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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92010-02-01 04:23 pm

Once You Pop, The Fun Don't Stop!

[ooc: Newbie Helpers List | Instructions: Post your character with one post establishing them as being podpopped. Tag each other in groups of 2's, 3's, and 4's, to get some interaction to start with. If a thread doesn't already have 2 or 3 people tagged in, tag it with your character's podpop popping near the other people, rather than making a new subthread. If you would like to play out them talking to the AI, please send an email to the mods making the request--we do this only by request. Then move onto the big Newbie Meeting. Once your character has gotten the rundown from the old crew, you may start posting entrance posts and freely tagging.]


||Pod Release Protocols Initating|| Stacy's familiar voice sounds out to all the podmates through the ship.

In the Pod Caverns, there are the sounds of: Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

There is condensation and mist spraying out from cracks in the pods, as the people inside slide out onto the floors, covered in slime.

--


There was nothing. You were going about your normal life, then there was a bright light, and then? Nothing.

Then the world lurches.

The chamber here is humid.

Actually, "chamber" isn't quite accurate. You're in a cavern, half-lit by an eerie greenish light, going on and on as far as the eye can see. The light is coming from what can only be described as pods, glistening, round greenish-yellow things, glowing with a pale inner light, outlining human -- and not quite human -- forms. Each is rooted to the floor, to the walls, with something black, twisted, and unidentifiable.

They line the walls of the cavern, go up in maddeningly high columns, curling and corkscrewing up into the darkness, until the light from them is like that of the stars, glowing pale and mournful in clusters in the darkness above. Twisted walkways and stairs crisscross, traverse the platforms in front of the pods, wending their way back and forth, up and down through the chamber.

You just came from one of those pods, broke free like a butterfly from a (slimy, nasty) chrysalis.

Now you stand alone but not quite alone, naked, not knowing how you got there, who took you, or why you were taken.

As your body heats up again, you realize the air is warm -- just a few degrees too warm to be comfortable -- and muggy; it smells acrid and organic, like freshly spilt blood and sweat. Your mouth tastes of salt.

The floors are pulsing under your feet, throbbing...

Wherever you are, this entire place...is alive.

Oh, and also you're naked and covered in alien snot.

When you call out, ask where you are, a voice speaks to you, in your head. She tells you:

||You are here.||


When you ask who she is, she tells you that her name is STA'C K'LTRRB'TXFT, but that you may call her Stacy. When she tells you who she is, there is a gush of emotion, love, maternal warmth. You are on a ship. She is that ship. Her name is Stacy and she loves you. Her voice is warm and motherly, even if these messages sound almost automated.

Glowing phosphorescent lights appear in pustules along the floor. They lead you up a massive spiraling walkway that gives you a view of what are possibly millions in stasis. At the top is a room with moving vines that clean you and clothe you in a plant-like body-suit--soft, but durable. After that, the lights lead you to a great cavernous room with a clear floor that lets you see all the holes and tunnels in the walls of it. When you reach the center, the last thing she tells you before whisking you away to gather your belongings and meet the rest of the crew is this reassuring thought:

||You have been Chosen to accomplish a Great Purpose. You have been Chosen to help fight the Ohm, a race of insectoid beings that are the destroyers of worlds.||

||You have been Chosen as champions of life, as protectors of the worlds and peoples that are left. The others are waiting for you. They will explain everything.||


She will tell you nothing more. Your answers lie with these "others" she speaks of.

[identity profile] different-skies.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"She said she was the ship," Kim shrugged, "I guessed." Giving Grace a sideways look, she frowned a little. "You don't have AIs? I mean, granted, they're not great, but..."

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, we have AI, but nothing that advanced. It's relatively primitive stuff."

She rubbed her chin thoughtfully, "...I swear, I'm going to wake up any second now. I feel like Alice."

[identity profile] trivialprezsuit.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
As President, Jed Bartlet considered himself ready for most things. Sure, a lot of the time they were bad things, especially with the whole Qumar thing, and having been shot before, and the MS thing, but really, he felt that despite him being a bit older, he tended to take things in stride.

Which was why he was initially surprised that he found himself so disoriented when he woke up naked on the floor, covered in some sort of slime that vaguely reminded him of when Zoe was born (which he'd had to leave the room for; he was never that good around blood, that was Abby's deal).

Gathering himself to his feet (which was a tad difficult, as he was, well slimy), he looked around, seeing several others naked like himself. At least he wasn't the only one. A hand instinctively went to straighten his hair a bit, before he looked around, following the lights at a leisurely pace.

"Either I took too many meds for my back again, or Ron Butterfield is going to be very angry with me."

[identity profile] gtmighty-pirate.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed it doesn’t. You’ll have to excuse Guybrush; his mind was rather preoccupied at first, too much so to be bashful. A new voice coming from the nearby figure that he’d previously ignored was enough to whack the sense back into him.

It wasn’t the right kind of sense, unfortunately.

“Odd that you should ask!” Guybrush proclaimed pompously as he took on a prouder stance, “The term ‘Plunder Bunny’ was actually coined in the Mediterranean Gang Riots between the Bloody Doubloons and the Maneating Wildflowers, and was a phrase that meant to—“

Erm. She might want to stop him there.

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"...they're a staple of everyday life, really. I'm from Earth. The United States of America. Where the hell are you from?"

Pretty much everyone in the world knew what a computer was. Get with program, Isaac.

[identity profile] different-skies.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh! Yeah," Kim nodded. "Well, the Ebomuna AIs are pretty damn good, and the Buro have weird organic ones that might be sort of sentient, but yeah - this is way beyond anything I've seen."

That gets another slightly confused look. "Who's Alice?"

[identity profile] fiercerhyena.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Grim Eyes was in the process of trying to peel the goo out of her mane, fluffing it until she thought it was standing at a reasonably intimidating height. It wouldn't do to make a bad impression on the hairless monkeys, after all. She knew how they got about non-humans.

Still, the woman who had emerged from the smelly pods near her sounded like she had some spit and gristle to her. "If they're the one responsible for all this, I'll help," she said dryly.

[identity profile] proffesorcrisis.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"New Crobuzon on Bas Lag, and i've never heard of that place or nation. I have a hunch things are about to get a lot stranger..." Though whether he was reffering to that revelation or the tentacles they were coming up on was hard to tell.

[identity profile] sonotasuperhero.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Rhetorical question!" Ava snaps, glaring irritably at Guybrush. Ava's been in enough locker rooms in her life that she's comfortable enough being naked in front of strangers without immediately flipping out, although her patience is rapidly wearing thin. "Okay, here's a better one: since the voice in my head was really, really unhelpful, where are we?"

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know, Alice? From Alice in Wonderland? Wait, wait - slow down. Who are the Eomuna and the Buro?"

Now it was her turn to look confused.

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Whoa, hold on-"

And then she cleaned and clothed. She flexed her fingers, trying to settle down. Life on Pandora had told her to be wary of such things.

"...funny. I've never heard of Crobuzon or Bas Lag either."

[identity profile] wearsagun.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Beckett frowned down at herself and the goo that was covering her, but pushed it aside for the time being. She could always get cleaned off later. Right now, she just wanted to process the load of information that had been thrust at her by the disembodied voice that apparently belonged to someone called "Stacy".

Her attention was distracted by someone speaking to her, who appeared to be a sort of lion-thing. She tried to not look too fazed, and replied, "I don't know if he is, but if I find him, I'd appreciate the help."

[identity profile] jediwiseass.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Argh!!"

Flailing. So much flailing. She's naked and disoriented, quite attractive once she's stopped recoiling long enough to get a proper look at you man! Eventually all the appropriate areas get covered by her arms and she scrabbles to her feet, keeping waaaaaay way back from you undoubtably nefarious abductor, you!

"Okay, who the kriff are you and what do you kriffing want from me?!"

[identity profile] fiercerhyena.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, males," Grim Eyes said, taking on a tone that was at once understanding and totally condescending. "The type to ruin something just by bumping into it, is he? The hopeless ones are always the worst to deal with."

She shook her hand, trying to dislodge the goop stuck to it, making a face.

[identity profile] am-alwaysfree.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... That wasn't the response he'd expected. But it was understandable, given the situation.

"Hey, enough with the flailin'. You're not in any danger here." Well, not at the moment. But he didn't need to be telling the lady that. "Like I said, my name's Captain Mal Reynolds, and the only thing I want from you is for you to relax. I'm guessin' that won't happen real fast, and I get that. But I'm not about to hurt you."

He dropped his hand to one side and did what he could to look friendly and nonthreatening. "We've all been brought here for the same reason - to fight some enemy called the Ohm. They destroyed our worlds, and now we gotta fight 'em. If we don't, then our worlds might..." Mal paused, and dropped his gaze to the ground. "Our worlds might be gone for good."

[identity profile] ttly-shot-first.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Bright light. It usually meant bad things. One minute he had been celebrating with Ewoks, kissing a woman who he loved, and now this. Someone didn't like him.

For a terrifying few seconds, Han feared that he had suddenly been brought back to that terrible moment in time when he had been taken out of carbonite freeze. The process here seemed a lot less painful. He could see, for one. The man was, however...wearing a lot less.

"What the..." In a small attempt to cover his manhood, he brought his hands together, trying to hide what little he could . His reflexes took over, and he coughed out the taste from his mouth. Salty. It was disgusting.

Questions rang out in his mind. Where was his gun (he honestly felt more naked without it then...well...being naked), why the devil was he here, and who the hell had he pissed off. Then a voice spoke in his head, and the man frowned. Stacy. He'd just fought the Empire, was saving the universe again really that necessary? Couldn't a man get a bit of a time out, grab a few drinks and play a game of Sabaac? Must there be more aliens trying to take over?

Fate was a cruel mistress. He sighed and did his best not to slip in all that goo he was covered in, as he tried to look for familiar faces.

"Leia?" No answer. Huh. Han suddenly had a bad feeling about this.

"Chewie? You here, buddy?" No answer either. That did not sit well with him at all.

"Kid?..Luke?"

For having lived so many events with the twins and friend, the prospect that he was alone here was...annoying. Had he been brought here by himself? No, no that couldn't be. Surely if they were going to save worlds, whoever this Stacy was, she'd at least brought Luke and Leia first and hell, Lando was a better candidate at this saving the universe thing than he was.

Maybe he was just dreaming this up. Maybe this was just an illusion because he had drank too much from the celebration and his mind was playing tricks. Hopefully. Han pinched his own arm.

"Ow."

The situation didn't look good.

[identity profile] wearsagun.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. That's a pretty accurate description of him." She rolled her eyes, putting her hands on her hips. "He can be serious when he wants to be but that's not very common, unfortunately."

"I'm not buying any of this business about the universe being destroyed by insects. It sounds like a story written by some second-rate science fiction author."

[identity profile] gtmighty-pirate.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
“Sorry, sorry,” Guybrush laughed nervously, finally having the decency to look away from the considerably younger girl (even if she was comfortable with nudity and he had other things on his mind), “I wish I knew. Usually my disembodied informants are a lot more helpful than this one.”

The ponytailed pirate took a better look around, noting with particular interest the meaty walls, the other pods, and the glowing pustules.

“My best guess is that we’re inside some sort of giant animal. Judging from the radioactive stomach barnacles, I’m thinking whale.”

[identity profile] different-skies.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Different civilisations," she shrugged, still distracted by the mention of the book. "Alice in Wonderland, huh... I'm not really up on my classics." Faintly sheepish grin, there.

And then a faint shiver. "So," she said conversationally, pointing out the little lit-up bits on the floor, "Those lights there - want to see where they go? Wouldn't mind getting some clothes, too."

[identity profile] fiercerhyena.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"If one of our storytellers tried this one we'd have laughed him out of the hogan for nipping at the mead a bit to hard," Grim Eyes said, "but I've seen my fair share of unbelievable things lately, and I'm not sure why I would hallucinate a roomful of hairless apes. And slime."

No, she didn't seem to realize that 'hairless apes' was a ridiculously offensive comment. Tact, not Grim Eyes' middle name.

[identity profile] wearsagun.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"And if Castle tried writing something like this, he would lose all credibility as a writer. That is, I think he would. Sometimes I think the man is more famous than he deserves to be," replied Beckett with a hard edge to her voice. She was mildly put off by the hairless apes comment, although she didn't comment on it. It was true, after all.

Why waste time arguing something that when it was boiled down, was true?

[identity profile] doktor-von-wer.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Here? Where exactly...!"

The Doctor shook his head and wiped the slime away from his face. The lights were a bit too bright, so he shielded his eyes and turned away from the brighter parts of the room. Now what? Now where have they sent him off to? The last thing that he remembered was sitting down to a cup of tea in the kitchen of his TARDIS. This ship most certainly wasn't his ship. While the TARDIS might have been alive, the old girl was far less... was meaty an appropriate way of describing it? It would have to do.

"A great... a great purpose. Champions of life," he muttered to himself, as if trying to figure out some sort of omplicated riddle. And then... he looked down at himself.

"Oh, oh dear."

[identity profile] agyieus.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It was really surprising how often Apollo woke up naked and covered in someone's goo.

He shudders, coughing some spare gunk out of his lungs before straightening up. With half a mind, he listens to Stacy talk about the Ohm, destroyers of worlds. It doesn't even register to him as being that urgent, he punched world devourers in the brains every other Thursday, it felt like.

With a sigh, he cracks his neck and floats up, a brilliant burst of sunlight spilling from the halo around his head, illuminating the gigantic cavern much better than it had been. He hovers there, arms raised just slightly, then crosses them with a raised eyebrow. "You know, there's easier ways of asking for my help."

[identity profile] jediwiseass.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The immediate desire to flee/beat the crap out of him subsides, but she'll still keep her distance. Nothin' personal, Mal, but she'd at least like something to wear before she gets any closer.

"Yeah, yeah I got that, but Captain of what? Where am I? Is this your ship? Who-- who was that in my head?"

The torrent of questions halt long enough for her to take a breath. It feels like she hasn't taken one for an awful long time...

"Wait, what do you mean gone?"

[identity profile] fiercerhyena.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Grim Eyes snorted. "Yours is a storyteller, then? They always seemed a bit flighty for me - in my opinion, a male should have a good practical head on his shoulders. Notice when you come home from a hunt, happy to see you, all that. Storytellers - feh, always with their heads in the sky."

Yep, looks like we have a bit of cross-species miscommunication, here.

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