cityship: (Stacy--Actual Face)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-10-01 12:17 am

Podpop

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] patenting.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"You really think this is some kind of living machine?" she asked, with a hint of timidness to her voice. "I mean, it sort of feels like that, but that voice..." the one she heard once and then thought about so hard that she missed the rest of what it said, "It was definitely some kind of AI or something. I wonder if Realian technology can be applied to something to big," she added more as an afterthought to herself.

And then she stared at Red again. "... Um ..."

[identity profile] bymytail.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Red thought over as he listened to the other speak. When he was in Lares, were there any voices? He was too busy at that time to even take notice if it did have any.

He only broke away from his deep thinking when he heard the other speak up once more. "Huh?"

He wasn't the brightest dog-person one would meet...

[identity profile] patenting.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
"... what are you?"

MIYUKI ITSUMI: SMOOTHEST PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE.

[identity profile] bymytail.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Red blinked a few times, not exactly understanding why the other had asked "what" instead of "who" before finally realizing that the other looked different from him.

"Me? I'm a Caninu!" He replied with a laugh. "... Uh, it's a name for dog-people like me where I come from."

[identity profile] patenting.livejournal.com 2011-10-02 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh..." That was an easy enough explanation. At least dog person wasn't apparently some kind of insult, even though she didn't speak her earlier thoughts before.

"I've never seen anything like you before! What planet are you from?" Maybe he was from a star system they somehow hadn't discovered yet.

[identity profile] bymytail.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Well... The place I'm from had floating islands over a big cloud of electric storms. We used to call the place Shepherd, but I dunno about planet name." Red replied, unsure himself.

[identity profile] patenting.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Miyuki thought for a moment. There certainly weren't planets like THAT that she'd ever heard about!

"That totally doesn't sound like any planet I've ever seen. I wonder how close you are to where we are! Maybe we'll find you soon."

[identity profile] bymytail.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"You travel from planets to planets?" Red asked, curious. He was about to ask what kind of places the other traveled before he realized having a casual conversation next to the pods wasn't really a nice place.

"Uh, I think we should probably move out to the other room." He said as he pointed towards the only way out. Never mind that the other was still naked.

[identity profile] patenting.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"I really hope they have clothes out there..."

[identity profile] bymytail.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
"They have...these weird plant suits..." Red said, poking at the suit he was already wearing. "I was half awake when some thing just slapped it onto me. It's weird..."