad to find himself hitting into another human if a collision could not be avoided. Or at least the guy looks human.

Finnick has good reflexes too, from years on boats followed by years of training and then years of the constant edginess that so many victors have. He sees the guy change direction, stumble back towards Finnick, and he's already making a momentary assessment: not a threat, just someone avoiding one of the unusual passengers on this vessel.

Finnick doesn't need to dodge.

So he doesn't, and as it turns out, the other guy does. Gracefully, with the control of someone who knows what he's doing.

Finnick shrugs, an easygoing don't worry about it in the movement.

"There's a lot of people around."

That is a relief, one never knows what reaction they are going to get when almost running into a random stranger on an alien cruise ship in a different world. Try to say that three times fast.

He is an athletic teenager by nature but he's had some extra grace added in thanks to some extensive sword training. The things teens get up to, then Finnick may understand that considering what teens are put through in his world.

"People?" He looks around, confused amusement in his eyes, there are more people here he sees, that's nice, better to not feel like the only human. Then he is off on to something new because there next to Finnick is a figurine that looks just like him

"Oh cool, you must be famous!"

To Finnick, a teen who's familiar with fighting and athletics is more normal than one who isn't, but that's a reflection of being a Career and spending most of his teenage years around Careers (and then other victors). He'd been able to fight with several different styles of weapons when he was still basically a kid himself. So the kid just seems like a kid to him.

Finnick laughs at the little doll of himself, reproduced right down to the famous green eyes, then picks it up and holds it next to his face, posing like he was in an advertisement.

"Cute, right?"

His eyes are sparkling with a not-very-well-hidden glee.

"You wouldn't think it in Anchor. I'm more used to people recognizing me than not."

Yamamoto will appreciate that. They hide a lot of what they get up to from their families. Though, the girls had taught the boys to stop sheltering them, so he has learned to be open about what he is and what he can do thanks to their influence on Tsuna and his Guardians.

The swordsman gives the doll a good look, going from Finnick's face and back again, then he gives a firm nod and bright smile.

"Yes! They got it really close too, even the eyes. Amazing! Are you a television star or model?" Because of course, Finnick is a pretty guy, then again maybe he played sports, that would be the coolest for this young athlete.

june 2020. welcome to the void.

Wildcard it is!

sorry this took so long the last few weeks have been a thing

these things happen and if you need to ignore it go for it I understand just a hunger games fan lol

i'm here for it! <3

I love you for it <3 Finnick is amazing