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reverielogs2018-06-01 08:45 pm
reveriemod) wrote in reverielogs2018-06-01 08:45 pm
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- altered carbon: takeshi kovacs,
- angel sanctuary: sakuya kira,
- castlevania: adrian ţepeş,
- dark angel: max guevara,
- dceu: diana prince,
- devilman crybaby: akira fudo,
- devilman crybaby: ryo asuka,
- doctor who: clara oswald,
- homestuck: dave strider,
- homestuck: jake english,
- homestuck: terezi pyrope,
- house in fata morgana: jacopo,
- house in fata morgana: morgana,
- mcu: daisy johnson,
- mcu: elektra natchios,
- mcu: frank castle,
- mcu: steve rogers,
- mcu: wanda maximoff,
- original: haruto saitou,
- persona: minato arisato,
- persona: naoya toudou,
- persona: ren amamiya,
- the expanse: josephus miller,
- the fall: mainframe ai,
- the last ship: mike slattery,
- wktd: venus,
- xcu: erik lehnsherr,
- xcu: rogue
( 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
» 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.
( ♪ )
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.( ☺︎ )
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.( ♪ )
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.
( ♪ )
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.( ♪ )
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.( ♪ )
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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I'm two hundred eighty four years old.
[ he wasn't even kidding, miller! see, he truly was the pops of this whole relationship. he was the old man. ]
But, I spent two hundred years on ice. Not voluntarily. Look pretty good, don't I?
[ thanks ryker, you fucking punk. at least he'd taken care of himself before he kicked the bucket. ]
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I'm dead. [ if they're competing...? ]
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[ well then, you were the best looking dead man he'd ever met, miller. no holes in your body, no grey pallor, no bulging eyes. pretty damn good. ]
How'd you die?
[ hey they could share death stories! kovacs had a few of his own but he wasn't dead right now. so, miller had him there. ]
You're not going to spill a bunch of bull about being a spirit or an angel or some shit, right? Please, no one's going to make you an angel.
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[ he visibly winces and the word heroically is as dry as the vermouth floating all around them. ]
People are here, you see. People I know... They remember a lot more than I do. [ but even without the memory of death, he knew it was a one-way trip when he'd volunteered, didn't he? and maybe that was why he had. ]
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[ not a word he'd specifically apply to the guy who'd been drinking with him a few times here and here. he didn't exactly come off as noble and brave but maybe he'd woken up on the right side of the bed that morning or maybe there'd been no other choice. ]
Thought you hated Earth, though.
[ kovacs knows he probably doesn't hate everyone ON earth but still. the way he'd heard the word earth used like it was an insult seems to contradict these heroic actions. ]
They remember more than you and decided that the first bit of news they were gonna share was how you'd died in a blaze of glory?
[ ouch. ]
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Maybe I hate myself even more than that. 50 billion Earthers against one shitty Belter cop. It's no contest.
[ no matter how he feels about earthers in general... but truthfully, he fits in better with them than his own. always had. ]
With friends like these, right? [ most of miller's friends and enemies were one and the same anyway. he doesn't sound too down about it in any case. ] Guess I can't blame 'em for thinking they'd seen a ghost.
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Who set the asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Mars? Heard they were hardasses. Or was it just a natural man made thing?
[ in other words, that was some shitty goddamn luck. ]
And you didn't get one hug? What a gyp.
[ wasn't everyday you came back from the dead especially in a world without stacks and sleeves. should at least get hugs. or high fives. ]
They treating you any differently?
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[ but what are physics when that shit is around anyway. he shakes his head. ]
Don't go getting any ideas, kid. I'm not much of a hugger.
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[ he liked his personal space. if he was getting close to someone, it better be because he was beating the shit out of them or falling into bed. either one was a fun activity in his its own. he didn't see the need for hugging to comfort. what the fuck did that do but remind you of the shit you were dealing with? didn't solve anything. ]
Protomolecule, huh?
[ sounded ominous. and scientific. ]
Sounds fucked up.
[ to say the least. ]
Did your valiant and heroic act kill the thing? Did you save the universe? They shoulda put you in charge of this station if that's the case. Least you succeeded.
[ miller would have been quite the boss. the thought draws a snicker from kovacs that he doesn't bother to stifle. ]
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[ a warning, but also... not that serious. he doesn't feel threatened in that way from kovacs. or truly in any other way even if the guy could break him in half. ]
Oh, it's still very much alive, but I saved the Earth. I guess, technically. Or I will. As long as there's greed we'll have that shit in our system, and I don't see human nature flipping on that any time soon.
[ so... ] Don't put me in charge of anything. No one's ever not regretted doing that.
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[ religion. what a pile of bullshit. was there a fucking need to find someone higher and more powerful to worship? wasn't going to save you from a goddamn knife's blade or a gun. the only thing it was going to do was make it so you couldn't come back. ]
Someone put you in charge before?
[ color him surprised. either miller was hiding some leadership skills or they'd been desperate for leadership. ]
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[ he hmmms thoughtfully. technically they didn't, but- ] Strike Force. Always watch your doors and corners, huh? That's where they getcha.
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Strike Force?
[ sounds fancy. ]
I was with the Protectorate.
[ ctac didn't sound as cool to say. ]
Same difference.
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Long story, kid. [ but then- ] Sounds like another thing we have in common, you know besides dashing good looks.
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[ and it wasn't one he wanted to tell either. ctac had been a fucking mistake. one that almost cost his sister his life. ]
Not something I'll ever do again.
[ join an organization like ctac or mille's strike force. no, he would always and forever be dashing. ]
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[ he figures he may as well do what people want him to here since he's dead and all. it's a last-ditch effort to be useful in some way, not that he has anything to prove to the rocinante crew!! that's crazy talk!!! ]
I guess there's no shame in being dead weight. You know, no pun intended. [ he wrinkles his nose and gestures to himself for that one ]
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[ fuck no. ]
Why would I do that?
[ nothing good came from organized units of authority. they got their big guns and though they were hot shit and kovacs didn't want to kill anyone right now. ]
Would you join if someone asked?
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Probably.
[ except: ]
Not gonna grow a mustache, though. Not for anyone.
[ deadpan. truthful. also hilarious. ]
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Thanks for sparing us all that particular sight.
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Least I could do.
[ he's still not super thrilled about possibly risking his life for these people or ending up shoved back in a ctac uniform because it might help figure this fucking station out.
but, he'd do it.
he guesses. that answer would change depending on the hour. ]
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[ you and only you, miller. take it as a compliment. ]
But I'm not moving any fucking space rocks.
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