[Ten Forward]: Rooming Assignments | Round #15

[ten_fwd_npcs]

Now that Dr. Crusher's medical team has cleared a sizable number of new passengers for ship-wide access comes a big day for them: the day they receive their official introduction to the Enterprise. It starts with a tour of the ship and some background to the situation, delivered by Chief O'Brien.

The tour covers the main areas of the ship, and a history of recent events, Q-inspired and otherwise.

Once the tour has wrapped up, it normally falls on Worf's shoulders to assign the new arrivals quarters and instruct them on the correct behavior and protocols needed for life aboard the Enterprise. They have been gathered together in Ten Forward, and are awaiting further instructions on how to proceed. Unfortunately, Worf is still unavailable, and so instead it falls on Lt. Junior Grade Baldwin’s shoulders to do so, just as it did last month.

As he has done this before, Baldwin has a speech prepared:

"The computer will instruct you on where all cleared-for-access decks are. You only have to ask where the area you are trying to get to is located, and it will give you clear directions. Do not visit any restricted areas. The bridge, engine rooms, transporter rooms, and all command centers are off-limits.

"With that in mind, there are a few rules you must obey before I give you your new assignments. One, do not discharge any weapon while on the Enterprise. Two, do not assault any other passenger aboard in any way; that includes injury, death, or violating their personal rights. Three, do not tamper with the operational procedures of the ship. Four, do not steal items or technology from the ship. Five, do not interrupt any official areas of the ship without proper authorization, and do not invade the privacy of other guest or crew quarters.

"Copies of the Prime Directive will be made available to all of you, and placed in each room. As you are not Starfleet officers, you are not obligated to abide by this rule; however, it is important you understand why we do.

Looking down at the safety of his PADD, he says, "Room assignments are as follows," before reading off the list of quarters, their location, and the guests who will be sharing them.


Deck 7, Section 4
Room # 0718 - Natasha Romanoff and Tex
Room # 0722 - Carson Beckett
Room # 0726 - Jackal Egret and Merlin (BBC)
Room # 0733 - Mack Gerhardt and Hokuto Shijima
Room # 0736 - Julian Bashir and Laguna Loire
Room # 0744 - Irian t'Aumne and Yoda
Room # 0758 - Trance Gemini and Rose Tyler
Room # 0763 - General Chang and Myka Bering
Room # 0767 - Finnick Odair and Alex Rogan
Room # 0772 - Inari Raith and Harry Dresden
Room # 0779 - Angel Islington and Lorna Dane

Deck 8, Guest Quarters (Family Suites)
Room # 0100 - Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen and Thea Queen
Room # 0101 - Killian Jones and Emma Swan

Deck 9
Room # 0922 - Amy Pond (SPN)
Room # 0931 - Luna Lovegood and Prue Halliwell
Room # 0932 - Piper Halliwell and Paige Matthews Mitchell
Room # 0933 - Phoebe Halliwell and Chris Halliwell


"I will remain here to answer questions," Baldwin says, managing to keep the reluctance out of his voice. "And the rest of the Security team will be standing by to escort you where you need to be."

The list is also displayed on a PADD, where people can refer to it if they need to.


[ooc: Open log for building CR with new roommates and meeting neighbors, "party post" style! Rooms are aligned the way they would be in a typical hotel: odd numbers on the left, even numbers on the right (so 0711 and 0713 will be next door neighbors, while 0712 is directly across the hall). There is a post in the OOC comm where players can connect with questions and find more details about the rooms themselves, so check in over there. If you need to ask security questions, or need them to swing by another thread, just put "Security officer, please!" in the subject line of your tag, and the mods will send someone to you ASAP. The tour given by Chief O'Brien is not open for tagging; you can assume your character had any basic questions answered. ]

Comments

Calling all Halliwells

[student_lighter]

Crap. Crap. Crap. Chris's eyes went wide. He forgot they were going to read full names. He glanced sideways at Prue and Phoebe, and rubbed the bridge of his nose. There was really no way to lie his way out of this one. Was there? He was busted. So totally busted. He could orb away, but that was kind of noticeable. And security would probably be pissed. Not to mention his mother. He could imagine the disapproving look Piper was going to be giving him in a few minutes, followed by a 'what do you mean you didn't tell them?! You had all the time in the world!'.

There was no way around this. He was screwed.

[prueisavirtue]

The rooming situation would be interesting. Having a roommate would be a little odd, but even if she wasn't roommates with one of her sisters, she hoped they'd be close by where she could bother them easily. It would take adjusting to not being in the manor with them, but they were here together, and that was all that mattered.

And then as the names were read off, Prue did certainly hear Chris Halliwell. Her head snapped around and she fixed him with a pointed look. And it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose son he was. Whitelighter said Leo, and Leo was married to Piper. Prue at least waited until the names were all read off and they were done speaking before she stalked over to Chris. She may be short, but Prue was still rather intimidating.

"You forgot to mention you weren't just a Whitelighter. You're family."

[student_lighter]

Chris held a hand up, taking a step or two back from Prue, who was shortly becoming scarier than his mom. "...I'm so busted, aren't I.....Okay, to be fair, I forget to mention that quite a lot. It's a bad habit. I'm pretty sure you're going to have to fight Phoebe for me, I've been stringing her along for months. Which I had my reasons for. And no, I can't tell you."

It looked like Paige escaped this one, not having the same surname as the rest of them. That didn't seem fair. Then again, Paige wasn't blatantly lying to them. Karma was a bitch.

"You're rooming with Luna. I used to be her roommate. She's nice, you'll like her. She's a witch too." That's right Chris, change the subject. "Be gentle with her though, she's going through some things."

[prueisavirtue]

"Yes, you definitely are busted, mister." Prue stated, narrowing her eyes and pointing her finger at him. There was a lot of finger pointing that happened in their family, especially when there was suspicion and accusations being thrown around. Like at the current moment.

And, well, Chris should probably be afraid of Prue. She did have a nasty temper, and being on her bad side was not a good place to be. Sure she couldn't blow anyone up like Piper could, but she had other abilities she could utilize.

"Smooth change of subject, Chris." She noted. Yep that's right, you didn't slip that change of subject by her, Chris. Considering she herself did the same thing now and then, she well knew how to play that game. "So are you a nephew?" Prue almost added the question if he was her son. Because seriously, she noticed their resemblance. Dark hair, green eyes. Piper and Phoebe had lacked green eyes.

"Though Luna's a witch? That makes things easier." And more interesting. No doubt she could have plenty of long conversations with Luna about magic. "Hey, I can be gentle and sensitive. ...sometimes. But I'll tread lightly."

Re: Calling all Halliwells

[premonitioned]

"Oh Chris," Phoebe says in a sing song voice that means trouble and grabs hold of Chris' arm and drags him off to one side. "Is there something you might have forgotten to tell me?" She's getting a lot of fear and apprehension off him. "Since your from the future, that makes you my....?"

Yes she is giving you an opening here to make this easier.

Re: Calling all Halliwells

[student_lighter]

And Phoebe's place as favorite aunt just skyrocketed way over Prue. Who....was still pretty scary. Chris held up a hand.

"I'm your nephew, Piper's son. Youngest. Look, this isn't the way it's supposed to happen. You're supposed to be having a premonition. And bust me. I'm sorry I lied to you. But I have a good reason. A really, really good reason."

[premonitioned]

"So I was going to bust you either way." Okay, there is two ways this could go, she could get angry, or she could hug him. She settles for the latter, he is family after all. It must be hard for him to be around them, and not be able to say a word.

"You'd better have a really good reason, that you are going to tell me later."

Re: Calling all Halliwells

[orbed_out]

"Busted," Paige singsonged as she leaned against the door jam. She was grinning as she pushed off the door, and walked into the room. "Nice digs.... come on tell Auntie Paige why you didn't spill the beans?"

Re: Calling all Halliwells

[student_lighter]

Chris took a deep breath, and walked into Paige's new home and fell onto the couch.

"Because Prue scares me and Phoebe wasn't supposed to find out yet. She needs to get that premonition. The one that starts her on the speed dating. Besides, if I told Prue then Phoebe would be the only one who didn't know and that's not fair. "

Re: Calling all Halliwells

[orbed_out]

Paige just laughed at him. "Are you afraid of a little wittle witch?" She drawled. "All kidding aside, don't you think this is worse?"

[thesurlyone]

Piper stepped back and just watched, a little amused, as Prue and Phoebe descended on her poor son. He had all this time to tell them. All this time, and had the opportunity to just be straightforward with all of them right off the bad instead of stringing them along like he did in her timeline.

[student_lighter]

Chris sideline glanced at his mother, and took a second to mouth the words 'help me' at her. He also noticed the amused look on her face, which meant that his efforts were probably for not. His mother was going to watch, grab some popcorn, and eventually tell him 'i told you so'.

Because, well, she was right.

[thesurlyone]

Nope. She wasn't going to help him on this one. Piper waited until her sisters went off before approaching her son.

"See what happens when you don't tell your aunts the truth right off the bat? You would think you would've learned from when you came to us."

Paging Team Arrow, OTA Otherwise

[redarrowqueen]

Thea had been the first to locate the new quarters (thankfully she had mentioned the chances of a move when Oliver and Felicity first arrived so less of a shock for Jackal when it did happen). After claiming the smaller of the two bedrooms and unpacking (mostly clothes and some personal things) she slipped her archery gear into its under the bed hiding place. Her motorcycle jacket however was quickly turned into a cat roost by the female Siamese cat who had adopted her (she had nicknamed the kitten Kit Kat).

Afterwards she was curled up on the sofa watching Pocky and Kit Kat basically act like brother and sister while she was trying to keep a simple hot cocoa down and fight off memory flashes.

[reincarnshaman]

The thing about cats is that they often seem like they can teleport. The thing about Veena is that she can actually teleport. Which is why there is suddenly a black cat in Thea's new quarters investigating Kit Kat.

[redarrowqueen]

The arrival of Veena peaked Thea's interest and for now the attempt at keeping hot cocoa down was forgotten in favor of the mystery cat. "Now how did you get in?" not knowing about the fact she could teleport. "Guess you followed me in while I was moving things around huh?" as she went over to check on Kit Kat. "Wonder where your person is?" as she petted the friendly enough cat,"And Kit Kat belongs to me! Well she did adopt me." as the kitten dove into Thea's jacket.

[reincarnshaman]

Sadly, Veena doesn't wear collars very well. She's very good at getting out of them and so she has no tags. She follows the kitten into the jacket with a very motherly air. When she sticks her head out, she has the kitten in her mouth like any other momma cat would.

And then she vanishes.

With the kitten.

Paging Team Arrow, OTA to others as well.

[hoodandarrow]

Oliver didn't know how Felicity managed to convince the higher ups to let him, his sister and his girlfriend to room together. Not to mention the cats. Pocky was currently trying to climb on his human as Oliver tucked his stuff away. "Come on Pock," Oliver grumbles, "it's not climb the human time right now."

Re: Paging Team Arrow, OTA to others as well.

[redarrowqueen]

"Got a jacket Ollie? Kit Kat seems to have made mine into a cat roost." Thea observed from her sofa perch. She was again trying to keep a hot cocoa down,"And under the bed has enough space for archery gear." she added. The little kitten mewed in agreement with Pocky about playing with their humans.

Re: Paging Team Arrow, OTA to others as well.

[hoodandarrow]

Oliver dug into his bag and managed to find his League jacket he pulls it out and tosses it to Thea. "I need to get a new leather jacket the next trip planet side. I just want to burn that damm thing." Pocky mews sounding slightly worried about his human. The cat can't honestly understand why his human is so cranky about Pocky's napping jacket, it's comfy.

Locked to Luna Lovegood

[prueisavirtue]

After having taken her nephew to task for not outright telling her he was her nephew, Prue turned her attention to the roommate she'd been assigned. While she was perhaps a little disappointed she didn't get Piper or Phoebe, both of their rooms were next door. Besides, Chris had told her that Luna was a witch, so she was more than interested in meeting Luna.

At least she'd gotten the irritation at her nephew out of her system so she would be very pleasant to Luna. So spotting Luna, she approached her with a smile.

"Luna, right? I'm Prue, your new roommate. And apparently you were my nephew's previous roommate?" Might as well get the conversation started there. After all, Luna would soon become quite familiar with the Halliwells since Prue spent a lot of time with her sisters, and she now had a nephew here as well. Which was odd, if she thought about it, considering the trip to the future that they'd taken, Piper had had a daughter, not a son. But that was besides the point here.

Re: Locked to Luna Lovegood

[radishearring]

That was when a petite young woman with blonde hair and wearing radishes as earrings arrived to her new quarters. She had thankfully been warned by Chris about his family showing up so was not too shocked about the move. "I'm Luna and yes, Chris did mention a lot of family just arriving." she gracefully nodded. But then Luna had no idea her own problems were on full display, especially a scar that basically screams magical torture. She held onto her bag of clothes and her sketchbook as she spoke, her wand peeking from her ponytail.

[prueisavirtue]

"It's nice to meet you," Prue said with a smile. "And yeah, seems if you get one of us, you get pretty much all of us." Even if Prue was still miffed at Chris for withholding the fact he was her nephew for a while. But she wouldn't let that spoil getting to know Luna at all.

"Do you have a preference for which bedroom you want?" Prue asked. And she did notice a scar that seemed different from normal scars. Magic. It must have been caused by magic. She remembered Chris' warning, so she didn't make Luna uncomfortable by staring or outright asking about the scar. Not just yet, anyway.

[merlinastrice]

Merlin walked about his new quarters. The living area was about the same size, if not a bit bigger than the workspace of Gaius' chambers. When he poked his head into his room, he was mildly uncomfortable with how bare it looked.

His temporary home.

About the same size as his old room. He walked over and sat down on the bed. It was certainly a lot softer than his hay bed. And cleaner. It was odd to not have the spell book or the Sidhe staff at the ready, just in case.

He walked back out into the common room, trying to take in all that had happened in the last day or so.

There was a roommate, so it wouldn't be that lonely, at least. He wondered who it was going to be.

oops, been meaning to tag this

[major_egret_msfsod]

Jackal, having been in there for awhile already, had long since settled in, although there was little evidence of it in the common space. But Merlin didn't have to wait terribly long before the door opened and she stepped inside, returning from a visit to the gym, in the usual combat boots and red-tone camouflage fatigues covered in pockets. Some of the emblems might have been a bit esoteric to work out their exact meaning, but the letters "EGRET" were printed on the jacket's left breast, and didn't seem at a glance to be part of any seal of emblem.

She paused, just a moment, staring at him with narrowed eyes--either suspiciously, or appraisingly--for a few seconds before speaking.

"Moving in?"