Wyn is… well, to be perfectly honest, she's kind of bored. The civil war didn't affect her much, except for the minor fact that she chose the wrong day to start field-testing in the City. School hadn't started yet-- she didn't think, at least. (She really hoped it hadn't; that would be awkward, to say the least.) So, she chose to do one of the few things guaranteed to keep her occupied for an hour or two.

Video games. She sits on a threadbare denim couch in an eerily-perfect replica of the Pierce Hall sitting room, fiddling with the microphone stand with a plastic guitar slung across her back. The door to the room itself is almost closed, but there's a note pinned to the door inviting people inside.

Come on, guys, Rock Band's no fun alone…

[ooc: If we could keep it to one giant party thread that would be amazingly fantastic.]

Another day, another podpop. The crew and command crew has gathered on Obs Deck to greet the newbs, but right now the atmosphere is tense. People are taking turns on rotations to alternately hunt for Sam--who'd been kept in prison during the trial to present his assassinating the Yeerk-- and guard said parasite so it can have a fair trial. The Jury is in recess, for the moment, but will be deciding the Yeerk's fate very soon. A bunch of new people thrown into the mix is tremendous complication.

Meanwhile, the newbies are waking up to a strange, new world, one unlike anything they may have ever seen before. In the Obs Deck, the light of stars--and parallel universes--streaks past in a sleek, transcendent sheet of multi-colored lights in the large, eye-like windows. (They're inside the eyes, looking out, it seems). The statue in the center of the room, going up the domed ceiling is intimidating--and seems to be looking at them.

The tension is palpable, though a few individuals are trying to cut through it with friendliness for the benefit of the scared and bewildered new people now waking up from their gooey slumber.

[ooc: Newbie Helpers List | Instructions: Post your character with one post establishing them as being podpopped. 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.

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( There was nothing... )