Wonderful character, megyn! I'll update the relevant thread in a few minutes.
Everyone, I could not be more impressed! I know openers are always a little bit more special than some of the subsequent posts, but your openers are so fantastic even considering one usually expects them to be great! I can tell that this group is going to really work well together and involve one another in the story.
And I cannot, cannot, stop laughing about how everyone took the sheep-in-a-bag bit and ran with it! OMG it's too hilarious!
I don't have a preference who goes with whom, so if any of you do then please plot it out and decide. The Captain will head to the station to finalize their next cargo, and if anyone does want to go they're welcome to or I can fly solo. It's important to me that everyone have fun and have someone to write with. And yes there will be a cargo and there may even be some drama before we get clear.
Sigr, this "The girl, and for Sona mostly anyone but the captain qualified as a girl for her despite their age..." was such a seemingly simple bit of writing that really told me so much about your character. That was very well done! The Doctor is such a good foil to the Captain in so many ways.
Gangbanggirl, excellent work on taking a central part of your character, their use of drugs, and weaving it into several places in your post. That offers so many hooks and I'm itching to do something with this one: "With all that time she would be able to get a much more potent brand of narcotic then she usually took and get good and high while still having plenty of time to sober up and make her way back home." Thank you for offering it up and thinking about how to move the story!
Kosmik, "Donovan's hands were lightly trembling and his fingers were dancing like the legs of a dying spider." Oh my gosh, I could see that and worse I could hear it and it gave me the shivers! Love the imagery! And it's absolutely creepy reading him and wondering what's going to happen - and when!
Nothingbutspacejunk, "Mateo felt the jack from the loader hook into his neck, never a pleasant sensation. It always felt like somebody jabbing your eye, but in the spinal cord." Okay, that gave me a different kind of shivers and I was left thinking "If it felt like that every time, could I steel myself to do it?" And I don't think I could. Mateo is tough! Oh, and Chopin and Wu-Tang Clan? I laughed.
Benny, Thomyris really resonates with me! What you write about her work ethic and organization and need for systems and procedures - she's my twin I think. "...Thomyris watched as the beetle-like shape of Kohlberg Station drifted into the background until it was no bigger than the tip of her thumb in the distance. Funny how space could make even such large things seem so insignificant in the vast scheme of things." Wonderful! Just wonderful and if this was being made into a movie that would absolutely be a significant scene that makes the audience understand the setting.
Carlyssir, I can see now why Elaine is piloting the ship's boat! You've taken something in my character's background, her insistence on safety, and ran with it for your post. Thank you! "A full two days to wash this job off my hands?" Loved that bit! Great dialogue.
And all of that doesn't even touch on the running gag of the sheep! Y'all are wonderful and thank you for writing with us!!!