The celebration

[srwu_mods]

"Hey guys, the place feels like a morgue today. Glum faces everywhere... someone died or something?"

Look who's back at Sakihama - FightSaber is in the hangar, and Loni is walking around the base corridors. He seems to be heading towards the kitchens, in search of cake and other festive foods.

"Me and friends just took down a big cell of those Good Men weirdoes, so I'm here to resupply. Our victory calls for a celebration, let's party!"

Comments

[break_the_nine]

[Yeah Loni, see about what you just said. Leos is going to block your way to the kitchens. A very blank look on his face.]

...Get out. I don't care if you managed to beat an entire alien species. Get out and never come back.

[actuallyselfish]

"Dude." Dido says wearily, bags under her eyes.

"Not cool. I mean, talk about putting your foot in your mouth."

[way_of_vengeance]

Ah, so it's the man from the Masochist club.

...Several hundred people died, actually. Some of whom were quite close friends or even members of the staff here.

Far be it from me to intrude, but you may wish to hold your festivities elsewhere.

[keep_your_dignity]

[Kagura's massive form turns its "head" slightly towards the talking person. It observes Loni impassively just long enough for it to become unnerving, before a robotic voice comes out]

I GIVE YOU TWO MINUTES.

[ugyuuya]

[Stella happens upon Loni during his declaration and looks at him with an upset look on her face. The general tone of Stella's lecture is composed but surprisingly cold towards the exuberant pilot.]

While I'll congratulate your victory I think this is a rather poor time to choose to try to start a party in our facilities. To answer your first questions yes, several hundred civilians, two pilots, one pilot is MIA and the other is in the med-bay undergoing evaluation for feedback from having the second pilot in a linked piloting system forcibly removed and killed while the link was active.

Most of these occurred in the last twelve hours and due to the circumstances of the death we are having to plan funerals in abstentia because there were no bodies due to the nature of the deaths.

If you were so quick to read the poor mood among the pilots and staff it would have been better to refrain from your declarations of victory and celebration in favor of finding out what was wrong first just to prevent any further agitation of base personnel.