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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
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He looks almost startled when Miller starts rushing towards him.]
Ah.
[That's all he says at first.]
Hello.
[A+ greeting.]
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Guess we match, huh?
[Dryly spoken. Still. He checks Liquid over.]
Looks like you're in the clear. [Accidental pun there. He's sure that Liquid already knows, but Kaz needed to say it aloud to himself, especially after losing so many people. It's a cosmic joke that sort of concern is being turned on the man that ordered his death, but here he is, anyway.]
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Guess so. You can probably punch with yours without worrying that it might decide to shatter, though, I'm sure.
[Right, that's what he's worried about. Really, though, he's not sure what to do about the sudden replacement.
It's really frustrating, not being sure about things.]
I don't know, I still feel sort of... crap. But I suppose most of me's alright. Nothing's killed me yet. [It's still weird, losing the part of his arm that he remembers being the only thing left of him.]
Are you alright, then?
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[Hilarious that's a reminder of Liquid's father, another thing that he needs to check on. Right now, though, he's settling on accounting for people.]
And I didn't take any damage. I got real lucky. [He's a good fighter but he knows he's not that good. He has stubbornness in excess, something that makes up for any lack of skill, but usually that doesn't keep him safe. It just keeps him alive.]
[Acknowledging the fact he's very aware of his own mortality now; the man in front of him has helped with that.]
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[He doesn't know how strong it is, and now isn't really a good time to find out, he's sure.]
Yeah, me either, other than a few bruises. And this.
[He flexes the fingers on his now-artificial hand (although is it really artificial if it became that way?) and frowns. Even though he stull isn't feeling so great, his skills kept him from injury. So of course the Ingress had a present for him..]
I feel like I'm getting a sense of... cosmic irony, here.
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Can I?
[Guess he gets now why people kept looking at his own arm with a sense of awe, even if he tends to look at it with disgust. It means he caved, gave in and admitted to how badly Cipher had weakened him.]
[This must be a weakness to Liquid. But Miller still finds himself wanting to touch it, and he holds out his hand. He's a little curious.]
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[He blinks when Miller asks to see it, and hesitates for a moment before agreeing.]
Yeah, go ahead.
[He holds his hand out so Miller can inspect it. It's just like someone had fashioned a forearm out of glass, save for the fact that it's moving, with no sort of visible mechanism for the movement.
Liquid can't understand it, but it's better not to question it.]
Weird, huh?
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If they use the force fields to protect it, it should at least be as sturdy as mine.
[Eerie and fragile, this is. He lets go.]
Does it still feel everything the same? Hurt any?
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Really? Maybe I won't need to get it chopped off then.
[Eerie to look at, even eerier to have. He pulls his hand back, flexes his fingers.]
Yeah, it's like nothing's changed, except it's a bit stiff. It was a bit sore when it came in, but now it just... feels normal, almost.
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If they give you something like this to protect it I would guess it would be fine. It's worked for me so far. [Outside of that one unfortunate attack.]
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[Except for the stiffness, but it still feels way too normal. There's a big disconnect when he actually looks at it. It doesn't look like it should work. It doesn't sound like it should work, when one can hear the slight sound of glass hitting glass.]
I should probably get something like that really soon then, before it decides to break on me.
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Give this back to me later. Until they get protection for it...
[He gives Liquid one of the gloves.]
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[Liquid hesitates at first, but then takes the glove from him. This just feels bizarre, accepting it. He slides it on over his glass hand, flexes the fingers.]
Thank you. I'll get it back as soon as I can.