03rd Landing . video

[landfall]

Really? I still don't have an inmate? Come on.

[ Hey Barge, have Racetrack in a sweatshirt with her hair messily pulled back. Lookin' good messy. Like she spent half an hour in the mirror getting it to look messy-perfect, because she did, and don't judge her, she hasn't had half an hour to spend on her hair in years. ]

Anyway. Attention, people with - well, medium-bad judgment. Especially Mal. Triad - it's a card game, like poker - my place, the stakes are clothes because I don't have any money. First four or five takers are invited. And, because of the stakes, no one underage.

Oh, and Felix Gaeta is not invited.

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[deshabille]

Why don't you have any money? And why isn't he invited?

Also, obviously I'll be attending.

[landfall]

Because he and I aren't speaking right now, and I wanted to make that clear, unless he's under any misapprehensions.

Good. Bring alcohol.

[payshisdebts]

I am intrigued by both your game and your stakes.

[landfall]

Who are you?

[forgetyourusedtobe]

If you wanna see your boyfriend naked, I'm sure there's better ways of asking.

[deshabille]

It really didn't scan as a question . . .

[landfall]

'Mal' is short for Maladicta.

[ and they are totally not girlfriends guess who proved you wrong, gurl ]

[truth_is_cold]

I'm interested.

[He's also curious as to why Felix isn't invited, but he's not going to pry... more than necessary. As necessity shifts.]

[landfall]

It's my Andromeda buddy! All right, come on down.

[themissingpiece]

Careful, you complain too much and they're gonna give a pain in the ass of an inmate.

[landfall]

Better than being bored.

[lastrat]

I'm in. ['Like poker' is really all he needs.]

[landfall]

And who are you?

[Not here... or is he?]

[itstopped]

[She's right; they're not speaking. Dean told him she'd made it out alive and more or less unharmed, and with that addressed, he hasn't tried to contact her, and he expects she doesn't particularly want him to. It's not especially nice to have that confirmed, especially not publicly, but he's not inclined to fight her on it. It's not like he has a solid defense. He's barely standing on solid ground.

In fact, he hasn't even seemed to be in the same areas as her. It's hard to avoid someone on a ship with fewer than 100 people on it, but so far, he's managed.

He's also better at the language of passive-aggression and conflict avoidance than she is. Now, he opens a channel, just long enough for her to see that it's there... and then switches it off without saying anything. A silent you've made your point.]

text | private

[landfall]

[ This makes her mad. There's about fifteen seconds of pure anger, in which she very determinedly stays still and does not respond to anything because she knows it's dumb and it will pass.

About at the fifteen-second mark she realizes that her anger isn't about him acknowledging what she said and is more about how she can't decide if she should feel stupid for trusting him in the first place. So she takes a breath, and she lets it go, and she decides that she doesn't want to just leave him thinking that they're never going to talk again.

So she drops in a text message. ]

Just give me a while.

[hunt4commonwealth]

If you've still got room for another player you can count me in.

I'm Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant. I don't think we've met before. [And strip poker is the best way to meet new people...]

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[truth_is_cold]

I don't think right now it's a great idea for us to go to a game of I forgot the filter.

[Click.]

[Private]

[Changing filters gives him time to shake off the kneejerk reaction.] Should I sit this one out? You could probably stand to meet more people. [And get naked with them.]

[landfall]

Another one from the Andromeda?

I'm from the Galactica. Racetrack. Or Lieutenant Margaret Edmondson if we're being formal.

[text/public]

[routemistress]

busy wardening rn or i'd come give you and Mal such a run for your money underwear

have fun. take pics <3 <3

[text/public]

[landfall]

Tell your inmate to suck it up!




I'm kidding about that by the way

[captain_jtkirk]

Still got a place?

[landfall]

I don't know. Maybe I could be persuaded.

[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara is blatantly intrigued, for a lot of reasons.]

I was always good at poker.

[She considers, for a moment, before switching filters.]

[Private]

Can I ask what happened with Felix? He's a friend.

private

[landfall]

[ She decides to deal with the private message first, before tackling the public. ]

Yeah?

How close?

[ Video ]

[surfaceshine]

Don't do that.

[ Video ]

[landfall]

Don't do what? Act like a mad five-year-old?

[onlysurvivor]

I'm not familiar with triad or poker. How do you play?

[landfall]

It's about gambling. Not showing your cards to anyone, and pretending you've got better than you do.