( 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

[mylawn]

[It's clear that there's perhaps a lot going on in 76's head, if the way he seems frozen in place is any indication. Finding it nearly impossible to reconcile his own paranoia and hostility with the overwhelming instincts of whatever kind of creature this is, he

He tries to breathe--Snake isn't here to fight him and is saying as much. 76 just needs to get a hold of himself, first.

It takes a long moment, but something seems to register after a few seconds, his shoulders seem to relax, but only slightly.]

What are you here for?

[If not to THROW DOWN. His voice is still a growl, and though he's less tense than he was a moment ago, he's prepared to launch back into the fight, if that's the way this goes.]

[soldiergenes]

[ To be fair, it's difficult for them to speak right now without it sounding like a growl, and so Snake's voice is just as gruff and snarling as he replies, even though he isn't trying to reignite a fight.

Even then, it takes him a moment to think of an answer. Trying to take all of the instincts humming under his skin and put them into words is more or less impossible, and so he decides to keep it simple. To not reveal too much. ]

I was curious.

[ He tilts his head to one side, then the other, and then slowly straightens back up. ]

You're not usually like this, are you?

[ A giant wolf creature, he means. ]

[mylawn]

[Again, he takes a long moment to answer, like he’s waging some kind of internal battle with himself. The sheer amount of suspicion doesn’t help either, and his body language still indicates that he’s threatened, but he seems to be processing the conversation, at any rate.]

No.

[So they have no reason to fight each other, not when they’re in the same boat.]

Not you, either.

[soldiergenes]

[ Snake shakes his head, emphasizing the movement to make certain that he's understood. While there might be actual aliens out there who look and behave like this, the two of them have been forced into an ill-fitting mold, and it's making his skin itch.

Or his fur. Whatever. ]

We'll change back.

[ He's not sure if it's a promise, a reassurance, a guess, or a lie, but it seems worth saying. The logical part of his brain knows that this can't last. ]

[mylawn]

You sure about that?

[If he sounds skeptical, it’s because he is, and he seems to be shrugging off the conversation in an attempt to turn and go on his way. The fight is over before it had a chance to really get started, and he’s not exactly one to hold discussion.

But hell, maybe this guy has been here longer. Maybe things like this have happened before.]

[soldiergenes]

[ That turns out to be exactly the case. ]

I've been through this before. [ A pause, and Snake shakes his head. ] Not this -- [ He motions at himself, at this body that doesn't match anything he's used to. ] But I've been changed in other ways. It never lasts.

[ The parts of him that had been turned to glass, those agonizing few days when he'd been aged decades, and yet all of it had returned to the status quo eventually.

Why should this be any different? ]