( may event log )

[hownkai]

Who: Everyone
When: May 1st and on
Where: The Moira + Amissis-Re
What: The crew finds themselves visiting the very barren planet of Amissis-Re.
Warnings:None, but please label your content!

E V E N T L O G

far from nowhere "the trees rustle in the evening when we stand uneasy before our own thoughts." With the events of Del Pascia behind the Moira, things are only now beginning to settle—and not very well. Through the combined efforts of some of the crew, D-E-L and her permanent residents were incinerated into the dust of space. While it’s not the most peaceful end, it is one, and not many are going to be thinking back on how nice Del Pascia’s facilities were for quite some time. Repairing what they could of the ship’s interior and putting as much distance between the Moira and the prison as possible, those aboard are informed by Navigation that they are approaching another planet. This means, of course, the potential for better supplies, as some things are beginning to dwindle, and the Captains elect to dock so long as the crew follows protocol. WELCOME TO AMISSIS-RE Amissis-Re is an unregistered planet with no documented histories or signs of life. The Moira’s Navigation crew have scanned the planet for any usable resources and have discovered a faint signal emitting from beneath the surface of Amissi-Re. Using the transporters and any other crafts located in the Cargo Bay, the crew are able to travel to the source of the signal. Upon arriving in its exact location, they’ll find a small series of lakes that lead to a tower-like structure that appears to be in use. Crew must cross a poorly assembled bridge system that sways and dips when weight is applied to it in order to gain access to the entrance. Once there, a woman comes out to greet them and explains, excitedly, that she is so very happy that they have come to Amissis-Re. Everyone can go home. Their host insists that she has done the impossible and has somewhat fixed the Ingress that’s been built on Amissis-Re a long time ago, and what’s more, she can send crew home for short bursts of time. Upon following this woman inside, crew will find that the planet is not, in fact, barren at all. Diving deep into the underbelly of Amissis-Re, it’s like an eternal factory of machines, and while vast, for whatever reason, it also seems incredibly welcoming... ☄ LEAP OF FAITH ( 05.01 and on ) The barren planet of Amissis-Re is devoid of vegetation and organic life except for a lone woman, and the planet itself is an intricate honeycomb of machines that go for miles below the surface. Yet, that seems insignificant and unimportant in comparison to the news that the crew has just received. After Thán has looked at the Ingress, he tells the crew that he cannot say for certain that it is properly functioning, but Emiri native, Ben Link, will volunteer to test it out. An elevator takes crew down to a glass platform that overlooks an inverted Ingress portal. In order to return home, the Moirans will have to take a leap of faith and jump in. Ben, in order to show his commitment to the crew and willingness to help get them home, takes that jump with Captain Thán seconds behind him. Jumping feels like dropping through wind; lights swirl, it’s warm, and a soft buzzing encompasses you as you fall. You don’t feel the landing. One moment you’re falling, and the next, you’re in a new world. A few hours pass before a similar elevator rises from below and to the left of the Ingress, stopping beside the platform. Ben and Thán step out unharmed. It works, and everyone can temporarily go home. Will you jump? ☄ COMBINE THE EXTREMES ( 05.01 and on ) The woman that greeted the crew and led them to the platform will allow anyone that wants to go home the opportunity to go. There’s only one catch: it’s not permanent. She’s worked for years to fix the Ingress so that she can return to her own home but hasn’t been able to make the trip an everlasting one. Everyone always comes back. Always. They go for a few hours, at first, but that amount of time increases with each visit. The one guideline, she says, is that you can’t go alone. Each trip requires a partner, or it becomes too much for the mind to bear. These rules are simple: the world takes shape depending on who jumps first, but if crew go hand-in-hand and leap at the same time, the worlds combine. This new world will be populated with people that existed in both and may appear to be a jarring combination of both worlds. It may seem unusual, but if the woman is asked, she’ll explain that the combined world does exist as there are more universes than can be imagined. The Ingress tries to take the person to their own home, their original home, but when jumping together, it finds the closest possible match and deposits them there instead. From that point on, you can travel the world together or split up, but remember, this world is a living, functioning world. It doesn’t matter if it’s the home of one crew member or a combination. You meet other people. You can get hurt. You influence and are influenced by others. Be cautious, and enjoy your visit “home”. ☄ LINGER ON ( 05.05 and on ) The more times the Amissis-Re Ingress is visited, the more it seems that your trips last longer and the experience becomes even more vivid. More real and harder to distinguish from the current reality that you know. It’s difficult to explain why, but you get the feeling that maybe if you went without the aid of the host, that perhaps you’d be able to stay. Forever. It takes some subterfuge, but in time, you see your chance: she’s nowhere in sight, and you take it. The world you are in now is completely your own, whether another crew member accompanied you or not. The people you know are there, everything around you is exactly as you remember. A few hours pass, and you don’t feel that familiar tug, that invisible hook at the base of your spine that signals that your visit is over. Even more time goes by, and you’re still in that world, your home. When the first day has passed, you begin to question if you’ll ever go back, or if life on the Moira was all a dream. The person with you won’t be able to convince you otherwise, and they’ll start to feel less real, a stranger that you used to know. There’s only one way to go back to the Moira. Someone from the other side has to come in and retrieve you both. Once in, contact with a third will jump-start a link through the Ingress, and it will pull all crew back to the platform. ( ooc; For questions, go here. Please comment to activity check to receive new ranks (if applicable)! )

Comments

[devilofohara]

A. Homeward Bound (Closed to Allison Ruth)

[When Robin found out of the possibility of going home, she immediately jumped at the chance. Bounty or no bounty, she'd infinitely prefer to be on a planet she's familiar with, with an infinite number of places to hide than trapped on a ship with a bunch of people she doesn't trust.

Especially not with the rampant murder-revenge-reprogramming issue that seems to be going on lately. No, Robin wants the hell off of that ship and everything to do with it.

Which is why she jumped at the opportunity to go back to her world. The world that wants her dead - the one she's still got business with.

She leaps into the portal first, as the strange woman instructed, with the barista presumably following close behind. The lights are bright and the air is warm around her. She has to close her eyes for a moment to keep from being blinded- and when she opens them, she isn't where she thought she'd be. For some reason, she'd expected to be in the same place and time she'd been taken from - the same island, the same night, the same bulletin board she had been tearing wanted posters down from.

But she isn't. She's on the island of Ohara once more - her homeland.

A warm island on a sunny summer day. It'd be a nice place to vacation if it weren't for the debris on the beach, or the fact that the everything on the island - tree, building or otherwise - is completely charred, burnt and leveled. Off the shore, the wrecks of six enormous battleships are clearly visible - five of which are smashed in a way that would imply they were lifted up and thrown.

The entire place smells of smoke and death. Robin covers her nose and mouth as she stands there in shock, standing in the rubble of everything she once knew. She stands there for a while - nearly a minute of wide-eyed horror, before the child manages to swallow her grief and turn to Allison.]

We- I know where we are. [She wipes her eye from a tear that was thinking about forming. No, she isn't doing this now. She's had plenty of time to cry already, and she doesn't want to do it again. Not now, not in front of Allison.]

We're gonna have to build a raft to get to the next island. Do you know how to do that?

[She says, wearing the bravest face she can muster.]


B. Beach Episode (OTA):

[Welcome to the beautiful land of Ohara - the famed island of scholars and archeaologists. Its beautiful, semi-tropical climate is makes it an excellent destination for business or for pleasure. Come enjoy the wide open skies above, and the beautiful view of the ocean that goes on endlessly in all directions!

And... Well, that's about it, really, as far as scenery goes. The main body of the island is entirely torched and blackened. The buildings and the trees have been leveled, and the landscape is heavily marred with craters from heavy gunfire. The beaches - while relatively unscorched - are littered with debris. And finally, just off the shore are the wrecks of six absolutely massive warships litter the waters. Stranger than that, though, five of the wrecks don't seem to have been sunken by ordinary means. Rather, they appear to have been picked up and thrown into each other .

Other than that, though, it's a perfect island getaway! Follow Robin through the portal and just relax~.

Robin herself will be cobbling together a raft of sorts from the debris that's washed up on shore, very pointedly ignoring the ruin landscape further inland. Occasionally she'll let out an annoyed grunt, as she isn't quite capable of pulling a piece of wood out of the water on her own - and doesn't seem able or willing to wade out into the surf to get it - but she never outright asks for help. ]


C. Elevator Episode (Open to anyone who can actually fit on the raft)

[It took her almost a dozen trips into the portal, but eventually it's finished: A raft.

It's a pretty decent-sized raft, too! Big enough to fit two people on it comfortably, and tied together tightly enough that it isn't at any risk of falling apart on its own - Robin's a smart kid, and she's seen this sort of thing done before. She's even brought one of her bedsheets in from the Moira to act as a proper sail for the thing.

That being said, it's still a raft. And as such, it comes with a few rules that need to be followed. Rules that Robin makes exceedingly clear upon after she's arrived with her fellow crew member.]

Don't move too much. It loosens the ropes, and it attracts Sea Kings. Don't jump in, or the boat will leave you behind and you'll drown. And don't drink the water, it'll make you sick.

[That's it, those are the rules. Robin will spend most of her time keeping an eye on the sails and on the seas - mostly keeping an eye out for any signs of trouble. She's willing to talk, though, if her partner is feeling chatty.

Other than that? Well, they'd better have brought something to keep them occupied. The ocean is a big thing, and they've got a long couple of hours ahead of them.]

B

[dragonspride]

(as I remember that this would....kind of have to be "sun is going down..." For anything because a statue is not great for interaction :| )

[Kain's bad enough at just doing nothing and relaxing as it is when there isn't someone trying to work on something. He knows better than to either ask or comment, with the way she'd ordered him through the Ingress, but his only aversion to water is "deep enough for not being built for swimming" to be an issue; he'll just walk out into the water to lift the other side and bring it back, or start hauling other pieces of debris in.]

[He is going to be glancing out at the wrecks occasionally, somehow not...really put off by the odd nature of the wreckage.]

Think there'd be anything worth salvaging in those?

[devilofohara]

[She accepts his help with a somewhat forced smile. It's a smile that fades quickly, though, especially when he starts glancing over at the shipwrecks.]

Weapons, maybe, if you want to bring that stuff back on the Moira. [A pause.] There's probably enough wood on the beach that I won't need anything, but if you find some more rope I could use it.

[Another pause, as she tries not to shiver. It's a summer night, but it is nighttime, and the mist of the water gives the air a distinct chill.]

...if you find some stuff to start a fire with, that would be good too.

[dragonspride]

[The first thing he does at that last question is stop what he's doing to get a little away from the water, returning a few minutes later with an armload of dry wood and some bits of lighter scrap wood, scraping out a small firepit in the sand.]

[He doesn't need firestarting tools, just a little bit of moderation on fire magic to get it started.]

Easier to navigate with this started before I check, anyway.

[He's taking a minute to make sure it's solid and going to stay lit - and quietly keeping a last watch that there isn't something else that might be a threat he'd be turning his back on.]

[devilofohara]

[Robin appreciates the fire, and steps a little closer to it to warm herself up for a bit. She and Kain haven't been on the island for long, but this isn't her first time she's visited today. It's worth taking a little break.

His careful look around, however, doesn't go beyond her notice.]

There's no one else alive on the island. [She closes her eyes for a moment and points at the ship. Less than ten seconds later, she's opened them again.] No one on the ship, either.

The only thing you might worry about is the sea. Sea Kings never came too close to the island before, though, so you should be okay.

B

[kidjoy]

[She's ignores the wreckage on land, it's not all that new to her anyway. But the water in front of them is, and she can't tear her eyes away from the vast, endless stretch of blue. She'd thought the pool on the Moira was more water than she'd ever get to see in her life and here she was, proven helplessly wrong.

It was beautiful and kind of terrifying. She couldn't fault Robin for skirting away from the waves.]

Smells funny here.

[Like salt's in the air. It's so weird it almost makes her feel like sneezing.

She's standing a few feet from Robin, examining another piece of wood with a critical eye. She doesn't know why Robin's grabbing wood, she doesn't really want to ask. But she can help; it's better than wandering off alone.]

How big of pieces you needin'?

[devilofohara]

[No, Sine. The pool on the Moira isn't even a drop of water compared to the oceans of Robin's world. All those miles and miles of uninterrupted water that the Girl can see right now aren't even a percentage of the sea in this ocean - of which there are five.

And that's not even taking into consideration how deep the oceans go. Staring at the ocean is enough to make anyone feel small.]

...it does. It smelled different, before this all happened.

[She says, nodding toward the shipwrecks, but not going into any more detail than that.

The smell of the sea is still there, of course, and that's no doubt what the Girl has noticed. But, from Robin's perspective, the scent's been tainted with the smell of the rest of the island being burned.]

...I'm building a raft, so I can travel to a different island. I need long, narrow pieces, to tie together.

[kidjoy]

[She glances out to the wreckage, silently taking in the idea that there was a before to the destruction, one that Robin had been alive to see. It's strange to thing that destruction was anything someone could actually witness, coming from her own perspective of the world just always have been in some form of decay.]

You're going to travel on the water?

[She says it nervously, but reaches forward to start pulling drift wood toward Robin anyway. Going out on the water is frightening, some part of her would prefer if Robin didn't try. But she wasn't going to argue with her choices; she didn't have any right to.]

C

[prayed]

[Kyoko, who has up until now been unfazed by both the scenery and the work attached to it, seems to grow increasingly uncertain as she listens to Robin rattle off the rules. The raft itself looks like it could barely keep afloat. It seems far too small for the expansive ocean ahead of it.

She doesn't like the possibility of drowning very much either.]

You sure you wanna trust this thing to carry you across the ocean?

[devilofohara]

[Rude, Kyoko. She worked hard on this raft - and as far as rafts go it's a pretty decent one.

It definitely isn't a proper ship, of cource, and any journey across the waters comes with inherent risks. But Robin's confident enough that it isn't going to fall apart of its own accord.]

I'm sure. I learned how to build rafts from an expert.

[That's not strictly true. Saul might not have really been an expert. But he did teach her a thing or two.]

Besides, it's either take the raft or swim. [She says, as she moves to push herself off from the shore.] ...and I don't know how to swim. Are you coming or not?

[prayed]

[It's not the raft, Robin. It's her. Much like the average housecat, Kyoko has a cold, noisy exterior and large desire for food that hides her true desire for warmth and affection. Also, much like the average housecat, she really doesn't like water.]

I dunno either. That's why I'm worried, y'know!

[She huffs, but settles for joining Robin on the raft regardless. It's better than being stuck by herself.]

Where're we supposed to be going, anyway?

[She thinks she remembers other islands being mentioned, but... That doesn't really tell her much.]

[allyisun]

[Allison's eyes are wide and her mouth dry as she takes in where the pair of then have landed. She turns slowly, searching for anything living or whole, but there's only destruction all around. Destruction and ocean.

The motion of Robin wiping her eye finally draws her attention back to her small companion.

Forget rafts, she has more important questions, her voice soft as she asks.]

What is this place?

[She has suspicions - after all, the strange Ingress was supposed to take them home - and her stomach is already knotting at the thought.

She doesn't ask what happened here, because that she's already pretty certain of.]

[devilofohara]

[Robin's expression hardens as much as she can force it - a battle of wills with her lower lip, trying hard to keep it from trembling. She can do this, she tells herself. It isn't as if this is the first time she's seen any of this destruction, just her first time she's visited the aftermath.

She doesn't do a very good job, though. She looks precisely the way one expects a child her age to look when they're desperately trying not to cry.]

...we're on Ohara. This is the place I grew up.

[She can feel the tears welling up again, and she turns her face away from Allison to stop the woman from seeing - as if something as small as a turn of the head would possibly keep that a secret.]

I-I really didn't think we'd end up here. I'm sorry.

[allyisun]

[Godammit. Goddamn motherfucker piece of shit- Allison's lips press into a thin line to keep the litany of swearing in her mind from spilling out of her mouth.

She swallows heavily, trying to think of something to say that encompasses how not okay this is. There's tears pricking her own eyes at the expression on Robin's face.]

Hey...

[Giving up on words for a moment, she drops to her knees in the sand and wraps an arm around Robin's shoulders.]

C!

[empressingly]

[Maybe it's because she still has a profound weakness for kids but in the back of her mind she has to wonder why she agreed. Rafting across an ocean wasn't exactly her idea of a great time nor did it seem safe. That probably answered her question. She needs to make sure Robin would be safe or as safe as one could be on such a voyage.

Seth's managed to find a way to curl up and avoid taking up much space, her chin resting rather comfortably on her paws. At least rafting was a great excuse to soak up some sun. As comfortable as she may look her eyes don't ever leave the other girl. One ear twitches as she runs the rules over in her head.]

What makes you want to sail? Adventure? Finding something or someone?

[devilofohara]

[It isn't particularly safe, no. But there isn't such thing as an entirely safe way to cross the ocean. Even if you have a massive galleon, you could always run into a storm or a sea monster or some bloodthirsty pirates and be sunk in an instant.

But the alternative was staying on the ruins of Ohara - or worse, getting stuck on the Moira for the rest of her life without ever getting another chance to go home. Robin will take her chances out at sea.]

I'm an archaeologist, and the things I need to study are all over the world.

[A pause. She knows how difficult that journey sounds.]

I won't be taking this raft the whole way, of course. And you don't have to come if you don't want to.

[empressingly]

[The stare she gives isn't scrutinizing but rather it borders between concern and interest. She slowly shifts and pushes herself up to sit. If she's going to play the game of picking at others worlds and interests she could have at the courtesy of doing so while not laying around like a lazy animal.]

I couldn't let someone so young wander around on their own forever. That's just rude.

[Or incredibly stupid of her had she refused to help. Either way.]

I'm glad to know that archaeology hasn't been lost to many other worlds. It seems interesting.

[imaginary_wife]

[The ocean is nice. To be frank, Doc Yewll's mostly seen it from space. She was going to have her chance, talk to a friend out in the Bay area after she had planned to leave Defiance, but that fell through.]

[This is better than the ocean her Earth has, anyway. Not since the planet went to crap. Wars and abuse tend to do that sort of thing.]

So are you plannin' to make a run for it 'cause it looks to me that you're a little low on supplies for the adventure. [She walks over to Robin, arms crossed, disguise off for the moment since there are no threats immediately visible.]

[devilofohara]

[Well, if there's one thing Robin's planet has an over-abundance of, it's ocean. There's actually only one actual continent on her planet, and it forms a thin ring around the world's prime meridian.

To be honest, it's strange to hear about all these worlds where everything is connected by land. Not bad, really - it's probably a lot safer - but certainly strange. Sea travel is such a vital part of existence here.]

I'll grab some rations from the ship before I actually set out. We're only here a few hours at a time, though, so I don't think we'll need too much food and water.

[She's thought this through, okay. If anything, repeated stops back on the Moira will make this journey a lot less likely to fail than any other journey across the sea.]

Anyway, the next island is less than a day away. I'll get a better boat and more supplies there.

[imaginary_wife]

You really want to go out back into the world where you're still worth a bounty?

Or would you be more willing to use the ship to get anywhere else.

[Though, she knows she's projecting a little. She wouldn't want to go home.]

B

[aminerproblem]

[Megatron looks down, feeling his boots sink into sand as he steps out of the portal. Cool ocean nips at his heels. It's been a while since he's visited a planet with an Earth-like climate. The mild weather was strange compared to the dead, frigid wastelands he was used to. A frozen planet like Messatine, airless asteroid bases in the middle of some solar system, even parts of Cybertron were more the climate he was used to. He can't say he enjoys the change, but the sensation of the salty, tropical air was certainly... curious. He lets the ocean waves splash at his armor a little longer than expected before moving towards the debris-littered beach.

The devastation and destruction was a more familiar sight (albeit Decepticons tended to leave very little before the Cyberforming process), but he doesn't comment. Seeings one's home destroyed was always painful, no matter what the species. It'd probably be best to focus on what they were here for.]

Where would you like to begin?

[devilofohara]

[ Robin looks up at the cybertronian with a stern look on her face. Say what you will about her, the child isn't easily intimidated through size alone.

The things done, and the things he's had others do, are nothing short of horrific. And if he wanted to, Robin has little doubt that the cybertronian could crush her with little issue. But she's pretty sure he isn't going to do any of those things to her, though - there'd be no point to it, and killing a child like her would only make things more difficult on the ship right now.]

...I'm going to be building a raft for myself, but I have a different job for you.

[ Her expression is as brave as she can make it, but Robin hasn't forgotten for a moment how dangerous this bot is supposed to be. There's a bit of caution in her stance - facing him for now, but ready to make a run for it if she has to. ]

There were a lot of people on this island. You're going to be digging a big grave for them. [ A pause.] I heard about what you did on the network, so I figured you must have experience with jobs like this.

[aminerproblem]

I see.

[For all that Tarn said about his brutality, it didn't appear Megatron was feeling all too proud about his association with death. Even if he was used to dealing with his reputation back home, even if he hadn't personally destroyed the island, he couldn't help but look a little deflated.]

[She was wrong. He had no experience with digging graves. Decepticons never went back for their dead. The bones of their battles lay strewn and bare as they moved on to the next planet to tear apart. But he wasn't sure he wanted to correct her on that.]

Is there a scoop or shovel on this island? We can affix it to my vehicle mode. It will make the digging far quicker.

B

[curiousnotmalicious]

[Once through the portal, Dutch marvels at the destruction. Her jaw hangs slightly open. This world is like no other she’s ever seen before and she’s been in outer space.]

What the...

[She trails off, just looking around. Seeing the way things are makes her wonder how they could have gotten to be the way they are. It’s an inevitable train of thought. Soon, though, her attention shifts to Robin. Dutch walks over a little closer to her eyeing the girl curiously, wondering what she might be up to.]



Need some assistance there?

[Her lips curl into a tiny smile. Of course, she doesn’t know what it is that Robin is doing, but once she figures it out she’s sure she’ll be able to help.]

[daintylegs]

[Tailgate is perfectly happy to help Robin out with this raft, even though there's no way he's going to be able to get on it. He's not worried though, he's sure one of his friends will pick him up sometime. Or maybe some ingress magic will teleport him back or however it works.

He picks apart some of the larger pieces of wood and puts them next to her. See, he's being helpful!]

What even happened here? Where are all the people?

[He asks, blatantly missing all of Robin's obvious signs telling him not to look at it or ask questions. Tailgate has never been one to leave things alone.]

And those wooden boat things out in the water! What caused that? I bet it was something wild.