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reim lunettes ([personal profile] allweather) wrote in [community profile] eluvio2016-12-18 06:44 pm

text, un: lunettes ( dated before the holiday mingle i.e. today )

[Reim understands absolutely nothing about... outer space, even after the initial orientation, so there's only one solution: writing himself a report about it. It's a force of habit, and he doesn't intend to share it at first (hence the strange heading) but he figures he might as well use it to present his various inquiries. He's going to be writing it anyway, so...

Well, it's better than looking out any windows and getting ulcers from space.]


CONFIDENTIAL/FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Report 1 (Rough draft) | Month X/Day X | Author: Reim Lunettes

We appear to be in outer space.

The author (hereafter "I/me") is unfamiliar with the concept of "space" as it has been presented here (more accurate word: the Heavens? This lacks the atmosphere of something heavenly...) but has taken up the task of organizing the information presented haphazardly during "Orientation."

I was able to speak with the attendant upon (...) waking, but unable to ascertain any pertinent information. The conversation began as follows:

Q. (to attendant) What is going on here?
A. All of your questions will be answered in a moment at Orientation.

While perhaps my demeanor had been more frantic than can be accurately portrayed here in words, all manner of simple questions were regarded in this fashion. Then, proceeding into the next room to watch a moving picture that continued to make absolutely no logical sense, followed by being presented with the following and left to my own devices:

• An uncomfortably small uniform. I do not think it will fit me.
• Some kind of pendant.
• This device.
• Additional information that still has yet to explain in full what a "starship" is but does at least provide some helpful rules and regulations to adjust to living aboard one. Whatever it may be.
• The stars are outside. I will have to ask someone for medication to eliminate vertigo.
• A transcription of the moving picture that still does not make an ounce of sense.

To this end, being left to my own devices as I am, I am currently making arrangements to seek additional counsel about what is actually going on here and why this bag has been referred to as a "duffel." Interviews with those who have been here longer than I will be conducted in the following format:

Respondent:
Time:
Place:
Notes:

Q. Hello. My name is Reim Lunettes and I would like to have a moment of your time. What is your name?

Q. Have you ever been to "space" before?

Q. How familiar are you with the items found aboard this "starship"?

Q. What items were packed inside your "duffel"?

With these questions, I believe I will be able to report back with a more thorough understanding of the situation.


[Anyway, hope everyone enjoys this report that is half serious and half fed up with not understanding why everything glows and the pictures move. This is probably deserving of ridicule, but only a little.]
finethanks: (☆ 4)

un: red tulip

[personal profile] finethanks 2016-12-19 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He hasn't been here long at all, but this is amusing anyway.]

Hello! My name is Eichi Tenshouin. I've never been to space before, nor have I ever been on a starship, so there's a lot that's different. My duffel had a uniform, this device, and two dog tags. ♪

Fufufu... You're so uptight, it reminds me of someone. How nostalgic... I almost feel at home. Just from this, I can tell who you are immediately.
finethanks: (☆ 14)

[personal profile] finethanks 2016-12-19 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Fufufu. ♪♪♪ You don't know? Fufu, that's amusing by itself.

What I meant to say was that you must be the tall man with the glasses. After all, you were so stern the whole time, I thought you'd stare holes in the workers helping us. It was so scary, the whole room shivered.

Your last name, Lunettes, is also the French word for glasses, so I probably could have guessed that much even if I didn't see that. You're like the perfect secretary~ Yay.
finethanks: (☆ feel it)

[personal profile] finethanks 2016-12-19 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm taking this very seriously. I've been stripped from my home and abandoned in a place where I have no friends, no comrades, not even any enemies. My companions have been left behind to fend for themselves like so many times in the past, and once again I'm a liability. It's very upsetting, you know?

But you're right, that was me.

Still, I know that a name can be misleading, but there are times when parents can purposefully name a child with the idea that they will portray a certain image. You know, the characters for "Eichi" mean "hero" and "wisdom" respectively. My family name, Tenshouin, means "auspice" and "institution." Doesn't it give off the image of someone grand, refined, intelligent and all things like that? It's just as my parents wanted.

It wouldn't be so strange to find out that your entire family wore glasses, but it would be rather strange to find out that your parents meant to transfer that secretary image. Unless it's your line of work~
finethanks: (☆ 11)

[personal profile] finethanks 2016-12-19 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, please treat me normally without holding back. If you step on eggshells, I'll only get annoyed. No one knows about my family here, after all.

You're asking me to write my name for your own personal interest, aren't you? You asked for it in such a strange way that I actually want to humor you. Let's meet up for tea some time. You could even be my servant, if you want.
genice: (er | that... works???)

un: v-nikiforov

[personal profile] genice 2016-12-19 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Are you asking for a survey, or did you mean to keep this to yourself to ask later?
genice: (consider | what to do next)

[personal profile] genice 2016-12-19 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
For just those of us who arrive here through these anomalies with the ship's engines?
tenkofan: (cg 🐦 masked 🐦 still)

un: blackbird

[personal profile] tenkofan 2016-12-19 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Your report needs paring down.

Would you like answers to your questions now?
genice: (sdfasdfa)

[personal profile] genice 2016-12-19 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
All right! If you'll agree to share what information you collect, I'm happy to add to your survey.
tenkofan: (cg 🐦 masked 🐦 neutral)

[personal profile] tenkofan 2016-12-19 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
It is better to practice efficient delivery of information.

I have not been to space before.
Barely. Technology is much more advanced here.
1 suit. 2 sets of "dog tags". This "communicator".
tenkofan: (cg 🐦 masked 🐦 glance)

[personal profile] tenkofan 2016-12-19 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Understandable.

You have means of identifying me.


[By which he means his username.]
genice: (huh | i'm so hungover rn)

[personal profile] genice 2016-12-19 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
( We're so sorry, Reim, he's just. Going to double check: )

So you'll be sharing that final draft?
finethanks: (☆ it's a symphonia connecting you and us)

[personal profile] finethanks 2016-12-19 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, that's too bad. Well, even if you're just my friend, you look like the sort that would do paperwork if anyone just left it sitting, so I'll use that to my advantage.

Why don't we have tea right now? I'll write my name for you.

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