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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92012-01-01 07:38 pm

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] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-05 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what, or who Discord is" even though the comment about different pieces from different creatures sounded familiar, "but this is a humanoid form. Most commonly seen in bipeds like humans, elves, and other such races... I take it there weren't many in your world, if any at all?"

Ahri was curious, after all, from what little she'd seen and read, humanoids seemed to be the prevailing kind in most worlds.
elementofloyalty: (shock and surprise)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-05 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"What are those?" Rainbow said, her eyebrows lifted and furrowed in confusion.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ahri couldn't help but chuckle.

"It'd take a bit to describe them all, but most of those races walk on two legs, they have feet and arms like the one's 'm sporting now~"

Ahri made a display of her feet, legs, arms and hands.

"They come in lots of different sizes and colors and all sorts of other things that stand each other apart."
elementofloyalty: (what i really meant was)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-06 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well yeah, who doesn't?" And the range of colors she was thinking of was a bit more outrageous than reality. "There's more of them where you come from?"

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahri nodded, "Yes, many, many more. Humanoids are usually very prevalent. Or at least the one's you'll see more often than not."

Even when she was the mythical fox, she still managed to see the humanoids from afar, toiling in their war and going to extreme measures with their magic.

It all looked like so much fun
Edited 2012-01-06 20:04 (UTC)
elementofloyalty: (grrrr)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-06 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"If they're so common, how come I've never seen one?" she said. Equestria was the beginning and the end of the world to this pony, after all.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, like I said before, I am sure we're not from the same world, for as little as I know of my own besides my own explorations, I haven't seen or heard of a pegasus quite like you.

And on your part, you haven't heard, or seen humans, or any other humanoids as far as I can tell."
elementofloyalty: (a little sad and serious)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-08 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Discord looks a LITTLE like you guys, but he was a..." She waved a hoof in circles, trying to remember. "A draconequus! All his parts were different. They didn't match like yours do right now."

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
"A draconequus? My that's a mouthful and I can't say I've heard of such before..." That latter part however...

"Different parts? Like patchwork maybe? Parts stitched or meshed together?"
elementofloyalty: (what i really meant was)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-08 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, yeah, sort of. I mean, he had two different wings, and an eagle claw for one hand, and... it wasn't like it was unnatural though, they weren't stuck together or anything like a bad doll," she said.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hmm... odd. Interesting creature. Sounds more like a Chimera than the original idea I had of it being a patchwork creation like a golem or a construct." Or worse... the undead. Unnatural monstrosities like Sion and Yorick... Those were Champions she disliked greatly.
elementofloyalty: (happy dashie)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-09 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nope, Discord wasn't created or anything, he's a really old spirit. He used to rule Equestria before the princesses banished him to stone." Oh jeez, the undead. THAT won't go over well with Rainbow Dash, not at all.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-09 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Really? Hm... I might want to know more about this Discord when I have a chance. Not that we're in your world or anything, so I wouldn't have a chance to see this spirit."

Any chance to learn more and study creatures was alright in Ahri's book.
elementofloyalty: (happy dashie)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-09 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good luck even if you could! He's trapped in a stone statue now!" She grinned mischievously.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-09 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, well I suppose it's for the best then. Didn't seem the very kind type."
elementofloyalty: (sad pony)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-10 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"He did horrible things."

She left it at that bare statement, looking forlorn.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-10 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahri looked to her companion as they walked, and for a few she remained silent yet curious. Wanting to ask, but maybe she'd leave it for a later time.

"I'm sorry to hear that." she finally responded.
elementofloyalty: (grrrr)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aah, don't worry about it. He got what was coming to him!" Dash said, wings flapping so she could smack one hoof against the other. "Remember I told you he was a statue? THAT's what he gets for messing with me and my friends!"

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-11 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
"He got petrified then? Can you use magic?" Now she was even more curious about this peculiar pegasus pony.
elementofloyalty: (happy dashie)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-11 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, we used the Elements of Harmony. Twilight is the one who's best at magic, that's why it's her element."

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-11 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Elements of Harmony..." Ahri voiced it thoughtfully, wondering if it was a mystical artifact or some new kind of arcana.

"Maybe once we've settled in, you can tell me more about these elements."
elementofloyalty: (happy dashie)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-11 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sure thing! If we had them here, whatever this is all about we'd be done with in an instant!" she said, swinging a hoof like a fist.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-12 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Is that so? Then, for our sakes, I hope your friends are around."

Somehow however, Ahri doubted the pegasus' world was anything like the many worlds this place seemed to have gathered... and as such, the level of 'villainy' might far be exceeding what she's used to.

Poor thing.
elementofloyalty: (sad pony)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2012-01-12 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure they are. Somewhere..." The fading, hesitant note that last word ended on belied her show of confidence.

[identity profile] 9tailtemptress.livejournal.com 2012-01-12 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Ahri smiled at her. "If anything, mayhaps you can gain information as to their whereabouts. Or fight for them. Either or, we should get to where we'll get more information first."

she said, nodding in the direction of the lights.

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