thespaceopera: (hello)
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. ]
onlyanapple: (And then he said...)

[personal profile] onlyanapple 2017-11-09 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
...Don't they come out all..like with extra limbs or weird eye deformities or something? Cousins marrying cousins kind of thing.

[There's Crowley. Asking the important questions.]

Why? What're they like?
mongoosecrow: (working)

[personal profile] mongoosecrow 2017-11-12 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes one comes out purple instead of blue? [Then, after a moment,] Oh. And there's the Ardat-Yakshi but they sound more like villains than anything.

And the krogan are massive, have steel plates in their heads, a lot of redundant systems including four testicles.
onlyanapple: (I didn't know they did that)

[personal profile] onlyanapple 2017-11-13 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
...Purple instead of blue... right.

[Long, long pause. ]

That seems like an excessive amount of balls.
mongoosecrow: (Default)

[personal profile] mongoosecrow 2017-11-26 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, krogan bodies are built to survive. If two fail, you got back up.
onlyanapple: (Yeah you're insane)

[personal profile] onlyanapple 2017-11-26 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...What... what could even happen to them to make them fail?
mongoosecrow: (Default)

[personal profile] mongoosecrow 2017-11-28 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, krogan procreation is a very complicated political issue. You don't even want me to get into it.

But who knows, maybe one of them tries to do the splits and it doesn't go right?
onlyanapple: (Dust and fundamentalists)

[personal profile] onlyanapple 2017-11-28 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
...I am so glad I don't have a visual of what they look like so I don't require mind bleach for whatever mental image that statement would have otherwise created.
mongoosecrow: (smile)

[personal profile] mongoosecrow 2017-11-29 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles a bit.] Yeah. Sorry.

Though I admit I'm curious what you'd think of the asari. They're supposed to be appealing to basically everyone.