( october event log pt. 2 )

[hohnkai]

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.

E V E N T L O G

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. )

Comments

[knaval]

Yeah, he was... good at stuff.

[riptide sighs.]

I think we all needed him.

[iseedeadbees]

All of you?

I guess I wouldn't be surprised. Four million years of war would mess anyone up.

[Except for Starscream NATURALLY (this is bullshit ngl)]

[knaval]

You included, ya dingus. He probably would've helped a lot with your issues regarding Megatron.

[iseedeadbees]

I don't have issues! Megatron's his own problem. I don't have to care anymore!

[knaval]

Are you kidding me? You looked like you were about to start crying when you talked about him kicking the slag out of you again!

[iseedeadbees]

Anybody would be pissed off after getting their afts handed to them by Megatron. And I wasn't going to start crying about it. It's happened so many times that I'm used to it.

[knaval]

No, no. You should've seen your face. You literally had little light strands forming. Little red bubbles under your optics. It was almost cute.

[iseedeadbees]

You're lying.

[This isn't very friendship RIPTIDE. Now Starscream's all huffy and annoyed like a mature adult.]

[knaval]

Ugh. Why the hell do you think I felt bad for you? I thought you were being real for once!

[iseedeadbees]

I don't even remember that conversation.

[He does, he's just Embarrassed because he had EMOTIONS and fuck that, Starscream needs to look like a badass OKAY]

[knaval]

You obviously do otherwise you wouldn't have denied it before claiming you don't remember it.

[iseedeadbees]

[UGH!!!!]

Look! I'd had a lot to drink, maybe I was a bit emotional. Maybe! I was probably just in absurd amounts of pain, that was right after Megatron tore pretty much all of my guts out, I wasn't exactly feeling my best!

[And now he's all defensive GOD]

[knaval]

You know what I think?

[before starscream can predictably cut in with NO:] I think you were being real!

[iseedeadbees]

I think I was being drunk! This is exactly why I don't drink!

[because it makes him REAL]

[knaval]

Because it means you can't act like nothing affects you?

[HUH]

[iseedeadbees]

I can't believe I'm even having this conversation. I'm just not some... some emotional wreck like the people you're used to dealing with. Is that really so hard to accept?

[Starscream said, crossing his arms and huffing like some emotional wreck GOD]

[knaval]

I'm not calling you an emotional wreck, I'm saying you're wrong when you think you have no issues.

[iseedeadbees]

[Starscream's just pissy because he doesn't like losing, and he's clearly losing this argument.]

Ugh. What would you know about my "issues" anyway?

[knaval]

So, you're admitting you have them?

[TRAPPED YA]

[iseedeadbees]

I-- No!!

...maybe like one. Or two. I don't know, I have no idea where to even start figuring this out.

[knaval]

The first step is always admitting you have them.

[iseedeadbees]

You know, this is just confusing me in ways I didn't even know I could be confused.

[knaval]

Why?

Tell me your thoughts, Starscream. I won't give you a Froidian analysis or anything. Mostly because I don't know what that is.

[iseedeadbees]

If I knew, I probably wouldn't be confused. And right now I'm just thinking that this is stupid, and I don't feel like dealing with it.

[knaval]

Well, if I had to guess, I think a major one is the whole killing and betraying with no remorse thing.

You had a feeling about Bumblebee, so I don't think you're like Tarn, but c'mon.