open; don't get cooked

[hyperfresh]

» WHO? Marina, open
» WHEN? 8/6
» WHERE? deck 1
» WHAT? Marina arrives.
» WARNINGS? event stuff could happen in here, given the timing

A; Chapel
[To say Marina has no idea where she is would be an understatement. This place is so fundamentally different from where she last remembers being that she's in real danger of whiplash. There's grimy metal all around her, and that's interesting, but it's also alarming. She can feel her ink pumping in her ears. She moves from the walls to the center of the room, touching the central tubing gently, like she's worried it might break. Technology all around her, she can't help the fear that she's back in Octarian territory--but this isn't octo tech. She would know.]

What is this place?

B; Observation Deck
[Space. This is space. She doesn't recognize that planet, with one extra moon and too much land. Hands pressed to the window, she gapes out at it all the same. This is impossible, absolutely impossible. She's dizzy from the impossibility of it. Actually, she doesn't feel great in general, but that's not really surprising, given the situation. She pushes her tentacles back away from her face.]

Okay. Okay, there has to be an explanation. A reasonable explanation.

[She's not panicking. Okay, maybe a little. Her head hurts.]

Comments

b. i heard you were in need of reasonable explanations

[gundamned]

[Gundam's feeling better from his bout with illness and has been reveling in the more powerful poison that pumps through his very veins!

Even in his completely distracted state, he recognizes the confused look of a new being in a lame station provided jumpsuit. Like a lost lamb waiting for the inevitability of slaughter...

He laughs! Maybe louder than he normally would have.]

Kekeke...!

[Of course he's not going to just go up to someone and have a conversation with them. No. The very concept would be beneath a being like himself. Besides what did he truly care if this being was lost and confused? These were not matters of concern for an Overlord of his prominence! All he desired in this world was silence and solitude!

Although if she happened to be directly speaking to him... he might be persuaded to reply.]

thanks gundam

[hyperfresh]

[Marina whips around when she hears the voice--she's not sure if she expects an enemy or a friend. She's not really sure what she's looking at, except it seems like this guy is laughing at her. He doesn't look like an octoling or an inkling, to be honest.]

Hello? [Her tone is wary.]

[gundamned]

Stand back! If you value your life you will come no closer.

[hyperfresh]

[Marina holds up her hands, indicating her lack of weapons. She doesn't step any closer.] I don't want to fight, I just want to know what's going on.

[gundamned]

[Gundam is clearly the weapon you should be concerned about, Marina.]

Kekeke... fuahaha.... HAHAHAHA!

As if anything truly worthwhile in this world could be obtained so easily just because it is desired!

[hyperfresh]

[Marina is only getting more confused.] Do you live here? Is there someone else I can talk to? [Someone more reasonable, maybe?]

1/2

[gundamned]

And now you dare to wish to know more about a being like myself?

How truly reckless-- such unhinged bravado!!

2/2

[gundamned]

You must wish to know my name next...

You may call me The Supreme Overlord of Ice! Gundam Tanaka!

May you never forget it as long as you live!

[You know... to answer the one question she never even asked.]

[hyperfresh]

[She still has no idea if this guy is dangerous or not.] Are you... Are you okay?

[gundamned]

[We may never truly know...]

Could I not ask the same question of you?

[hyperfresh]

[A fair question, but Marina doesn't get the idea that he's actually concerned for her well-being so much as he's trying to avoid every single question she asks.] I've been better.

a

[wingstosee]

[ venus has been heading to the chapel almost daily since she found it. something calls out to her about it, after all. maybe it's the emptiness inside, the feeling that there's nothing inside to harm her; if god is watching this place, he's certainly not spending much time in there. but it's not every day that she sees someone else inside, and especially not a newcomer with tentacles on her head.

is she still hallucinating? she kind of feels like she's probably hallucinating. so she's not entirely in the best state of mind when she says, without even announcing her presence first: ]

It's a chapel. A place of worship.

[ venus is a sight to behold, even in her jumpsuit. the eyes on her wings are fully functional, about half of them trained on marina while the other half look casually around the room. a light radiates off her entire body, lighting the corridors behind her better than any of the flickering fluorescent lights could. her left arm appears to vanish at the shoulder, and the fingertips on her right arm are translucent by this point too.

it doesn't stop her from reaching up with her right hand tapping gingerly at her own hair. ]

I like it. Your, uh, hairstyle? It looks good.

[hyperfresh]

[Whoa.

Marina's eyes go to the wings at first--how can they not? There are all those eyes, some looking at her and some looking at other things. But--well, there's a lot of strange things in the ocean, and even evolved they're just as strange.

(And unlike other people who will greet Marina today, Venus doesn't laugh at her, which helps a lot.)]

I like yours, too. And your--wings? [It's rude to ask what someone is, so she's not going to, but Marina doesn't think she's seen any sentient creature who evolved from a bird, which is what she's assuming is what she's looking at here.] Do you live around here?

[wingstosee]

Oh! Haha. Thanks? Most people get kind of freaked out by them. [ oh, that's a weird place to leave a sentence off on. she plunges forward. ] But- I really like them? So, like. Thanks for agreeing, I guess??

[ nailed it. she laughs, a bit sheepishly, before answering marina's question. ]

Sort of. I mean, I guess I do now? I've been here for... three months. Ish? I think?

[hyperfresh]

I've got other things to be freaked out about. [Her eyes drift to the surroundings again.] Do you know what's going on? I think there's been some sort of--mistake. [That's the most euphemistic way of putting "kidnapping" possible, maybe.]

[wingstosee]

Nnnnope. [ well, that's about the least helpful way she could put it, huh? she tries again. ] I mean. Sort of? We all got teleported here, even though some of us are from different worlds and times. Like, one of the androids says it's twelve thousand AD, even though it's barely 1966 back home? Which is kind of crazy. And it might be because of someone, but also maybe not? Some people think there's someone running the station, and some people think it's haunted, but maybe not haunting exactly...?

[ well, that was a lot to just dump on marina. she focuses her gaze on the octoling again, smiling a bit awkwardly. ]

So it could be any of that. Or not.

[hyperfresh]

There are androids? [Okay, maybe that's not the most important question, but there's a lot to take in right now, and that sounds cool but also potentially concerning, considering her last encounter with an AI.]

[wingstosee]

Huh? Oh, yeah. Like... at least three? [ oh, wait. hideki- haruto? he's just posted in the past few days. ] Four. At least four. 9S, A2, Connor, and Haruto. Most of them are pretty nice? Be careful with A2, though. I think she only really cares about humans.

[hyperfresh]

[Okay, new thought:] Humans are extinct, though. Unless, because there's different times-- [Okay. Okay. Whoa. She's trying to think through the scientific implications right now, and...] How is this possible?

[wingstosee]

Whoa.

[ yeah, someone's late to the "humanity is extinct" party. venus laughs after a moment, trying to sort things out mentally. ]

So, uh, I'm guessing... you're from the future? Because there's still a lot of humans where I'm- when I'm from. Like, three and a half billion? I think? Or was it six...

[hyperfresh]

You lived--live--with humans? [That's fascinating! And billions of them?] Humans went extinct about twelve thousand years ago, we think due to the rising sea levels. Of course, that's just a theory, but it's what has the most evidence. [Science! But then she realizes she just told someone who is probably friends with humans that they're going to go extinct.] Sorry, I bet there's a ton of years before any of this happens for you!

[imperialsun]

[He'd be a lot nicer if he wasn't stuck with horrible fever symptoms.]

Currently the most annoying place to be. Sorry but a lot of us are sick right now. Are you new?

[hyperfresh]

[Marina glances at his hair, which is odd to her--but asking about something like that would invite questions about her own, which is something she avoids out of principle.] I guess so, but I'm not supposed to be here.

[imperialsun]

None of us are. [he's probably apologize later for being so much on the edge.] We just all ended up on the ship and sometimes things go really bad, like right now. How long have you been awake?

[hyperfresh]

Less than an hour. [This is a lot to take in.] What's going on right now?