Initiation

OOC- JP between John Keats and new boy Nix!
Who: Nix and Keats
Where: Somewhere near the hanger.
When: Ya got me.
<snip>
He saw a man, possibly
around 6 foot tall, wearing sunglasses looking at him through an
archaic looking piece of equipment. He appeared to be talking to
himself in the third person and had an odd feel about him.
Keats put a hand up for aid, which he recieved. He was slightly bent
over still, but capable of speech and actions, he offerd his hand
again, this time ot shake.
"John Keats... pilot... i dont believe we've met?"
"I don believe we have either, my names Nix.. Nix Eclips... and
smile, your on TV!"
<end snip>
"Or will be, hopefully." Nix grinned. "What's the deal with your
brother? He a ghost or something? Smoke? Where the hell am I? Man,
this place is huge!"
Keats straightend out.
"New eh? okok... umm.. well.. welcome to the pride of the Jupiter
mining cores fleet, the Blue Dwarf... shes a big muvva i agree,
primary purpose is to mine ore, which we fail at.. frequently,
secondary objective is to locate and return our Red flavoured sister
ship, and our tertiary objective is to our best effort not to whipe
out any species.. especially the human race... ok, formalities aside,
youve kinda got us at a abd moment, and my similar shaped friend is
probably best ignored.. long story!"
"Ooookay." Nix turned his camera at himself. "This should be
interesting" And back at Keats, "So where were you headed? I was
kinda looking for a place to catch a drink."
"Well.. right now im heading as far away from the main hanger as
possible..." he saw Nixs expression and quickly tagged on
"For no real reason, theres nothign interesting going on therte.. not
at all! infact.. theyr.. uhh.. spraying for space weevils... yeah..."
Nix perked up
"Ahhh!!! Such a base experience of space flight! I must get some
stock images!" He loaded a new cartridge into his camera, Keats
gulped
"Oh.. and theyrs.. umm... its in vacuum, and theres no light in
there... and its on fire! Very bad.. we'l go later, ok... umm...
drinks you say? Well, parrotts bar is always open! good place to
quench a thirst!"
Nix pondered his choices aloud
"Fire footage or beer? Hmmm....Can we get the beer and then go check
out the fire?"
John had to think quickly, he looked at the man, his attire, his
shoes, his pocket that bulged slightly... the sign of a ful wallet...
but he had to resist.
"Sounds good! Have you undergone the initiation yet?"
"Initiation? What initiation?"
"Ahh! well, you cant see any of that until youve drank a member of
the crew under the table!" It was a long shot.. he hoped he had a
lower resistance to drink than he did.... Keats just couldnt handle
his beer... hes the only person who when at a brewery had to be
carried out in a wheelbarrow BEFORE the free samples... "Well then,
initate me up!"
Nix grinned and whispered into the camera as they walked off.
"This is gonna be so easy. The only person that can outdrink me is my
sister."
"Wait a minute! Who the hell controls...." Nix realized he was about
to go on a rant and stopped himself.
"Let's get toasty."
--At Parotts--
"Come on John you wuss!" Severn shouted in his ear, leaving an oily
residue.
"Can't... manage.. any more...." John had turned an odd green colour
on his second pint of cheatingly waterd down cider. In contrast Nix
had just put away his fifth, Severn had spiked them with a mukky
nail, a shot of vodka and jambooye sneaked in, but he hadnt really
noticed until he belched to close to a candle and toasted a random
onlookers shirt.
"Oh come on Keats!" Nix said mockingly.
"I was expecting a challenge! im barely warming up" John was flushed
witha new wave of entusiasm and drowned the watery pint of blackthorn
before shuddering. A sarcastic cheer went up from the crowd.
"Okok... n.. no... one more then... i can take it..."
"You sure 'bout that jonny?"
"Erk......" he replied
"Maybe you should have some crisps or bisquits, man. I'm gonna get
some pretzels. Nix was a bit buzzed and thought this might have come
out wrong. Quickly he tried to come up with a way to explain himself.
Then he realized that he had been speaking all of this aloud the
whole time. "
He looked at Keats. He stared dully at Nix and then burst into
laughter. Keats tried to stop his laugh but instead fell heavily on
the floor, and was quickly coverd in the emergency blanket, marked
with 'Incase of Keats' a regular for disposing his stomach on
Parrotts floor. Luckily nothing came out of his mouth except aloud
snore, which Nix found it humerous to record and play back and two
times speed.
"Next time we'll go to the fire."
"Preeeeeeeee!" Quilibet added, who was nestling on John unconcious
body.
<Fin>
Well, i think hes gonna be good! Defiantly a contender for Longwoods
best new player!