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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[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.]

[Private]

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dylan very briefly wonders if there is a game called "I forgot the filter." It sounds like something they might have come up with while drunk that he forgot about.

And then Rhade changes the filter setting.]

Oh. Uh...yeah...you have a point there. [Getting naked together probably not a good idea.]

You claimed a spot first. I don't want to cut into your social life.

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

[Eight months ago or so he wouldn't have had this problem. But he thinks about it.]

I'll tell her I can't make it [despite awkwardness of filter-smashing] and offer her something from the pub later. It'll work out.

[Besides, maybe he can find out from Felix what's going on there.]

[Private]

[hunt4commonwealth]

If you're sure.

I'll make it up to you later somehow. [Not involving nakedness at all.]

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

[And that's the first place his mind went and he wants to pull it right back out of the gutter because that's what got him into this problem in the first place. Maybe. When did the problem start? He doesn't even remember when it actually became a problem.

He's not answered for a few seconds, so he has to respond to prove that he wasn't thinking of that even though he was.]

I'll look forward to it. Making it up to me. I'm going to stop now.

[landfall]

Another one from the Andromeda?

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

[hunt4commonwealth]

Rhade was my first officer.

Nice to meet you, Racetrack. Call me Dylan. We're basically all on leave here, anyway.

[landfall]

On leave or dead, either way.

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dead. That wasn't something he was expecting to hear.]



Less than ten sentences and I put my foot in my mouth. I think that's a new record for me.

[landfall]

...no, sorry. It's me trying to be flippant that falls flat.

[hunt4commonwealth]

Maybe we can just start over. Hi, I'm Dylan.

[landfall]

[ She laughs. ]

Racetrack. Because I like to make birds go fast.

[hunt4commonwealth]

I'm guessing you're not talking about canaries.

[landfall]

Nope.

[hunt4commonwealth]

Pilot?

[landfall]

[ A grin. ]

Yep.

[hunt4commonwealth]

[He grins back.]

I've always had a soft spot for pilots. Most of my closest friends are pilots. And my Mom was, too.

[landfall]

Really?

You an only child, or...?

[hunt4commonwealth]

Only child. My mother was a shuttle pilot on the planet Tarn Vedra, so I didn't grow up in space the way some pilots' children do. Like my other pilot friend, Beka Valentine, did.

How 'bout you? Flying run in the family?

[landfall]

Oh, no. My mother was a farmer. My father was a businessman who became a farmer when he met my mother. I had a lot of brothers, there wasn't much money to go around, so I enlisted to pay for school.