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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-01-01 02:54 pm

Podpop!

[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.
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[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-12 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
"...Are you all right?" Zouichi wasn't exactly an expert on human facial expressions, but even he could tell Sho had sobered considerably while bringing up the subject.

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-12 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm? Oh, yeah, I'm fine." Sho answers. "I'm just relieved that Chronos hasn't got anything to do with this place. If they did, we'd be good as dead."
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[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-12 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
He nodded in acknowledgment. "We may not be much better off fighting 'destroyers of worlds'... but it sounds like you had a rough time of it."

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-12 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Rough doesn't even begin to describe it." Sho says with a frown. "Imagine spending every day being chased down by monsters that want to kill you. At least I won't have to worry about that here, I hope."
ext_988045: (Zouichi: Wait what?)

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Actually... that situation sounds pretty familiar. There aren't many normal humans left on Earth. It feels like I've spent more time fighting drones than I have talking to ordinary people.

"What kind of monsters?"

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Sho furrowed his brow, confused by what Zouichi meant. Perhaps it had something to do with wherever they were. He'd soon find out.

"They're called Zoanoids. They usually look like a human crossed with an animal and then doubled in size. Chronos creates them out of normal people."
ext_988045: (Zouichi: grr)

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Zouichi's expression darkened as he listened. "Another corporation out to engineer the perfect fighting machine? So what are they doing it for? Power? Money?"

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
"World domination." Sho replies simply. "They've already got Zoanoids everywhere. They could be anybody. You know of a different corporation like Chronos?"
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[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-13 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Where I come from, there are a couple of groups like that," he said. "But the DRF is the biggest. They're trying to engineer a virus to 'unlock the secrets of immortality'. Of course, the most effective strains are reserved for the DRF higher-ups."

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-17 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm, well from the sound of it I'd rather deal with the DRF than Chronos."
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[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-17 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Zouichi sighed. "I can't claim to know what Chronos does to ordinary citizens... but if you don't rate the 'new and improved strain', you get baptized with the original N5S and turned into a mindless drone. And the only cure for that is a bullet in the head."

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-17 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"...sounds about the same actually." Sho replies with a frown. "Let's talk about something else. Hmm. So, what do you like doing in your spare time?"
ext_988045: (Zouichi: :|)

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-17 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Zouichi looked vaguely surprised, as if no one had ever asked him before. In truth, no one had.

"I... don't have a lot of spare time," he admitted. "What about you?"

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-17 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I do like to build models. And go fishing sometimes. I haven't had much spare time either though." He answers. "Maybe we'll both get some free time now."
ext_988045: (Zouichi: Wait what?)

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-01-17 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've never been fishing before," Zouichi offers, not really having the heart to point out that the only reason they have free time is because their respective worlds, depressing or not, were both destroyed. Yeah, that'd be a real downer.

"Perhaps you're right. It doesn't seem like we're under the imminent threat of attack just yet."

[identity profile] bio-boosted.livejournal.com 2011-01-18 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Sho nods and continues walking next to Zouichi. "I don't think there would be any ponds or rivers on a spaceship, so fishing probably isn't an option. But yeah, so long as no one's trying to kill us, I'm okay."