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.
delincuente: (☮ and she's dangerous)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-28 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, there's no way I can pass up now. You really know how to spoil a girl.
feathery: art@yshaarj (sliding scale of cynicism)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-09-29 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
All part of the brand. Besides, it'd be kinda lame if I didn't at least try to stay on the same level of raditude as the person handling my shit.
delincuente: (☮ they call old whatshername︎)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-29 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, it's a fact. My raditude is just off the charts, especially with this fantastic bedhead. That's why I'm on audio, I know you couldn't even handle looking at me right now.
feathery: art@chouettechouette (kids; if you were alive)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-09-29 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that a challenge.
delincuente: (☮ she's a saint)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-29 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah it is.
Edited 2015-09-29 14:26 (UTC)
feathery: art@ftaires (kids; sbahjifier)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-09-29 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok. Then swap emergency situation selfies with me.
delincuente: (☮ the dawning of our lives)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-09-29 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's on.

[And in the style of 2008 social media, she sends him a picture pulling this face. Just the face, mind you - her hair has still never quite recovered from her emergency safety scissors chop months ago, and is a fantastic mess at whatever space-time in the space-morning it is right now.]
feathery: art@life-writer (eyebrows)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-10-06 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[It is the best goddamn selfie Davesprite has ever seen and Dave showed him their old ironic selfies from when they were thirteen.]

Oh shit, the swag radiating off this sweet ass snapshot is making it tough for me to take my own. I'm not sure I'm gonna make it.

[He sends back his own selfie, which features a picture of him so awfully framed it can only be intentional. He's making his usual expressionless lineface, but the angle is terrible, his feathers are ruffled, and it's...a reflection. Somehow he pulled off snapping a selfie of his reflection with the communications device, while holding a camera. Where did this camera come from?

A sprite does not tell his secrets. It's sprite magic. It's always sprite magic.

tl;dr this photo is all of the worst interpretations of selfie rules in one snapshot and he thinks it's hilarious.]
delincuente: (☮ that i just can't define)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-10-07 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Alex cracks up as soon as she gets the picture. It's so him, from the lineface to the camera.]

We are a couple of total studs, man. And I love the feathers. I wanna ruffle them.
feathery: art@namcohigh (shrug)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-10-07 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
The feathers are a ruffle magnet. Everyone wants to fuck this shit up, even aliens. Guess that means they're to blame for this bullshit nebula misadventure, the assholes.
delincuente: (☮ she sings the revolution)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-10-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
They ruffled your fringe so hard it sent you spiraling further into outer space, or something?
feathery: art@raizor (one day ill have a canon talksprite)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-10-08 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly. And it fucked up everyone else along the way, like we're trapped by a bunch of goddamn magnets.
delincuente: (☮ and she's dangerous)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-10-08 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes us pretty goddamn metal, then.
feathery: art@sheypygdraws (kids; ascending to doghood)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-10-09 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ALEX.]

Guess we better steel ourselves before it gets any worse.
delincuente: (☮ that i just can't define)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-10-09 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
We'd better iron out all our problems.
feathery: art@drexbutt (kids; shhhh only dreams now)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-10-09 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Get enough of it taken care of and there won't be anything ferrous to do next time around.
delincuente: (✂︎ she's the salt of the earth)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-10-16 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
... You know, I wanna use "tin" but I can't even remember what we were talking about.
feathery: art@askturntechsprite (this is your commentary riff)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-10-17 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
I guess you could say it was...

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Forgottin.

[Pause.]

Ok, that was bad. I'll show myself out.
delincuente: (☮ that i just can't define)

[personal profile] delincuente 2015-10-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, dude. Pun jail, right now. You're on probation.
feathery: art@life-writer (eyebrows)

[personal profile] feathery 2015-10-19 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'll turn in my communicator and all network rights for the next five minutes. Just so everyone knows I'm legit serious about my remorse.