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.
killedwithlove: (Explain to me)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2015-07-13 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Cole ignores Tek in return. It works for them.

Then Tek speaks to him and Cole looks back, hanging backwards off his seat and look at Tek upside down.]


Is what me?
heresyandlace: (a slightly different creature)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-07-13 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
That.

[he points out the window!]

--We're spinning!
killedwithlove: (Cole)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2015-07-13 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
No. I'm not a window- Oh. The Pathstone is turning, yes. She likes moving, she was made to move.
heresyandlace: (slipping a little)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-07-13 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[a little hiss through his teeth.]

Well, make it stop! We look ridiculous.
killedwithlove: (Default)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2015-07-14 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
I don't understand.
heresyandlace: (a fickle thing)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-07-14 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
We're spinning. [--gesturing almost helplessly at the window now.]

We have all of the fleet at our sides, potential enemies before us, and we're the only ones spinning like we've lost our minds.

Just... make the ship sit still, and hold formation.
killedwithlove: (Cole)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2015-07-15 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
If we have enemies in front of us, we shouldn't be lining up to get shot down, we should be moving.

[He is still not doing what he was told to. Hi, Tek, meet Cole. He's stubborn. And only really follows a couple of people's instructions.

You are not any of those people.]
heresyandlace: (sits like a whore)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-07-15 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[yeah he's noticed.]

Not when we're trying to hold careful negotiations! They're going to think we have a fungus infecting our brains.
killedwithlove: (J'sccuse!)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2015-07-16 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
You care a lot about what other people think of you.

Not us. You. Proud, prideful, possessive with your picture of self.
heresyandlace: (a slightly different creature)

warning, italics abuse ahead

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-07-20 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[he scoffs, rolling his eyes a little.]

I would think this to be a positive trait in the person currently attempting to speak for the entire ship.

I am trying to help. And whether you like it or not, presentation is an important part of negotiations...

...So, by all the gods above, will you please stop spinning the damned ship!
killedwithlove: (Cole)

[personal profile] killedwithlove 2015-07-20 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[For all Tek's exasperation and words, it's the simple please that actually makes Cole listen.

He brings them back into line, stops them moving and holds them in a stationary position.]
heresyandlace: (a fickle thing)

[personal profile] heresyandlace 2015-07-22 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[look at that--he even gets thanked. even though it's in a bitchy tone. still better than nothing, maybe?]