[VIDEO, shifting to ACTION potentially | 001: Arrival]

[standsentinel]

[By the background, Kaidan, outwardly a normal-looking dark haired man in his mid-30s, is still on the ship. Still beside the pod that's disgorged him even, as a blurry nameplate can be made out behind him if you squint. His own communicator has come to him in the form of a datapad, which he's currently holding out in from of him with the slight abstracted furrow to his brow commonly seen amongst iPad users as they try to make sure the camera's focusing. Some things carry down across centuries, apparently.]

Look. I don't know where the hell I am, but this sure as hell isn't the shuttle down to Vancouver. Everything's saying 'ship', but I'm not hearing engine noise and what little I've seen says this thing is way too big to be stealthed.

And there's another thing--

[He turns the datapad to let its camera pickup take in the pods along the corridor.]

That's not normal cryostasis like I'd call it. It looks more like prothean tech. So if anyone's picking up on this frequency, I could use a few answers.

[After a moment more, he stares at the camera and awkwardly rubs at the back of his neck with one hand as he's recalled to manners and lets the irritated command slide out of his voice.]

Uh. Please?

Comments

[standsentinel]

Great. You guys OK on food and water? Any problems with raiders, that sort of thing?

[Does Kaidan need to get off this ship with his gun in one hand and warp ready in the other?]

[flowing_kinetics]

Dunno. I don't hang around often. They seem to be okay, though.

[Well, no one's asked him for help, so that's close enough, right?]

[standsentinel]

That's something.

[Leaning himself against the door of the pod he's so recently occupied, Kaidan braces himself with an arm and resumes tudying Akira.]

You hang out on this ship, then? See if there's new arrivals?

[flowing_kinetics]

...My sister. Keep coming to see if she's here.

[standsentinel]

What's her name?

[He explains himself a moment later:]

I have a feeling this ship and I are going to become good friends -- I'm no systems engineer, but I know enough to tinker, and she looks like she's in need of it. I could keep an eye out for a pod with her name on it while I'm doing that.

[flowing_kinetics]

Kaori Tadokoro.

[Well, that gives you his last name, at least.]

[standsentinel]

I'll ping you if I see anything... Tadokoro.

[A last name's a start, at least, although Kaidan crooks his lips as he's forced to pause where a first name would go instead.]

My name's Kaidan Alenko.

[flowing_kinetics]

Akira.

[Luckily, he's happy to fill it in. That's... an interesting name there, though, buddy, but he guesses he can't really criticize.]

Kaidan. Got it.

[standsentinel]

I'm getting pings that a couple people I know are here too.

[Kaidan waves the datapad-communicator by way of evidence.]

One of 'em's Shepard. But you feel free to ping me if you want, ki-- Akira.

[flowing_kinetics]

Alright.

[You're not a bad person, so he might actually keep that in mind. For now, he's just going to head past you to look through the other pods. Hope you didn't want a proper goodbye!]