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

[rickitikitarr]

There's some legend- [He says, but gives up on the struggle to place it, when she asks that.] Malaysia; travel South, and then East, and you find a series of complicated little islands in a beautiful sea. It's all fairly war torn and unforgiving-

[But nonetheless, it's home.]

[monomachy]

[She's interested, but he doesn't seem to be able to find the worst right now, so she lets it drop. She's fascinated by his description, though. Diana has only seen a bare handful of places outside Themyscira, and she can hardly imagine what he's describing.]

I would like to see it. [There is no hesitation when she says it. Diana wants to see everything everywhere. But she does add, a little cautiously:] War torn?

[rickitikitarr]

So would I.

[More than anything, right now.]

It was a colony, and it decided to break free of British control. Good for them, a little complicated for me.

[Being from a family of expats.]

[monomachy]

[She nods a little, taking another sip of the coffee. She can only imagine how terrible it must have been.]

Was the war over when you left?

[rickitikitarr]

No. Yes. It was, but the turmoil at the end of it hadn't resolved itself. I think it'll be another decade before the region settles.

[And that's a conservative guess.]

There are many small countries there, in the same boat.

[monomachy]

[She nods along, in complete understanding.]

There was a war in my world, too. And I think everyone knew that even once it ended, nothing would ever be the same. I hope your land finds peace soon.

[rickitikitarr]

Lady, you're from Greece.

[Ricki teases, demystifying this conversation somewhat.]

You might not know my country but I definitely know yours. What year was it- or who were you fighting against, if you prefer?

[monomachy]

[Her brows raise slightly, but Greece is close enough, isn't it? Still:]

I'm from Themyscira.

[Just stated as a fact, a gentle correction. She glances down at the mug in her hands at his question.]

The year by men's calendars was 1918. It was the end of The Great War.

[rickitikitarr]

Before I was born.

[He allows, with a nod.]

The first of the two world wars. I grew up during the second.

[And he has yet to pick up any etiquette about spoiling the future for people.]

[monomachy]

[Despite the amount of training she's received about how to keep face, Diana cannot hide her stunned look at that.]

The... second?

[rickitikitarr]

World War? Yes.

[He says, and lets out a sigh, as he reads her expression and realizes;]

Nothing we get so good at is ever the end of anything.

[monomachy]

[She lets out a slow breath, trying to get a hold of her emotions. Knowing that everything she'd done, everyone she'd lost, was for naught--

No. No, she can't think like that. Still, Diana stares down into her coffee, struggling to control her face and voice. When she finally speaks, her voice is steady.]

I see. At least I know now, for when I return.

[rickitikitarr]

I'm sorry. It's a bit of bad news- I sometimes forget how hopeful my parents' generation were for the state of the future.

[Says Ricki, sobering a little.]

If it helps, the world goes on? The sun still rises.