fh_trips | FIELD TRIP - Zakera Ward - the Wards - the Citadel, Saturday Morning

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FIELD TRIP - Zakera Ward - the Wards - the Citadel, Saturday Morning

Fandom's portal spat them out in a sizable, if empty, room. They'd have several moments to compose themselves... and then the double doors at the far side of the room opened up, supplying a young woman in an Alliance uniform - a uniform that should be familiar to anyone who'd ever met Kaidan. At her side stood an old, grey, balding man in an entirely different uniform.

"Good morning," the woman said with a smile. "My name is Major Sarah Erickson. On behalf of the Systems Alliance, I would like to welcome you to the Citadel, and to this section of it called Zakera Ward. This is Captain Bailey, the local Citadel Security captain. He is one of the many fine officers who will be ensuring your safety while you are aboard the Citadel."

"Major," Kaidan said, with a nod of his head.

"Commander," she echoed. "I have a small guide prepared for all of your people. It should explain the basics of Citadel procedures and social codes." She handed Kaidan a stack of admittedly thin leaflets. "You may all leave through these doors," she added. "There will be a short scan of each individual on the other side. At Commander Alenko's advice, we've decided to cut most of our security procedures. We will only be scanning each of you for geth technology. No data will be kept on file, and no, we will not be looking through your clothes." She smiled briefly. "Specific tech only."

"Please read your leaflets and then proceed," she added. "If you have any further questions about the Citadel, you may ask the Commander or any nearby C-Sec officers. And of course, if you're on the Presidium, you can direct questions to Avina."

She bowed out, quickly followed by Bailey, who gave everyone a mildly awkward wave before ducking through the doors.

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Find your bearings, check your luggage.

At least the portals hadn't cut out on them - that was... something.

Kaidan was antsy. He was, for the most part, not showing it... but he was doing a regular headcount of all the kids, and wondering if he shouldn't have gone for another round on why eating dextro food was bad.

Liara felt... a little less off-balance, confronted with architecture she actually knew.

She fidgeted with her bag. In a few minutes, she'd be astounded by the presence of a human C-Sec officer - this quickly into humanity's discovery (it hadn't even been fifty years!). But right now, she was mostly... just soaking in being, not back home, but somewhere familiar.

Oh god it was space it was space it was spaaaaaace!

Suddenly Topher could understand how that badly-programmed spherical thing from Parents' Weekend felt. Space!

It kind of just looked like a regular room, which meant that Topher was even twitchier than usual as he tried to take in every little thing about this place and figure out all the technologically advanced things about it.

Spaaace! Evan was in space! And this was already way cooler than the last time he'd been in space. He was pretty sure he wasn't going to end up in a big fight to try to steal a chunk of alien tech or anything. As fun as that had been, the security at that casino that one time had said some pretty unkind things about Kansas.

This was going to be way better than that.

Stiles was in space! Actualfax space! Too bad no one from home would believe it, not even the werewolves.

Luggage? What luggage? That was what pockets were for.

Yeul looked, in contrast to some people, quietly serene as she patiently waited.

Spaaaaaaaace! Oh, Billy's excitement couldn't be contained, and there was probably a little flailing going on as he looked around. Don't worry he wouldn't hit anyone... probably.

The only luggage Ghanima had was a single pack slung over the shoulder of her Fremen robes, but she smiled as she looked around.

Finally, a technology level and alien mix that reminded her of home.

Jack's nose curled faintly as he got into the room, and he brought his hand up to cover it.

It wasn't anything wrong, exactly. Werewolf senses simply didn't like radically changed environments. Until he got used to the Citadel, the trip for him would be a festival of overwhelming sensory noise.

He was excited despite all that. He wasn't sure why the school was letting him come along -- he suspected Kaidan's hand at work -- but he intended to enjoy himself.

Juliet clapped her hands a little in excitement, stepping away from her rather oversized pile of luggage to get a better sense of the place. Once she realized it was just am empty room, she lost interest and pulled her phone out. She really hoped sending texts from space was a thing.

Luggage? Um. Well, Ace had a rucksack and a jacket covered in spacecraft patches and pockets. Did she need any more than that?

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Listen to them, read your leaflet, or wander off.

Jono had actually managed to get some sleep last night, so he was looking more or less in a decent way, today. He'd started for a moment when the woman had mentioned being scanned for 'geth technology,' but relaxed a moment later when he realized that his collar was probably exempt from that.

... Of course he hadn't left home without it. The last school trip they'd been on, one of his students had nearly been eaten by a bloody leopard.

And assure the nice turian C-Sec officers on the other side that you are not, in fact, a geth infiltrator. ~~Geth do not infiltrate.~~

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April had a little staring contest with the turian on the other side as she passed through, but she was pleased to not be getting any kind of extra pat-down, which always seemed to happen when she flew anywhere. Something about her face being suspicious.

Still a bit iffy about whether he'd be just flat-out booking another portal back to the island over his collar, Jono found himself... actually fairly willing to give full demonstrations of it for the officers, to assure them that he wasn't some kind of walking AI murder machine, or something of the sort.

He was silently thanking Jubilee for all of the drills she'd run the New Warriors through, dismantling their tech and putting it back together, without tools, in the dark. It made the whole process that much easier.

Ghanima had to have the concept of 'geth' explained to her, but the amount of French-and-Fremen expletives that fell from her lips when it was suggested she would ally herself with thinking machines rather quickly convinced the C-Sec offices that she was not an infiltrator.

You'll be bustled into shuttles to the Presidium and your hotel soon enough, but while you're waiting, there's an opportunity to nip out and buy some fish, or scale models of space ships, or a hyper-expensive toothbrush that utilizes mass effect fields, or any old junk...

Or you could just stand around and stare at the aliens, or at the vast expanse of space outside, large skyscrapers jutting out, ships flying past...

Edited 2012-10-27 05:02 (UTC)

Oh yeah. Topher was totally getting a toothbrush.

...Just as soon as he managed to find a place around here that would exchange some currency for him. It might be a while. In the meantime, with the hyperactive way he was darting around the Zakera Ward, it was only a matter of time until he wound up colliding with a krogan or something, and that would be very bad.

Jono was not going to bring home an alien fish. Jono was not going to bring home an alien fish.

Jono was going to just keep telling himself that. He already had Joni, and the frogs that lived in the tank in the Boards lobby to look after. A fish would be pushing it.

But he'd stand around and watch them for a while. That much, he was completely allowing himself to do. It beat letting himself get too overwhelmed by the view outside, and he wasn't the sort to do much staring at people who looked different than he was used to. Obviously.

Stiles spent a lot of time staring. Like, a lot of time staring. So much so that people might doubt his mental capacity.

He'd get over it and after that he'd buy a toothbrush. Because, yes, he forgot his.

Yeul wandered over to look out at the expanse of space, far more interested in that than in anything the shops might have to offer her.

Of course Ghanima was buying some fish, and arranging to have some shipped to Alice back on Dune, as well as some for Lady Jessica's palace on Caladaan.

Jack stared into space for almost as long as Stiles. He'd been to Leto's world, and to a travel hub with Ronan, but he was never going to get inured to the simple and amazing difference of outer space.

And then he wandered over to the aquarium, wondering if he could keep a fish alive until he got it home. He wasn't sure, but the temptation was very real.

Billy wasn't sure what he'd do with a scale model of a ship, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to get one. Mercy had made him promise not to bring home a pet, so he figured he could argue her out of any potential annoyance.

Ace felt absolutely no shame in spinning around and staring. Mostly up, because up, up, up. But also around, because aliens. AIs...no, VIs, right.

It wasn't exactly SPACE SPAAAAACE OMG I'M IN SPAAAACE because she'd been in space before -- but this was no Iceworld, and frankly only an expert would be able to tell the difference between SPAAAAAAACE SPACE ACTUAL NON-BORING SPACE WHERE I'M NOT A SODDING WAITRESS and the other one, if they judged by the expression on her face.

If you'd like an NPC in either the door or the Zakera Wards OCD, let us know here! Next post'll be up in a couple of hours.

No, nobody's going to insist this is their favorite store on the Citadel.

Yet.

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