Let the games begin!

[thespaceopera]

[several days late, as has been the trend lately, the Shuffle's transmission plays for the Fleet.

...or, it tries anyway. the music doesn't even make it--just a punch of static with sad, scattered pieces of musical notes trying to struggle their way through.

when Diamond's voice is finally heard, it's only intelligible in three little bites.]

--Three disappearing from-- ... --new faces, so-- ... --Captain Halliwell--...

[and then the music blends strangely with other sounds, like someone flipping idly through broken radio stations. it takes some time for anything to come in clear, and every frequency turns up the same interference. it isn't until several minutes later that one signal suddenly stutters into clarity, and music begins to play.

wherever you are, they are playing your song! and if there are multiple people in the room, maybe the speakers nearest to each person are playing different songs, each specific to the closest passenger. and after the signal connects, the speakers will continue to play whatever song they started with, even if different passengers move toward or away from them, and will only play something else when the controls are messed around with. and the signals and machinery will continue to behave in this way sporadically, all through the month.]

ooc: the musical madness has begun! feel free to use this post as a mingle for interactions relating to shuffle day and the ensuing musical chaos. if you have any questions, please post them to the January ooc post!

→ Shuffle ooc post
→ January system ooc post

Comments

Voice/Action for Blue Fish

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka was, as always, paying attention to the shuffle, trying to see if he could glean anything to give him an advantage. Any clue that could lead him home. What he got instead was some string instrument strumming as a song begins to play.]

What? [And a mountain divides them apart] NO! Why is this happening?!!!

[The chorus is drowned out be Sokka's screaming, and those on the Blue Fish will be luckily enough to see his communicator being toss out of his workstation to get that VILE SONG OF HORROR as far away from him as possible.]

[save_the_souls]

[Allen hadn't been listening to the Shuffle, mostly because he's busy pretending to do work in the lab when more likely is just playing a game he bought from the waystations.]

[BUT, he sure hears Sokka's screams. Which immediately makes him run for Sokka's workstation. Because HOLY SHIT IS SOMEONE BEING MURDERED? BETTER GO CHECK IT OUT]

Sokka?!

[alwayscomeback]

[No one is being murdered, but Sokka is angrily pointing at his communicator as it sings SECRET SECRET SECRET SECRET TUNNNEEEELLLL at him.]

THIS IS NOT OKAY!!!! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?!!!

[save_the_souls]

[He stops in his tracks, looking at the communicator now that he sees that Sokka's limb are not being hacked off]

A- song?

[alwayscomeback]

It's not just any song! It is the worst song in the history of all songs.

[save_the_souls]

[The worst song in the history of all songs?]

Ah- [He pauses to listen] Well, it's certainly...folksy, anyway.

Does it mean something to you?

[alwayscomeback]

Aim for nomads and you got it right.

[He groans.]

We got stuck with these Nomads once and they sang this song, and then I got stuck with them when Aang and Katara got stuck on this other side of a cave in, in the aforementioned secret tunnel.

Do you know what it's like to be sang at for hours in a dark, creepy cave? Do you know what that's like?

Voice

[ladiesss]

...You know, that's not what I expected to happen, there.

[alwayscomeback]

[There's a groan from Sokka's end with ~secret secret secret secret tunnellll~ in the background.]

Don't listen to it, it'll destroy your brain.

[ladiesss]

[she proceeds to listen to it. for several seconds. like ten of them.]

Sounds fine to me...

[alwayscomeback]

Nooooo. You don't understand. It's terrible.

[ladiesss]

How terrible is it?

[alwayscomeback]

It's like a hundred elbow leeches, but they're sucking on everything, not just your elbow.

[blindoptimism]

[Nunnally wasn't in the same room, but she was nearby. And the combination of sound travelling in this... ahem, tiny ship, and her sharp hearing means that she definitely notices the racket that Sokka is making. She hurries over as fast as her chair will carry her]

Is everything-- [ah... but she pauses as she enters. No one else seems to be in here. No monsters, no exploding machinery, nothing out the window, just a com device on the floor. She pauses, her tone turning from loud concern to confusion] alright?

[alwayscomeback]

NO! NO IT'S NOT ALRIGHT.

[He points at the comm ~through the mountain~ as if it's hurt him personally.]

That thing is happening!!!

[blindoptimism]

[Because a. she barely knows Sokka, b. Nunnally likes to seem put together and on top of it when she can, c. she has no idea what to make of this reaction she literally just kinda stares at him for a minute. Then at the com device, then back at him]

That, ah-- [silence is officially awkward now (well, not silence... 'Secret tunnel... secret tunnel)] you know this song?

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka is trying to nudge his communicator further away with his foot, dragging his hands down his head to cover his ears.]

I wish I didn't. I really, really, really wish I didn't.

[blindoptimism]

W-When did you hear it? [SHE'S TRYING TO TIPTOE AROUND FIGURING OUT... if this is actually a tragic memory, or if he's being a drama queen]

[alwayscomeback]

[Drama queen, all the way.]

Just before I got stuck in a cave in and separated from my sister and friend. I got stuck with the weridos who sang the song in the first place, and all they did was sing more.

Voice

[catamite]

[Nel was catching all the chatter on the network that he could, like a good little comms officer... until he hears this.]

...What is that?

[alwayscomeback]

[Look at him, doing his job!]

That is pure evil. In song form.

[catamite]

Evil?

[hmm that doesn't sound like evil, but maybe he missed something. so, he listens harder...



...nope, definitely does not sound like evil to him.]

...Really??

[alwayscomeback]

[Desperately] YES!

It's designed to make people miserable.

...Well, it makes me miserable, and that counts.

[catamite]

...It doesn't sound that bad...

[he listens for another few moments more??]

...But maybe I just can't hear it very well?

[alwayscomeback]

That's got to be it. Because it's the worst.