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reveriemod ([personal profile] reveriemod) wrote in [community profile] reverielogs2018-06-01 08:45 pm

( 002 » ENSEMBLE ) gravitational.

» WHO? EVERYONE
» WHEN? JUNE 1 onward
» WHERE? ALL OVER THE STATION (literally)
» WHAT? Gravity is always on, until it isn't.
» WARNINGS? zero g, paralysis, the vacuum of space, possible asphyxiation, possible character death





0 0 1 » LOSS OF GRAVITY

The outer rings of Reverie Station rotate around the shaft of the station, using inertial forces to simulate gravity. One moment, this works fine — people are walking along corridors, sleeping in their beds, eating in the mess hall or having a drink at the bar. The next moment? In some parts of the station, a crunching sound can be heard, like metal against metal, and shortly thereafter, the rings cease to spin, causing a jolt to go through all rings.

And then what passed for gravity just stops.

Your food, drink or blanket might have floated off after the jolt. Remember to engage your mag boots, if you're wearing them, lest you follow suit. Good luck getting around in zero g.

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0 0 1 . 1 » UPSIDE DOWN AND FLOATING

The lack of gravity may be disorienting at first for those not used to operating in zero g environments. Fortunately, mag boots mean you can continue walking along corridors — though the boots will engage with what used to be the ceiling of the corridors as much as what used to be the floor. No matter which part of the corridor you're attached to, if any, better make sure to collect anything that may be floating around, lest it becomes a dangerous projectile whenever gravity turns back on.

The mess hall and the gym area in particular are in a significant state of disarray. In the mess hall, some cutlery (of the grey, hard plastic variant) has been left unsecured and is floating harmlessly through the air. The same holds true for a large amount of protein powder. In the gym area, meanwhile, the entirety of the dirty water from the pool is no longer in the pool.

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0 0 1 . 2 » PARALYSIS INDOORS

One moment, you’re walking — or maybe you’re floating, mag boots disengaged. Either way, from one moment to the next, you become unable to move. Your arms, your legs, even wiggling a toe becomes a thing of impossibility. There’s a heavy weight on your chest, despite the fact that gravity is still not back on. Taking a breath is an ordeal. You can’t call for help, you can’t signal to anyone, you can only stay still.

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OOC: The length of paralysis is up to players.



0 0 2 » TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

It isn't clear why the rotation of the rings has stopped and gravity ceased, but one thing is certain: life on the station is a lot more difficult without gravity, especially for those not used to living and working in a zero g environment. The sensible thing would be to fix whatever is wrong, but in order to do that, you have to figure out what's wrong first.

One way to get an idea might be to put on a suit (if required) and go out an airlock to have a close look at the upper ring, where the crunching noise could be heard the loudest. The objective is to identify the problem and, if possible, fix it — but unless you have the power of flight and can breathe in the vacuum of space, the walk from the airlock to surveying the ring will be taxing in and of itself.

Better not lose hold of the station or each other and whatever you do, do not disengage those mag boots. Hopefully, no debris will come flying at you. The station may be built to withstand it, but you aren't.

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OOC: There are some 20 vac suits with oxygen packs and small thrusters for (weak) propulsion available in the spaces currently accessible to characters; these can be found in various airlocks.

0 0 2 . 1 » FLOATING AROUND

The station may be built to withstand debris, but you aren't — which makes it all the more unfortunate that some debris does catch you. In the side, in the face or in the legs, it doesn't matter: what matters is that the impact is strong enough to disengage the mag boots, which means you are now floating in space.

Did your suit take damage? Do its thrusters still work, or not? Is your oxygen pack still connected properly? If your connection to the station network is still intact, now would be a good time to call for help and hope that someone's close enough to get to you in time before you float too far from the station to still be reached, before your oxygen runs out, before any possible injuries you may have sustained take their toll.

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OOC: With this prompt, the extent of possible injuries, the time before rescue and factors such as oxygen or damage to the suit are all up to players. Please keep in mind that character death is very much a possibility — but that death means relatively little. Should a character die from their injuries or lack of oxygen, they will awaken again. As per the death mechanism outlined in the FAQ, characters are brought back to life (possibly repeatedly, if rescue takes a while), but they lose something. What they lose is up to players as well (a limb, memories, senses, social skills, ...) and the duration of the loss can range from a few days to permanent loss.


0 0 2 . 2 » PARALYSIS OUTDOORS

One moment, you are walking along the hull of the station. The next, you're frozen. Your arms and legs no longer move and there's pressure on your chest. Even taking a breath becomes an ordeal. You cannot move forward. You cannot move back. You can't even signal or call for help.

What choice do you have but to wait out this paralysis and hope that it loses its hold on you before your oxygen runs out? Better not panic, lest you use up more of it.

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OOC: The length of paralysis is up to players.



0 0 3 » WORK IT

For those who've successfully made the walk across the hull of the station to find the problem, it will soon become obvious what has happened: debris crashed into the station and got lodged between the uppermost ring and the shaft of the station, where it is stuck, preventing the spinning of the ring.

You will need to work together to cut through the debris or dislodge it. It's heavy, and you have little leverage in the absence of gravity.

Keep in mind also that if you successfully dislodge the debris, the outer ring will start moving again. Be prepared, especially if you're still connected to the ring by your mag boots. Inertial forces can be quite strong, so you will need to brace yourself or risk being dislodged yourself.

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monomachy: insomniatic @ dw (lucky strike)

[personal profile] monomachy 2018-06-24 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Diana's brows raise, but she gives a pleased grin. She makes a flourish with her arm towards the hallway.] After you.
rickitikitarr: (listening incredulously)

[personal profile] rickitikitarr 2018-06-24 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Another time would probably be better.

[He agrees, getting unsteadily to his feet.]
pampa: (054)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-06-25 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Or stupid. [ it's automatic even while he doesn't deny them being friends. imagine that!!!! she reaches out for his arm and he stops, turning towards her with barely veiled concern. ] You okay, kid?
veristitalian: (Default)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-25 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
The light is held in gemstones.

[She answers, drawing two spent ones out of her pocket. Tiny chips of jewels encased in small glass beads.]

Leave them out in the storm, and when you return to them they'll hold light.
subplot: (88)

[personal profile] subplot 2018-06-25 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[How does she best say her bones are as good as jello and this is already exhausting without sounding like she's useless and reckless?]

This is harder on my body than I thought it'd be.

[But the concern is noted, and she nods a little to let him know it's ok to keep going.]

I can see why you'd hate it.
veristitalian: (conversational formal)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-25 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
It is. It's renewable, but it needs to be contained carefully for us to access it, and I don't have any way to replenish it on board- except for what I find here and there about the station.

[Admitting, with a frustrated shake of her head.]

It's very limited quantities.
subplot: (89)

[personal profile] subplot 2018-06-25 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[She could go to her room, but she doesn't want to go back there after the initial grav loss scare. Besides, she's sure that Max considers Frank's room to be "safe", since he's there more often. Karen leads the way toward his room with lanky, awkward strides. Walking around in mag boots is awkward for her simply due to the fact she's paranoid something might happen to send her flying upward again. ]

Do you have anything in your room we could tether him down with? You might end up bit if he panics.
dumbstruck: (people they don't mean a thing to you)

[personal profile] dumbstruck 2018-06-25 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ He does indeed dare defy the knowledge, or more he questions what is wrong with people to even make up a dance like this in the first place.

Maybe it's surprisingly cool looking though? This guy seems like he's really gearing up for something big, and Hyunseok keeps his brows furrowed as he waits for this apparently impressive dance to get busted out.
]

Okay...
dumbstruck: (where i'm supposed to be)

[personal profile] dumbstruck 2018-06-25 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's disorienting to experience, but it's cool in a very trippy way. There aren't many chances in life to be able to do something like this, and Hyunseok kind of feels like an action movie star right now as he keeps walking down the wall towards the floor, before carefully taking a step onto it when he gets close enough, and starts to try to reorient himself a second time to normal walking. ]

Uhm, not really. I was just kind of running laps.
warfares: <user name="na-i-cons"> (pic#12153782)

[personal profile] warfares 2018-06-25 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
May I?

[ If she allows it, he will pluck up one of the beads, suspending it inches above his palm as he studies it from all angles. ]

The gem is native to your home world?
morphogenia: (it's now okay to search)

[personal profile] morphogenia 2018-06-25 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[She really has no way of knowing what he's thinking. She gets the impression that meant something to him. Kamala smiles fondly. He's so weird and hard to read, but she's still happy to do something right by Joe.] The logistics will probably suck, but when this is over I'll have Aamir print you out a picture or something. Promise.

[With that, they can just check out space some more and head back without incident. /end scene]
veristitalian: (Default)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-25 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
They are. That's a ruby, and that's a zircon.

Do they exist outside of Roshar?

[That's something she's taken mostly for granted.]

I know highstorms are unique to our world.
warfares: <user name="na-i-cons"> (pic#12151197)

[personal profile] warfares 2018-06-25 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
They do.

[ ㅡ admittedly, a ruby from her world might differ somewhat from the ruby of another but the core makeup should be similar enough. He considers the problem a moment, weighing cost against gain, before: ]

I might be able to help you, after all.

[ The bead drops back into his palm. ]

But not here and certainly not on an empty stomach.
warfares: <user name="na-i-cons"> (pic#12152398)

[personal profile] warfares 2018-06-25 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
An uncle.

[ He had had many uncles, once ㅡ some of them even human.

Shuffling his hand, he begins ordering his cards according to their suits. ]


He studied all eighty variants of this game. Became quite adept at many of them.
onlydoubts: (Default)

[personal profile] onlydoubts 2018-06-25 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
How long was I away for? Let's see, I left for the Academy when I was about fourteen. I got to visit occasionally, but I didn't really come back to my homeworld, till about a year ago, when I was assigned to make deliveries from there. [ There's a lot to be said, about what he'd been doing when he was there. Or that now it was gone.

Bodhi shakes his head. ]


About eight years.
Edited 2018-06-25 05:15 (UTC)
blacksky: (You say I took the name in vain)

[personal profile] blacksky 2018-06-25 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Her eyes widen. He really did give too much of himself away. Elektra hadn't expected that or her slip for that matter. They're in dangerous waters here. She knows they're both liars with a lot to hide. She also knows he doesn't make her feel like shit so she may as well do him the courtesy of playing this off.] Someone's touchy.

[She follows after him with a dramatic and incredibly fake sigh.] You can relax. We broke up so no Ellie Jr. for me. He's the only one who could ever convince me to do something as stupid as get pregnant. I've got bigger problems these days obviously.
onlydoubts: (✘ so if i decide to waiver my chance)

[personal profile] onlydoubts 2018-06-25 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Dunno, maybe it's a side effect of the lack of gravity?

It seems like you helping me is what triggered it to end. [ Bodhi isn't sure if that's the actual reasoning for it, but either way - he's grateful for him happening by.

Finally, he feels like he's not going to fall over and that he can walk somewhat normally, if not a little slower than his usual pace. ] In which case, I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't come by when you did.
pampa: (082)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-06-25 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Did you confuse 'spacewalk' with 'cakewalk?'

[ because they're both probably the same degree of frail. only she still has a slight advantage so it's hard to take her empathy completely to heart. it still means something to him though, despite all efforts to the contrary. ]

And I don't... hate it. It's just not my thing, you know.
magneticfields: (half light profile)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-06-25 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
That would be the logical conclusion. It doesn't seem like they managed to solve anything.

[ His expression darkens. ]

I'm not a forgiving sort of man. Whatever killed them, they're better off.
veristitalian: (conversational formal)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-25 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
The mess hall.

[She proposes then, and steps forward, ready to walk there with him. If he's got even a glimmer of a solution, she'd be eager to hear more about it.]

How is it coming out there? Is most of the debris dislodged?
magneticfields: (serious)

[personal profile] magneticfields 2018-06-25 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Erik frowns deeply. That is a perplexing problem. ]

I don't know what an inhibitor is.

[ The name seems self-explanatory, but he's never come across such a thing. The closest would be... ]

Is it possible you've been dosed with some sort of serum? That's something that's been developed on my Earth. I don't know why they would focus it on just you, though. What are your powers?
tumang: (easycompany-amos-8)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-25 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Smirk. Well, she went there. ]

You ask me, that's a goddamn shame. Kinda missing for an advanced multitool.

[ He is being an asshole, and he knows it. Sorry, not sorry, especially with what she says next. ]

Space is a vacuum? Thanks, didn't notice. Believe me, I've been out there with worse than a patched leak. You don't have to lecture me about the dangers of space, I know what I'm looking at, here.
warfares: <user name="na-i-cons"> (pic#12152382)

[personal profile] warfares 2018-06-25 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
It's slow.

[ Ren passes the bead back to her, then. It's no kyber crystal but should be adequate enough should he be careful. The question is really how long Jasnah would be willing to wait, and if she would be able to make use of what he would attempt to give her. ]

The extent of the damage will be difficult to determine until more of the debris has been cleared, and then there is the Ring itself to consider.

tumang: (wcab1_29)

[personal profile] tumang 2018-06-25 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ If Miller was someone else, Amos might refute that. But facts are facts. He shrugs a shoulder, kicking into a slight spin around the room. ]

Guess so. Hey, if you've been given a second lease on life, at least for a time, why are you not making the most of it?

[ Amos has never seen anyone mope like Miller mopes. And he's been sharing a ship with Holden. He knows what moping looks like. ]
veristitalian: (conversational formal)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-25 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Jasnah pockets the mark, and takes this news in stride.]

To consider now?

[She prompts, always curious to hear more from people who understand this sort of technology.]