TRAVEL ♔ they pray no one has to see them fall

[telekinection]

♬ Take Me To the Riot - Stars

WHO || Koraith, Fred Jr., Tia, Vanille, Andie, Riddick [Closed]
WHAT || The Flight to Slovechnia (Eastern Europe)
WHERE || ON AN AEROPLANE
WHEN || Sunday morning
HOW || Actionspam

[This log is for any in-flight interactions on the Knight's private plane ride to the mission site. Please do not disturb the pilot 8|  Feel free to make your own threads, etc.  The flight time is approx four hours.]

Comments

[asap]

Seriously? [Andie wrinkles her nose.] I would get so bored.

[asap]

[She stares at him, kind of pleased she made him laugh because he seems like the sort of guy who's usually grumpy, but also a little disgruntled because he seems to be laughing at her.]

I don't get the joke.

[nepotism]

You could always just run ahead, couldn't you? [There's a teasing look in his eyes] Scope everything out, get a bagel...

[lightblindbadass]

That much is obvious. [This is said extremely dryly while he stretches his arms up behind himself, his legs crossing at the ankles. He'll try to explain without being too mean. Sorry, he's a mean jerk-head.]

Did you know that in this time space exploration has already existed for roughly fifty-five years? So no, space doesn't exactly start over five hundred years from now.

[asap]

Well, duh. I'm not stupid. But it's not like people live there.

[lightblindbadass]

Just checking to see if you were paying attention. That happens in another fifty years or so.

[asap]

I thought about it! I probably could have, but you know. [She pounds a fist in the air.] Team solidarity. Plus, if it were a lot further, like, LA, I'm not sure I could make it.

[asap]

See? [She whacks his arm.] I will so be alive in fifty years. I'm gonna go to space!

[nepotistic]

Good to know you've got your limits like the rest of us mere mortals.

[notafraidofthedark]

[The whack on his arm actually gets a friendly chuckle out of him. Apparently physical violence = friend times to Riddick.]

Yeah, maybe you will. What did you mean by "maybe" being alive in another five hundred years? Last I checked immortality was still just a psycho's wet-dream.

[asap]

For now. Maybe when I'm older and have more practice, I'll be able to just go on forever.

[asap]

Well, duh, but living to 500 isn't the same as living forever. [Obviously.]

[lightblindbadass]

...living to 500 is pretty much impossible too, you know. May not be immortality but it's close enough. [Obviously.]

[asap]

Impossible for humans, sure. But so's running at the speed of sound.

[notafraidofthedark]

[Riddick looks at her quietly a moment at that statement, truly curious now. Something inhuman he was used to dealing with. But she didn't have weird spikes coming from her head, no extra limbs that he had seen, nothing telling to say she was alien.]

What race are you, then? What System are you from? [He leans forward, keenly interested suddenly, his deep voice rumbling quickly.]

Y'know, yanking my chain about space-travel was good, you really had me thinking you'd never heard of other Systems before.

[nepotism]

Well, what good would that be if there was nobody else at the other end of forever? [He's... just teasing, really] Sounds boring to me. Maybe a happy medium.

[asap]

[Wow, Riddick, she's not an alien. And just looks... so blank at what he's saying because what?]

Uh. My great great something was from Shadow World?

[asap]

Maybe just for like, several hours. Like the superspeed equivalent of a marathon.

[nepotistic]

Suppose they don't need all those things of bottled water for one of those, huh?

[notafraidofthedark]

[He actually looks a bit crest-fallen at her answer. Look he has never heard about Shadow-kind, or the Shadow World before like this past month, and he definitely has never heard of long-lived descendants of anyone before. He's still in the baby-steps stage of learning all this stuff.

Plus he was kinda hoping for someone else who knew what he was talking about, too. /sadforever.]

Oh. Right. [A pause.]

People from the Shadow World can live that long?

[asap]

[Poor Riddick. Andie feels kinda bad but there's... not really anything she can do about it besides look momentarily sympathetic.]

Aasimars can.

[notafraidofthedark]

Aasimars? [He hates having gaps in his knowledge so so much, but in this case there is really too freaking much to learn in the short amount of time that he's been here to know it all.

He figures out of everyone here she seemed to be the type not to hold it against him, or to mind being questioned.]

[asap]

[She grimaces a little. Not because she holds the questioning against him, but because, well, it's kind of embarrassing. Like, she doesn't really want to brag about her heritage. She'll brag about her speed, of course, but that's because it's so very hard to hide and easy to show off. But the why? She likes it better when people don't ask. She doesn't even know what deity she's descended from, and she couldn't really prove it even if she did. Not really.]

Um. My even more great great great great great grandsomething is a god?

[notafraidofthedark]

[He just... looks at her a moment, waiting with a deadpan expression on his face for the other boot to drop. When it becomes clear that she does in fact believe that her greatwhatever was a god, he leans back in his seat, his head rearing back and slightly to the side.

She hadn't seemed crazy. Sure, she talked like she was hopped up on sugar most of the time, but that didn't mean her sanity was in question.

He also got the impression off of her that she wasn't lying. Maybe her parents had lied to her when she was little to make her feel special? His horrible Arcane Lore check makes it so that this is completely plausible to him, don't blame him :\

He looks at her another moment, then decides that asking another question is the best way to deal with this.]

Are there many Aasimars around?

[asap]

[She shrugs, looking a little blasé. He doesn't look like he believes her. She didn't totally expect him to. But it is what it is.]

My dad's extended family. Dunno about outside of us. There aren't, like, Aasimar conventions. Like I know there are others, from Shadow World, but I couldn't, like, give you an exact count.