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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] proffesorcrisis.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Isaac was taking this all pretty much in stride. He'd gone to sleep nude on the shore of Strack island anyway. That the Weaver would transport him elsewhere and cover him with slime did not surprise him in the least. So far, on a scale of horror for Weaver-encounters, this was well below average.

"Weaver? What can I do for you?" He called to the walls.

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"My name isn't Weaver, but you can start by telling me what exactly this is all about," comes a short, snappy reply from an older and very nude woman. She's got an arm folded over her chest to try and preserve some modesty.

[identity profile] wearsagun.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Kate was asleep at eight in the morning, having stayed up half the night hunting down possible leads. She was trying to figure out who had ordered Coonan to kill her mother, but so far had had little success. She was sitting at her desk, head resting on her hands, and having a most bizarre dream.

She was walking through a strange room that was covered in pulsing, moving vines, and there was a liquid-like goo substance covering the floor. It was disgusting, and Beckett thought it looked like someone’s science project gone horribly, horribly wrong. She muttered under her breath, “I’ll have to ask Ryan and Esposito to look into this. Someone was probably conducting an experiment when they had no idea what they were doing.” Beckett sighed to herself; it was always the police department’s responsibility to clean up after people who didn’t know what they were doing. She wasn’t complaining; it was a job, and she didn’t mind, but sometimes she wished people would just stop being so stupid.

“Stupid like Castle is,” she added, still in a low mutter. “Why I put up with him, I have no idea.” Then, just as she was about to turn back (she figured she’d seen enough of the room), there was a huge lurch, and she stumbled forward, almost falling to the ground but catching herself at the last minute. “What was that?”

The room was still, and for a minute, nothing happened. But then there was another lurch, stronger this time, and Beckett finally fell forward, expecting to slam heavily into the floor. She did hit the ground, but something was different. There was no liquid substance on the floor, and… And she was naked.

She sat up slowly, eyes widened with confusion and a barely perceptible hint of fear. The realization that she had no clothes hit her, and she folded her arms in front of her, hoping to shield herself in case anyone came along. This was nothing like she’d ever seen before, but even so, her mind was working quickly, trying to come up with some explanation for all of this.

She opened her mouth to speak, perhaps to call out for help, in case anyone was around, but what she said was totally different. “Castle, I am going to kill you. What did you do?!”

[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.

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[identity profile] sonotaang.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The first thing Ava Ballantyne was aware of was a feeling of humid, oppressive staleness to the air around her, as if the air had been recycled and then put through a humidifier. The second thing she noticed was that she was both naked and covered in slime.

The third thing Ava noticed, and the bit of information that temporarily shut her brain down entirely, was that there was a voice inside her head. It takes her a few minutes to formulate a response, but eventually she manages to stammer out "I-- champion-- no, no, no. No. There has got to be some mistake here."

There is no reply from Stacy, whoever she might be.

[identity profile] gtmighty-pirate.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Any other situation would not have left Guybrush feeling so alarmed. This one, however, had just followed him getting a cutlass to the gut, so one assumes he had reason to be a little jumpy.

Or, you know, as jumpy as someone can be when they’re naked and covered in sticky goop. How his hook managed to stay suction-cupped to his wrist was a mystery to him—why he still had the hook at all and not his clothing was even more curious. But even Guybrush Threepwood, the attention-lacking pirate that he was, knew that was hardly what he needed to be focusing on right now.

There was that voice in his head, after all. In a way it reminded him disturbingly of the Voodoo Lady. Perhaps it was the Voodoo Lady. She was certainly ambiguous enough to fit the profile. And this sounded like a quest to him.

“Holding the Comb, got it,” Guybrush nodded absently, glancing around with expectant eyes (and completely ignoring the slime-covered nude lady standing nearby), “I’ll do that right after I find Elaine. She’s here, right? I mean honestly, she was standing right next to me—she couldn’t have gone far.”

And then, obnoxiously loud:

“ISN’T THAT RIGHT ELAINE?”

…Funny, she didn’t answer back. “Right? Elaine?...Plunder Bunny?”

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[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Grace coughed, slowly trying to pick herself up off of the floor. She was naked - she knew that much. She was also covered in slime. Which was odd, because the last thing she remembered was feeling Eywa, touching the consciousness of an entire planet, before everything had blacked out. Maybe there was an afterlife after all. But if this was it, it was rather disappointing.

The voice in her head resonated for a moment.

"...who are the Ohm? How the Hell did I get here? Because last I remember, I was rather unfortunately dying from a bullet wound."

When no answer was forthcoming, she started to walk - someone was going to give her answers. And right about then her xenobiologist mind noticed that the walls were distinctly organic.

"...well. This might be interesting after all."

[identity profile] different-skies.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"The walls, huh? Aren't they pretty?"

The voice belonged to a girl somewhere in her twenties - rather androgynous, shockingly blue-haired, and completely cheerful about her lack of clothing, bouncing over from somewhere to Grace's left. "Gorgeous orgotech - I've never seen anything like it, isn't it glorious?"

[identity profile] bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Disorientation.

That was the first thing that Ben could tell when he slid free form the pod and was summarily dumped on the ground. The world swam onto focus as he grabbed the floor. It felt soft, yielding, like he was on a Highbreed vessel or base again. But that was impossible right? The Highbreed wouldn't have gone as far as to kidnap him? He was the savior of their kind!

As the world swam into focus, Ben rubbed his arm -- and found it bare. "Uh oh..."
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[identity profile] earnmyplace.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The escape pod had been shaking. She had been gripping the restraints tightly, shoulders and torso bruising under the suit as she and the rest of the surviving engineering team had been thrown about in their seats, unsure who else, if any at all, had made it off the Normandy, and then…light. A burst of light that could only mean their attackers had swung back around, that the cowards had sunk so low as to fire at the escape pods…

Except she was alive. The room looked like no medical facility she had ever seen, but what else could it be but that? She must have been critically injured to warrant this sort of advanced treatment. Tali blinked against the oddly shaded light, the world for once not tinted a slight shade of purple, and it was a testament to her disorientation that it took her even those few seconds to realize her helmet wasn’t on. That, in fact, no part of her environmental suit was present, her bared form, mechanical limbs and all, exposed to the chamber. A chamber containing other, similarly bare life forms, breathing into the air, coughing, spreading their disease before her widened eyes. She hadn’t taken an immune enhancement since their last ground mission, nearly a week ago.

Tali cut off a strangled cry by brining her hand up to her face, covering her mouth and nose the best she was able. Open air exposure. She was verging on pure panic when the voice swept through her and the accompanying emotions assured her, for the time being, that she would be fine. So long as she followed that glowing light. Her hand still firmly covering her face, Tali turned, rushing up towards the stairway for her new environmental suit. The odd chambers, and what they reminded her of, would have to wait for later reflection.

[identity profile] jediwiseass.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Jaina's mind is a cacophony. Sitting here, naked and gooey on the floor of the pod caverns, it was like being in the middle of a force storm. There was so much life here, and she could feel the same thing from every conscious being nearby.

Confusion. Nausea. Fear.

And then there was that... thing. The being that surges through every kind of mental protection her Force training provides, knocking her thoroughly on her ass. It speaks but says little of any sense. What did it mean Chosen? Champions of life? Did it mean Jedi?

Then, her disorientation subsiding, she notices where she is.

No. No no no nononononononono. A hand goes instinctively to the familiar place on her hip where a lightsaber would normally lie, but finds only skin. Oh God, she was naked and unarmed...

No. Not them. We beat them.

[identity profile] am-alwaysfree.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Mal was walking through the pod caverns, not paying attention to anything in particular, until he heard a familiar sound coming from one of the pods. That meant a podpop was happening. His suspicions were confirmed when he saw a naked girl sitting on the floor.

He walked over to her, and held his hand out in case she wanted help standing up. "Hey. I'm guessin' you've just arrived, and you're really confused. Well, you need anythin' explained, and I'll do what I can. Can't guarantee I'll be any good at it, but somethin's better than nothin'."

With a shrug, and a smile, he added, "I'm Captain Malcolm Reynolds. Welcome to the ship."

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[identity profile] fiercerhyena.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, damn.

Grim Eyes picked herself up off the floor, unconcerned with her lack of loincloth, and stuck a finger in her ear to clean it of the goopy gunk that covered her fur. "Hooves of the Antelope, I must have had a lot of mead last night," she grumbled, looking around her.

The voice in her head - the spirit - had said she was Chosen, but she snorted at that. The crazy priest kid - she was a chosen one. Maybe even her new-made cousin Digger, no matter how much the earth-rat would like to deny it. Grim Eyes? She was a hunt leader. Not exactly cut out for grand destinies.

Still, there were a great many humans here and she didn't see an elder in sight. Yeah, this day was looking great so far.
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[personal profile] withanethel 2010-02-02 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Œthel's first thought was that this was revenge for the incident one month before in chemistry class, when she'd made a vial of nasty, slimy goo explode and coat several of her classmates. She'd been suspended for a week, unable to convince anyone it had been an accident.

But even without her glasses, she could see this place was no part of her school she knew. And she was pretty sure she'd have noticed being kidnapped and stripped naked.

Oh, yeah. And no one she knew could have projected their voice into her head the way this "Stacy" was doing. She could make out the lights on the floor, though they were blurry; following them seemed the best course of action. Probably.

And the first person she bumped into... well, that had to be an elaborate suit. Nothing else it could be. She couldn't really make out the hyena's snout on her face. "Uh... D'you know what this is all about?" Because "Stacy" had been way less than helpful.

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[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] 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] sonotaang.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"... are you okay?" Ava asks, looking at Han from over the remnants of her pod. She recognizes him from somewhere, but she can't quite place it right now. (She was never really a Star Wars fan.)

[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] not-very-noir.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Jamie woke pretty much the same time his head bounced off the floor and realised that he hadn't, in fact, fallen out of bed. Unless someone in X-Factor was pulling some sort of prank that involved stripping their boss naked and rolling him around in some kind of goo. In which case, he really didn't want to know.

Besides, even if that were the case, he didn't think anyone in the team had the ability to put him in what seemed to be some sort of big, slightly fleshy room with a lot of other naked, gooey people.

He looked over at the dupe that had resulted from the impact from falling out of the whatever. "Any ideas?"

"Hmm? Hey, you think this stuff dries on your skin like Elmer's Glue? Peeling it off later might be fun!"

...so much for that idea. "Just help me up will you?" Jamie groaned.

"Okie dokie!"

Now on his feet (though no less gooey and naked), Jamie looked around. He considered absorbing the dupe for a second, but he may actually need the back up and there were definitely worse personalities it could have manifested with. Instead he focussed on the guy standing looking equally confused nearby and wandered over, doing his best to ignore the whole 'naked' part of the scene.

"Uh, hey. Is this making any sense to you?"

[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] re-engineer.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
All said, Angie had woken up in worse stuff over the years. Especially after joining the Authority. Alien snot was nothing compared to...well, most anything else.

She manages to push herself to her feet, the nanotech using the minerals in the mixture to help coat herself in her usual metal armor. It felt more normal for her.

Then there's that burst of light and nothing has looked so welcome in her entire life. "Apollo?"

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[identity profile] sneezure.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa! Whoa, no this is not-- this is not normal. This is unbelievably ab of the normal. Unless he went to sleep after a mighty meal of something greasy again last night.

So, he's not panicking (yet) when he starts to walk because hey, every guy's had a sexy alien dream before, right? Right? Okay, maybe this one's a little more arrogant than usual, but Topher can't fault Stacy for her judgment. And okay, maybe his brain isn't being completely original with the insect aliens, sure. But hey! He's a freaking champion, who cares?

Off to find the mysterious others in hopes that they aren't giant acid dripping face suckers. With a hand over his man parts, of course.

[identity profile] doesnthavegps.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
He was supposed to be having a treatment. Topher was smiling at him. Adele leading him by the arm. He'd promised Sierra he'd see her at dinner. Everything was safe and warm and comfortable.

And then it wasn't.

The warmth remains but Victor isn't thinking about that right now. To put it very bluntly, Victor is freaking out. He's in tabula rasa state and he doesn't understand this. He doesn't know who this voice is or where he is but he does know it's not home and she is not among the handful of people he does trust. He's naked and slimy and terrified so in response, he does what the only instinct he has drives him to do. He tries to scoot back into the pod, curled up and hunched against what he is sure is inevitable danger. He keeps one hand over his head and tries to stifle his screams. There are flashes of what Alpha did to him in his head but he doesn't have context for that so they're just still images.

"Can I have a treatment now?" he asks in a terrified, half strangled voice as he continues to try and get back into the pod.

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[identity profile] thewolfdaughter.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
San woke from a dream of trees flashing by with the sun flickering between them. Of standing on Mother's back as she wove between the pillars of the forest and the flashes of white Kodama faces between branches blurred green by the speed of their passage.

...Slime. She was embedded in slime, and the only memory she had of it was that it was the blood of the Forest-Spirit, and if she touched it, it would kill her. So, she panicked, flailing and snarling, thrashing wet and ferociously out into the world like a hairless ape of a chestburster. Stacy's voice transfixed her, before she could do aught else, with the serene words of a goddess unlike any she'd ever witnessed. And this....this was her body?

San could work with that.

[identity profile] caelestine.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
One of the nearby pods opens—and one might easily think there was nobody in it. After all, the goop spills out and there's no obvious body... unless a closer look is taken. Somewhere, in the middle of it all, is a little, fuzzy, mouse-sized wild mouse.

A mouse currently coughing on the goop, trying to scramble to its feet.

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"Great, alien abduction, way to make my day, Ohm-thingy-whatevers," Ted grumbles, following the phosphorescent lights. He doesn't really know where he is, and he hasn't really started processing this yet. But he has a plan, oh yes.

He's going to find Booster and strangle him. This has to be his fault.

[identity profile] serial-innocent.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Most people look distressed, and Duncan can't really blame them. Everything is strange and slippery and salty (...ew), and far too warm. Entirely unfamiliar (except where it wasn't).

"Hi there," he calls out to an irritated looking older man, "I don't suppose you're one of the 'others' that were mentioned?"

[identity profile] ayasofia.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Sofia was jarred awake, released from the shell that had cradled her for countless months, if not longer.

What?” She asked in Spanish. After she’d been struck she expected to awake in the middle of a fight or in a hospital. Or she expected to see her mother welcoming her to heaven. She was about to speak again when Stacy spoke into her mind and soothed her.

A champion of life? No, I don’t have my powers. Just now I was-” Oh no. “Stacy, what happened to my friends? Are they-"

There was something… different. Not in her surroundings but in herself. Something had changed but she didn’t know what.

[identity profile] xrockinrobinx.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Another pod near her wriggles, and the skin bursts open, causing that nasty gunk to flood out.

But the person that slides out doesn't just slide out like a person. He looks more like a very awkward bird, flapping around and trying to save itself from drowning.

Jay Guthrie coughs and spits out the gunk, shakes it off his arms, and then lets out the only word he can think of that describes his situation.

"Eeeyuck!"

Mind you, this is a boy whose been knee-deep in manure before. If he finds something disgusting, there's a fair chance it's pretty disgusting. Shivering, wrapping his arms around himself, and futilely flapping his wings in an effort to get the slime to come off, he looks up and around at wherever he is, his expression an expression that's full of fear, with a touch of awe.

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Joey hit the floor in a flail of wet limbs, tumbling head over heels and not quite managing to balance enough to do a proper somersault. He landed in the end on his stomach, a formless groan working it's way out of him.

Propping himself up on stiff arms he flushed at realizing he was naked, looking around in the dimness at the long rows of pods, the winding path up the walls and most of all the other people picking themselves up out of the muck. For a second the dark green room and it's salty leafy odour made him worry that the afterlife was nothing like any earthy idea had told him it would be.

Afterlife... dying... WAS he dead?

His hands passed clumsily across his abdomen, phantom pain rushing through him as his brain tripped over the absence of a mortal wound that should have left him torn open from navel to ribs. Instead there was the smooth seam of a barely noticeable scar, and a stiff pop of his spine when he moved the wrong way that set a shiver through him.

On the verge of his panic Stacy's voice echoed into his mind. He recognized the sound of her oh so faintly, deja vu needling at him with the promise of her love and devotion.

'I'll take good care of him, don't worry.'

He remembers her saying this, but about him, not to him. They had thought he was asleep as they tucked his body into the pod. (It was warm and womblike, his eyelids growing heavier as the warm slime-fluid that would sustain him rushed in around him. It had reminded him of the sound of a warm bath running...)

Who had Stacy been speaking to again?

Once the idea came to his muddled mind all of their faces came back in a rush. Their wide eyes and thin hands, soft calming touches and alien voices burbling soothing things that he didn't understand.

He remembered no fear in their presence, only peace and a sense of safety that he'd thought had long ago been lost to him. They were the ones that had healed him. They had sat with him and kept him company. They had preserved him with an affection that was nearly parental. The rush of motherly love from Stacy only backs up those memories in force.

'But what happened, how did they find me in the first place?' runs through his head and Stacy's voice echoes there in reply.

'You will understand Joseph Wilson. Go to meet the others, they will explain.'
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[personal profile] blessedbyfarore 2010-02-02 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. Link's been covered in various kinds of muck, slime, goo, and all other manners of gross unpleasant things. Being covered in it while naked, however, is another matter entirely.

"Eww..." he grumbles, then sits up, glancing around warily. What happened to his tunic? His hat? Hell, everything he'd been lugging across Hyrule for months on end, for that matter? Navi isn't even here to yell at him and tell him what to do. Her silence is just a bit distressing - she'd been the only constant in a sea of chaos, and now even that's gone.

Halfheartedly attempting to scrub goo out of his ears, he wanders through the caverns, looking for anything, or anyone, even remotely familiar.

[identity profile] magictrkswwater.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Probably not familiar to him, but in the very same situation as he was, Irma had just found out that, well... she wasn't in Heatherfield anymore. Nor was it Meridian. Or Kandrakar. Or Zamballa. Or anywhere she recognized.

"Yeuck..." Irma muttered, trying to pull the ooze off of her. "Like being kissed by Blunk..." That's when she noticed it: she was naked. Covering herself up, a frustrated look formed on her face. "Alright, guys, not funny! Where am I, where's my clothes, and I'm not buying this ghostly voice, no matter what!" That's when she noticed the long-eared boy. "Hey, Spock! You know what's going on?!"

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[identity profile] phaseshifted.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
...Well. This was kinda gross.

Mandibles flared in a sign of obvious shock at Stacy's words, despite the feelings of warmth flooding through him. Her description of the Ohm sounded eerily similar to that of the Collectors, but he and Shepard's team had just stopped them. What was going on here?

[identity profile] goodofthegalaxy.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
He wasn't like any sort of being that Jacen Solo had ever seen before and Jacen had seen everything from Twi'leks to Bothans to Zeltrons. Approaching him slowly, Jacen held his hands out in front of him.

"Hi there. Are... are you okay?"

[identity profile] climax-jumper.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ryotaro usually like to keep a low profile. He was never one for the spotlight. However, in this instance, a single fact seperated him largely from the rest of the people in the cavern.

He emerged from his pod screaming.

After a moment, he stopped, sitting on the walkway for a bit shaking. He remembered the carnage, the frightening bug-like creatures, seeing his world torn apart in front of him while he was powerless to stop it. Bits and peices were missing, details fuzzed out, but the trauma was still there. The disadvantage of the strong memory of a Singularity Point. A moment more passed, and he got up, trembling and unsure, following the walkway with the others, staring at the ground in a combination of shock and depression as he made his way to the possessions lockers.

[identity profile] goodofthegalaxy.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
This seemed all too familiar to him. Jacen had been through something like this before with the Yuuzhan Vong -- so the slime and the goo and the no clothes didn't really alarm him as much as the fact that it was all too similar to the Vong. Were they back? Did they actually banish them from the galaxy the first time?

Quickly shaking his head back and forth (much like a wet nerf) to free himself from as much of the slime as possible, he ran his hands back through his hair and inhaled deeply. Sitting himself down against the slick pod he had just emerged from, Jacen took a moment to orient himself with his surroundings and his senses once more before taking any action.

He tried to reach out and feel everything around him in the Force, but was just met with a massive cloud of confusion. Others must've been going through the same thing.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Familiar, but like always with his family, bad.

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Hayt recognized this feeling. He actively remembered, it wasn't just a flash, or a fleeting sensation, because he himself had experienced this. He was being birthed, again, and it wasn't any better than it was the first (second?)time.

He tried to open his eyes, but found them swimming in something. Hayt wiped his eyes, and ran his slick hand over his face and hair, wiping away any remaining goop from his view. What a view it was; countless illuminated eggs spiraling up into the inky darkness among vines of pitch growing from a porous floor...

Was he eaten by a worm...? It didn't smell like spice here, more like a room after a particularly bad firefight or a duel. There it goes, those flashes of things he had never experienced. Why would he know what cordite would smell like if he had never seen a gun fired before? It was like somebody was feeding him memories again, but it wasn't those Tleilaxu this time...

This Stacy...was it somebody Duncan Idaho knew during his life..? It didn't seem to fit in with any emotions tied to what she was saying...It has much more presence than any of these planted memories had.

You are like a seed, Hayt, that will grow into a much larger potato.

What is a potato? Hayt understood the implications, and as such he made the connection that a potato must be some sort of plant life. He smirked internally. Stacy just about singlehandedly ruined House Corrino's plans. Hayt started, and snapped into reality. Paul!

Your friends are safe, Duncan Idaho. Behold, for you have a much greater task than what you were created for.

Hayt found himself inexplicably starting to wander the fleshy hallway that he was expunged into. A shadowy mass lurched on the floor, and moaned. Hayt instinctively reached for his kris knife, and only found pasty goop. Hayt shot a glance toward the quivering mass, and said firmly, "Do you understand me?"

[identity profile] info-dumps.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Norm slides wetly out of his pod, collapsing into a disgruntled heap on the floor. He's wet and so very, very naked--when the heck did he get this much skin? is it humanly possible to have such a vaste expanse of flesh? oh god this is so humiliating--and so he clamps two hands firmly over his man-bits and waddles forward. You'd think hanging around the Na'vi would get these hangups to go away, but apparently some things were ingrained.

All he can see around him are masses of people, some still in pods, some walking around like him, covered in green slime, some hiding for modesty's sake, some not. No familiar faces so far, and that's really all he can dazedly compute at this very moment. If he tries to grasp more than that, he might seriously freak out. So for now--one thing at a time. He has to keep walking. Go up the stairs. Find the 'other people'.

Norm is having a Bad Day.

[identity profile] starktech.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Tony would have liked to say he'd woken up in worse situations, and in some respects, he had. Naked and covered with goo was a Tuesday night for Stark, but this? His head was reeling.
Extremis, the operating system of nanotubed connections in his self-designed, computerised brain, fumbled blindly for lost connections, the desperation feeding through back into Tony's conscious mind, making him sick to his stomach, dizzy, lost. The situation itself, the eerie cavern and all that meant wasn't exactly helping, either.

Tony hadn't had to rely soly on his physical, bodily ability to perceive for years, now. Why would you, when you could see with satellites? Not now, though- He had his own two eyes and nothing, literally nothing else. No frame of reference, nothing to fix his internal clock and locator against. Starktech's dataspine, gone. The network, gone. Gone. He'd disconnected before, but under controlled, careful conditions, and it had been entirely his choice.
This was like waking up and finding yourself a parapelegic.

He managed a hoarse, shamelessly desperate cry, slumping to the ground, barely hearing Stacy's reassurances through the panic, until he felt it.
With the voice was something else. A network. Something he could potentially find answers in.

Extremis flung itself into the connection, pulling Tony's consciousness along with it.

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Nura Nal-Dox, more popularly known to the Legion of Super-Heroes and various people galaxy-wide as Dream Girl, is not the least bit perturbed when she finds herself lying in a puddle of slime, naked on the floor of the ominous cavern. She is a precog – the most brilliant of her generation – and she had foreseen this happening.

But still she says, “Grife,” when she sees the slime. Precog or no, slime is still slime.

She listens to the strange voice introduce itself and the details of the situation before she follows the phosphorescent lights in the pustules on the floor towards the promise of hygiene and clothing.

A while later, she is dressed in the plantsuit that feels like one of the Durlan delicacies Cham had once convinced her try – and never did she try again. But she has found her flight ring, and (more importantly to her sentimentality) the ring that Querl had given to her.

“I know you’re out here…” she looks back at the cavern with an anxious look, then returns to the business of setting her flight ring.

As soon as her flight ring recognizes her bio-signature, she sends out a homing signal to any (if other) flight rings in the near area – it is standard Legion protocol – and to her delight it picks up several other signatures.

“There you are.” Then she’s gone.

[identity profile] vitreoustime.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Just as he had worked up the conviction to go through with it, to end it all, to use the Moment to bring Gallifrey's last moment... there was nothing.

Not exactly the order he'd been expecting things to go in, though, he must say. It was supposed to be that he ended the War and then nothing. The fact that the nothing happened first was a rather terrible sign. But then he wakes up, and after a few bleary moments of wondering what had happened, the Doctor pieces together enough to get a moderately decent idea of what had happened.

He also pieces together enough to get a moderately decent idea that he's naked.

"Champions of life, huh?" he says quietly to himself. "Tell me something that's new."

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