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Cúrre ([personal profile] hownkai) wrote in [community profile] thisavrou_log2016-08-01 12:13 am

( august intro log )

Who: Everyone
When: August 1st and on
Where: The Moira
What: New “guests” join the crew on their journey and implement some changes.
Warnings: None for now. Please label your content!

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old but unfamiliar faces
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once."

The Ingress has pulled you in. Your body experiences several sensations at once: being pushed forward as if a hand is resting on your back, momentary and startling blindness, a gentle ringing in your head. You have difficulty discerning whether it is hot or cold, but where you have been prodded is noticeably warmer than the rest of you. Some may suffer from dizziness while others are perfectly fine. Once equilibrium has been reestablished, you will notice you are standing on a long platform and that the room is filled with a soft cerulean light. It's slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you, and nothing is familiar. Shortly after, you are led out and toward the medbay.

Inside this room, you are given a physical scan and offered a contract to sign that states you are now part of the crew of the Moira with a specific job. Any questions you might have would be answered in a straightforward manner as well as an explanation about how the Ingress, the thing that has pulled you onto the Moira, is broken and bringing people here unintentionally. This process also consists of a complete work-up of medical history and current health, and afterwards, you are given your MID, a device that is integrated into your hand or wrist with only the slightest pinch. From there, you are guided out of the medbay and to your living quarters.

At first, this month seems no more unusual than the previous one for those who have been aboard the Moira for any amount of time. The crew who had landed on the slaver outpost were rescued, and with everyone aboard, the ship has pushed forward into the darker parts of the Runoff. Anyone arriving through the Ingress follows the same routine—moving from the Ingress room into the Medbay for their physical and contract before being assisted by seasoned crew members and helped to their assigned decks. But all familiar things must eventually come to an end: two final travelers come through the Ingress. The first, and most noticeable difference between them and all the others, is their clothing. Both are dressed in standard Moira uniforms, though they bear the insignia of one sharing the same rank as Captains Cúrre and Thán. After a moment to take in all the people on the platform ahead of them, one of the two latest arrivals approaches one of the Ingress panels and begins to manipulate the controls. The Ingress completely shuts down. Unlike before, however, there isn’t an imbalance felt across the ship; everything remains normal and stable.

Utilizing the computer systems located in the Ingress room, they send out the following message to the crew via the MID:

To all those aboard this vessel: I am Ira Phirun, assigned captain of the Moira. First Mate Egan and I will be commandeering all rights to the ship as soon as word is sent to those currently in charge. Expect a more detailed report as soon as all records and logs in Navigation have been reviewed by myself and the First Mate. All questions will be answered in a timely matter. For now, there will be no interruption of daily routine or reprimand if conduct among ranks is broken. Thanks for your time.

Heading to Navigation, the Captain and First Mate, for seemingly unknown reasons, approach Navigator Manasseh and have her show them all records and logs of the Moira. Those working in Navigation when the Captain and First Mate arrive will see Mana greet them in a professional manner. Oddly, the Captain and First Mate act very familiar with the Navigator. They review all documents, but when they come upon news that the Ploiatos is on board, their mostly friendly demeanor shifts quickly. The Captain issues a sharp order, unintelligible to those who are close enough to overhear parts of their conversation, and without any warning at all, Mana loses consciousness and collapses right there on the bridge. Within minutes of this happening, the ship as a whole falls into a low power state with basic functions only. Mana’s MID alerts Medbay, and without hesitation, Captain Cúrre places her in cryo with strict orders to those who work there not to disturb the unit.

As promised, the Captain and First Mate soon address the crew.

lights down low
The lighting has dimmed in all the rooms and halls, the normally crisp air that is pumped from the vents low, and all machines and tech are running at half-speed. These effects can be found throughout the ship. Water in the showers remain hot for only a few minutes before reverting to cold. Recreational equipment powers off not long after it has been turned on. The sanitation and water filtration systems require an hourly manual reboot, and all unused areas of the ship have no power allotted to them until a crew member steps inside. Even then, most functions are not optimal. It’s as if the Moira has been transformed into a dark house with only a candle flickering on the window sill.

reuse & recycle
The Captain and First Mate are quick to establish that this is a new regime and go about making the ship and its crew more efficient in the wake of their change in course and the low power state of the ship itself. This means they will systematically inspect each occupied barracks room and leave notes for what needs to be disposed of or stowed away. Unlike before, this is no longer a pleasure cruise, and each member of the crew is a guest on board; they will not tolerate useless clutter. Anything seen as unnecessary will be either placed into storage in the Cargo Bay or disposed of through the airlock. This new need for efficiency also extends to the need to conserve resources until they reach their destination. The showers are set to an automatic timer to minimize water waste. Those few minutes of hot water are all a crew member is now given. Meals are smaller, bordering on ration sizes, and luxuries are done away with entirely in order to preserve supplies so that the ship can go longer before needing to dock at a planet.

new jobs, same faces
The Captain and his First Mate, as expressed in their addressing of the Moira, explain that work efficiency is a priority. Applications for a head of the following departments will be accepted for a short period: Navigation, the Tower, Medbay, Defense, the Hold, Sanitation, Ingress work, and the Galley/Mess Hall. (Here.) After reviewing what they receive, one head of department will be chosen and tasked with helping crew find positions relevant to those departments and their own skillsets. They will be allowed to retain any positions that they held before that aren’t ship-functional jobs, but they will have to be done in leisure time. In two weeks time, they’ll be accepting department position applications which will be approved, and all those that do not apply will be assigned in accordance with their initial work application. They will also choose three individuals to act as guards of Ploiatos to ensure that there is a rotation available at all times. Will you choose to follow this new decision and promote yourself into a position of responsibility? Or will you simply wait for a reassignment?


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greyate: pls dnt (Default)

[personal profile] greyate 2016-08-09 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jean raises the box a little higher up from the floor, offering a small, shy smile to J. ]

I can carry it for you, if you want?
redshitlord: (It's getting close to sundown)

[personal profile] redshitlord 2016-08-09 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah. Walk away.

This just means it's not over, buddy.

[And you can bet this bastion of maturity pulls a face at Hanzo's retreating back.]
thumbsdown: (to the end)

explorations | rec area

[personal profile] thumbsdown 2016-08-09 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Boone hasn't been here long, but the past few months have been full of enough crap that keeping in shape seems like a good idea. He works out anyway, but it's a lot easier to do it in here. Plus, it's a good way to relieve stress.

He's getting off the treadmill when Carol shows up, heading over to the pool. It's not heated right now so he doesn't get in, he just kicks off his shoes and rests them in the water. Looking over at Carol, he nods in greeting.]

You lost?

[He hasn't seen her before, and from the way she's looking around he just assumes she's new.]
whatshimadayou: (cuz fuck you)

[personal profile] whatshimadayou 2016-08-09 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I assure you. It is over, because I say it is.

[AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE HE NOTICES.]
grandpaladin: (hello little friend)

[personal profile] grandpaladin 2016-08-09 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ow.

[He is absolutely completely kidding. That barely even registers on the Reinhardt Pain Scale. But what kind of grandpa would he be without joking around?]

Sounds like a plan. Have you found it?
redshitlord: (look at how you're dressed)

[personal profile] redshitlord 2016-08-09 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow look at mister dragon pants gotta have the last word! I'm so impressed!

[... he's yelling this down the hall. Because this is a good plan.]

[But also not stopping him from going anywhere, because SOMEONE HAS TO BE THE NOT-ASSHOLE.]
greyate: pls dnt (Default)

[personal profile] greyate 2016-08-09 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She almost feels a flash of nervousness flare up in her at that look from the other girl. But then Jean doesn't feel any anger or disgust. The question, when it comes, kind of confirms this isn't exactly a bad situation.

Although she does almost laugh. ]


I wish.

[ Shaking her head and raising the bucket up some more, to where it originally was so she can toss the weed into it. ]

No, it's telekinesis. I'm--I'm a mutant. It's one of my powers.

[ She hasn't said it to a many yet. Rey is among the first. Jean still feels unsure about being so open about it on a ship full of strangers. ]
whatshimadayou: (north and south)

[personal profile] whatshimadayou 2016-08-09 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[the joke's on you we're both assholes]
greyate: pls dnt (Default)

[personal profile] greyate 2016-08-09 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jean hunches over the table, laughing, covering her mouth to try and muffle it. When she sits back up, she almost wheezes, ]

"Rolling in sawdust"?

[ It's actually a pretty hilarious mental image, tho. Little fluff ball rolling around and making a dust cloud. ]
thumbsdown: (that's how it goes)

Life on Mars

[personal profile] thumbsdown 2016-08-09 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[To be fair, Venom is pretty much doing what most people with weapons did when they got here. Boone can understand that. He's not quite sure why he's doing it in a dark corner, though. Not really his business, he supposes. He doesn't approach just yet, mostly because potentially startling a guy with a weapon in his hands is a stupid idea. He does speak, though.]

Guessing you're missing some stuff.

[Venom looks pretty irritated about something, at any rate.]
greyate: pls dnt (Default)

[personal profile] greyate 2016-08-09 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She continues to feel what he's trying to bury and it's almost painful. Still. She knows what it's like to want to keep things to herself. ]

Um, I heard there was a rec center on board? I was wanting to see it.
thumbsdown: (what they've got to give)

Darkened Corridors

[personal profile] thumbsdown 2016-08-09 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Boone smells the cigarette before he spots Jesse, and just kind of frowns at him when he does. He's not really much for making people feel better, and he can tell this guy isn't having a good time down there.]

I'd ask if you're okay, but I can already guess the answer.

[He leans against the wall opposite, and after a moment of consideration he pulls out his own cigarette and lights it. Might as well.]
greyate: pls dnt (Default)

[personal profile] greyate 2016-08-09 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She is human. But also a little more than that. Not that she's sure he would take that news well. But the fact she can feel concern coming from him more than anything else helps her relax a bit more.

She looks down the way she had been heading again before back to him. ]


I was trying to find the mess hall. I thought I remembered where it was but... I think actually being hungry for once is distracting me.

[ Again, not entirely untrue. She felt pretty low energy right now. ]
cockade: (Se renseigner)

i'm one step ahead and cry-laughing. aka craughing.

[personal profile] cockade 2016-08-09 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, at least there wasn't a second punch. He's not too sure a rifle is a good replacement, honestly.

This man, whoever he is, clearly has No Chill™ in regards to many things, as Arno notices. The Frenchman stiffens where he is, breathing out slowly, mind trying to process where to go next.]


Sure about myself not wanting to harm you, or others? [Each one is a different answer, technically. Arno has no intention of harming or making this situation with 76 worse. The captains? Well, he's not really sure on that one.]
braceforimpact: (15)

'What I do doesn't matter.'

[personal profile] braceforimpact 2016-08-09 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You apologise a lot for things that aren't your fault. But you don't need to. When you apologise like that, you're only apologising for your own emotions.

[And that isn't what Kaworu was trying to accomplish.

But he looks tired again. More than last time.
]

My life is not my own.

Until the Ingress is fixed, my own happiness...

Waiting is my only purpose here.

[He only hopes, desperately, that his future--his hope--is still waiting... that he is still waiting. Shinji Ikari...]
ventifact: easystreet @ dw (devil on my shoulder)

[personal profile] ventifact 2016-08-09 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[The question makes her look towards the wall, as if it's suddenly become very, very interesting. It's hard for her to lie in the first place, let alone to someone's face. And the fact that she cares about Bucky too, well. It's a recipe for the truth.]

No.

[Simple. She hefts the staff on her shoulder before finally looking back to him.] I can't just sit there. I'll go mad if I do.
justice_from_above: (pic#10326678)

[personal profile] justice_from_above 2016-08-09 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you're fine. [She chuckles at him, leading the way.]

I do know where it is. I was there earlier, met a very lovely doctor.
ventifact: theboysareback @ dw (set fire to the rain)

[personal profile] ventifact 2016-08-09 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rey eyes the bucket, standing and brushing the grass from her trousers. Telekinesis--it's a part of the Force, she thinks. It has to be. She can't wrap her mind around any other way this girl could be moving an object with just her mind. But something else the girl says catches her attention, and she latches on to it.]

A mutant?

[That isn't a familiar species to her. Besides, the girl looks human enough. Not that it matters, in the end. Aliens came in all shapes and sizes. Maybe this girl is just from a branch of the human race that, as she said, mutated. Rey mentally waves it off before concentrating again]

You're right, though. It isn't the Force. It feels... different.
Edited 2016-08-09 21:30 (UTC)
gentlemenpreferblondes: art by bedsafely @ tumblr! (I learned an awful lot in Littlerock)

[personal profile] gentlemenpreferblondes 2016-08-09 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[J follows from the corner of her eye as the box moves through the air and then back to the other girl, giving her a content nod.

Sure thing. She was more than fine with having someone else do the heavy lifting for her, especially when she herself possessed very little muscle in her tiny and skinny figure.]
Edited 2016-08-09 21:45 (UTC)
saveyourserpent: (look)

[personal profile] saveyourserpent 2016-08-09 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, right, I get that.

[Sometimes the very act of walking around's something you just have to get up and do. Even if you're not heading to the training room to punch some virtual grunts.]

No, go ahead. As long as you don't mind me spending too much time looking around.

[He doesn't normally have company when he goes to the library, especially at such a late hour, but he's not going to really complain about having company, either.]
thumbsdown: (and you're not gonna let them)

[personal profile] thumbsdown 2016-08-09 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't mind.

[He starts walking with Liquid, wobbling a little but otherwise doing a pretty good job of staying in a straight line considering how much he's had to drink.]

You go to the library most nights?
tearmeanewone: (137)

C1

[personal profile] tearmeanewone 2016-08-09 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[At this point, Elizabeth is actually considering rehousing the collection with the crew, so she'd be the last person to object. She's puttering around the library, reshelving things, her fingers lingering on the spines of the books as though it was the face of an old friend. What were these new people going to do to her library? Maybe the same thing they did with her rank...]

[Seeing someone pulling so many books out with enthusiasm though, is enough to make her pull a small smile.]
Let me know if you need help finding anything. I'll be around.

[As long as she can.]
cockade: (Amuser)

arrives 15 years late with cold starbucks

[personal profile] cockade 2016-08-09 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[At that, Arno laughs.] Catch it? Did it happen to come off the rails? [He's joking, honestly.] I do hope you make it in time, whenever we return home. That would be an awful way to end up after being kidnapped.

Underground network? [Now this is interesting. His head tilts.] What exactly is an underground network?

[There is a smile there before he offers a gesture that's akin to a mixture between a wince and a shrug.] I hope you do, it's absolutely beautiful- though I would hope it's also not in the current time I'm living in. France isn't exactly at her best, currently.
tearmeanewone: (050)

August 5th

[personal profile] tearmeanewone 2016-08-09 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Elizabeth doesn't mean to stare, she really doesn't.]

[She's just a million miles away, somewhere on an ocean with a pirate ship captained by two skeletons. Now that's not something that the strange Ingress caused, it's real. She could do it if something wasn't sucking a good two thirds of her power away.]

[Sans and Wanda were the only ones who had seen it up close and personal, and so even if neither of them had any idea of what happened between the battle for the Moira and her coming out of cryo, she still feels like it's written all over her face. She's a land mine waiting to get buried or stepped on.]

[After a long moment, she comes back to the present, smiles and pulls the books she's carrying closer to her chest-- she's moving her personal collection to the library, just in case these bastards get any funny ideas about airlocking her books. She walks towards Sans, the weariness in her features probably becoming a little more apparent as she moves out of the dimness.]


How have you been?

[Things are terrible now, no point in asking 'how are you'.]
braceforimpact: (O Freunde; nicht diese Töne!)

0 GERMAN, MEET PURE HEADCANON can we just assume they're speaking German now tho yikes

[personal profile] braceforimpact 2016-08-09 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's pure chance that he understands it, actually. But SEELE's headquarters was hidden in Germany, and so understanding German was probably inevitable--even if he was always meant to serve his purpose at NERV in Japan.

He was under strict command not to reveal this, but he's aware it doesn't matter now.
]

Ja. Ich spreche Deutsch!

[Kaworu smiles up at him.]

Es ist mir egal.