Who: Stone and OTA
Where: The common room, kitchen, and bathing room of the Clipper
When: First half of August
Warnings: Just a grouchy old man
Anyone who's seen
Kethel will find some aspects of Stone familiar: he's not nearly as broad, but he is almost as tall, and his bare feet have the same slightly scaled look, his fingers the same claw-like nails. His teeth are also far too sharp for a human, an he moves with the same kind of predatory grace.
There the resemblance ends, though. Stone is lean, to the point of being kind of twiggy, and his weathered skin and shaggy hair are a pale ashy gray. One blue eye is clouded over, pupil impossible to make out under scar tissue, and he squints a lot like he has trouble seeing. He doesn't look old, exactly... but he definitely looks
aged.
He ambles around the
common areas boredly most of the day. He pokes at whatever is going on without much interest, but can be roped into tasks or play if anyone seems to want him involved because they actually want
him and not because it's what you're "supposed" to do. Try to sweet-talk him without showing actual interest in him, and he growls, "Go away." Actually growls: the whole floor vibrates with it.
He hangs out around the
kitchen munching on various food options for a lot longer than most people. He'll find somebody with a boring plate and drop something more interesting on it. "Try that," he says. "It's great."
He spends at least an hour a night soaking in the hot tubs in the
communal bath, where he waves people over to join him if they want, and don't have issues hanging out with a naked, gray-skinned old man. "It's not hot enough," he says, gruff but not unfriendly, "but it's not bad, either. Best place on this pooping boat." He really hates the censors here.
And he sleeps... wherever he feels like. Very rarely in his actual room, but rather on sitting up on one of the benches in the common area, laying on one of the branches of the central tree (how did he get up there? nobody knows!), curled up behind a cupboard in the kitchen, or sprawled on the floor in an out of the way hall. One eye pops open when approached, but otherwise he doesn't move.