(11:29:28 AM) ***Reise goes to get Adelinda, starting by looking in the workshop. "I think I might need your help. Q's frozen solid in her quarters and frankly I don't know what I can do to thaw the block of ice out without actually hurting her. You know her a lot better than me. Any ideas?"
(11:31:08 AM) Ikiryo: The blue haired pirate (The one not currently frozen in ice or dressed as a maid) blinks a few times. "She's...what?" She sounds shocked. "I'll be right out." She stands up, grabbing her tools and heading for Q's quarters at speed.
(11:33:26 AM) ***Reise follows her quickly, leaving her armor behind, explaining on the way. "I think it was...something that Morvhana was telling her. It made her--I think she said something about reboot? Quarantine mode?"
(11:34:48 AM) Ikiryo: "...she's got emotional savestates, it might be related to those." She bites her lip, looking nervous.
(11:36:15 AM) Reise: "Could be. Look, I'm pretty sure she's okay, just...I can't do what she or South or the other two do, with their Super Math bullshittery, and I'd rather not risk, you know, breaking her in two by cracking her with the ice."
(11:37:16 AM) Ikiryo: "I can't do it either." She heads into the room to look over North.
(11:38:55 AM) ***Blueshift_North 's room is. . . actually pretty clean.  There's a couple of half constructed decks sitting on her desk, two neat piles of magazines, focusing on ship design and cybernetic technology.  There's an entire wall of the room lined with model ships.  Fairly expensive ones too.  North is sort of centerally situated, still encased in a coffin-sized ice crystal.  It's cold in the room but the ice isn't spreading
(11:38:55 AM) ***Blueshift_North which might be a good sign.
(11:40:42 AM) Reise: "Exhibit A," Reise says, with an unnecessary gesture. "Do I need to find South, too?"
(11:41:40 AM) Ikiryo: "I'm not sure if she knows anything...I'll see what I can do." She heads over towards it.
(11:46:13 AM) Reise: [To: Q-33 South - Hey, are you on the Serpent yet? Might need your help with your sister. We're in her quarters.]
(11:49:51 AM) Ikiryo: [From: South - Oh? Do you need icecream?]
(11:50:14 AM) Ikiryo: Adelinda frowns...and pouts her hand on the ice, her comlink trying to get a connection with North.
(11:51:35 AM) Reise: [...No. She's frozen. Like, literally encased in ice.]
(11:51:57 AM) Reise: "Should we...I dunno. Turn the enviro up in here so it starts to melt some?"
(11:53:07 AM) Blueshift_North: She gets a very simple response.  [Diagnostic Complete. Reinitalize Primary Personality, Y/N]
(11:53:38 AM) Ikiryo: [From: Adelinda - Y]
(11:56:01 AM) Blueshift_North: The ice first shatters, then dissolves.   There's an odd startup sound as light starts to thrum through her systems again.  The ring of lights around her eyes looks like something is loading. She blinks awake.  "Augh god.  My head.  What happened.  How did I get back on the ship?"
(11:56:26 AM) ***Reise blows a short sigh between her lips. "Hoversled, mostly."
(11:58:18 AM) Blueshift_North: ". . . Okay so what happened?"
(11:58:57 AM) Ikiryo: [From: South - Alright, I'll be there soon!]
(11:59:00 AM) Reise: "Well, before I tell you a bunch of shit you already know," she starts, leaning her hip against the desk and folding her arms, "what do you remember?"
(11:59:17 AM) Reise: [Alright. She woke up but more familiarity'll probably help.]
(11:59:46 AM) Ikiryo: [From: South - Alright, be right there!]
(12:00:26 PM) Blueshift_North: "We were fighting that. . . what's her face and then she was saying things and. . . Ack okay don't think about that." She hits the side of her head a little.  "Why?" She glances at Adelinda.  "Did I get damaged?"
(12:01:02 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda shakes her head. "I wasn't there. How do you feel?"
(12:03:30 PM) Blueshift_North: "Mostly alright unless I start thinking too much about the things she was saying. Gah.  Okay I need to stop that."
(12:06:12 PM) Reise: "Can't you just edit those memories out?" she smirks slightly. "Anyway, whatever she was on about, it got to you, because you just...shut down and froze over in a big block of ice."
(12:07:35 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda frowns...and hugs North tight. "I was worried when they brought you on board."
(12:10:03 PM) ***Blueshift_North leans into it. "I. . . Okay if I try to think too much about it I'm getting a lot of cognitive dissonance if I try to think about it.  She was pretty persuasive about ideas that are inherently antiethical to me existing, and that circle is clearly not squarable."
(12:10:54 PM) Reise: "She tried to convince *me* that civilization had to end. I'm a godsdamned police officer. You want antithetical, you got it."
(12:11:05 PM) Reise: "Anyway she's gone now."
(12:13:13 PM) Blueshift_North: "Yeah well it's still possible for you to exist without it.  Anyway I get that, but also I think I'm probably going to have to isolate those thoughtforms because they are not good for my normal cognative functionality."
(12:14:12 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda tightens the hug protectively.
(12:14:38 PM) ***Reise sighs, shaking her head. "There are times I envy you having a computer for a brain."
(12:16:55 PM) ***Blueshift_North hugs her back. "Sorry for worrying you." She says quietly.  Then louder, to both people in the room.  "I don't know it's all that different than the natural defense mechanism most people have where they just avoid thinking about difficult subjects."
(12:20:36 PM) Ikiryo: "It sounds a bit stronger than that...but not far off." She frowns. "I was really worried...you mean a lot to me and I was afraid it wouldn't be the same North waking up."
(12:30:04 PM) Blueshift_North: "Well, looks like you'll be losing plenty of more card games to me in the near future.~"
(12:32:06 PM) Ikiryo: "...hey, I win as many as I lose."
(12:42:17 PM) Blueshift_North: "Only when I let you.~" She teases.  "But seriously.  I'm sorry I made you worry."
(12:44:20 PM) Ikiryo: "I've never seen anything like that before..."
(12:52:47 PM) Blueshift_North: ". . . Like what?"
(12:53:15 PM) Ikiryo: "You freezing yourself, I wasn't sure what would happen."
(12:53:38 PM) ***Reise lets them chat with a small, knowing smirk.
(12:54:32 PM) Blueshift_North: "I did what?"
(12:56:03 PM) Ikiryo: She pulls up an image of North. "You did a fairy tale princess thing."
(1:02:22 PM) Reise: "And let me add--all that ice, plus you? Heavy as *shit.*"
(1:06:56 PM) ***Blueshift_North blinks.  "I don't remember doing that at all.  Hold on, let me check the logs." A beat.  "Huh, I have protective diagnostic functionality."
(1:17:20 PM) Blueshift_North: "From what I can tell it locks me down, and runs any of my diagnostic tools if it needs to, but just runs a base BTC calculation to keep me encased in ice, and to refresh any damage done to it until contact is established by someone I trust, or until the diagnostics are done and I'm alone."
(1:18:25 PM) Ikiryo: "...I'm glad it allowed me then."
(1:20:25 PM) Blueshift_North: "Why wouldn't it.  You're literally the person I trust most in the world.  Also you've rummaged around in my insides more than anyone else.  Do not make the joke Reise."
(1:20:58 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda blushes a bit behind North's back
(1:23:47 PM) ***Reise holds her hands up in innocence. "Moment's too serious for those kinds of jokes."
(1:25:08 PM) Blueshift_North: "Look I just want to be clear that I know how it sounds, but there's not a lot of other ways for me to phrase that."
(1:27:21 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda nods, blushing very red
(1:30:03 PM) Reise: "No, I get it. Remember, I work on machinery too, even if you're not really just a machine."
(1:32:21 PM) ***Blueshift_North leans back against her friend, seemingly oblivious.  "I mean sure it's just. . . Look it's really hard to find a way to say that Adelinda knows exactly what makes me tick literally without people thinking I'm making some kind of double entendre.  And I am certainly not just drawing this out as an excuse to tease her as revenge for her giving me an accent."
(1:32:25 PM) Blueshift_North: "That would be petty."
(1:32:44 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda pouts. "I could make it stronger next time."
(1:32:49 PM) Reise: "Mm. But I thought pirates were all about petty~"
(1:35:22 PM) Blueshift_North: "You could but then I'd just find another way to embarrass you.  I might even just step up my "Vaguely flirtaious" game, it looks like it's been pretty effective so far.  And please.  I am above petty grievances.  I would never hold a grudge over something like that and if I did you couldn't prove it."
(1:37:01 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda rolls her eyes. "North is fine."
(1:39:26 PM) Reise: "Yup, can't even tell anything happened." She levers herself away from the desk with a push of her hips and pats the pair on a shoulder each. "I'm gonna stand out in the hall to intercept Little Sister South. I called her before Adelinda figured out how to get you out of that."
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(1:43:05 PM) Ikiryo: (1:37:01 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda rolls her eyes. "North is fine."
(1:43:05 PM) Ikiryo: (1:39:26 PM) Reise: "Yup, can't even tell anything happened." She levers herself away from the desk with a push of her hips and pats the pair on a shoulder each. "I'm gonna stand out in the hall to intercept Little Sister South. I called her before Adelinda figured out how to get you out of that."
(1:43:10 PM) CelestialDoggie [[email protected]] entered the room.
(1:43:16 PM) MaximusTres is now known as Blueshift_North
(1:43:39 PM) Blueshift_North: "That's the other good thing about having Adelinda around.  She's not only the greatest expert of my physical state of being but my mental one.  And what's that supposed to mean?"
(1:48:21 PM) Blueshift_North: "No, I'm serious.  What do you guys mean by that? It wasn't clear I was fine before?"
(1:48:54 PM) Ikiryo: "No just...that was a very north thing to say."
(1:51:10 PM) Blueshift_North: "What does that mean?" She flails a little.
(1:53:38 PM) Reise: "It's called sarcasm, Blue. Look it up~"
(1:54:17 PM) Blueshift_North: "I do that all the time? I do sarcasm like.  All the time."
(1:54:41 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda hugs North, more happily this time. "Glad to have you back."
(1:56:02 PM) ***Blueshift_North leans against her friend.  "Of course you have me back.  I wasn't about to leave you without a best friend."
(1:56:29 PM) Ikiryo: "Well, no. There is three more Q-33s I could pick from...for a best friend."
(1:58:11 PM) Blueshift_North: "The only one who would be remotely as into card games is West, though she'd probably be pretty good and I don't know if anyone else would be as into videogames.  Face it Adelinda, you're stuck with me."
(1:58:51 PM) Ikiryo: "I'm alright with that." She smiles
(2:00:13 PM) Blueshift_North: "I'd hope so."
(2:01:31 PM) ***Reise finally just...sighs. "You know, I was going to try and be subtle about it, maybe catch each one of you separately, but at this rate I'm going to need the kind of laser than can saw through neutronium." She points a finger first at Blueshift--"You?"--then at Adelinda.  "Are going to ask her out."
(2:01:58 PM) ***Blueshift_North blinks.  "Huh."
(2:02:13 PM) Ikiryo: "...what?" Adelinda blushes brilliantly.
(2:03:55 PM) Reise: "You heard me. A date. Take her to dinner, go do something fun together, once we get back to Sigil. And I don't mean 'Eat in the galley then play video games all night,' I mean you're going out on the town. If nothing happens after, whatever, but seriously? You two are a couple in all but name."
(2:05:09 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda says nothing, just blushing a brilliant red.
(2:06:12 PM) Blueshift_North: "I. . . don't have a good argument as to why that's not true?"
(2:13:00 PM) Reise: "Because there isn't one." She posts her hands on her hips. "Like I said. If nothing comes of it, then at least you had a good time out together. But I'm pretty sure something will."
(2:14:04 PM) IterationDrive left the room (quit: Quit: ).
(2:14:46 PM) Ikiryo: [From: Adelinda To: Reise - What are you doing...]
(2:15:52 PM) Blueshift_North: "I mean look I appreciate the attempt but I honestly don't know that I'm in a good place for dating right now? Or have romantic feelings at anyone?"
(2:17:07 PM) Blueshift_North: "Also I think if we were dating the time we went to that vacation space station would count as a date, which I don't think that was romantic? Or am I confused."
(2:18:20 PM) Reise: "It's only a date if the intent is there."
(2:18:27 PM) Reise: [Playing matchmaker because goddamn.]
(2:20:10 PM) Ikiryo: [From: Adelinda - But if it goes badly...] "I-I don't think it was."
(2:21:13 PM) Reise: [Then don't let it go badly. Prove North wrong. Seriously, Adelinda, I watched you run over here when I told you. It looked like you thought the world was ending. You need to do SOMEthing.]
(2:21:26 PM) Blueshift_North: "Plus that would imply my kitten is trying to set me up on dates.  Which I refuse to believe is happening."
(2:22:36 PM) Reise: "That cat is WAY smarter than it lets on."
(2:22:44 PM) Ikiryo: There is a faint snickering sound coming from nearby as Doppler pops his head out of Reise's pocket.
(2:24:52 PM) ***Reise glances down. "When did you...no, you know what, never mind...knowing would probably summon beings from the Far Realm."
(2:25:03 PM) Blueshift_North: "No she knows exactly how smart she is."
(2:25:57 PM) Reise: "I'm sure. But it's how much of that does she let us see, is the point."
(2:25:57 PM) Ikiryo: The kitten snickers and clambers up to Reise's shoulder, licking her cheek.
(2:27:20 PM) Blueshift_North: "All of it because Doppler wants everyone talking about how smart she is."
(2:35:49 PM) Ikiryo: [From: Adelinda - I don't want to make it weird...I havn't had many friends before, so it means a lot]
(2:42:45 PM) ***Reise absently scratches Doppler's head between the ears. [And that's fine, but I've also seen how you look at her. You want more, you're just worried about what-ifs. Has she ever been a what-if kind of person? And besides, if your date goes all awkward and nowhere, you'll still BE friends, and after a few days you can both laugh about it.]
(2:43:14 PM) Reise: Out loud, she says, "Well, aren't we pathetic, then, manipulated by a cat."
(2:43:48 PM) Blueshift_North: "I am a sucker for children, cute animals, artificial intelligences and good people in bad situations."
(2:44:10 PM) Blueshift_North: ". . . and people I like.  And people I haven't talked to but want to get to know better. . ."
(2:44:22 PM) Ikiryo: The kitten snickers again.
(2:45:05 PM) Reise: "We've all got a sucker list. Me, I'm a sucker for a nice pair of legs." She makes an overexaggerated show of checking out Adelinda and North both.
(2:45:17 PM) ***Blueshift_North rolls her eyes.
(2:45:21 PM) Reise: "Oh, sorry, cop. Should I have said gams?"
(2:46:05 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda's short shorts don't really hide her legs. They are pretty good, though if Reise is right she's hiding a very good bust in that hoodie.
(2:46:42 PM) ***Reise is a fashion nerd, so of course she's right.
(2:46:51 PM) Blueshift_North: "What no, we're not under the influence of the noir spirits unless there's a reporter on board and nobody told me."
(2:48:08 PM) Reise: "At least I'm not calling you guys 'dames,' then. Small miracles, or something."
(2:48:58 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda rolls her eyes.
(2:50:39 PM) Blueshift_North: "I mean look I'm sure that's going to happen at some point."
(2:51:58 PM) Ikiryo: "Please no. No needles, no weird spirits."
(2:52:28 PM) Reise: "Ugh." She makes a face. "If I never see another batch of those needles again, it'll be too soon."
(2:54:02 PM) Blueshift_North: "Okay so don't look too hard in Adelinda's room." She sticks out her tongue.
(2:54:16 PM) Ikiryo: "...shut up."
(2:55:28 PM) Blueshift_North: "Make me.~"
(2:56:01 PM) Reise: [Do it~]
(2:56:13 PM) Ikiryo: [I couldn't...] She looks conflicted.
(2:56:32 PM) Reise: [Want me to look away?]
(2:58:17 PM) Ikiryo: [I mean...what if it goes wrong?]
(3:01:15 PM) Reise: [I'm going to tell Uytana she's got more spine than the big bad pirate girl.]
(3:02:07 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda gives Reise a look that could freeze a sun solid before leaning in to try to give North a kiss.
(3:04:00 PM) ***Blueshift_North doesn't try to stop it or anything, she's super not expecting this.
(3:05:17 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda is very clearly a bit hesitant about what she's doing but doesn't stop giving it a good try.
(3:06:02 PM) ***Reise holds two fingers up by Doppler as she watches, fully expecting a kitten hi five.
(3:06:53 PM) ***Blueshift_North freezes as she does so.  She's not pushing back or anything, she's just clearly trying to process what's happening.
(3:07:23 PM) Ikiryo: The kitten gives said high five.
(3:09:09 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda breaks the kiss after a few moments, blushing brilliantly.
(3:12:09 PM) ***Blueshift_North 's eyes have the same ring of blue pixels chasing them around the outside she did when starting up today.
(3:13:53 PM) Ikiryo: "...North?"
(3:14:18 PM) ***Reise tries not to giggle. "Forget safe *words,* you two would have to deal with safe *mode.* Give her a minute. I think this is her equivalent of being stunned speechless."
(3:17:36 PM) Blueshift_North: "That was unexpected? but not bad? That was. . . I kinda liked that? What is happening right now."
(3:18:00 PM) Ikiryo: "...it wasn't bad?"
(3:19:42 PM) Blueshift_North: "No? Like it was nice?"
(3:20:00 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda looks just as shocked as North did now.
(3:20:57 PM) Blueshift_North: "What?"
(3:21:31 PM) Reise: "And as any proper scientist or engineer would know," she announces, patting Adelinda on the back, "the surest means of confirming a result is repeated experimentation~" She heads for the door to North's quarters.
(3:22:45 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda hesitantly leans in for another kiss.
(3:24:07 PM) ***Blueshift_North meets her halfway still looking confused.