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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] 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] 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] 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] 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..."
Edited 2010-02-01 21:58 (UTC)

[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] 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] 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?”

[identity profile] proffesorcrisis.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Isaac was a gentleman. Well not so technically, he was actually on the high end of the proletariat scale of his home city, being a mercenary-scientist. But he certainly wasn't going to oggle a lady who didn't wish to be. So he averted his eyes, staring at the eerie pods, open and gushing like strange eggs.

"Ma'am, i'm afraid I don't know. The last time I went to sleep, I was set to make a deal with a giant transdimensional spider though and this is the exact kind of thing it would do just to...amuse itself."

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Transdimensional spider. Well, after the biological computer network, I'm ready to believe anything."

Grace frowned, "So where the Hell are we?"

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fascinating, more like... Damn, I wish I had proper equipment. And that I knew what the Hell was going on, because I've never seen anything like this before! It's all biological plant-life it looks like! Even Pandora wasn't like this. This is a damn gold mine..."

She glanced over at the girl with a frown, "You probably don't know what's going on, do you?"

[identity profile] sonotaang.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ava's really more of a nude teenager, although that might make it worse instead of better. "What the hell kind of nickname is 'Plunder Bunny'?" she calls over to the voice, sounding less panicked and more irritated at this point.

[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] different-skies.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not a damn clue," the girl said cheerfully, "I just woke up a few minutes ago naked and gooey. Which normally wouldn't be a bad thing, but normally I know where I am when that happens."

Well, if nothing else, the girl was outgoing.

"Anyway," she continued, "I have seen stuff like this - I'm an orgotech engineer, you'd hope so - but it's on a pretty big scale. Nicely done, too. Oh, and I'm Jokimru Deifeld, but call me Kim, everyone else does." She extends a hand, having not even paused to switch tracks.

[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] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right," Grace responded, wiping some more goo off of herself before she shook the offered hand (albeit a bit absent-minded), "Doctor Grace Augustine. I'm a xenobiologist with a specialty in botany. So, this..."

She waved a hand at the cavern, "...this is incredible."

[identity profile] proffesorcrisis.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm afraid for all my scientific pretensions, I don't know that either. I do know we should probably move on though." He awkwardly tried to signal her to follow him while not actually looking at her. The resulting gestures might or might not have actually been anywhere near her direction. "By the way, what's a computer?"

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
She's prepared to follow him. She took a few steps and then glanced at him, "...you don't know what a computer is?"

[identity profile] different-skies.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Xenobio, huh?" she said with a grin, "Sounds like fun. I'm more the orgotech side of things, but I guess they're pretty related."

Oh, and she's definitely agreeing there. "It's brilliant," she nodded enthusiastically, "Way bigger scale than anything I've seen before. And that AI sounds top-class."

[identity profile] proffesorcrisis.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Isaac, who was looking every which way but at anyone else, did not notice the puzzled look. "I understand 'to compute' as a verb, but if you're implying some kind of device, i'm not at all familiar with it...Which means it must be pretty obscure."

[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."

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Obscure? They're one of the most popular devices in the world. It's a machine that... well... computes. They allow us to record and store raw data, play games, do just about anything you can think of with them. Hell, we use them to do calculations human beings can't!"

Yeah, you're kinda weird.

[identity profile] givememysamples.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"AI...? Wait, you mean that voice in my head? That's an AI?"

She sounds amazed by that, "We don't have anything that advanced! We've got computers, but nothing like that!"

[identity profile] proffesorcrisis.livejournal.com 2010-02-01 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, a calculation engine. I've seen a few of those. Not my specialty, but I can certainly see their usefulness. Where are you from, ma'am, that such constructs are so common?" Isaac's way of speaking may have sounded oddly formal but for his psuedo-Victorian world, it was quite casual.

[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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