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driftfleet2017-06-09 09:55 am
thespaceopera) wrote in driftfleet2017-06-09 09:55 am
Calibration Post 1, "Daytime"
[ Not long after the shuffle, there's a ripple of static over the network - loud, sudden, and seemingly with no origin. It's puzzling, but there's no indication that it's going to happen again...
Until a minute later. Another surge of static comes in over the speakers, and then a voice - one some may find familiar, though not necessarily welcome, after all of this time... It's Diamond. Long time no speak, hmm?
Clearly, not all is well. She sounds very far away, for one. For another, she sounds... skeptical, almost alarmed. There may actually be real concern in her voice. ]
Again? Twice in one c--
[ Her sentence is cut short with a strangled gasp, followed by a moment of silence. What follows may be the sound of metal dragged across metal, but it's hard to place. When she speaks again, it's uncharacteristically monotonous. ]
... Bring them in.
[ A blip of lost time passes right after those words, before every passenger mysteriously wakes alone in their own unfamiliar room. The style of decor resembles that of the Marsiva's Hospitality Deck, if any passengers should remember what that's like. It sounds and smells the same as the host ship as well, all clean and chrome, but this set of rooms has only been used once, and for the very same purpose that befalls the fleet contestants now.
As for their hosts, there is no immediate sign of them, though some may recall a series of hideous, half-electronic screams before their memories begin to blur upon arrival...
Welcome back to the Marsiva, dear passengers. It's time for round two of calibrations. ]
[ This mingle will cover all non-calibration room interactions. Please continue to come back to it for the duration of the plot! You are, of course, free to post any other mingles/posts/etc. that you'd like. ]
Until a minute later. Another surge of static comes in over the speakers, and then a voice - one some may find familiar, though not necessarily welcome, after all of this time... It's Diamond. Long time no speak, hmm?
Clearly, not all is well. She sounds very far away, for one. For another, she sounds... skeptical, almost alarmed. There may actually be real concern in her voice. ]
Again? Twice in one c--
[ Her sentence is cut short with a strangled gasp, followed by a moment of silence. What follows may be the sound of metal dragged across metal, but it's hard to place. When she speaks again, it's uncharacteristically monotonous. ]
... Bring them in.
[ A blip of lost time passes right after those words, before every passenger mysteriously wakes alone in their own unfamiliar room. The style of decor resembles that of the Marsiva's Hospitality Deck, if any passengers should remember what that's like. It sounds and smells the same as the host ship as well, all clean and chrome, but this set of rooms has only been used once, and for the very same purpose that befalls the fleet contestants now.
As for their hosts, there is no immediate sign of them, though some may recall a series of hideous, half-electronic screams before their memories begin to blur upon arrival...
Welcome back to the Marsiva, dear passengers. It's time for round two of calibrations. ]
[ This mingle will cover all non-calibration room interactions. Please continue to come back to it for the duration of the plot! You are, of course, free to post any other mingles/posts/etc. that you'd like. ]
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Seriously? This is how you get back at us? This again? It's not even trying.
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Whatever.
Lance is wandering around again, trying to figure out what's going on, when he spots someone he recognizes from the communicator video the first day he was here. He smiles and jogs his way over.]
Hey! Sokka, right?
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Hey, Lance. Wow, you didn't even get shuffled before they pulled all this. Bad luck, dude.
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[He shrugs, peering over at the camera in Sokka's hand.]
You able to find anything out from that?
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[He frowns, pulling it apart, playing about in the wire-y innards. ]
Probably not. I'm just doing this out of spite.
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[Because he sure has no idea.]
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[He grimaces. ]
They did this to us like...a year after we got stuck here? Basically when we go to sleep, we wander through people's heads- see their memories, feel their feelings. Stuff like that. It's creepy.
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Wait. We--just invade people's minds? People are going to get into my head and see my stuff?
[He looks nervous, to say the least. It's not that he's hiding the fact that he's a serial killer or anything, but he's worked hard on trying to shove his insecurities and darker feelings down in front of the others. Were they just going to get exposed now?]
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Preeeetty much, and there's nothing you can do to protect your memories from people. They can do and see whatever they want. It sucks.
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[Pause.]
This really sucks.
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She's carrying that bright flamingo blanket if that's something Sokka would notice ]
'Again?' Do you know what's going on?
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I have a good idea. When we hit our first year here, Atroma did this thing called Calibrations. It was the only time we were all on the Marsiva together, with sleeping quarters and everything. If I have to guess, I'd say it's this again.
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Calibrations...?
But it's mostly humans here, right? Humans don't get calibrated.
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[He rubs the back of his head, where the augment is. He grimaces. ]
It's them, playing with our minds. We got to sleep and like...see each other's memories? It's really hard to explain.
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But I guess I've never been calibrated before.
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[ That's what he said, right, that she'll go to sleep and people will see her dreams??? ]
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