Who: Everyone
When: October 19th into the beginning of November.Where: The Mini Colony of the Runoff & the Moira.
What: The Moira stops to resupply at the closest planet and things get weird.
Warnings: Physical transformations, phobias - please label if needed.
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Between the Perspectives
"but in your future, the you i see is exactly the person you always wanted to be."
Supplies have been loaded onto the ship, and the captains have encouraged all crew members to explore with the added notice that this will be the last planetary stop (hopefully) until the Moira reaches the Midway Hub. While seemingly uneventful on the Moira, the mini colony has been thrumming with adventure and has offered its visitors the opportunity to explore. To those who have indulged, some experienced great changes and others discovered enlightening information about the Ingress and the very ship some have called home for over a year.
Later in the month, the Lamaria hold the closing ceremony of the Desiderium Festival (which was noted on the prior event log) . The burgundy and lime colors of the celebration slowly fade into black and vermillion, and small fires are now in place for visitors to throw their written notes into. Everyone who participates will be blessed by one of the Lamaria (they will visit the ship as well), and the MID will be able to only translate bits and pieces of what this blessing means. "Experienced loss — every story is different — and saying goodbye — not to know — understanding lies in the mingling of holding on and letting go."
☄ TRANSFORMATION CENTRAL For some, it might be due to a touch or a look. For others, it might not be any of those things at all, and something that just happens. Either way, shortly after the blessing occurs, you will find yourself changing. Your character’s body will slowly transform into the physical likeness of another being on the Mini Colony. The effects of this change may last as short as a day or as long as a week, but each come with their own stipulations—advantages and disadvantages. This is limited to one as the blessing itself only allows for “a little understanding”. Linked below are some of the possible transformations that your character can go through. Players can choose either one of the mod-supplied suggestions or choose the form of another already living on the Moira.
☄ THE FEAR MACHINE Paranoia writes the checks, we're dangling here like a marionette. Here we go again, the world is coming to an end. Engage the fear machine and collect the dividends.
While the festival is beautiful, and some have found enlightenment and understanding here, there are those on the mini colony who don't enjoy the festivities. In a secluded room on the fifth floor in one of the buildings in the Science District, there is one such person who finds the religious festival to be a nuisance—one who should be stopped. Thinking that disrupting the blessings and celebration will somehow "get back" at the Lamaria for impeding their work (some of those who have transformed got into the building a few years ago and destroyed this person's property). Pettiness thrives, and they create something they dub The Fear Machine. Yet, while the science is sound, the technology itself is not.
In the middle of the mini colony, the machine is set off, and bolts of transparent energy erupt and spark out around it, stretching as far as the docked ships. Since the technology wasn't created properly to sustain the energy, it doesn't spread out evenly like they had hoped. Some are hit. Some are not. Those who are will develop a sudden and overwhelming phobia that will last well into the beginning of November. The machine might be turned off and left behind, but the obsessive fear has only just begun.
( ooc; For questions, go here. This log will run into the beginning of November; any threads here can be claimed for bonus activity the following activity check as well. )
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thisavrou_log2016-10-19 10:32 am
GREAT
[They eyelids are a little weird, to be fair, but so is the. Y'know. Lungs. Blood. Stuff like that. Also don't mind Drift, he's staring at his hands and flexing his fingers like he's never seen hands before.]
I mean, it's interesting, but having skin feels really strange.
:B
What do you normally have instead?
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[Well that just puts a whole lot of stuff into perspective. Being human is weird, but at least he's already used to possessing organic biology.]
Drell have inner ears, rather than balance sensors. They provide the same function, though.
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[He looks totally stoked right now hot damn. He feels at the side of his head for wherever the hell his ears might be. At least on humans it was pretty easy to figure out, he'd seen plenty of them before, but this whole lizard inner ear voodoo was a bit trickier.]
You need ears to balance? I never would have guessed.
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[Wow, did he just make this guy's day, or what?
...That's pretty nice, actually.]
They're rather complex organs, and thankfully difficult to damage.
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Ohh, that's good. So I probably won't break them. Drell, is that what you said? I've been around for a long time, but I can't say I've ever heard of such a species. What planet are you from?
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[Which are two more things most people here haven't heard of.]
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So your people are used to space travel. Is that a planet you've colonized, then?
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[Well that was a little more horrible than Drift had been expecting to hear.]
I'm sorry if this is too personal a question, but what was happening to your species exactly?
[He really hopes the answer isn't "oh well this fuckhuge cybertronians blew it up because of their shitty civil war". That's a thing that kind of happened a lot.]
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[Just wait, Drift, it gets better!]
The drell were facing extinction due to heavy overpopulation and a lack of planetary resources. The hanar observed what was happening, and made first contact. They evacuated roughly 375,000 individuals out of a population of over 11 billion.
[Does he have to tell Drift what happened to the 11 billion losers who got left behind, or can he infer it on his own?]
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[Focusing on the wrong part of the story there but heyo. Aaand yeah he can figure it out from there.]
That's an incredible thing that they did for your people. I can't imagine what it must have been like, knowing that so many others were going to be left behind. That couldn't have been easy for anyone involved.
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I imagine most organic species are rather short-lived by your standards.
[Buuuuut yeah, anyway. That sure is a thing, yup. Thane nods.]
I can't say I know how it must have felt to be one of those making the decisions, but I'm sure you're right.
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[But yeahaaaaahhhh what a depressing topic WOW.]
Sorry, I... didn't really mean to steer the conversation in that sort of direction.
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[He shrugs.]
There's no need to apologize; it's natural to be curious about such things, and I don't find it particularly upsetting to speak of.
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I've never heard of either of those. We must not have ever made it around to your part of the universe, which is probably for the best, honestly.
Oh! My name is Drift, by the way. I probably should have introduced myself sooner.
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The universe is a big place, so it's not surprising.
My name is Thane. It's good to meet you, Drift.
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[can he be chill about giant derps because DERP]
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True. Although of course it's possible that we come from completely separate universes entirely, which would also explain the missed connection.
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Ooooh, right! That's a thing too! I've never been too scientifically inclined, so I couldn't even being to describe how all that works.
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