Out of Pod Experience

Switches TV Channel and gets drunk.

Grabs Yiole and slings her over his shoulder and heads to his quarters.

Consciously ready to get Irn-Bru poured down his back.

Random McNally is having a quick shower to get rid of the Irn-Bru spilled all over his back and below, when he notices movement and a white blob with the corner of the eye. Through the translucent glass door of the shower, he sees the white blob shaping into a human form, and once the door opens he notices that a, it's Yiole, and b, the white blob is not a towel, precisely.

- F***! -says Random, shocked.
- Exactly, Mr. McNally... right here, and right now -says Yiole, and averts any objection with a passionate kiss...

As one of the robo-aides dresses her hair with all four arms, Yiole Gionglao watches the popular minmatarr show 1,001 life hacks without duct tape.

- Houm, interesting. I didn't knew minnies had invented rain already...
- Did you said something, bunny?
- No, just watching TV...

that was fun. thanks!

"Run, rabbit, run... while you can", thought Aeden Macrab. But he knew he wouldn't do it, and, being realistic, that Yiole girl looked like an athlete, in addition to being taller than himself. So he just followed her as she walked along the docks, and eventually they entered an elevator. Several seconds later, teh elevator opened to a landing pad, and on it there was a shuttle. The machine grew larger and larger as they walked to it, crossing at least two hundred meters of what was a "small" landing pad. There was a soft breeze and the shuttle hovered, held in place by a magnetic field. Towards the aft section, a large porthole opened and then warning sirens sounded and Aeden was startled to notice a metallic roar approaching them. A metal pod mounted on a rail charged on the shuttle at some 200 km/h, and barely stopped before being inserted into the porthole. Then it was swallowed by the machine and the porthole closed.

- There goes indahmawar, better don't make her wait -smiled Yiole.

Aeden followed her to a boarding ramp, whose rolling vaement led them into the shuttle. Walking in without hesitaiton, Yiole guided Aeden to yet another levator, and after following a short corridor, they entered the cocokpit.

- We thought that you would enjoy your ride better here... pick a seat and I'll strap you.
- Strap me..? But...?
- Come on, just pick any seat. There's no crew at the cockpit in a capsule-fit shuttle.

Aeden pixked a seat at the fore, hoping that the flat surface ahead was a windshield and it would open later. Then Yiole took the network plugger from his hand and stored it in a locker, and stapped him thoroughly to the seat.

- Why...? What...?
- This is no commercial flight, Indah won't be sparing maneuvers to get us to our destination as fast as possbile. Take these two -said Yiole, offering Aeden a pill and something that looked like a sick bag. Then she picked a seat by Aeden's and strapped herself.
- Ready to go, Indah -announced Yiole, apparently talking to the air.
- Laucnhing -announced a metal, soulless voice. Then the frontal shield opened and Aeden coudl see the station spinning crazily as the shuttle maneuvered and launched itself towards one of the exit ways, accelerating as if it was riding on rails as air buzzed on the hull. Aeden was too impressed to say anything, but almost giggled when a soothing music started playing right as the shuttle erupted from the station. Then it maneuvered harshly and Aeden gasped as his internal organs couldn't decide in what direction should they move, but the shuttle quickly stabilized. The scene outside shifted to random stellar bacckground, and then it faded to black and disappeared.

- Huh...? What happened?
- We're warping. There's nothing inside a warp bubble, and so we can see anything. There inside the capsule we see a nice tunnel effect, but of course it's just a GUI.

As suddenly as it had started, the blackness disintegrated into stars and... a massive structure, glaring and reeling... a gate? Was that a gate? Then a flash of light hit the shuttle and the outside turned black again as a recorded voice said:

- Starship jumping.

Then everything turned black and Aeden lost the sense of time, and suddenly the outside iluminated with stars... different stars? How could he tell? The shuttle maneuvered abruptly again, stopped and more blackness ensued... capsuleers always travel fast. Aeden decided that, shaky maneuvers aside, riding a spaceship was about as thrilling as traveling on the underground without stations.

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A luxurious office decorated in trendy style and colors. Two men. One of tehm seats on a armchair, the other in a luxurious and comfortable but slightly lower chair.

- Look at the recording -say the man in the amrchair. By them a holographic scene is displayed, grainy and lacking good resolution as it was filmed by a cloud of voxel cams. The scene is of a uninspiring office, with cheap furniture. A plain looking gallente woman is seating and welcomes a beautiful, albeit short, Khanid woman.

- My apologies for the office. I barely use it, actually -says the recorded Gallente woman.
- Nevermind, I understand this is not the usual procedure. You agents and we capsuleer grunts barely meet each other -answers Ishtanchuk Fazmarai.

The recording continues for a few minutes, and then the scene disappears. The man at the armchair speaks again:

- There you have her, that's the Fazmarai b*tch who's been funding the zombies.
- Have you been watching her?
- Yes. It was pretty convenient that we could use that interview to start tracking her. We have some more material and i will give it to you, but I guess you will appreciate this specific one...

Another image is projected, this time it's a plain photograph, obviously taken with a large telephoto. The man at the chair smirks as the photograph pictures a pod platform, and a missing screen allows to see a nude woman about to climb on a pod.

- Heh, nice one... -the man loaned on the chair to look closer at the image- Jee-sus, just look at those t*ts... that b*tch could have a career at a pleasure hub!
- I was sure you would appreciate that... but fun aside, she's ben quite an issue lately.
- Well, i figured you wouldn't call me for nothing... what was?
- The Gros Cochon; one of their teams was stupid enough to try and shoot that wh*re and two other eggers, and they ended with their brains splattered. The eggers fled, of course, but now there's several station police services messing with the frères. And we know that the zombies are behind it.
- So they're truly Sanshas?
- Who cares? They're messing with our business, drawing attention on us with money supplied by that ho'.
- Sad story, but why should we care? Let the frères have their asses f*cked for free for a change.

(continues)

Random woke and stretched and knew something was wrong. He reached across the bed and found the presence of Yiole noticeably missing. He listened and heard only the tell tale sounds of the station. He rolled into a sitting position and winced as his feet hit the cool floor. Even after a trip to the ‘facilities’, he was alone in the room.

He pulled on a pair of shorts and strolled from his room to the Bar proper. Nudity, even partial, was not uncommon among capsuleers and Random was far from modest, but he knew that there could be others in the Bar that may be a bit uncomfortable with naked capsuleers about. Besides, this wasn’t to be an exhibitionist moment; he just wanted coffee.

He strolled up to the bar taking a casual look around. From what he could see, Yiole was not in the bar proper and a frown tugged at the corners of his normally expressionless mouth. He ordered his coffee and stood in a decaffeinated haze, looking at nothing in particular. At least, until a sharp smack and a sting on his backside shook him from his reverie.

“Well big brother, “ Laudenum drawled, “did you get your ya-ya’s off?” She walked around to face him, portable terminal in her hand. He responded with a blush that set Laudenum into a gale of laughter. “Oh, you are crystal, dear brother.” She said, as the laughter subsided to giggles. “Pure crystal.”

“So, do you have any idea where she went?” he asked innocently, but the blush still pronounced on his face.

“Still not done?” she asked, her eyebrows raised and an evil smirk crossing her face. “Do I need to find you a temporary playmate?” She turned as if to shout out to the bar but Random’s vice like grip grabbed her arm and spun her back to face him. Her face darkened but the sheepish look on his face drained away any mounting anger.

“Please, no.” he said, trying to reign in the emotions and returning to his normally stoic expression. “I was just wondering if you know where she went. This doesn’t need to be on the Gall Net.”

Laudenum smiled and said, “Yiole went with Ish on an errand of some sort. They had some dopey looking ground dweller in tow. They all boarded a shuttle and split early this morning. At least, that’s what I saw from the hangar deck.” Her smile turned wicked and her voice grew in volume. “Now are you SURE I don’t need to find you a PLAYMATE?” The last was shouted to a half populated bar. Many who hadn’t even paid attention to the barely dressed capsuleer. Many noted the pair at the bar with only a few casting longing looks. An attractive female patron passed by and Laudenum pointed in the general vicinity of Random’s groin and announced, “Sister, you should try some of that! I’ve heard that it makes ladies happy!”

Random spun with eyes blazing on his misbehaving sister but she merely cackled in laughter and walked to a vacant table. Random grabbed the coffee and stormed back to his quarters, oblivious to the female patron watching his retreating back side.

Now how in the hell did I not know this was a thing?!

Man, a friend and I once had dreams of opening a place like this in a hollowed out Ark sat in a POS at one of the moons of Deltole.

We were gonna call her Spirit Exotica.

Still would like to do that one day...

Yes...and...also No.
*wipes away some not completely colour matching aditional lipstick from Ish's lips*

You *really* liked that part, don't you?