Team Door, ASSEMBLE

[solarcharged]

» WHO? Team Door… that’s EVERYONE because you’re all automatically drafted now, congratulations
» WHEN? Forward dated to 15th June
» WHERE? The door with the porthole on Deck 2
» WHAT? Eight hours’ worth of beating up a door
» WARNINGS? None

Team Door have identified a likely-looking door to attack! This door, located on Deck 2, has a porthole through which some blinking lights can be seen. It’s the most likely-looking door to go for, so this is how things will unfold:

1. Feel free to handwave that Apollo, Kaldur or Amos (or anyone else involved) has been in touch with your character to let them know that door shenanigans are about to go down
2. With Amos’s space engineering expertise they manage to depressurise an area around the door, effectively creating a small airlock within a section of the corridor
3. The general plan is to overwhelm the door, so that whoever is tackling it first uses whatever force they can to try to open it until they have to tap out from exhaustion, and then they get swapped out for the next person and so on and so forth
4. It will then take characters some 8 hours of flinging themselves/their powers at the door. The exhaustion and weakness that comes with attempting to damage the station will increasingly hamper their progress
5. There will be no visible progress in the first three hours but eventually cracks will start to appear and on the eighth hour the door will give
6. Once the door gives way, the mods will let us know what magical things will be found on the other side... (edit: looks like this will be announced OOCly by the mods before the 15th)

Things of note:

• Edit: explanation of the three sections that make up the corridor-airlock-door sequence of areas (with a handy image too):
  1. First section is the normal corridors, where people are resting up when they're getting the woozy feelings/getting their orange slices/getting into the suits. This is a normal station environment
  2. Then there is a second section - the ante room/airlock area where the pressure keeps on cycling to let people in and out so when you get in from the station corridor the pressure is the same
  3. And then the depressurized area with the door
• Characters can find 15 suits in or near assorted air locks in those areas of the station as is accessible to them at this time
• Characters can go in to the depressurised airlock in teams or in pairs, whatever works best for them
• The longer they keep attacking the door, the more quickly they grow exhausted and unable to access their powers/strength
• Exhaustion + space suits = not a great time for anyone involved
• Use this post to play out as much/as little as you need

Comments

naptime.

[oddbod]

[To be honest, Clara's felt a bit useless during this whole assault on the door. Despite her unusual physiology, she's got a completely average level of strength, and has really only been able to offer moral support.

She watches Diana sink down onto the floor next to her, and quirks up an eyebrow at the laugh.]

How's it going over there?

[That... is a very impressive helmet. She tries not to stare.]

[monomachy]

[Though her eyes feel ready to sink closed, Diana forces them to stay open once Clara addresses her. She offers a warm smile to the other woman, completely at odds with how exhausted she actually feels.]

Better than I expected, honestly. [A beat passes, and she decides to try out the lingo, cocking an eyebrow as she does.] How's it going over there?

[oddbod]

[The phrase is obviously alien to her, and Clara finds herself smiling, charmed.]

Just here to cheer the rest of you on, I guess. I don't quite have the brute force.

[She lifts up one arm and flexes; while she's not a complete noodle, her arms are just as petite as the rest of her.]

[monomachy]

[Diana, in turn, finds Clara charming as well. Even if she doesn't have the brute force, as she's called it, she's still contributing quite a bit.]

Moral support is sometimes just as important as physical acts themselves. I'm glad you're here to cheer.

[And her smile says she really means it.]

[oddbod]

[Oh, what a darling.]

And I’m glad you’re here to... [She twirls a ginger in the direction of the door.] ... bash, and whatnot.

[Well, as long as they’re going to sit here awkwardly exchanging endearing pleasantries, might as well have a formal introductions. Clara offers out her hand, smiling.]

Clara Oswald.

[monomachy]

[The Amazon lets out a musical laugh, closing her eyes briefly and savoring the feeling. For the first time since being on this station, she really feels as if she's made a difference.

She opens her eyes again, smiling brightly and taking Clara's hand to shake.]

My name is Diana. It's good to meet you, Clara.

[oddbod]

Good to meet you, too.

[Oh, that laugh. Clara can't help but smile, charmed.]

Where are you from, Diana?

[monomachy]

[Diana reaches up, pushing her hair from her face and gathering it so she can begin to pull it into a fishtail braid.]

An island called Themyscira. And you, Clara?

[oddbod]

[Clara watches, a bit entranced. She's never been able to braid at all, even when her hair was much longer.]

England. On Earth.

[monomachy]

[Diana's eyes light up, and she nods.]

Oh, I know where that is. I've been to London. [A beat.] I thought it was hideous. [Honesty is a virtue, isn't it?]

[oddbod]

[Oh, Clara can't help but laugh out loud.]

A lot of it is, you're right. It's grey, and it's damp, and it's crowded. It's the people I like, though.

[monomachy]

[She shrugs a bit, adjusting how she's sitting against the wall. The floor isn't ideal, but she isn't exactly sure how long she could stand right now.]

I did meet a few wonderful people, but most of the men I met were... [She frowns, trying to find a good word. Eventually, she settles:] ... also rather hideous. In their personalities, I mean.

[oddbod]

Can’t argue that.

[She enjoys men on occasion, of course, but her general opinion is hat there are far too many of them.]

I recommend the women, personally.

[monomachy]

[Diana grins at that, and nods.]

I would agree. Men can be so unnecessarily complex.

[oddbod]

Or not complex enough. It always seems to be one or the other.

[monomachy]

[She gives another laugh.]

If only everyone could hear the truth of your words.

[oddbod]

Oh, the world would be a much better place.

[Is that a wink she's giving?? Who knows, not me.]