Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

WHAT'S BETTER THAN THIS?

 

okie-dokie then

>:3c

 

on one hand it feels weird writing erskin be so toppy, but on the other hand that's just because i like throwing him in flap-around freak-out situations, and with his quadrantmates he really is thoughtlessly superior and commanding. good thing bel's got the kinks he does, i guess? and also that jethro isn't at all afraid to pap him one in the snoot when he's being a dick.

 

no one is going to be able to use this aircar without getting a boner

 

Oh, are the other players ready for that? I've certainly been looking forward to seeing Bel and Galley's tearful brohug reunion and/or Galley bitchslapping Erskin the length of the island for upsetting everyone so much.

 

Yeah, like, on one hand I feel bad that this RP has turned into Roach And Jesse Play Dolls On Their Own and on the other hand, I want Luka to take all the time he needs to deal with all the crap that's gone down in his life. So— whatever's the least stressful and most fun, I'm down for— I've got plenty of spoons these days.

 

Also if putting this whole RP on pause for a few months would be good, I'm always a slut for AU's— maybe those of us that are interested could drag out the wild west AU or the ferris-beuler's-fight-club highschool AU that human bel and erskin had going on. Or something with ancestors? I think we talked about that once.

 

the worst AU: Bel and Erskin ascend without ever encountering one another again after baby-Erskin took off on adventures. Bel is assigned to be Erskin's first mate. Everything is terrible forever.

 

oh gosh oh gosh ok SOME THOUGHTS

-obviously i still want luka to take a break and not have an au that depended on his participation BUT perhaps instead of the sunslammer down incident, galley merely manages to figure out how to kill his captain(s) and hence three sweeps into his cheerful little rampage, erskin 'lol i bombed all my aptitude tests is that bad' aspera gets assigned the cursed warship because hey who gives a fuck

-erskin did not want a big warship, he wanted a little scoutship or even a one-man courier skiff, but living somewhere that is continuously trying to kill him makes him so happy he wouldn't trade it for anything.

-bel is not expecting the 'welcome aboard' tour to include 'oh, and here's helmsman galgal, it turns out he's what's been killing all the top brass on this rig, there's a bag of sugargrubs by the door when you want to bribe him into letting your shower have hot water but i haven't figured out what he wants for not exploding everyone's husktops all the time. we use a lot of paper and pens 'round here.'

-'why don't you just cull him' '...why would i do that' 'uh because he kills officers apparently' 'well if he manages to kill me i should bally well think i deserved it' '....' 'if he manages to kill you i'll be very disappointed, your paperwork said you were smart.'

-bel has had a string of polite, mature, tepid blackroms with fellow reinactors on planet and he got past the drones so he knows what hate feels like, ok, he's been around the black block a few times but WHAT IS THIS FEELING

-'that kadros fellow's pretty fit, isn't he' 'X HATE HXM X HATE YOU BOTH YOU'RE GOXNG TO SUCK HARD VACUUM AND DXE CRYXNG WHEN X GET THROUGH WXTH YOUuuaaarghgg agh xm sorry xm sorry—' 'no, no, it's quite alright, you just keep right on with that, mr galgal. it's good to have hobbies.'

-galley deliberately lets a boarding party in, the boarding aliens look like half-dragon half-scorpion nightmares, erskin has so much fun he bakes galley a cake. they lost a pivotal battle due to the distraction and erskin's been busted down a few ranks for it but what's important is everyone had a good time and grew as people.

-erskin finds out that bel can read without having to drag his finger across the screen, immediately offloads all his paperwork duties on to him, spends his new free time learning to play darts.

-galley and bel bond over complaining about what a horrifying disaster their captain is and how it might be possible to actually kill him for good. their solution is to put up a suggestion box for the crew. it is stuffed full in one night but erskin gets ahold of all the slips and reads them over the intercom while giggling.

-'GALLEY WHY ARE THERE CROCODILES ON THE SHIP' 'X DON'T FUCKXNG KNOW KADROS X DXDN'T FUCKXNG ORDER THEM'

-lu gets a courier skiff. erskin hates her.

 

-bel got assigned to the cursed idiot garbage ship because he disobeyed a direct order from a superior officer in battle, which won the battle and saved pretty much everyone, so he got a medal and a direct transfer somewhere he won't upset anyone important

 

i am loving bowerbird so no worries!

-'sunslammer', as a ship title, probably translates to 'the night's cruel fist' in human terms of eye-rollingly portentious nonsense. erskin thinks it's kinda cute.

- 'our mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!' 'captain our mission to get to sector x2930 and help with the bombing of planet herculon' 'no'

-erskin manages to get into the helmsnet out of sheer benighted terribleness at computers. everyone there yells at him and he leaves in a huff under the impression that furries are really mean.

-erskin is in the equivalent of his mid-twenties and is going to look like he's in the equivalent of his mid-twenties for the next thousand years. bel is deeply horrified to learn that erskin is roughly a sweep younger than he is.

-bel's position as first officer is actually a significant promotion. he was happy about it for all of six hours before he realized just where he was going to be officering.

-erskin runs his bridge crew like a book club, despite reading at the rate of a page per hour. he mostly likes Lad's Own kind of adventures and sulks whenever it's the navigator's turn, because she picks out Improving Works and the last thing he wants to do is have some philosophical wrangle about the nature of corruption or whatever. he still manfully suffers through them, reading one painful page at a time in his captain's chair.

-sometimes he throws the books at the viewscreen and storms around yelling. everyone likes this part.

-erskin is an avid shipper but he ships like a six-sweep-old yaoi fan. it's disgraceful.

-the look of abject grief and horror on erskin's face when he realizes it's bel's turn to pick out the book probably keeps bel warm at day for a week.

-the captain's lusus probably gets a special collar and free run of the ship. reggie's collar is probably a tattered cloth-of-gold bandana cut out of whatever the previous (much more imposing) lusus got to wear.

 

http://www.navy.com/about/about-reserve/rate-rank-converter.html#officer-ranks

proposal: there is a similar different-ranks-in-different-services thing going on with trolls, but the services aren't totally divided, so you could take someone who's made a name for himself commanding ground troops and assign him to a ship, just cuz.

so bel was a captain in the troll marines whatsit, and after his fortunate-but-impolitic disobedience and major victory, he was given a double promotion and assigned to the garbage ship. now his rank is commander, and his CO's rank is captain, and every time someone says 'captain' for the first two weeks he turns around.