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Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] 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. ]
the_tailor: (19)

[personal profile] the_tailor 2017-06-09 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[First, he's all but alone. Then suddenly, he wakes up and there are people around. Not to mention, the change in clothes and sleeping quarters, and...is this par for the course?

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?
alwayscomeback: (With without)

[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2017-06-09 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sokka is already reaching up to take down one of the cameras. He knows it won't actually do anything, but he can enjoy the brief feeling of taking away one of Atroma's toys for a day. He turns at the sound of the voice and offers a wan smile, raising a free hand in a salute-come-wave. ]

Hey, Lance. Wow, you didn't even get shuffled before they pulled all this. Bad luck, dude.
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[personal profile] the_tailor 2017-06-09 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. But I guess it's not all bad if there are actually people here with me now?

[He shrugs, peering over at the camera in Sokka's hand.]

You able to find anything out from that?
alwayscomeback: (And I'll take mine)

[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2017-06-09 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true, people are awesome. Though uh...it's probably gonna be super crowded in here if what I think is happening is happening.

[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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[personal profile] the_tailor 2017-06-09 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
And....er, what do you think is happening?

[Because he sure has no idea.]
alwayscomeback: (It's empty in the valley of your heart)

[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2017-06-10 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Calibrations.

[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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[personal profile] the_tailor 2017-06-13 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[That doesn't sound fun. At all.]

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?]
alwayscomeback: (But oh let it go)

[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2017-06-13 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's the LEAST FUN ever, old buddy old pal. ]

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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[personal profile] the_tailor 2017-06-13 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like the sound of that. There's gonna be some way to at least shield yourself a little. Right?
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[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2017-06-14 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
If there is, no one's found it. You just got to roll with it, hope you don't uncover anything too awful, and try to keep it a secret if you do.
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[personal profile] the_tailor 2017-06-21 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
This...

[Pause.]

This really sucks.
alwayscomeback: (You take what is yours)

[personal profile] alwayscomeback 2017-06-21 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It sure does, sorry. Welcome to the Drift Fleet, where Atroma find fun ways to mess up your life every month.