Unleash the Podlings!

[cityship]

||Pod Release Protocols Initiating,|| Stacy announced to the denizens of the upper levels. Down the the Pod Caverns, familiar sounds made themselves known:

Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

Mist sprayed from the cracks in the pods before the new crew members were summarily ejected from warm, comfortable stasis to their new chilly, damp reality. They'd either meet each other in the Caverns or in the upper levels, where the previously popped crew would also be waiting for them, if Stacy had anything to say about it.

This time, there were two pods spitting mechanical beings out of a more oily mixture, and one podling who was significantly smaller than most of the others.

Pop. Poppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiissss.

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[cityship]

||The Hub will take you to the Weapons and Possessions Locker,|| Stacy clarified. ||It is safe.||

The tentacle nudged her towards the opening.

[metalbent.livejournal.com]

She put her hands out in front of her, feeling for the entrance, took a deep breath, and went on through, completely unsure as to what was going to happen next.

[cityship]

Once she was inside, she'd feel a sense of pressure beneath her and a sense of speed as she rocketed up through the Hub, traveling miles in only minutes. When the platform she was on finally came to a stop, there was another tentacle to greet her.

||This way to the Weapons and Possessions Locker,|| Stacy said.

[metalbent.livejournal.com]

Having no sense of orientation, Toph stumbled forward into the oncoming tentacle rather quickly.

A slight 'oof' noise escaped her.

"Do those things always go that fast?" she asked.

She was still scared, but the notion of soon being able to see had given her back a bit of the confidence (arrogance?) she'd had back home.

[cityship]

||Yes.||

The tentacles deposited on the floor, and one of them handed her a strange, hard crystal.

||If you make shoes from this, you will be able to see.|| Stacy explained.

[metalbent.livejournal.com]

She took the thing in her hand. It was warm, like someone had stuck it over a fire. It reminded her vaguely of the hot stone treatment she'd had at the Ba Sing Se spa. It also vibrated ever-so-slightly.

And - she concentrated, moving her hands about, and gasped in surprise - she could bend it. She sat down on what felt like a floor and set to work, fashioning thin, makeshift slippers out of the thing. She was good at bending, and this crystalline thing was very responsive to it, and so, when she stood up again, she could see.

Which was something she felt like she had to tell Stacy.

"I can see!"

[cityship]

||Yes,|| Stacy agreed.

Now that Toph could get some sense of the room, she would be able to tell that it was very, very large, and full of all sorts of things -- things mostly organized in a big pile on the floor.

||You may look for your possessions here. Then you may proceed to the Observation Deck where the rest of the crew is assembling.||

[metalbent.livejournal.com]

All that she was able to find in the pile was her space-rock bracelet, her gauntlets, and her headband - all of which she put on rather promptly.

"... Okay," she said, looking around. "I... I can't read. Which way do I go?"

[cityship]

||I will show you the way.||

A tentacle nudged up along side her feet, and slithered off towards the Obs Deck so that she could follow it.