thespaceopera: (red alert)
Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-07-12 12:21 am

Who goes there?

[After weeks of relative silence, our intrepid passengers finally travel within visual range of a blue planet. Marsiva's slow-and-steady course makes it clear that this is the Drift Fleet's next destination--but just as your ships come within scanning range and your computers begin to gather data, a fleet of quick little watchdog ships zip out of the planet's atmosphere, heading straight for you!

They do not swoop in for an attack, but hold their positions between you and the planet. They look close enough to cause some trouble, and any working Communications Officer can tell you that they have weapons locked on the Fleet in warning.

The tell-tale sound of an incoming hailing frequency chimes over your ship's alert system. Someone would like you to pick up the phone. Thanks to their augment, all passengers instinctively know that they'll be looking for the Captain or the Communications Officer of the ship--but no one says someone else can't pick it up first.

On the bridge, the hailing frequency can be viewed on screen, along with the attached subject: "Identify yourselves." The notification chime goes off every seven seconds. These ships don't look like they're going anywhere, but they don't want to be kept waiting, either.

What do you do? Will you accept the frequency?]



ooc → see the July Star System post for details about this event! there is no real rush in this post (we won't even be around to begin responding to it until Sunday afternoon), so take your time, feel free to tag each other in this post (maybe try to get your Comms officers off their asses), and there is no time too late to tag into this post. the element of urgency is all IC, and there is no OOC pressure at all.
idealistic: (【ANIME】countdown to doomsday in 3…;)

SS Wonderduck

[personal profile] idealistic 2015-07-12 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
a; Wonderducks only
[ well. that's a first. and also not a good thing.

Lloyd tells the current pilot to slow down, eyes trained on the fleet facing them with knitted brows. he has his doubts, especially since this fleet actually bothered to send out a signal instead of attacking them outright, but he can't help but ask: ]


Are these the same guys that tried to attack us before...?

b; To the signal (Davesprite and Daneel are free to jump in too if they want!)
[ Lloyd continues to talk amongst the crew, but quickly realizes that these guys would not like to be kept waiting if the guns trained on them are anything to go by. with a single nod at Davesprite and Daneel, Lloyd opens the channel.

okay. okay, how does one do the captaining thing again? ]


This is Lloyd Irving, captain of the Wonderduck. Look, we're not here to hurt anyone, I promise. We just want to go through. [ better to establish that first, right? i mean they don't even have guns. ]

c; open!
Edited 2015-07-12 12:15 (UTC)
wilder: (❂ secondhand embarrassment)

A!

[personal profile] wilder 2015-07-12 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[WHO IS FLYING THIS THING?! JADE TAKE THE WHEEL. Kaneis is on the bridge anyway, looking at the radars]

No...I think they're a different bunch.
idealistic: homework takes time (【COLETTE】gimme a moment;)

[personal profile] idealistic 2015-07-12 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ LAZY BONES

he glances at Kaneis for a moment before looking down, humming in thought. a different bunch? well, space is vast, and these guys came directly from the approaching planet. maybe… ]


Yeah… That's what I'm thinking. Last time they didn't even bother to ask questions.
feathery: art@centaursmilkyway (ok then)

b;

[personal profile] feathery 2015-07-12 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Do we really. [He's half mumbling, so who knows if it's getting picked up by the channel.] I'd be up for just bowing out if they say no.

[Since a "no" might consist of getting gunned down.]
feathery: art@feastings (looking off yonder)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-07-14 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[WHOOPS.]

Uh—hey. Sup. That's American for "how's it going", by the way.
feathery: art@askturntechsprite (this is your commentary riff)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-07-15 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
This is the resident techbird of the Wonderbread. You probably don't really want to talk to me, I was just kind of chilling and waiting for Lloyd to do his captain thing. I got some questions, too, though. Like who are you guys. Does this have to be a one-sided interrogation.
feathery: art@namcohigh (shrug)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-07-16 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, our bad. But you're gonna have to take that up with one of the pilots. I dunno if they can even do anything about that.

[He's a little too lackadaisical about this. Definitely not an ideal spokesperson.]

So do you have names or is that classified information.
feathery: art@captaincrapster (skepticism is an artform)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-07-19 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Nuns-a-what. Wait, you mean—

[There's a small shift in his tone. Shockingly, Davesprite is taking this seriously.]

Right. That thing. Ok, you are definitely better off talking to someone who was more involved with that—and, you know, actually knows science—but the heavily abridged version is the whole ship was infected by some brain-seizing fungus and zombiefied everyone aboard.

[His phrasing still needs work.]
feathery: art@pretzelbox (strife; flyin away)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-07-23 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Night of the Living Dead, that kind of shit.

[How helpful.]

Like mind control by plants.
feathery: art@yshaarj (are you for real)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-07-27 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
It was way serious.

[Deathly serious. Which he doesn't really want to talk about himself.]

But alright. I'm a take my leave and leave the communicating up to you and Lloyd. Please don't shoot us down; that would ruin the fuck out of my day and my life has already been kind of a shitstorm.
idealistic: (【MANGA】umm no???;)

[personal profile] idealistic 2015-07-15 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yikes. these guys are definitely not messing around. good thing Lloyd already has leadership skills, making talking with these guys easier.

and at least he outgrew his habit of being a cocky little shit at the worst times. ]


We're just passing through, like I said! It'd be great if we could stock up on some food and stuff if you'll let us, since we're running low. If you don't want us around, though, we can leave.
idealistic: (【COLETTE】what do we do...?;)

[personal profile] idealistic 2015-07-15 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not exactly something we can help. [ much as he hates it. ] We follow the bigger ship, the Marsiva, and the people on that decided they wanted to bring us here.

And what d'you mean by Nunnuilis...? [ he said it was a merchant-class, but they don't have anything like... wait, the ship they found was said to be a merchant ship in the records-- ] --Wait. You mean the Iskaulit?

[ his voice almost sounds hopeful. did they find who it belonged to? or even someone who could point them in the right direction? ]
forsometimenow: (:|)

a

[personal profile] forsometimenow 2015-07-14 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[As soon as the notification signals began going off, Jennifer was on her way to the bridge, looking for Lloyd or Kaneis- and lo and behold.]

God, I hope not. We went through enough trouble last month.
idealistic: (【MANGA】maybe just a little pissed;)

[personal profile] idealistic 2015-07-15 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking the same thing.

[ god he does not want to relive that whole ordeal. it was bad enough knowing that those bugs were once sentient. ]

Maybe these guys're just really protective of their home. I'm pretry sure I saw 'em fly out from the planet. [ Lloyd wouldn't know, he's not exactly space-savvy. ]
forsometimenow: (blank)

[personal profile] forsometimenow 2015-07-16 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's also possible. Have they tried communicating with us yet, or do you think they're going to go straight to the "warning shots" phase?