following the footsteps of a rag doll dance, we are entranced ...

[seeingyou]

WHO: OPEN to all passengers.
WHAT: General mingle log for the first part of the month, including new partner pairing stuff.
WHERE: Navi, all over.
WHEN: Now until the next event (Oct. 3-17).
WARNINGS: If things get messy and/or upsetting, please put warnings in your comment subject lines! And if you absolutely can't keep from strangling your new partner, please report it on the death page.

Hello, passengers! Today begins just like normal, but it’s far from an ordinary day. On this fine point in space-time, passengers will notice a little something different when it comes to the glyphs marked on the backs of their hands.

They're glowing. The light is a deep shade of blue, and it's slowly blinking on and off. Maybe it's searching for something? It's entirely possible, because affected passengers will also feel a gentle tugging sensation that stops once they've come face to face with their partners. The glyph will switch to glowing a steady blue once partners are synced with each other, and they'll be able to communicate telepathically with each other, too.

Have fun getting to know each other a little better! Or, you know. Yelling at each other. Just try to keep the murder to a minimum, OK?

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[11calls]

Alex isn't someone who is good with sleep, and that's seemed even more clear as long as she's been on the ship. At first, sleep had been like those times when she'd stayed at hotel or had passed out on Strand's couch: because the shadows weren't familiar and she didn't know the inmate lines of them it had been easier to sleep. But now that she's more familiar with her cabin, Alex was sleeping less and less.

Missing the makeup that she would have used to hide the dark circles, Alex had stared at the mark on her wrist. Toddling out from her cabin and towards coffee (food is kinda secondary to that sweet, sweet triple caffeinated space coffee aboard) Alex just pauses to stop and ask every person that she sees. “Hey. Do you know what’s up with this?” As she extends her blinking glyph towards them.

[sisterswitch]

Jack has helped herself to a snack in the kitchen - one of the weird protein bars in the ship's communal stores - and is now stretched out on her back on top of one of the dining hall's long tables. Her head rolls lazily to the side as she finishes chewing so she can answer Alex's question.

"We've all been upgraded for Bluetooth," she says, with a lazy half-grin. "Now you just have to find the person you're supposed to sync up with." She holds up the back of her right hand to show Alex that her glyph isn't lit or blinking. "Unfortunately for you, it's not me."

[11calls]

Alex just blinks a bit as she watches Jack, and then she perches on a seat at the table that Jack was sitting at. Her fingers brush along the glyph slowly, tracing along the features of it as she just considers. "Have you found the person who you're supposed to be connected to?" It's a simple question, and she just tilts her head.

"Or is that some other sort of thing that I don't know about yet? Like can you turn it off?"

[sisterswitch]

"I have, yeah, and unfortunately for me, she's a pain in the ass to the power of sixty-four." Jack rolls her eyes, clearly no fan of her new brain-roommate. "And unfortunately for all of us, it's not something you can turn off. Navi needs us all to play nice together for that extra boost."

Jack's trying, at least? She's really, really trying.

"You'll know who it is when you come across your person," she continues. "It feels kinda like magnets pulling you toward each other."