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the glass menagerie
"I want the world to be fragile. There is no place to hide a dark heart."
After the missive from the people aboard the vessel carrying those from Caducus Secondary, the Moira is alive with preparations for defending the ship. No matter how big or small, each individual is entrusted with the responsibility of protecting themselves and their fellow crew members at all costs. With the Captains having divided them into teams to devise appropriate Plans of Action, they have decided to merge all the ideas into a singular strategy and have relayed it to the entirety of the crew via the MID. Everyone has been given a vital part to play, and although the Captains realize that some aboard are passive, now isn’t the time to be idle. Now is the time for action.
☄ Step 1: Negotiate & Infiltrate
With this part of the plan enacted, a small number of those who have volunteered to attempt negotiations have been heard by the Caducans and have been temporarily “invited” to board their vessel. However, due to this highly stressful situation, a portion of the offensive team have been asked to accompany them in order to disable as much of the opposing ship and its crew to force them to evacuate onto the Moira. Regardless of time and what reparations are offered, negotiations ultimately fail. The Caducans want the debt of their planet to be paid by the people of the Moira with their very lives. While boarded with the Caducans, they will attempt to incapacitate the negotiation party through violent means, and it will be the responsibility of this particular team to attempt disengage the Caducans’ ship to prevent it from attacking the Moira. However, despite all efforts to sabotage their systems, the ship itself shuts its primary units into Lockdown Mode.
All Moirans are forced to make a decision: stay and be shut inside an unfamiliar ship with the remaining Caducans who are still out for blood or make an attempt to flee to the emergency escape units on that ship with the other Caducans who have used them to head straight for the Moira. Meanwhile, back on the Moira, the crew must work to secure the ship against the incoming assault by the Caducans after having left their ship via emergency escape units. This means that some of the defense team will have disabled the gunnery to make it look as if the Moira is defenseless and secure the rest of the area with those on the offense team. There is no place for mercy; the Caducans will board the ship through the Cargo Bay. They are not interested in granting it to the crew after all the losses they suffered at Caducus Primary. The only choice will be to fight for their lives (kill or be killed) or find a way to lure the Caducans into the Ingress room to send them to some unknown place where they will no longer be a threat. The Captains have given all members of the crew leave to use whatever means necessary to protect both themselves and the ship’s systems from the invaders. Failure is not an option.☄ Step 3: ???? & Step 4: Profit
In the aftermath of the fight, the Moira is in a state of devastation. Bodies of the Caducans as well as some of the Moira’s own crew can be found in the hallways. Those who were stuck aboard the Caducan ship have either been rescued or rescue attempts are underway. This is the time to recover, to calculate what has been lost and come together as the crew the Captains have wanted since the Ingress had brought them aboard. Any and all Medbay personnel will be at the crew’s disposal, though the Captains will be focusing their attention on the Ingress room and what has become of it after having thrown so many people inside it.
The Ingress technology is broken. Various events on planets and on the ship have shown that fixing it is near impossible, and that it is entirely unpredictable in nature. The Moira’s Ingress had recently turned off, sending the ship into a slight freefall before it restored and righted itself. Hours after sending the remaining Caducan crew members through the Ingress, the swirling blue light goes still and emits a pulse that ripples out in waves as far out around the ship as a few miles. For one lingering breath, it’s impossible to move, a near blinding light surrounding every crew member. The rush of wind is the only sound that can be heard. Moments later, every Moiran, even those that were on the Caducan ship, are now in the same place. The Ingress has malfunctioned, causing time and space to overlap—the two ships have twisted together into something unseemly and new. ☄ Shattered & Swept Aside
Parts of the Moira have ceased to exist. Areas of the ship have become crystalline and transparent. There are rooms that were never there before. The Mess Hall is gone, replaced by a single empty room devoid of all furniture. The tree at the center of the garden is still there exactly as it was except it is now made of glass. The floors are a jarred mess of glass and steel, and there is broken glass littering the ship. The air filtration systems are going into overdrive to clear out the miniscule particles floating everywhere. So, sometimes, too deep a breath may end with inhaling shards of glass. The clothing you’re wearing might have turned to glass, doors are sealed shut, and it’s hard to discern where the Moira starts and the Caducan ship ends.
Everyone has only one job: be careful of the glass. ☄ We Break Fast, We Are Glass
The crystalline glass that is woven into the ship is now possibly a part of the crew. The transition from skin to glass might be painful or feel as if it’s always been that way. Hair has turned to glass, and arms, eyes, patches of skin or entire bodies are now transparent and reflect light. Joints may be stiff, or flex and move as good as they did before. If a crystalline hand is smashed against a wall it might break, or dent steel. For those who need medical attention, all staff have been summoned to the Medbay once more to help their fellow crew. Prosthetics and coverings will be made and offered to ensure that the glass doesn’t get broken or to prevent further breakage. Crew may assist each other in finding a way to remove the glass, or leave it as it is until a permanent solution can be found.
( ooc; When it comes to barracks, each player can decide if their room has ceased to exist for the event or not. Characters that have roommates need to decide together what they’d prefer. The amount of glass that a character has turned to is up to the player, as well as if it is painful or uncomfortable in any way. For questions, please go here. Please comment to activity check to receive new ranks (if applicable)! ) ( Other helpful links: Original Negotiation Plan | Defense Plan | Offense Plan ) |
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thisavrou_log2016-07-02 12:22 am
Aboard the Caducean Ship - I hope this is okay!!
However, that didn't mean that when shit went sideways (why did it always go sideways) that he wasn't prepared to execute mission parameters. Which meant that at the moment Loki walked up the doctor was in the midst of dispatching a Caducian as a result of some vigorous hand to hand combat.
He waited to drop the body before responding to Loki's question. ]
I want to make one last attempt to see if we can get to the engines and disable them.
[ What do you mean impenetrable lockdown mode???
In all honesty, though he'd insist on being one of the last to leave, the doctor was squishy, medical personnel, stubborn and a perfect candidate for being better off back on the Moira. Whether he wanted to believe that or not. ]
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I'm not convinced it will do much. Are you sure?
[He's really not sure doctors should be wasting their time here if they're more useful healing, but he's also not convinced this particular doctor is going to go easily if he has what he thinks is a plan of action. Well, they can wait a few minutes, at least, and see how far they get. It's always easier to send the unwilling back when they don't expect it, after all.]
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Even if Loki was now voicing the question the doctor didn't want to consider too closely. It was probably pretty clear from the telling pause and the look on Adrien's face that he was not at all sure. ]
There's been some time and damage. [ From their group running around if nothing else. ] If there is even a chance that a locking mechanism has failed, I'll take it.
[ It was grasping at straws and his gut told him as much but Adrien wasn't ready to admit defeat. This whole situation appeared to be devolving into an enormous failure, which was a bitter pill to swallow.
As he began to move, he glanced over his shoulder and asked. ]
You haven't had any luck with your ... [ again he had to pause, before he made ridiculous gestures with his hands. He was probably miming something like 'phasing, teleporting, magic-ness'? ]
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I suppose it does no harm to look, at least.
[Which is untrue, Loki can think of a lot of ways it could and times it has. Curiosity has always been a problem with him, though, and it can't get much worse than it is now, at least.
He watches the gestures with amusement, head slightly tilted, waiting for them to end before he answers.]
Plenty of luck. But as we're all scattered, hunting people down is proving time-consuming and a little exhausting. It would have been easier to move all of you in a group than so many of you individually. As it is, I'm having to leave most people to the escape vessels.
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[ He's guessing the answer is 'no' but he doesn't want to assume. As he spoke, Adrien started to move along the path he'd been on when he'd come across Loki. Down the hallway in the direction of the engine room.
He moved carefully, keeping close to the wall and leading with the gun in his hand. Perhaps a ridiculous precaution with Loki around, but it was obviously ingrained training at work. ]
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[He hasn't seen the Caducean ship before, can't tell what he'd be jumping into the middle of. It could be fine, or it could be some kind of machinery, or some kind of unexpected drop, or just a room full of Caduceans.
Loki doesn't really seem to move much differently from usual- but all the same, he makes no sound, even his armour uncannily silent. And he's hard to focus on, somehow, slightly blurry. It's no invisibility, and he misses his coat so much right now, but it's a small and easy spell and it does make life easier.]
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At this point in the entire cluster fuck, a little bit of luck seemed to tip their way and there were no encounters that required a violent response. Perhaps a bit of quiet, a little patience but, for the time being at least, no violence.
Eventually Adrien's trajectory brought them up to the hallway what lead to the engines. Here their luck seemed to run out as the hallway was still guarded. ]
Fuck.
[ The doctor whispered softly, counting the number of guards and then quietly popping the clip out of the gun in his hand. ] Fuck!
[ There was a distinct imbalance between bullets and guards. Care to guess which there were more of? ]