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driftfleet2015-09-13 10:53 pm
thespaceopera) wrote in driftfleet2015-09-13 10:53 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- aiya/gray nightingale,
- alex russo,
- allen walker,
- anders,
- anthony j. crowley,
- belthazar spellscry,
- beverly crusher,
- bran stark,
- cassandra pentaghast,
- cheese sandwich,
- clay terran,
- coil lenn,
- cole,
- cory matthews,
- davesprite,
- eugene ben woods,
- felix harrowgate,
- fenris,
- frobisher,
- hiccup horrendous haddock iii,
- hiro hamada,
- imperator furiosa,
- james potter,
- jove lavellan,
- katniss everdeen/nova,
- lea (axel),
- leanne,
- margaret "peggy" carter,
- margarine "margie" detemps,
- megaman.exe,
- miah lanbatal,
- natasha romanoff,
- nelkeila tarid,
- nunnally vi britannia,
- nux,
- pearl,
- richard castle,
- riku,
- robin redbreast,
- rogue,
- simon tam,
- sokka,
- stanley raymond kowalski,
- syeira,
- tekhetsio,
- the vision,
- toph beifong,
- vash the stampede,
- vima sunrider,
- yamanaka ino,
- yosuke hanamura,
- zessica wong,
- zhas
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.
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.
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Motherfucker--
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[Luckily, it's not hard to get to her and ease her over to one of the walls.]
I suppose we ought to have a few handholds installed in the event this happens again.
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[She scowls.] They better be extra long handholds for people with short arms. [It's so unfair.]
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[It is so an advantage. She'll fight you.]
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You still have economy of motion, I believe, as well as a potentially faster spin. It's too bad we don't have an air compressor, or we could make jets to propel us along.
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[Grin.]
Feed people more seaweed and we can fart our way along!
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[That gets a laugh, though.] Are they causing excess gas? Perhaps our lab technician can look into it.
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... And needing to throw up. Which seems like a bad idea in no grav.
No, I don't think so? Fiber is good for you though. Makes you shit. [Suspicious look. Wait, if Vision doesn't have a wang... What else does he not do? Do androids poop? Sexbots can if you really want them to, but she's pretty sure comparing Vision mentally to a sexbot is So Not Okay, so she's not going to do it, because he's an actual person. But.] Or does it?
IDEK MAN
[And yes, throwing up in zero-G is a bad idea. But he can't help laughing at the expression on her face for her question.]
I process food normally, when I eat. However, there's very little my body cannot use.
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[She has no skill, but makes up for it with pure enthusiasm.
Anyway, what he says next.]
So... You eat. But don't poop.
[Let her just wrap her brain around that.]
So you've never like. Just taken a giant shit? It feels really good though.
[Wrath why.]
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[Probably because when he does eat, it's usually just a taste. Might as well leave the food for people who actually need it, after all.]
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[Considers for a moment.]
And as far as simple physical pleasure goes, it's way less of a chance for stuff to get weird than sex. [Shrug.]
By the way, thanks for never bullshitting me. It's really nice to talk to someone who doesn't get weird about stuff.
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[And he inclines his head.] Thank you for being forthright with me.
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Always! I'd rather just say what I think. People who don't say what they mean don't make sense. It's annoying.
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It does make the whole experience rather easier, doesn't it? Alas that there aren't more who think that way.
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There are many reasons, of course. Political maneuvering, sales pitches, even trying to save a friend from being hurt. Why else would we have so many narratives about upholding honor, if most find it so easy?
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Politics can go fuck themselves.
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