Shore Leave!

[cityship]

Suddenly, the usual relative peace of the ship is disrupted by a rather loud announcement from Stacy.

||Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention, all personnel...||

It's entirely likely that she won't stop repeating the announcement until, well, everyone reports to Obs Deck. The mouth in the huge statue on the wall opens, revealing a screen. On it, the dossier for the mission flickers into display, understandable to every person there. Smaller copies of the dossier appear in holographic form in front of everyone.

The planet's stats, right next to a rotating picture of it, blue with thousands of small islands just barely visible, are as follows:

Planet Designation: Zokez II
Status: Terrestrial, H-class.
Non-sentient life: Extensive flora and fauna.
Semi-Sentient Life: Yes.
Sentient Life: Various species of intelligent life, including Homo Sapiens.
Water: 96% of the planet's surface.

Climate: Similar to Earth's tropical island regions. [Click here for cultural equivalents for non-Earth cultures.]
Landscape: All land is in the form of tropical islands. A large portion of this land is highly developed for commercial use by resorts and other entertainment industries.
Air: Normoxic concentration: 28% oxygen, 62% nitrogen, 5% xenon, 5% trace gases, such as hydrogen, krypton, and argon.

Air Pressure: 14.543 pounds per square inch.
Sky: Blue with silver-white clouds.
Sun: A class F2V, yellow star.

Warnings: Deep water areas can be hazardous to those with limited skill in swimming.

Mission: None. Shore leave is now initiated.

--

...Waitaminute. That's no mission.

It's a goddamn vacation.

[ooc: SHORE LEAVE IS GO.]

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Arrivals

[cityship]

Everyone shuffles into the Obs Deck, curious as to what exactly is going on.

Re: Arrivals

[is-the-ultimate.livejournal.com]

Shadow, the fastest on the ship, was one of the first to arrive... and a little annoyed.

"Oh, joy. Another mission. Who do we save this time - the spirit of FLAG DAY?" he griped as he marched in. As he began reading the mission plans, his eyes went wide.

"Wait a second... 'shore leave?'"

Re: Arrivals

[prettycoolguy]

The Chief arrives on the Obs Deck, fully expecting another mission. His eyes rake down the dossier until they hit the bottom.

He pauses.

He stares.

"We're getting a vacation," he says, though it's hard to read his tone. There might be some surprise hidden in there.

Re: Arrivals

[starlightace]

Well, she hadn't been expecting that. "Shore leave?"

"W-well, I'm sure everyone could use a break, right?"

Re: Arrivals

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

Xander loudly declared, "I'm calling dibs on the junk food run RIGHT now. And uh building supplies of course."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"96% water, tropical islands... resorts and entertainment..." Wyn mutters, flicking through the holographic briefing. After finishing the short dossier, she glances up. "Wait, we're going on holiday? Yes!"

Re: Arrivals

[whyarewehere]

Grif is sulking. Suuuulking. Oh god missions. He woke up after the first one happened, and was safe, but he knew it was inevitable.

He's not going to enjoy th- oh wait.

What does that say.

What.

Tropics? Resorts? No mission?!

"WooHOO!" he whoops. "High five!"

Whoever you are, nearest person, you are getting high fived. Whether you want it or not! This is awesome!

Re: Arrivals

[lackofdarkwings.livejournal.com]

"Ogod! I need to see if I can bring the Bus out for this!" exclaimed Matt, hoping he had his drivers license on him.

Re: Arrivals

[terminatefate]

She hadn't wanted to get her ass out of cover for this, but she showed up, pissed off and scowling, luring around the edges of the crowd. Sarah leaned up against the wall and dared anyone with balls and a sense of fucking preservation to approach.

The giant sign that said "GO FUCK YOURSELF" was blaring neon when it came to body language, that was for sure. Fucking Skynet, fucking Stacy. Same goddamn thing.

...but she wanted fresh air, so whatever.

Re: Arrivals

[robots-omgh8u.livejournal.com]

John slowly made his way to the Obs Deck. It gave him a small degree of satisfaction to cause the AI any bit of trouble he could. When he finally arrived he paced the deck impatiently.

[morphitudinous]

The mission announcement had Billy's heart pounding. Already it was time to face danger again. Scrambling to get to the Obs Deck (hey, with those loud noises going off anyone would hurry) he grabbed morpher, toolbox, knife, and anything else within reach. If it turned out not to be needed for the mission, he could leave it on the deck.

He sped onto the deck when it was already half-full, setting his things down on a meat-couch while he read the dossier as though studying the most important document in the universe. A tropical ocean planet---would they be fighting at sea? Testing the Ohm's aquatic capabilities? Finally, his eyes reached the small print at the bottom.

"Shore leave? Do we really have time for this?" After all that anxiety, it was almost a letdown to learn that he'd stocked up for a...vacation.

Re: Arrivals

[jed-eyed.livejournal.com]

So much water! Arha's eyes shone as she stared at the list and her jaw dropped a little. It was covered in water. Covered. Such a place was possible, this she knew, but to visit it herself and not live it through another life!

Arha was fairly shining with glee.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

By the way everyone starts rushing about? This sounds like it probably means there's an actual mission on the way, which makes Kaylee all kinds of nervous and excited.

'Course, once she realizes it's Shore Leave, she's not sure what to think. No mission, which is good because it means no worries over fights and all that other Mal-suited stuff, but it also means there are probably plenty of folks who aren't going to be very happy. Shore Leave means a break, and if there's one thing Kaylee's noticed, it's that some of the folks on this boat are workaholics.

Still, once the initial shock settles, Kaylee just grins at anyone around her. "'Bout time we had one of these."

Re: Arrivals

[sanguineroyal.livejournal.com]

Nanashi glared at the screen. She was lucky enough to get a vacation immediately after boarding, and it turns out that said vacation was at what would likely be the sunniest place in the galaxy.

"You are kidding me," she drawled. Why couldn't they be going to some planet that was in an eternal beautiful twilight?

[thirdeyeclosed.livejournal.com]

Despite only being around for less than two weeks, Koishi looked pretty eager to leave. Why?

"Tropical islands? We get to go to a beach!?" The joy was clear in her voice, and she was nearly bouncing on the balls of her feet. There weren't any beaches within the border of Gensokyo, so being able to visit one was exciting!

Re: Arrivals

[thewunderkind]

"No mission?!"

She'd never had a vacation before! This was so...strange and exciting! Except.

"So...what do we do on a vacation?"

Re: Arrivals

[capture-worlds.livejournal.com]

Tsukasa headed into the Obs Deck himself, curious as to what was going on.

"Shore leave? Sounds...interesting." He really didn't know what to make of it.

Re: Arrivals

[blownup-wasp.livejournal.com]

Like Shadow, Waspinator was one of the first people to arrive. And even he was a little surprised at the actual lack of a mission.

"So... Waspinator gets to have fun?"

Re: Arrivals

[letmelive]

Claire had expected more doom and gloom when she'd dragged herself up to the Obs Deck, and while the look she gave the display when it popped up was fairly unimpressed at first, she perked up as soon as she realized just what it said. Tropical? Resorts?

"And me without my swim suit," she muttered to herself, smirking.

Re: Arrivals

[sonofether.livejournal.com]

"Shore leave?" Yes, he was more than a little flabbergasted, considering they just 'arrived', so to speak.

And yet, like so many others, he wasn't prepared to open the horse's mouth and inspect its teeth. You can just BET he's making plans, though.

[the-greediest.livejournal.com]

Despite his recent awakening on the ship, Greed can't help but grin when he sees this.

"Ha ha ha, maybe this set up isn't so bad after all..."

Re: Arrivals

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"...I am gonna eat SO MANY NACHOS."

Re: Arrivals

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

Calmly, Motoko gives the mission briefing a once-over, then frowns. What the hell?

Oh, well. Looks like somebody's going diving. That's enough to make her smile- and then something else occurs to her. Oh, yes. She's definitely got a plan.

Briefing

[cityship]

Suddenly, Stacy's image pops up next to the dossier.

||Thank you for coming, everyone.||

||I know you all are anxious as to why I've called you here. Due to recent events, including the incident with the creature from the area known as "escherville", I have decided that some shore leave is in order, and since we've just reached a resort-planet supervised by the Greater Dimensional Alliance, I believed that now was an appropriate time for it.||

||I know it won't entirely make up for all the things many of you have been through lately, but I hope it helps.||

||I've taken the liberty of stowing some civilian transportation vehicles into the Obs-Deck pod, so that you may travel and transport goods that you may purchase. You have each also been granted an amount of funds appropriate for your shore leave. I suggest spending it wisely.||

||Any questions?||

Re: Briefing

[birthmural]

Daimon folded his arms over his chest. "And what," he began sternly. "If we choose not to go?" Aw, he actually thought he had a choice.

Detachment Procedures

[cityship]

Stacy's voice intones:

||Initiating Detachment procedures.||

There was a tremendous shudder and the artificial gravity cut out. It felt as if the entire Obs Deck was drifting.

That was because that's exactly what it was doing. As it slowly rotated through space they could most likely see the rest of the ship through the windows, and long umbilical cord that connected Obs Deck to it.

At first, it seemed like there was a sheer wall there, but as Obs Deck pulled away, they could see that it was in fact the ship.

And it was huge.

A long, shriveled thing, it was like a diseased organ, made of what looked like mottled, wrinkled flesh, gray in some places, green-gray in others, and black most of all. Bulbous pods, glowing faintly in the void, were clustered along the surface of it, like eggshells illuminated from the inside.

Still, its eerie appearance was dwarfed by the sheer size of it. It was bigger than a city--to those that had traveled through space already, it was easy to see that it was bigger than the average-sized moon.

Re: Detachment Procedures

[jesushasagundam]

"That's Stacy?" Kira's voice is soft, genuinely stunned. He's never seen anything that size before that wasn't Earth or the Moon. "She's huge..."