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Skye: We return to our story with Skye flying off on the grav-bike, moving to pick up Keith and his feral companion...
Whilst piloting, the singer decides to text. <About 5 minutes off. Get our furry little friend ready.>
Keith: <Will do>
Skye: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wiHYx9NX4DM/maxresdefault.jpg
Keith: Keith makes sure that Tony remains safe and comfortable.
Skye: Skye does indeed arrive after the five minutes are up, landing on the street right outside, adjusting some of the controls, and then having the helmet pull back to reveal that sharkish face. <Waiting right outside.>
Keith: Keith presses against the window to see outside, just like Tony did before, then turns to Tony and says "She's here."
Keith: ( <@Kalos> , is Tony going to press against the window again? 😛 )
Kalos: Along with you? of course. "Who's she?"
Skye: >_>
Keith: "She's Skye, a pop star singer... And a concerned citizen just like me."
Kalos: even the voices on the goldies are essentially the same, though their languages and inflections on their voices can't have been homogenoized in the same way.
Kalos: "A pop star? Wh.. what's she doing here?"
Keith: "It is a long story, but a lot of people actually comes here to watch the races."
Skye: Skye, in the meanwhile, leans back a little in the seat of the grav bike, looking up at the sky.
Keith: ( <@!Skye> , you can see the two pressed against the window, if you look )
Keith: "Besides, famous people usually gets VIP invites."
Skye: Skye does not look to the window.
Skye: The sky is nice to look at, after all!
Kalos: "Oh. And VIP access helps them save us?"
Keith: "Well, not as much as I'd like, but since we are not racers, we can just fly elsewhere between races, and drop you somewhere where you can get to your family, if you so desire. Otherwise, the circus has already been busted, so that's off our radar for a while."
Kalos: "My family? Like this? Oh god no, I can't face them even when I'm human.." he shook his head to the idea.
Keith: "Hey, that's fine. What I meant is... If you wish to be returned to normal society, we have the chance to do so as soon as we can lift off this planet without causing suspicion... Which is as soon as this race ends. I believe the government has come to the knowledge of your situation, and is likely to help you recover from... Your problem."
Keith: <Hey, it's the right place, we can see you, you can come inside, I think> Keith then taps the glass of the window.
Kalos: "I hope."
Keith: "Hey, if you have the chance, you're gonna turn back into human? Or is there some other form you would prefer? I mean, forgive my curiosity..."
Skye: Skye twitches slightly as the message is received. A glance at it, and then a look over at the window. The singer proceeds to maneuver the grav-bike off to the side a little bit, so as to not be in the middle of the road, and then proceeds to hop off it, lock it, and head for the door. Still managing to remain polite, a knock comes first!
Kalos: He thought about it for a moment. "If I had the chance, and someone else was paying for it- I'd be something else. I don't like the look of my old mug much more than I like the look of this one."
Kalos: Coming up to the door, is Joakim, a racer- Does skye pay any attention to televised sports?
Skye: Not too much, but a little bit! ))
Skye: (I... Presume the door is opened?)
Kalos: It opens. you see him https://i.pinimg.com/564x/73/23/a3/7323a3293b07be5ae60bef19137a9101.jpg on the other side, now wearing what are basically pajamas "... Are you a cosplayer?"
Skye: Skye looks him up and down once, smiles a little bit awkwardly, and twiddles the fingers as a form of greeting. "Uhh... Well I do sometimes wear costumes for gigs. And I will admit I sometimes do cosplay to be able to go out in public without being mobbed by fans. But... No, not right now!"
Kalos: "So... you're telling me you're fucking skye, the pop star?" joakim scratches his chin
Kalos: "I didn't think I was that famous yet."
Skye: "The one and only~ Why, you a fan?" Skye questions, giggling and sending him a little wink. "Sorry to burst your bubble though. I'm just here to pick up a friend of mine. Keith, I think it was?"
Kalos: "Hard to not be, once anyone's listened to your work once, Keep being great." he gives a thumbs up. "Before you go can I get a photo?"
Keith: "That's me!"
Kalos: he pulls a camera out of a cupboard.
Skye: "Oh of course!" Skye proceeds to saunter up to his side, easily enough sliding a hand around him, and performing the classical winky-face-and-V-sign pose. "Anything for a fan~"
Kalos: "Because no one will believe me when I tell them Skye was in my trailer." He takes on a similar pose in theme, though not form, with one arm out to take a selfie.
Kalos: there's a flash, and a camera snap sound played through the speakers on the device.
Kalos: he moves towards his couch-bed again "Ill leave ya two alone but If you mistreat tony I'll come and kick both your asses." he points dramatically.
Kalos: his voice, slightly deadpan, as usual
Skye: "I'd much sooner have him in one of my music videos! He's way too adorable to mistreat!"
Keith: "Uh- Err... Touchy subject..."
Keith: "You probably has been told already that the kind of was not born this way, and didn't ask to become this way."
Kalos: Tony blushes intensely.. and pauses. "Maybe...?"
Keith: "Well... I mean... You are cute, for whatever is worth..."
Skye: Skye, spotting this, shall be moving on over to the cat, and just... Picks him up, gently nuzzling him. "Totally adorable! And easier to handle than a real cat, since you can understand me!"
Keith: Keith is becoming increasingly nervous with Skye's actions, worried she might insult Tony
Keith: "I... Can keep her away from you if you want..."
Kalos: He froze- he's got no claws, but you can feel his fingers trying to dig into your arms a bit (weak as they are) initially flinching and looking away. But after you nuzzled into him he seemed to relax a bit, letting you do it, even tentatively nuzzling back into you.
Kalos: "n..no, this is fine...!" he said back to Keith.
Kalos: moving to wrap his arms/forelegs around skye's neck, even.
Skye: Skye seems pleased enough with this decision, and gathers Tony up a bit more properly in the singer's arms, nuzzling him again, and even proceeding to give him a little kiss to the nose. "Definitely adorable~"
Keith: "Cool, okay. So... Skye, here's a problem. He has a tracker on his shoulder, and I got a bag that can stop radio signals, but the stupid thing is too small, so it has to go over his head, which is not ideal. So... Since he won't be able to hold on to anyone with his upper limbs, we'll have to sandwich him between us two, alright?"
Skye: "That's fine."
Skye: "Well..." Skye purses lips. "He could probably go under a shirt or something... That'd work too."
Keith: "If he prefers to be under your shirt, that's fine by me."
Keith: "Also, the bag will need to go on him before we leave to your gravbike, because this metal roof is stopping the radio signals right now."
Skye: "Oh I am sure he does!" Skye rolls eyes and chuckles. "Mhmm, understood."
Keith: ( <@Kalos> and <@!Skye> , also, don't forget, he don't have sufficiently working vocal cords, he can only communicate because of the implants.)
Skye: Yeh. ))
Kalos: (this is true.)
Keith: (Also, waiting to see if Tony is okay going inside Skye's clothes)
Kalos: <Under a shirt work!> sounds eager, even
Keith: "Cool!" Keith says, presenting the radio-blocking bag "let's get to it then!"
Keith: "Skye, if you will?"
Skye: "Sure!" Skye, a bit unfamiliar with the bag, still does as instructed, and stuffs the cat in under the shirt, adjusting the flexible fabric a bit to make both of them more comfortable. "There! You alright, Tony?"
Keith: "He can only vocalize now, radio won't be able to make it trough."
Skye: "Oh... Well... Poke me if something's wrong, ok?"
Kalos: The bag goes over the front part of his body, and he rubs a paw into her chest up and down once he's inside and pressed against her.
Skye: Skye giggles quietly, moving a hand to gently pet over the cat. "Careful! That tickles! I have to be able to pilot a gravbike, you know!"
Skye: "Anyway. Lets get going!"
Keith: "Right away!" Keith says, moving out of the 'trailer' and hopping into the 'backseat' of the gravbike he saw Skye park from the window.
Skye: Skye follows suit, instead moving into the front-seat, adjusting the shirt once more, to have the cat rest comfortably. Before starting up the engines and setting off into the sky, and back towards the ship.
Kalos: roll piloting at +2
Keith: (Please don't fail)
Skye: double checks sheet.
Skye: (Not +4 due to routine usage?)
Keith: (You got a kitty under your shirt)
Skye: I guess! ))
Keith: Skye - Today at 4:27 PM
.ra 14
PseudobotBOT - Today at 4:27 PM
@Skye Rolled against 14. Result: [5,4,5] = 14. Margin of Success: 0. Success
Kalos: Kitty, and an extra rider that you probably aren't used to.
Keith: (hey, here' the success!)
Skye: <@Kalos> ? ))
Kalos: (oh, sorry, I got dragged away >.>0
Kalos: Nothing goes amiss, you make the trip without any issues.
Keith: (does tony get an erection? :P)
Keith: "Alright! We just need to take him inside and put him on the automed bed. I'll babysit the machine to make sure it will go alright. Once we are inside, we can remove the bag from him."
Skye: "Great!" Skye manages to land the gravbike beside the ship, hops off it, locks it, and proceeds to head inside, humming the tune of one of the singer's songs whilst doing so. As soon as they are all inside, Skye retrieves the cat from under the shirt, and pulls off the bag. "And there we are, Tony! Had a nice trip?"
Keith: (Waiting for kalos)
Kalos: Tony, now pulled out from his prison of sorts, Nods. <I'd ride like that any time~> making a pawing gesture
Keith: "I'd ride like that too..."
Skye: Skye giggles and nuzzles him yet again. "Pervy little cat, aren't you~?"
Keith: "I hope you enjoy your stay here, Tony, we have not only amenities, albeit modest, but we also have company. Rylex is around for nearly 24/7, and he has netflix, the other escapees love to be around him."
Skye: "Rylex is adoring of me to! Some competition for ya', eh Tony?"
Kalos: <Hard to resist when a beautiful girl who's a pop-star offers you to be under her shirt.>
Skye: "Heh! If you ask nicely, maybe you'll get to be under a whole lot more than just a shirt next time~" A wink is attached to that, of course.
Keith: "Wow, if you get into her pants, I'll feel a little bit jealous, after all, it is not like I am adverse of having a certain Tony getting into my pants..."
Skye: Skye just can't help but to laugh at that. "Everyone wants to get into my pants when they first meet me. Few succeed~" Skye pokes the tongue out. "Nothing to take personally!"
Kalos: <I'll keep it in mind, keith~>
Keith: "It was not you who I was referring to." Keith says, sticking his tongue out to Skye
Skye: Skye rolls the eyes.
Keith: "Not that I don't want to too~"
Skye: "Exactly~"
Skye: "Anyway!" Skye looks down at Tony once more. "Where do you want to go, little guy? I could leave you to explore the ship, if you want? Meet people and all that."
Keith: "We need to get him to the automed first."
Skye: "Oh, yeah. Forgot about that."
Skye: "To the medbay, then! Shame, really. The beds are horribly uncomfortable!"
Keith: "Not so uncomfortable when you are put under for operation. I'll babysit the medbed. After that, we will probably have him meet the others, he will probably like to get into the marathon thing the others are watching with Rylex."
Kalos: <The automed will be able to take out the tracker?>
Kalos: <is that safe, without a surgeon?>
Keith: "Has done it three times now without a problem. And you are a goldie, you'll recover in a bit. I saw it happen! Besides, I'll be around, if it starts acting weirdly, I'll intervene."
Skye: "Yeah! Can't be that difficult, right?"
Kalos: <... Yea..> he's reminded of the fact-. <I'll be fine like this. I just had a bad experience one time with one.>
Keith: "I'll make sure you won't even have an experience at all this time." Keith winks
Keith: (end?)
Keith: (Or)
Keith: (Automed roll?)
Skye: (Unless Keith wants to talk to Skye, that is... This is their first time talking face-to-face after all!)
Kalos: Ill make the automed roll-
Keith: "So, if you are not afraid of blood, Skye, you can stick around."
Kalos: .ra 15
Pseudobot: <@!Kalos> Rolled against 15. Result: [4,6,2] = 12. Margin of Success: 3. Success
Skye: "Yeah. I'll stick around. It'll probably be fine!"
Kalos: it puts him under after he gets up onto the table, and removes it, having remembered their anatomy a bit better from the first two goldies it dealt with
Kalos: the small pill-shaped tracker removed
Keith: (Only one, the other one already removed it herself)
Keith: "So, big fan, Skye, I am really amazed that we are working together."
Keith: "I am Keith the... Do a lot of things, good at nothing man of the ship. I also keep the ship clean."
Skye: "Nice to be working with you too, Keith the horndog. Seems you'll be having some help in the 'keeping the ship clean' department. Francis usually does that for me. Won't surprise me at all if he does the same for the rest of the ship."
Skye: (Note: Keith has yet to encounter Francis, I believe.)
Keith: "Oh! So you are bringing a butler into the ship? Well, it will be nice to have help, to say the least, specially now that our numbers have swelled considerably, albeit temporarily."
Keith: "Well, I mean... Lilli is probably going to remain around, since she has no memory and all.."
Skye: "Butler, Maid, Cook, Manservant... He's a lot of things! But yeah, he'll help out, I'm sure. When he's not busy with... Other things." A clearing of throat and shifting of seat. "Yeah... I feel really bad about Lilli and all... Bad enough that she's lost her memory, but now she has tiny pieces of it stuck in her mind? Must be maddening..."
Skye: "I really hope I can help her..."
Keith: "How much we can help may be limited, sadly. Drastic brainsculpting mods can cause severe loss of memory and personality that cannot be recovered, if care is not taken on that subject, it is one of the things I have been made aware of when I had my mods."
Skye: "Weeelllll...."
Keith: "But we can give her a home, comfort and company."
Skye: Skye pauses, purses lips thoughtfully. "Can't say I know much about brain mods. But... The memories are still actually there, right? Just... Locked away? Lost in the fog, so to speak? She obviously remembered me."
Keith: "She remembered you?" Keith said, lifting his brows "Well now, that's surprising... Nonetheless, it is not like it has been completely erased, but whatever was erased will not come back... Granted, it might be that the change in the shape of the brain made these memories inaccessible via its original neurological pathway, if that is the case, the natural neural plasticity of the brain may make these memories surface later down the line, by stimulus related or unrelated to the memory in question."
Skye: Skye blinks. "Sure... Whatever you say... But I was thinking, she remembered being at one of my concerts, before she was turned into a cat. So if I played her some of my music, she might remember more of her time as a person?" Skye wiggles shoulders a little bit and smirks. "That, and... Well... I've got a few tricks up my sleeves. Should help with getting memories back!"
Keith: "It is very well worth the try. Consider playing music that you made before the songs she remember listening on the concert, after all, she can't remember new music."
Skye: "Yeh."
Skye: "I dunno what concert it was she was at, though. So I'll have to figure that out, first and foremost."
Keith: "Maybe if she can describe the songs she heard these, you will just have to sing songs made before these ones."
Skye: "I'll try. It'll be fun! I've never tried to restore memories with my songs before!" The way Skye emphasizes that word is a bit odd...
Keith: "I assure you, you've certainly created many memories on people across the time, heh."
Skye: "Something like that!"
Skye: "But yeah! I'm sure you have loads of questions for me." Skye leans back. "Not every day you get to meet an idol after all!"
Keith: "Why now? Why, of all other countries, why the special agents program of N- Well, maybe I shouldn't be asking these questions right here right now, Tony might just awaken and listen in on us. haven't gotten used to their physiology just yet..."
Keith: "I actually haven't thought of questions... I just like the music, that's all."
Skye: Skye glances at the sleeping Tony, raises an eyebrow, and then shrugs. "Nah, I doubt he'll wake up, ask your questions! Though really, I just took the opportunity as it came up. Runi came knocking and told me they were doing this thing, and I could essentially be a super-spy. Like, seriously, who doesn't want to be a super-spy?"
Keith: "Heh... I guess pop stars have very important skills that the agency could use... You know, a good chunk of this team is actually from a cop team that apparently excelled in competence. I mean, I was part of that team, so I am surprised that they found us to be competent..."
Keith: "Have the others told you that one?"
Skye: "They didn't no! But I got the impression that you guys have been together for a long while."
Keith: "Me, Miri and Cyril have been part of the same team since we were cops. Amoni and Adem came after, but we actually have been through a couple missions together... The first one had something horrible happen. Cyril got shot in the head, amongst other places. They've managed a full recovery..."
Keith: "You know, I never told anybody..." Keith said, with a small smile
Skye: "Wow..."
Keith: "But I gave Cyril an armor-piercing bullet that got stuck in my skin, on our first case as cops... I kept that as a good luck charm, and, now, I hope it will keep Cyril alive as it has kept me."
Skye: Skye hums and nods at that. "Sounds like you two have quite the bond... More than friends, maybe?" A tease, but a gentle one.
Keith: "I've asked before, but Cyril isn't interested in sex." Keith says, shrugging
Skye: "Oh everyone is interested in sex! You probably just haven't managed to push the right buttons~"
Keith: "Well, looking back on it, I am pretty sure Cyril is an ace."
Skye: Skye shrugs. "I managed to talk one into bed, once... Took some real working-over to get to that point, though. Had some serious pent-up fire like you wouldn't believe, though. I was walking funny for the entire next day!"
Keith: "Well, if you convince Cyril, that's fine by me."
Skye: "Heh! I'll see what I can do~"
Keith: "Don't make that a challenge, I'd rather Cyril enjoy stuff, rather than do stuff for the sake of doing it."
Skye: "Of course. I'm not in the habit of exploiting people!"
Keith: "Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest you were this kind of people."
Skye: "No offence taken!"
Skye: "Out of curiosity... Have you met any psions in your travels? I hear you people have been all over the place."
Keith: "I have heard from briefing that Adem is one... I forget his powers."
Keith: "That part might not have been mentioned."
Skye: Skye seems surprised. "Really? And you let him be free and around the ship?"
Keith: "Why? What did you expect? That we would put him on a leash? Heh."
Skye: "Well you know... The galaxy isn't the friendlies place towards psions! What are your thoughts on them?"
Keith: "It is not the weapon one is to be afraid of. It is who pulls the trigger. If there is a will, there is a way, and, therefore, the will to evil is more dangerous than the way to evil. I assure you, people can be monsters even when they were supposed to have no means to be so."
Skye: "So that means... You're fine with them, as long as they're good people?"
Keith: "Lady, why wouldn't I? I am one step away from being called a 'WEAPON' for the way my body is alone, rather than my disposition to do harm. Who am I to judge someone who was born that way?"
Skye: "Well then... " Skye pauses, leans back a little bit, and affixes Keith with an odd gaze... "Wanna see what I can do?"
Skye: "Well then... That's good to know, I guess. At least I won't be expected to shoot psions on-sight!"
Keith: "We might need to shoot certain psions on sight, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it."
Keith: "Don't forget, it is not me who calls the shots."
Skye: "Well... If they've proven to be bad people, or are out of control, then totally... And yeah, that's true."
Skye: "Guess I'll have to hope that Runi's good people too!"
Keith: "We can always turn to disobedience, but it would likely cost our lifes, on the very least."
Skye: "Yeah... I kinda like to have my life. I've only got one, after all!"
Keith: "Oh, that reminds me... I never figured out if he was or not, but I am pretty sure that there was a paramedic that was a psion. One of my legs was for sure broken, but after he treated me it got unbroken... Amongst other mysterious happenings around this dude."
Keith: "I have since moved away from that space station, I guess I will never know now."
Keith: "Anyways, the operation should be over anytime soon. Then, I'll wrap Tony in a towel and let him come to on his own."
Keith: (End?)
Skye: (End.)
Keith: !end
