trans_9 | Foodplot: Parte Uno [Closed]

After the 'bitching about Stacy' session finally reached a head, Sakura and Howard decided to actually do something about all the questions they had about their spacefaring fleshy home. Granted, they couldn't really find anything out about the Ohm on their own, and the Daligig were Right Out, so that left exploring the ship itself.

Time for them to find out what it is that they're putting in their bodies.

They drew on a few people they trust, or at least have figured out well enough to not distrust (more than they usually do), and now they're gathered at the mess hall at some awkward hour when no one is there to eat. They've brought Kanoe Zouichi (specialties: stuff going boom and wrangling Howard into being cooperative) and Ian Chesterton (specialties: hot cocoa, also science). And Ian's brought Barbara Wright (specialties: ??? and pissing Howard off).

Howard's tucking away at a tray of slop, figuring that if they're going to find anything that puts them off eating food forever, he might as well enjoy sweet, delicious ignorance now.

[Free for all thread, feel free to subthread and threadjack, just to get some conversations started before I get more information on the setting for the mods.]

Howard leads them over to the chutes that the food comes out of. "I hope none of you like your clothes clean."

He points up. "As far as I've been able to tell, that's the only way up. We should probably all go up the same one, so we stick together. Who wants to go first?"

The chutes look rather uninviting. The insides are slick with slop and they go up maybe twenty feet, which means it's quite a long, slippery climb.

While the tunnels look the same at the start, they soon branch off to different locations. The amount of crusted goo in the passage reduces down to only occasional clumps, and after about a hundred yards they can find that there are lights on the floor, much like in an airplane aisle or like in the pod caverns. Given Stacy's size it's about another quarter-mile to the end of the tunnel, from which emanates the sound of churning, and given the upward slope of the passage it might take them ten minutes or so to reach the room at the end.

This tunnel, by contrast, slopes downwards, at such an angle that at points it's harder to walk down than to just slide. There are little dips and valleys throughout the passage, in which some sort of dark liquid is congealed. It might be worth taking a sample of that. The tunnel is twisty enough that they can't see the ending, although the air gets increasingly humid and hard to breathe in.

The girls are unceremoniously dumped through a hole that just appeared in the ceiling, only to land pretty much on top of the guys.

Before anyone really has a chance to react, more tentacles shoot out from every fleshy part of the ship, trying to grab the intruders and shove them down a chute towards the back.

[OOC: everyone tag in and that will establish tag order.]

Mingling

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Tunnel 1: Sakura and Barbara

Tunnel 2: Ian, Zouichi and Howard