thespaceopera: (red alert)
Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2015-09-13 10:53 pm

warning! warning!

[The nebulas are beautiful in this region of space, at the very least. They gleam as great distorting clouds of space-stuff that your scanners don't even want to attempt to analyze. They affect the ships' instruments much like other areas of disruption have in the past, but these are actually visible as large swathes of light--like giant flames frozen in their swirling shapes, suspended across impressive stretches of space. For once, there's something like scenery to look at, out here in the black...

And then, the proximity alarms begin to blare.

From a gap between the two nearest clouds comes an assemblage of ships! Familiar to some and new to others--they do not respond to hails or communications of any kind, and they're gunning straight for the Fleet without slowing. Their weapons are locking on and firing as soon as they are in range.

Many passengers have been through this before, and many of the ships are bigger and better than they'd been in the previous skirmish. Today, the Drift Fleet will put up a better fight, even punch a few holes in their attackers.

Your augment knows where you need to go! Do you run to your station? Do you dodge your job? Are you unsure how to help? Are the captains giving orders or panicking, and are their crews paying attention? Everyone's got a chance to fight back before the enemy fleet runs them into the nearest nebula--and things suddenly take a bad turn.

As soon as each Drift Fleet ship hits the nebula, its systems overload and short-circuit before going dead. It stays silent for minutes, no radar, no comms, no network. Stubborn stragglers are ganged up on and forced into the cloud, followed by the poor ships on autopilot being bodily hauled into the nebula with tractor beams. Once the entire Fleet has been set adrift as sitting ducks, before the Marsiva can get too close, the attacking fleet... turns and flees through the cloud, seemingly untouched by the nebula that scrambles your ships.

Eventually, the systems flicker back to life, blinking on one by one. It will be several hours before any other effects of the attack will be noticeable. The network shows up as live again, but Atroma never shows up to explain a thing...]



ooc: the out-of-character event post is over here! respond to this post any way you like; you can have action, comm messages, play during the attack, being stuck in the nebula, checking in after the network comes back online, or whatever else seems fitting.
huaaaaagh: <user name=fontech> (fuck that. they get soggy.)

[personal profile] huaaaaagh 2015-09-17 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[That actually sounds like what happened to Asuna... and that thought - the idea of it happening to anyone else - is infuriating. It doesn't help that the place sounds like something out of an RPG. Just how many horrible people are out there, trapping people left and right?]

"Demon castle"?

[Doesn't sound stupid to him.]
delincuente: (✂︎ she's a rebel vigilante)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-17 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It would literally feed on your soul, and whenever things got too comfortable it would attack us with random crap. Like dinosaurs, or hundreds of pomeranians.
huaaaaagh: <user name=fontech> (i think you know my preference.)

[personal profile] huaaaaagh 2015-09-17 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
[........okay

That sounds a bit stupid. Or at least obscenely ridiculous.]


Pomeranians. You're kidding.

[She must be kidding.]
delincuente: (✂︎ she's the salt of the earth)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-17 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, when there's hundreds of them pouring out of a magic book, and you're stuck in a tree? It's not so fluffy and cute.
huaaaaagh: <user name=fontech> (so... chicken or beef?)

[personal profile] huaaaaagh 2015-09-17 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, I can buy that.

[There'd been some "cute" monsters in SAO that had turned out to be pretty deadly. He can't recall any little yappy dogs, but even so.]

And you just showed up here, directly from there? Nothing in between?
delincuente: (☮ the dawning of our lives)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-17 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Paradisa had this way of changing stuff while you were sleeping. I just went to bed one night and woke up on the Marsiva. Crappy exit when you have a lot of people you sort of wanted to say goodbye to.
huaaaaagh: <user name=headset> (waiting for dinner. so hungry.)

[personal profile] huaaaaagh 2015-09-17 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, sorry to hear that.

[He'd gotten lucky in that regard- he'd been able to reunite with his old SAO friends - the ones who lived, that is - thanks to the internet. Cross-galaxy friendships can't be that simple.]

So... that would mean either the people who kept you captive in one place are the same as the ones keeping us here... or they're allies... or our current captors have the ability to take us from anywhere, even others like them.
delincuente: (☮ they call old whatshername︎)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-17 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. But apparently these aren't the only ones. A friend of mine was held captive by Norse gods, or something.
huaaaaagh: <user name=fontech> (i guess i could hit up the store)

[personal profile] huaaaaagh 2015-09-18 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
...Like. Actual Norse gods? Or just really devoted cosplayers?

[A few days ago he wouldn't have had to ask, but now? He's honestly not sure.]
delincuente: (☮ and she's dangerous)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-18 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I can't remember if I asked.

[She's pretty sure it was actual Norse gods, but the cosplayer idea is actually kind of entertaining.]
huaaaaagh: <user name=fontech> (i'm not being a child)

[personal profile] huaaaaagh 2015-09-18 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it doesn't really matter whether they were real or not.

[Bad guys are bad guys, regardless of legitimacy.]