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thisavrou_log2015-10-25 09:42 pm
keelahselai) wrote in thisavrou_log2015-10-25 09:42 pm
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Who: Tali'Zorah and anyone!
When: Throughout the event!
Where: Rec area, anywhere vague gesturing
What: She never asked for this. But apparently she's not complaining.
Warnings: Nothing?
The mask she gets is weird-looking, ornate...and without needing to wear her own mask anymore she's free to wander around the ship in whatever bizarre horned contraption she wants, so why not? It's the little things that make being out of her suit so amazing sometimes. (And the little things like tangling herself in shirts and accidentally setting showers to freezing that make it occasionally horrifying.)
1
So maybe you've already seen the uniformed alien in the dragon mask cleaning tables in the mess hall in the afternoon. Tali grew up doing fairly menial tasks on her birth ship, so to her being an engineer who also waits tables is pretty natural. At least it's not water filtration or waste management. It almost feels normal, and though she remembers a time when normal was boring and, worse, disappointing to the various scrutinising gazes on her, now...
Well, she's in a totally different universe, out of her environmental suit, wearing a costume mask while her own mask sits wrapped in a genetically spliced blanket. She's OK with not-normal. She kind of tries not to think about the whole 'living blanket' thing - it's not sentient, it doesn't have a brain, and she tries to think of it like a very strange, weirdly cute bit of tech. But the cute aspect dies a sad death as soon as she thinks about the whole 'genetically part-cat' bit of the equati--
The spray bottle she'd been holding hits the ground with a plastic thud, and the uniformed alien in the dragon mask isn't there anymore. In her place is a... Well, if you happened to have access to Tali's thoughts at the time (and, right now, maybe you do), the creature is clearly supposed to be a cat. It's fuzzy, it has four legs and a tail, and it's the general...shape of a cat...? But it's just wrong. Like someone drew a cat and forget some of the important details - like whiskers; that the ears aren't supposed to be on the side of the head; the fact that the back and front legs are supposed to have movable joints; that the fur isn't actually supposed to be exactly like a blanket.
There's about two seconds of this bizarro-feline standing on a chair, rigid in apparently shock - and possible sheer inability to move on four rigid limbs - and then, in the blink of an eye, Tali staggers back, hits the chair and barely stops herself falling. She looks down at herself - normal, totally normal - looks around the room wildly, locks eyes with the nearest person.
"Did you see that?"
2
This shouldn't surprise her so much. If people can have superpowers that let them fly and have super-strength and manipulate water and everything else she just hasn't seen yet...why not the sudden and completely random ability to turn into animals at will.
Not that Tali's particularly good at it, not even after a day or three's practice. Maybe if she had the sudden and completely random ability to turn into machines at will, she'd be a lot better. (Would that make her an AI?... Awkward question.)
Good at it or not, though? It's kind of fun. Most of the problem ("problem") is that when she tries to do something, it's working off of memories of things she's seen one time, or just in books. She's not sure any of it looks exactly right. After the first couple of disastrous attempts, though, they at least move properly.
Tali can be found in various places around the ship over the few days she still has the mask. Maybe there's a lion-sized cat with the head of an antelope and a bob tail wandering the rec area, or a pyjak on the observation deck. Or maybe you're working or eating or otherwise minding your own business in the mess hall when what looks like a reptilian chipmunk tries to jump onto the table next you...can't get its footing...goes sliding right across the table and over the other side in a flurry of scraping claws and an indignant squeak.
Basically, consider this a wildcard. (Also, feel free to help me make shit up about what kind of ridiculous animal-related screw up Tali's going to make with this shapeshifting thing. The sky's the limit!)
When: Throughout the event!
Where: Rec area, anywhere vague gesturing
What: She never asked for this. But apparently she's not complaining.
Warnings: Nothing?
The mask she gets is weird-looking, ornate...and without needing to wear her own mask anymore she's free to wander around the ship in whatever bizarre horned contraption she wants, so why not? It's the little things that make being out of her suit so amazing sometimes. (And the little things like tangling herself in shirts and accidentally setting showers to freezing that make it occasionally horrifying.)
1
So maybe you've already seen the uniformed alien in the dragon mask cleaning tables in the mess hall in the afternoon. Tali grew up doing fairly menial tasks on her birth ship, so to her being an engineer who also waits tables is pretty natural. At least it's not water filtration or waste management. It almost feels normal, and though she remembers a time when normal was boring and, worse, disappointing to the various scrutinising gazes on her, now...
Well, she's in a totally different universe, out of her environmental suit, wearing a costume mask while her own mask sits wrapped in a genetically spliced blanket. She's OK with not-normal. She kind of tries not to think about the whole 'living blanket' thing - it's not sentient, it doesn't have a brain, and she tries to think of it like a very strange, weirdly cute bit of tech. But the cute aspect dies a sad death as soon as she thinks about the whole 'genetically part-cat' bit of the equati--
The spray bottle she'd been holding hits the ground with a plastic thud, and the uniformed alien in the dragon mask isn't there anymore. In her place is a... Well, if you happened to have access to Tali's thoughts at the time (and, right now, maybe you do), the creature is clearly supposed to be a cat. It's fuzzy, it has four legs and a tail, and it's the general...shape of a cat...? But it's just wrong. Like someone drew a cat and forget some of the important details - like whiskers; that the ears aren't supposed to be on the side of the head; the fact that the back and front legs are supposed to have movable joints; that the fur isn't actually supposed to be exactly like a blanket.
There's about two seconds of this bizarro-feline standing on a chair, rigid in apparently shock - and possible sheer inability to move on four rigid limbs - and then, in the blink of an eye, Tali staggers back, hits the chair and barely stops herself falling. She looks down at herself - normal, totally normal - looks around the room wildly, locks eyes with the nearest person.
"Did you see that?"
2
This shouldn't surprise her so much. If people can have superpowers that let them fly and have super-strength and manipulate water and everything else she just hasn't seen yet...why not the sudden and completely random ability to turn into animals at will.
Not that Tali's particularly good at it, not even after a day or three's practice. Maybe if she had the sudden and completely random ability to turn into machines at will, she'd be a lot better. (Would that make her an AI?... Awkward question.)
Good at it or not, though? It's kind of fun. Most of the problem ("problem") is that when she tries to do something, it's working off of memories of things she's seen one time, or just in books. She's not sure any of it looks exactly right. After the first couple of disastrous attempts, though, they at least move properly.
Tali can be found in various places around the ship over the few days she still has the mask. Maybe there's a lion-sized cat with the head of an antelope and a bob tail wandering the rec area, or a pyjak on the observation deck. Or maybe you're working or eating or otherwise minding your own business in the mess hall when what looks like a reptilian chipmunk tries to jump onto the table next you...can't get its footing...goes sliding right across the table and over the other side in a flurry of scraping claws and an indignant squeak.
Basically, consider this a wildcard. (Also, feel free to help me make shit up about what kind of ridiculous animal-related screw up Tali's going to make with this shapeshifting thing. The sky's the limit!)
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I'm Doc Yewll. Mind if we head to the infirmary? I want to make sure there's not some weird contagion, though if it's resorting to this we're wandering into special levels of odd.
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For a startling moment at first glance she's reminded of Telumi looking at the other woman, only for the resemblance to vanish as soon as she comes closer.]
Tali. [It's faint, even slightly distracted, and when she reaches up to pull the dragon mask off, nothing particularly odd about the thing occurs to her. A stupid mask is the last thing on her mind right now.] Good idea. I don't know what kind of contagion could possibly make something like this happen, but it's probably a good idea to check, right?
[At least someone who isn't her saw it happen. She has no idea what she'd have done if she'd been on her own at the time. Freak out, panic, call Niko and make him panic...
As she dusts herself down, makes to leave the room with Yewll, she mutters as an aside,] Maybe I should have just kept my own mask on.
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[Meh Yewll is a rational woman appreciating facts, so the observation confuses her. The association seems odd to make, but if it's the only exceptional difference the woman can think of, maybe it has something to do with it.]
[She picks up a napkin and holds it, in case there's some nanomicrobe on it meant to tap into thoughts and yadda yadda yadda. Yeah, sure, not the most protection but it's not as if she has a batter option right then.]
Here, I'll take it. What's your normal mask like?
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My one's, ah, part of an environmental suit. [It takes her a moment to belatedly realise that was probably kind of an odd thing to bring up.] It's to protect against airborne pathogens, I used to wear it all the time. Maybe if I'd been wearing it...
[It's times like these she wonders if that was really such a good idea. But then...it's what the rest of the crew's doing, and have done all their lives.]
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I think you're fine about airborne pathogens. What about food?
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I didn't think I was susceptible anymore. I don't technically need my mask now, I just wear it because it's a habit, you know? I thought I was fine.
[And at that, a note of vague panic comes into her voice. If her immune system's starting to slip, if that's the reason for this... She's not sure what she's going to do.]
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[Unfortunately she's not gotten a prod at the fascinating medical history.]
Anyway, I think it's a pretty weird pathogen to make you turn into one of those. [She gestures for Tali to follow her as she starts towards the MedBay.]
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[Since her immune system didn't work, she'd never been worried about dying of an allergic reaction - you need to actually have an immune system for that. But now? Huh.
She follows Dr. Yewll towards the medbay, absently fidgeting with her uniform.] I should be used to nothing making sense anymore, to be honest. Maybe this whole universe is just... [She makes a vague gesture that could mean anything from 'I don't know' to 'it's completely crazy'.]