welcome to starfield

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[Each inmate wakes up in a cell, with no memory of arriving there or of putting on the full body orange jumpsuit. There is a moderately chunky tablet wired into one of their arms, with dials on the side to flick through the different menus, including a limited note-taking function and a map

None of them are alone in their cells, either.

Whether they choose to leave their cell and explore or just stay and get to know their new roommate, it becomes clear that this place isn't anything like any of them have ever seen. For some, it's devoid of anything even remotely familiar. The door labeled Counselor's office is locked. The Counselor's office and the kitchen and mess hall all have placards stating hours when they're closed - or in the former's case, when "private office hours" will be held.

However they while away the next couple of hours, it seems like they're mostly alone on the ship. For a while, anyway.]

Comments

Library

[ebonyknight]

[Someone else is in the library, looking at the titles briefly. Manuals, mostly.]

Tch... what sort of joke is this?

[Why hasn't she read any of these books?!]

[tenimuho]

The books specifically, or the whole situation?

[He can understand that response to the whole kidnapping thing.]

[ebonyknight]

Both. [Admittedly, she finds the books useful but...] What sort of prison skyship needs a library for the prisoners?

[tenimuho]

[...Skyship?]

The prisons I've been in before all had them, although they were smaller than this. It's usually in the staff's best interests to give the prisoners something to do that doesn't hurt anyone else.

[ebonyknight]

What a foolish notion. If they were dangerous enough to be locked in for long enough they should have been executed.

[...Apollo, stop.]

[tenimuho]

Some countries don't allow the death penalty.

[Japan does, but to be honest, it was never the government that Oda was concerned about being executed by.]

[ebonyknight]

Considering they captured me, I doubt they will be shy about that.

[The Erste Empire is not a nice place.]

[tenimuho]

Possibly. Where do you think we are?

[...skyship??]

[ebonyknight]

We were sailing to the Lumacie Islands in the Phantagrande Skydom. I assume we're still in Phantagrande. Unless one of our captives is one of the other six Luminary Knights, travel to other skydoms wouldn't be possible.

[Skyship.]

[tenimuho]

[Oda listens to all that, thinks for a moment, and then shakes his head.]

I've never heard of any of the places you just mentioned or the Luminary Knights. Or of skydoms, but I think I can guess that one.

[ebonyknight]

[She stares at him. Hard. The places, fine. Not knowing her order? Well, there were plenty of backwater islands and it's not like she's in her armor.]

How would you not know what a damn skydom is? What sort of island are you from?

[tenimuho]

It's called Japan, and it's in the Pacific Ocean. ...If it was high enough in the sky I doubt we would see anything from the ground.

[That depends on the clarity of the sky and the size of the... skydom, but. It's an explanation.]

[ebonyknight]

An ocean?

[Damn it, how could there be more islands like Auguste? Wait, no. She frowns.]

Impossible. Unless your island was big enough with it's ocean that the inhabitants never saw the edge why wouldn't you realize that it's floating in the sky? I can't think of a single island that wouldn't need import from others at some point in it's history. I'm sure there's some isolated backwaters but...

[tenimuho]

We import plenty of things from other continents. But I think they're all on the same general mass.

[Not floating in the sky.]

[ebonyknight]

That's impossible. The island would be too heavy.

[tenimuho]

I don't know that much about how planets work, but I don't think falling out of orbit is a concern. It would have been on the news.

[ebonyknight]

Planet? What nonsense are you talking now?

[tenimuho]

[Despite her clearly being annoyed at him, Oda doesn't get defensive or annoyed back.]

Instead of an island in the sky, it's a very big spherical island that goes around the sun.

[ebonyknight]

[That... that actually helps.]

I see... Hmph. I suppose even I have some things still left to see.

[tenimuho]

Most people do. I've never been to a skydom before.

[And yet he can accept it.]

Do you have problems with people falling off the edge?

[ebonyknight]

Only idiots, small children, and the suicidal would try jumping off into the sky. Most inhabited islands are large enough that you don't have to go near the edge.

[tenimuho]

Teenagers would dare each other to see how close they can get before they back down, I'd imagine. Or reckless and immature adults.

[ebonyknight]

Those types seem to the ones to become skyfarers. I wouldn't doubt a great deal try to balance themselves on the edges of skyships only to fall off.

[tenimuho]

Are there safety measures for that...?

[please don't tell him they fall forever or until they splat]

[ebonyknight]

If you can catch them fast enough, yes. There's no chance for a person or an island if they fall without being caught. Hitting another island at high speed or reaching the bottom of the sky would be fatal.