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far from nowhere
"the trees rustle in the evening when we stand uneasy before our own thoughts."
With the events of Del Pascia behind the Moira, things are only now beginning to settle—and not very well. Through the combined efforts of some of the crew, D-E-L and her permanent residents were incinerated into the dust of space. While it’s not the most peaceful end, it is one, and not many are going to be thinking back on how nice Del Pascia’s facilities were for quite some time. Repairing what they could of the ship’s interior and putting as much distance between the Moira and the prison as possible, those aboard are informed by Navigation that they are approaching another planet. This means, of course, the potential for better supplies, as some things are beginning to dwindle, and the Captains elect to dock so long as the crew follows protocol. WELCOME TO AMISSIS-RE
Amissis-Re is an unregistered planet with no documented histories or signs of life. The Moira’s Navigation crew have scanned the planet for any usable resources and have discovered a faint signal emitting from beneath the surface of Amissi-Re. Using the transporters and any other crafts located in the Cargo Bay, the crew are able to travel to the source of the signal. Upon arriving in its exact location, they’ll find a small series of lakes that lead to a tower-like structure that appears to be in use. Crew must cross a poorly assembled bridge system that sways and dips when weight is applied to it in order to gain access to the entrance. Once there, a woman comes out to greet them and explains, excitedly, that she is so very happy that they have come to Amissis-Re.
Everyone can go home.
Their host insists that she has done the impossible and has somewhat fixed the Ingress that’s been built on Amissis-Re a long time ago, and what’s more, she can send crew home for short bursts of time. Upon following this woman inside, crew will find that the planet is not, in fact, barren at all. Diving deep into the underbelly of Amissis-Re, it’s like an eternal factory of machines, and while vast, for whatever reason, it also seems incredibly welcoming...
☄ LEAP OF FAITH ( 05.01 and on ) The barren planet of Amissis-Re is devoid of vegetation and organic life except for a lone woman, and the planet itself is an intricate honeycomb of machines that go for miles below the surface. Yet, that seems insignificant and unimportant in comparison to the news that the crew has just received. After Thán has looked at the Ingress, he tells the crew that he cannot say for certain that it is properly functioning, but Emiri native, Ben Link, will volunteer to test it out.
An elevator takes crew down to a glass platform that overlooks an inverted Ingress portal. In order to return home, the Moirans will have to take a leap of faith and jump in. Ben, in order to show his commitment to the crew and willingness to help get them home, takes that jump with Captain Thán seconds behind him. Jumping feels like dropping through wind; lights swirl, it’s warm, and a soft buzzing encompasses you as you fall. You don’t feel the landing. One moment you’re falling, and the next, you’re in a new world.
A few hours pass before a similar elevator rises from below and to the left of the Ingress, stopping beside the platform. Ben and Thán step out unharmed.
It works, and everyone can temporarily go home. Will you jump? ☄ COMBINE THE EXTREMES ( 05.01 and on ) The woman that greeted the crew and led them to the platform will allow anyone that wants to go home the opportunity to go. There’s only one catch: it’s not permanent. She’s worked for years to fix the Ingress so that she can return to her own home but hasn’t been able to make the trip an everlasting one. Everyone always comes back. Always. They go for a few hours, at first, but that amount of time increases with each visit.
The one guideline, she says, is that you can’t go alone. Each trip requires a partner, or it becomes too much for the mind to bear. These rules are simple: the world takes shape depending on who jumps first, but if crew go hand-in-hand and leap at the same time, the worlds combine. This new world will be populated with people that existed in both and may appear to be a jarring combination of both worlds. It may seem unusual, but if the woman is asked, she’ll explain that the combined world does exist as there are more universes than can be imagined. The Ingress tries to take the person to their own home, their original home, but when jumping together, it finds the closest possible match and deposits them there instead.
From that point on, you can travel the world together or split up, but remember, this world is a living, functioning world. It doesn’t matter if it’s the home of one crew member or a combination. You meet other people. You can get hurt. You influence and are influenced by others.
Be cautious, and enjoy your visit “home”. ☄ LINGER ON ( 05.05 and on ) The more times the Amissis-Re Ingress is visited, the more it seems that your trips last longer and the experience becomes even more vivid. More real and harder to distinguish from the current reality that you know. It’s difficult to explain why, but you get the feeling that maybe if you went without the aid of the host, that perhaps you’d be able to stay. Forever. It takes some subterfuge, but in time, you see your chance: she’s nowhere in sight, and you take it.
The world you are in now is completely your own, whether another crew member accompanied you or not. The people you know are there, everything around you is exactly as you remember. A few hours pass, and you don’t feel that familiar tug, that invisible hook at the base of your spine that signals that your visit is over. Even more time goes by, and you’re still in that world, your home. When the first day has passed, you begin to question if you’ll ever go back, or if life on the Moira was all a dream. The person with you won’t be able to convince you otherwise, and they’ll start to feel less real, a stranger that you used to know.
There’s only one way to go back to the Moira. Someone from the other side has to come in and retrieve you both. Once in, contact with a third will jump-start a link through the Ingress, and it will pull all crew back to the platform.
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thisavrou_log2016-05-01 09:04 pm
Omega
She doesn't, though, and she's been in seedy places before. Two months ago, the sight of so many aliens (or natives? Anthropologically speaking, she knows enough to know that she's the alien here) would have confused and frightened her. But now, the whole experience is treated with an expression of interest and moderate caution on the young girl's face.
Her expression doesn't change when the Krogan questions Tali. She looks over the large, reptilian alien for a moment - first eyeing his hump, and then his legs - before she turns to Tali.
"Is he someone we're supposed to be afraid of?" She asks. Her voice isn't lowered, though, and her tone pretty clearly tells that she isn't actually all that intimidated by the sight of him. It's quite possible that she really should be, but she doesn't know anything about the Blood Pack or about Krogans.
omg robin
For a moment, she stares at Robin, somewhere between horrified and...inexplicably close to laughter at the sheer ridiculousness of it. The krogan seems to actually swell with anger, but there's a moment where he's obviously as caught off guard as Tali.
Before he can do anything at all, she steps between him and Robin, a hand on the shotgun strapped to the small of her back. It's not yet activated, and right now it looks more like a twisted block of metal than a real weapon, but the gesture's unmistakable. And it draws attention to her bare hand; the krogan squints in that direction - Tali must be only quarian not in a full environmental suit in the whole galaxy right now, and it didn't occur to her that somebody would notice.
"I'm not interested in--" Before she can so much as get halfway through the sentence, the krogan barks in loud, genuine laughter that makes passers-by - aliens themselves - stare. A merc threatening people isn't worth staring at - this apparently is.
"Am I--" He laughs again, and there's something about a krogan's voice that makes him sound simultaneously contemptuous and ready to punch you into oblivion, even if he's snorting through the words. Tali...isn't sure what to do at this point, but not taking her hand away from the gun seems like a good idea, so she goes with that.
"You tell me, pipsqueak." The krogan lumbers forward a step or two, ignoring Tali as if she isn't the one with the shotgun. "Am I someone you should be afraid of?"
#sorrynotsorry (cw: Robin's weird superpowers)
Unfortunately for everyone involved in this situation, she doesn't really buy it.
"I don't know, that's why I asked." She says with a shrug, looking up at the Krogan. Her expression is passive enough, but she isn't foolish enough to blink at the sight of someone threatening her.
If Tali is paying attention to the Krogan's body at all, she'll notice something peculiar. Several sets of arms - small, human-looking arms - growing out of the Krogan's legs, and several more growing out of the ground around them. A disturbing enough sight, to most, although if Robin notices them she doesn't seem to be that concerned.
"Let's find out."
That's the only notice Robin gives, before the arms make their move in a surprisingly coordinated assault. Four arms slam into each of the Krogan's four knees as hard as they can muster, while the limbs on the ground reach upward, grabbing the alien's legs and pulling him further down. Caught off-guard, the Krogan topples forward, instinctively reaching his own arms forward to catch himself - only to discover them suddenly held to his sides by a dozen or so more of the human limbs on either side.
The end result is the Krogan slamming hard onto the floor in front of Robin - all the while, the little girl continues to watch unblinking. Once he's on the ground, the limbs all vanish into thin air, as if they were never there.
"You don't seem that scary from this angle," she says, looking down at the Krogan with an unimpressed look on her face. He really chose the wrong child to intimidate.
you are perfect, this is perfect
Either way, maybe if she can get a shot in before he puts up biotic barriers - or worse, goes into a blood rage - maybe it'll stop him long enough to--
"What the..." At first she thinks of insects, thinks insects are suddenly swarming the krogan. But it's not - it's arms, miniature humanoid arms sprouting from the krogan's body, from the ground - she staggers backwards with a sharp intake of breath, although they're clearly not focusing on her. Tali turns to Robin, a question on her lips--
But the sharp movement of the attack stops her, and the sound of a full-grown, armoured krogan hitting the ground with an almighty metallic clang makes people still around them.
By the time a crowd starts to properly gather - Tali registers some raucously laughing mercs she thinks might be Eclipse among the rubberneckers - the hands are gone. It's just Robin, perfectly calm and very unimpressed, a stunned krogan and Tali, her shotgun active and...
"Keelah-- let's get out of here, come on--"
She holsters the gun - it compresses before it's even on her back - and grabs for Robin's wrist to tug her along with her into the crowd, out of the way. Bright lights, people, a big building with a turian bouncer on the door... Easy to lose one krogan.
Sure, if Tali knew more about Omega, she'd know she was about to take a small child into a nightclub, but details.
"What was that?!" she asks as they duck around tall aliens and short aliens and large four-legged aliens, and there's an incredulous laugh in her voice. It might just be adrenaline, but seeing Robin bring down a krogan like it was nothing? That's...cool.
Well, I try.
As interesting, bordering on amusing, that this whole situation might be, though, there's little doubt that this situation is a dangerous one. Even if that large alien hadn't been trying to threaten her, Tali's the one who had been to this place before, and she's certainly acting as though they're in danger. Which is why, when the quarian grabs Robin by the wrist, she doesn't make any noise or sign of objection and quickly follows her into the nightclub.
At her question, though, Tali will only get the same neutral expression in response.
"That? I don't know, I've never seen an alien like that one before." She says. Is she being intentionally obtuse? Why, yes. Yes she is.
"He didn't seem to be as scary as he thought he was, though."
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"That was a krogan," she says, stopping them for a second. "He didn't get the chance to do anything, but he was probably biotic - so he could hurt people with his mind, sort of - he had guns, he was insanely strong..."
She ticks them off on her fingers - but she only has three, so it doesn't take long to run out. "And they have this thing called a blood rage, where they get even stronger and they just don't feel pain anymore.
"They're really scary, trust me. Unless they can do what you just did, whatever it was..." Her voice rises in a question.
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At the same time, though, he's hardly the first (bounty hunter? mercenary? schoolyard bully? Whatever he was, it's really hard to tell sometimes) to approach her with a threat. As scary as that situation can be, Robin's developed something of a method to dealing with them: Completely overwhelm them with her powers before they have the chance to do anything. And, as Tali has seen, it's a pretty effective method.
"That was my ability," she says, just loud enough for Tali to hear her over the club music. Carefully, she looks over their shoulder, through the door to see if they were followed. It's a well-practiced motion, but as she does so the tiniest bit of her stoic facade begins to fade.
It's back, though, by the time she turns back to face Tali.
"I ate a Devil Fruit. The Flower-Flower fruit - it lets me create copies of my body parts wherever I want," she explains. As she says so, another arm blooms out of the inner part of her elbow to demonstrate.
"It doesn't really matter how strong he is, I had him surrounded - I could have grabbed him from anywhere, with any number of arms. I wouldn't have let him shoot at us."
That's sort of the beauty of her powers. It takes a little bit of focus, but she's technically got everyone surrounded, at all times. Being able to reach out from anywhere really has its advantages.
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Robin has three arms. Two-point-five arms? The exact number is quibbling, but the point stands; Tali lets out an explosive sort of gasp and looked around again hurriedly, in case someone might have appeared in the room since Robin looked herself. Seeing no one, she looked back, transfixed on the extra limb.
...And she's got a point. The krogan never stood a chance.
"And they're just like normal arms? You can feel it, you use it like normal?" Robin has probably been asked these questions before, but apparently it's Tali's turn. "I mean - when you grabbed the krogan, you could feel...his armour, his skin - all at the same time?"
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"Yeah, I can could feel with them and move them like anything else. They're just regular arms." Well, as regular as a limb can be when it's growing in places it shouldn't be. "I have to be careful they don't get hurt, because I can feel that too. But I can also make them disappear whenever I want, so that's usually not a problem."
As a continuation of her demonstration, the extra arm growing out of Robin's elbow vanishes entirely, leaving behind only a few flower petals fluttering to the ground as proof it had ever existed.
"Its kind of complicated moving them all at once, but I'm used to it."