driftfleet | Twelfth Cycle - Season Premier!

[Everything is quite dark as the passengers regain consciousness, with little lights and panels on the walls just now beginning to wink to life. It seems as though everyone and their new homes are rising from slumber together. Even the air is sleepy, and it tastes stale--it must have been a long time since it's been anywhere other than recycled endlessly through this space.

And for a few minutes, the only sounds that aren't coming from the passengers themselves is the omnipresent hum of electrical and mechanical parts surrounding them on every side, and the occasional scratch of vermin-feet in the walls. Then, regardless of where each passenger wakes in their ship, a short musical tune and an exuberant female voice crackles to life over speaker panels in every room.]

--Good morning, honored passengers! My name is Diamond, and on behalf of Atroma and our entire audience, congratulations on being selected to participate in the twelfth cycle of Drift Fleet! We are all eager to get to know you, and I just know you must all be eager to get started, so let's get right to it!

[And with that, whoever happens to be on the bridge of their ship at the time will be treated to watching the solid panels slide away from the windows, revealing infinite black and uncountable stars... and whether or not they've ever been capable of comprehending the concept before, they immediately recognize outer space.]

In a few minutes, the HS Marsiva will come into view through the windows to my left. Please familiarize yourself with her presence.

For more information on your new roles, and of the Drift Fleet itself, please refer to the helpful information files already uploaded to the network. And from here on out, it shall be up to you to refer new cremates to these information files and to make sure that their stays on your crews are pleasant and rewarding!

...Also--speaking of your new responsibilities as crewmembers--I expect captain forms to be filled out and submitted by the end of the week.

[The smile practically drips from her voice at that last point, and there's a little pause before she continues]

And finally-- we won't be approaching our first system for a few days yet, so you are all encouraged to get to know each other and enjoy the ride in the meantime.

Welcome to Drift Fleet, and remember... the worlds are watching!

[and the voice cuts out, but the lines are still open. the network is live and listening.]

((ooc: the Fleet is now live! dive in and tag around! it's a good idea to put whether or not your thread is open to the network, and what ship you're on, in the subject of your reply. to see who is on which crew, please refer to this sheet! have fun!))

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[He's just a little anxious about waking up on a strange spaceship when he's suppose to be on his way to "take care of" his insane brother. Not to mention the last space fleet he was on crashed horribly. Okay... so maybe he's EXTREMELY anxious.] But I don't WANNA be on a game show! Actually! I'm pretty allergic to them! Haha! Yeah! So I'd better head home now! Which way to the exit?

I, uh, hate to break it to you, but your only exit might be out the airlock...

[oh my god they're trapped like RATS IN A TRAP that's how trapped they are.]

The airlock!? BUT I DON'T WANT TO GO OUT THE AIRLOCK! I JUST WANT TO GO HOME!

Whoa, whoa, hey! Don't cry about it...

I dunno. Being stuck in space seems pretty cry worthy to me.

Hey, if I'm not crying yet, you can't cry either. That's how it works.

So I only get to cry if you're crying? That doesn't really sound fair. What if I stub my toe or something?! That hurts! Sometimes you just need to cry!