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( 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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Daisy had actually come to the bar to see just how much of a mess it was. Unsurprisingly there were a lot of bottles floating around. Not that Daisy drank a lot, but, she's pretty sure this is one of the few things a lot of people would be upset about losing. Especially, and hopefully, when the gravity comes back on. It needs to be contained.

She sees a bottle knock some guy upside the head and struggles not to laugh at how ridiculous the whole thing is.]

You okay?

[She still doesn't have complete control over her own mag boots so she really can't judge him for how clumsy he seems to be at the moment.

Since she's a little further away than he is, and with the way the bottle is floating towards her, she manages to grab a hold of it once it was close enough.]

Guess we should find a way to make sure all of these bottles don't crash once the gravity comes back on.

Fucking fine.

[ he sounded sour and irritated but it was directed at the entire situation and not her. it wasn't all too often that he got caught out like this, not in control of himself and now here he was, spinning like a top in the air while dodging unidentified splatters of alcohol.

if he'd been back on earth, he would have been sure this would have been some reaper induced state but he's perfectly fine and sober right now. ]

Forget the bottles, what about me?

[ he was in the air too, you know! he didn't want to end up on his ass when the gravity kicked back on eventually. ]

[Daisy has two bottles in her hands when he, so kindly, asks for help. Out of habit she goes to put the bottles down but they just float away as soon as she lets go.

Oh. This was going to be a pain in the ass.

Regardless, Daisy moves over to where he is.]

Here. Come on.

[With her mag boots keeping her from floating away, Daisy grabs hold of his arm and attempts to turn him so he’s facing the right way to get his mag boots attached to the ground.]

[ kovacs reaches out, snagging her wrist with his hand and using that leverage to sort of swim his way down where he's close enough to the floor that he can get his feet down and his boots engaged. ]

Fucking finally.

[ he swipes at some of the booze that's splattered on his face and then shakes his hand out to try and further dislodge the liquid. there are bottles floating around and he shoves a few away from them when they get close. ]

What the hell just happened? Are we about to die?

[ wouldn't be a surprise tbh. did anyone know who was controlling this station? was there even anyone making sure everything worked all right? probably not. they were going to end up ground meat on that planet, probably. ]

[Daisy moves her head out of the way when the booze he managed to push off comes floating in her direction. Letting go of him once he was stable, Daisy looks around to see if there was anyone else who might need help.]

I have no idea.

[Comforting, right?]

Seems like there’s still oxygen, so there’s that. Something caused the artificial gravity to turn off.

What a tremendous help you are.

[ not that he'd contributed much to the conversation either. it wasn't like he'd ever been in charge of a spaceship or had to deal with artificial gravity before. ]

Guess we can at least survive without gravity even if it'll be fucking annoying.

[ it's not like you could sleep standing up. or, maybe you could but it would be really uncomfortable. there weren't many things that kovacs liked but he did like beds. ]

Think this means something bigger?

Says the guy who was literally just floating in a bar.

[What? She can be rude too. Surviving without gravity would definitely be annoying, and she's really hoping this is a temporary thing.]

I really hope not. Being dragged into outer space, again, is bad enough.

Hey, never said I was a tremendous help either. I wasn't.

[ and he probably wouldn't be either. there were certain things he knew a lot about but how to fix a fucking space station wasn't one of them. they hadn't taught him that during his run in ctac and quell had been more concerned about turning them into super soldiers to go for the tech stuff.

what a missed opportunity. ]

Again?

[ this wasn't her first time at this particular rodeo? ]

What the hell were you doing in space before? If you've got experience, why weren't you espousing knowledge like those two fucks the other day.

[ sorry alex and amos. ]

Yeah, well, guess we can agree on that.

[She's honestly not even sure what to do next, besides try and figure out how to help fix the situation they're in. Or, you know, first figure out what the hell happened. That might be a good place to start.]

Because the only experience I have is being held captive in space. Seems to have become a pattern at this point.

Are you always this much of an ass or is it all that alcohol that landed on your face?

No, it's a constant thing.

[ simply said like it was a question he was asked quite often (because it kind of was). ]

But, you get used it. You're grow to love it.

[ he smiles because he's pretty confident of that fact too. ortega didn't hate him anymore. he'd given her that bionic arm so he was just a gracious guy all around. ]

Well, sounds like your luck is pretty shitty. At least you're not tied up and gagged here? Some freedom.

[ not enough but it was better than being bound and gagged. ]

Yeah that’s debatable.

[About her growing to love his attitude. He’s new here though so she’ll give him a break. He is right about her luck being pretty shitty though, and honestly while this is a vast improvement to how she was treated on that ship, she would still rather be back at the base. At least because of her being very concerned about Coulson. Only good thing about being here is that she isn’t at risk of destroying the earth.]

We should probably grab the bottles before they go missing. Or, you know, hit someone else in the face.

[ that sounded like work. that sounded like cleaning up a mess that wasn't even his making. but, it also sounded like saving the alcohol from ending up all over the place and he knew that, if he couldn't smoke, he'd need something to calm him down. ]

You just assigned us chores.

[ does she realize that? kovacs hopes she realizes that. ]

You're lucky it involves alcohol

Well who else is going to do it?

[Since there’s at least two close by, it’s not too difficult to grab them. Thankfully they’re closed, although some of them are floating around with the liquid coming out.]

I think this place is already dealing with enough, the last thing we need to happen is water damage. Can you see if there’s a towel around here?

Someone who's not me.

[ obvious answer, there.

but, after an eyeroll, he did stomp off behind the bar to try and rifle through the scant few things behind there for a towel. he found napkins. ]

This is what we have.

[ flimsy, dusty napkins that weren't gonna do jack shit to clean up any heavy spills. ]

Thanks.

[~~Should have left him floating around~~. Rolling her eyes at his comment, Daisy turns to him when he offers her some napkins. Well, better than nothing. Considering the liquid is just floating around she tries to just wrap the napkins around it, but some of it still escapes.

Well this was going to be fun.]

So are you just going to stand there and stare?

Thought about it.

[ what were you gonna do about it, daisy? ]

I'm not gonna catch the liquid with my hands.

[ gross.

but he did start grabbing bottles that were in his reach. the next step was figuring out where to put them where they wouldn't float away again. ]

[Daisy just throws him a look at his retort.]

Could always catch it with your mouth.

[That was sarcasm, but, she's willing to bet he'd probably do it anyway. Now that she has a few bottles in her hands she's looking around to find a place to put them.

Great.]

You can't tell me they didn't prepare this place for something like this happening.

[She's saying it more to herself than him. He might have heard her though.]

There are better uses for my mouth than that.

[ you walked right into that one, daisy. he's not sorry.

if he notices her dilemma with the bottles, he says nothing. just collects a few and holds them while watching her in amusement. ]

I can't tell you shit. I'm pretty sure this place is prepared for us to die. Not like the previous group of idiots made it.

[ remember them? ]

[~~Is shutting up one of those options?~~]

Yeah, well, something tells me whoever brought us here is testing us. Or, you know, weeding out the weak.

[To which she pointedly looks at him.]

You would've thought they would at least have velcro for these sorts of situations.

Weeding out the weak?

[ not a bad guess there. ]

You do realize that means we're all either going to end up killing each other to prove we deserve to stay alive or people are gonna die because they're not used to this shit.

[ death was a commonality for him. people died, they came back, and life went on. here, they wouldn't come back but he was still pretty blase about the possibility of people murdering each other or just dying because they weren't hardy and strong. ]

It’s crossed my mind.

[She’s just hoping it doesn’t reach that point. Daisy is almost always in survival mode, and has been since she was a kid. So at the very least she knows how to look out for herself. ]

Which means we all have to look out for each other.

[Including him. As annoying as he seems to be.]

Help me look for a place to put these.

[ kovacs gives her a dubious look for that one. looking out for one another. sure, he'd get right fucking on that. time to check in on people to make sure they're breathing and say hi and nod like a fucking dick when he saw them in the hall. ]

What fucking bar doesn't have cabinets or cupboards or some shit?

[ he is, at least, helping because he'd like to make sure this place isn't alcohol free anytime soon. there's a few spaces underneath the bar but kovacs doubts that's gonna work. ]

There's nothing that's going to work. You got tape or some shit on you?

Do I look like I have tape on me?

[She does have that med kit in her room, but that medical tape wouldn't hold this stuff down.]

Screw it.

[Daisy lets them go and watches them float there.]

There's more important things to be worrying about than saving alcohol.

Remember that stupid question you asked me about finding some place to put these? Now, you know how it fucking feels.

[ she lets the bottles go and he watches them float slowly up towards the ceiling again. he guesses they'll be fine up there now but they're gonna loose a lot of good alcohol if the gravity ever kicks back on. ]

More important like what?

[ yes, he wants some examples. ]

[Daisy just looks at him with an emotionless expression. What was that about growing to love this personality of his? Just because she would look out for him like the rest of the people on this ship didn't mean she had to like him.]

Like making sure there's no one else floating around with no way of stopping it.

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