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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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resleeves: (E I G H T E EN)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-06 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
How can you not? This shitty station loses gravity and people lose the ability to move? That can't be a fucking coincidence, not when they're in such close succession.

[ he just has no idea why they'd happen all the sudden unless this fucking station was falling apart around them. gravity was gone and people were becoming paralyzed after having been perfectly healthy.

some kind of shit was going down. ]


I'm almost tempted to just jump off this fucking station because I think I'd survive longer.
veristitalian: (squaring up to the challenge)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-07 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
But then how have our bodies become so entwined with the workings of the station that we experience fluctuations along with the systems here?

[She asks, perfectly aware that he has no idea.]

Wait. Why did the gravity stop now?

[A thought is taking shape.]
resleeves: (S I X T E E N)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-07 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm guessing something broke.

[ monotone. just a guess there. ]

Don't ask me what. We never had this problem where I'm from. Gravity was the one thing that didn't shit the bed.
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[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-07 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that. I've spent the better part of a day out there helping free debris from the rotating rings. We're presumably not exposed to any greater amount of space junk than we were before, so it stands to reason that the first thing to go wasn't the gravity- it was the system that kept that krem from getting wedged between the rotating segments.

[Because if he's right, and the two things happening simultaneously means they're linked, then that means they should be able to guess at the root cause.]

What would cause a sudden change in ring rotation, as well as be linked to human consciousness? Some kind of shielding deactivating? Or possibly flickering energy, diminishing suddenly due to the sudden increased use?

The more that happens here, the more incoherent this all seems.
resleeves: (⟴ 012)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-07 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You're giving me a headache.

[ that was a lot of words in a short amount of time that had to do with things that he just didn't care about. give him something he could punch or stab or shoot and he'd be fine.

and while this was a mystery and he had some experience with that, this was a little more complex than solving someone's murder. what she seemed to be talking about was something technical and cosmic and mechanical. ]


I'm gonna stick with the thought that this station's falling apart and it's taking us with it. Hopefully the life support systems don't go next.
veristitalian: (Default)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-08 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
That's probably from all the times your head slammed into the floor.

[She offers, helpfully.]

Are you hurt?
resleeves: (F I F T Y S E V E N)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-08 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Wasn't my fault.

[ she'd been the one dragging him and this station had been the one fucking with his ability to move. he was completely innocent for once! ]

No, I'm fine.

[ really, he was. now that he could breathe and move again, he ached but he was fine overall. ]

No need to kiss it and make it better.
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[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-08 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It was not an impulse that had seized me.

[She reassures him, dryly.]

It was my fault, if anyone's. But it seems you've got a hard enough head.
resleeves: (T H I R T Y O N E)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-08 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Not the first person to say that.

[ she wouldn't be the last either. his head had been through a lot. it was a wonder he wasn't more fragged than he was. ]

But takes more than a few blows to the head to kill me.

[ now, standing in space until his oxygen ran out would have killed them so he'll take some jostling around to death. ]
veristitalian: (blanched with shock)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-09 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
What's your name?

[She reminds herself to ask, as usual. It's useful to be able to refer to, find people again later on.]

And what were you trying to do out there? Get to the debris?
resleeves: (⟴ 021)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-09 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Kovacs.

[ that's all anyone was going to be getting from him for the time being. no one got the first name unless they were his sister of quell.

or maybe ortega. ]


And I was helping. I told someone I'd watch her back so I was trying to do that.

[ remind him to never help again. ]
veristitalian: (Default)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-10 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Jasnah.

[She answers, and looks over her shoulder towards the airlock.]

Do you see her?

[It wouldn't be good if she were still out there, thinking she has a spotter.]
resleeves: (E I G H T Y O N E)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-10 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he nods at her name and files away. it's a mystery as to whether he'll use it but he will definitely remember it, at least.]

See who? Bobbie?

[ he flicks a look over to the airlock and the shakes his head. he couldn't see anything right now and he doubts he'd be able to even if he pressed his face to the glass, something he's not going to be doing. ]

She's fine.

[ she was the type who'd make sure she was fine just to come find him and punch him. another similarity to ortega there. ]

I wasn't the only one out there.


Edited 2018-06-10 15:21 (UTC)
veristitalian: (squaring up to the challenge)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-10 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Good.

[Says Jasnah- she would have gone back out there if there was an emergency, but she is extremely glad that this doesn't seem to be the case.

In that case she's going to sit back down, and get her boots properly off.]


Then I would like a drink.
resleeves: (T H I R T E E N)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-10 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Bar's that way.

[ he points a finger in the direction that he'd probably be heading as soon as he got himself up and composed.

right now, he was just going to rest, think about his mortality, check to make sure his stack hadn't been compromised and curse a little more. ]
veristitalian: (conversational formal)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-11 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She glances where he's pointed, and lapses into quiet as she gets the very last of the gear off. There are already people lining up to get more suits to go out.]

I'd suggest you see a healer, except I don't think we have such a thing.
resleeves: (T E N)

[personal profile] resleeves 2018-06-11 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ kovacs waves a hand. he's had worse than this (shit, he's fucking died) and now that he's inside and certain he's not going to die, he's good. he's fine.

he just doesn't want to move right now. he's got full control of his limbs right now nad he doesn't want to jinx it. ]


I won't be doing that. I'm fine.

[ besides being stuck on this station, he was all fucking good. ]
veristitalian: (conversational formal)

[personal profile] veristitalian 2018-06-12 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[In that case, Jasnah dips her head, a quick good luck and goodbye, and then heads on her way.]