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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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soldiergenes: (and now i am sure)

[personal profile] soldiergenes 2016-08-19 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ The joke actually helps, easing some of the tension of this strange interaction out of Snake's shoulders. Raiden may look dramatically different, he may be showing some of those added years in ways that have nothing to do with his appearance, but he's still Raiden. ]

Don't worry, I got myself a collection while I was working there.

[ So far the new captain hasn't seen them worth confiscating, either. He'll put up a fight for them if he has to, but hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Snake tilts his weight to one side, trying to see into the room. ]
Anyone in there?
goodluckkobra: (to the tune of your death)

[personal profile] goodluckkobra 2016-08-19 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Kobra almost doesn't notice the knock. Even here, he's still used to everything being so harsh that gentle things are easy to tune out. Slowly, he turns to look up at her.

He waves through the window and then pushes himself up to roll it down. He's seen her swing around enough authority to be wary. "Hey."
cyborged: (→Now my feet don't touch the ground)

[personal profile] cyborged 2016-08-19 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's just us.

[He walks fully in, holding the door for Snake, trying to figure out which bed is unoccupied, but Raiden almost instantly decides he's not using one of these beds. Suspended bunk beds is not a thing anyone needs or should find acceptable. He'll sleep on the floor.]

[Okay well. This is happening. Raiden looks around a second time and moves across the room to lean on a desk with his arms crossed. Totes casual.]


You have questions.
sardonical: (Default)

[personal profile] sardonical 2016-08-19 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Is that normal or do you just have a bad sense of direction?

[ It seems like a fair question, if a little blunt. ]
sardonical: (Don't go around tonight)

[personal profile] sardonical 2016-08-19 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Stiles has no idea whether that's a joke, but he's inclined to believe that it isn't and it has him cowering back against the wall a little. He's getting some serious murder vibes off of the giant robot who's only not killing him because he doesn't want to clean the mess.

"Uh yeah. New. Me." His voice might be shaking a little.
mylawn: (pic#10433705)

[personal profile] mylawn 2016-08-19 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, well. That doesn't sound so bad. Maybe 76 doesn't want to get tracked down by medbay. Maybe he'd find that preferable.

At any rate, it seems like he's finished dealing with Nihlus now that he has information. He'll head in the indicated direction, brushing past him as he does so.
]

I'll find my way.

[...Thanks?]
sardonical: (Hope you are quite prepared to die.)

[personal profile] sardonical 2016-08-19 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Stiles stays where he is for a moment as all of the new facts tumble around in his brain. Time travel might be a thing or this guy might just be crazy. Maybe even both.

He scurries to catch up, brain still whirring a thousand miles an hour.
]

Wait so you're from the future? Like the future-future? Is that where we are? Do you always airlock bodies? What if they're not really dead?
sardonical: (I know the end is coming soon.)

[personal profile] sardonical 2016-08-19 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Lucky for him, it all makes perfect sense to Stiles, who just smiles back and relaxes a little. "Definitely the new kind of stupid. I swear I'm usually the smart one."

Though maybe being the smart one between him and Scott isn't that much of an accomplishment. It's not like he's at Lydia's level or anything. Really, he's more the heart of the group. Maybe.
sardonical: (I see earthquakes and lightnin'.)

[personal profile] sardonical 2016-08-19 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good. He's thrilled to hear that they've cracked down. It almost gets a smile out of him. Almost. The fact of the matter is that he's going to need a little time before he can laugh about mass murder, what with all the things he'd been dealing with before he'd wound up here and also the whole being here thing. That kind of stuff throws a guy off his game a little.

"Stiles. What's yours?"

two_jedi_sticks: (Default)

[personal profile] two_jedi_sticks 2016-08-19 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
"That way, Dad?" The look she gives him says she knows exactly what he's referring to, and he's right, but. How can her dad make being Force sensitive seem like an embarrassing thing? In a moment, it passes, and she's goggling at the corridors again -- she does still need to finish learning her way around, after all, and it's more amusing than actually awkward for her.

"We're young jedi knights, if that's what you mean." And then the truly important question -- at least from her perspective. "Hey, how does the Falcon compare to the ships in this area? There's got to be a whole new set of records to break."
sardonical: (I see earthquakes and lightnin'.)

[personal profile] sardonical 2016-08-19 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not good with manners." Maybe it's also rude to ask her what species she is. Is she some kind of wood-elf-pixie or an alien or what? There are so many questions and probably no okay ways to ask for the answers.

"Hi. I'm Stiles. A human." The last part is a hasty add-on.
kidjoy: Live version of the girl, looking to the side and talking ([Explain])

[personal profile] kidjoy 2016-08-19 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Home.

[It says nothing, but it's the first answer on her tongue. Her face screws up in thought after, trying to remember whatever bits of geography she'd gleaned over the years. She's aware the people here have a concept of a world different than her own, something closer to the time before the Wars.]

It's back in my world, ain't no place 'round here. Had a bunch of names before. Like California and whatnot. Just the Zones now.
two_jedi_sticks: (Default)

[personal profile] two_jedi_sticks 2016-08-19 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
There's plenty of energy in Jaina's step as she goes, and the revelation that the Mero deck's refresher isn't individual to each room doesn't hamper it. "Don't worry, I've made do."

Swimming with her friends aside, Massassi architecture on Yavin 4 isn't exactly apartment living. Plus privacy gets weird when you have an empathic bond with your family.

"What's Bee like? I'll try to keep an eye out."
kidjoy: Live version of the girl, looking to the side and talking ([Explain])

[personal profile] kidjoy 2016-08-19 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She stops after a few moments of distractedly trying to fill out the eyes on her skull. His "technique" is nothing like she's used to, not the way she's seen Party paint or what's she's seen out of any runner. She can't help but stare, entranced by trying to understand the image being formed.]

What are ya doin'? Ain't seen no one work like that before.
kidjoy: Live version of the girl, looking to the side and talking ([Explain])

[personal profile] kidjoy 2016-08-19 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[The Girl talks between bites, frowning around her fork.]

Like gas for people. I know ya need it not to die, but I don't get the growin'. Sure it ain't just fairy stories your people told ya just to make ya finish everythin'?

[She's sure her boys had always had the same diet and Ghoul was still shorter than the rest by a mile.]

Doctor's don't know nothin'. They ain't that smart, they're just sneaky.
fingerstripes: (Default)

[personal profile] fingerstripes 2016-08-19 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
I guess there's a chance there's more going on there then meets the eye. [ A question he resolves to answer on his own as soon as possible.

Maybe sometime after he's made a mental note of Thane's probable schedule. It'd be awkward to run across him in a mask and spandex. You never know what people remember. ]


So what kind of work are they tearing you away from?
fingerstripes: (Default)

[personal profile] fingerstripes 2016-08-19 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ His smirk is an echo of that tone; teasing but grounded. There's nothing to be gained here by beating around the bush.

At least not yet. ]
I'm doing some recon. Thought I'd get a head start checking out the amenities in person.

[ A pause. ] Mostly I want to pin down just how closely the welcome packet actually matches up to the layout, here.
fingerstripes: (Default)

[personal profile] fingerstripes 2016-08-19 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
In my case? It, uh- [ He hesitates for a moment, circling the bag again while he stalls for an answer. In all honesty there's nothing he really wants to less here than lie, but all the history is loaded and not all of the secrets are his to tell. ] -it actually came from a friend.

[ The bag gets another kick, lightfooted and smooth, and he's eying her across it now, smile a little bemused. ]

I take it the code name thing isn't really a factor where you're from. [ Which shouldn't come as a surprise. ]
kidjoy: Live version of the girl holding an old camera in front of her face and wearing her full costume (Default)

[personal profile] kidjoy 2016-08-19 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
They seemed liked enough by the people here. [Which the Girl couldn't understand at all. One authority was just as bad as any other.] They might be gettin' a riot on there hands if they keep pretendin' they own the place.

[Not that she cares either way. She's here to get home, to get Kobra home in a way that would let him keep his life. Or make him follow Leia, if it came to it. She doesn't care enough to be loyal to one authority or the other, only that they stay out of her way.]
aerospacecommander: (starscream 198)

[personal profile] aerospacecommander 2016-08-19 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Is it really murder if they are a clone? My clone. And I'm the one who kills him? I think that might sit right inside the line of not murder."

Honestly Starscream does not know how to say 'I did something and I'm pretty sure I screwed up' like a normal person so why not talk about murder.
divagated: (pic#10312069)

[personal profile] divagated 2016-08-19 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
So was it like this? [She stops herself, because that really isn't specific. "This" could mean so many things.] Because of a broken Ingress, I mean.

[That's her first thought, anyway. They were in this mess because of a broken Ingress, so it made sense he was somewhere else because of one first.

But then that begged the question, when people disappeared from here, did they go home, or go somewhere else entirely?]
psychadrellic: calibrations (can it wait i'm in the middle of some)

[personal profile] psychadrellic 2016-08-19 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
It's possible. [He nods.] Somehow I get the feeling we'll have ample opportunity to observe the process in the coming weeks.

[And you're definitely going to want to be extra careful there, friend - Thane remembers everything.

...He lets out a tiny huff of amused breath at that question.]


I was in the middle of helping in an organized effort to save all sentient organic life in the known galaxy from extermination by a race of intelligent machines.

[You know, as you do.]

As they don't seem to be a threat here, I expect I'll find my new occupation to be quite peaceful.
aerospacecommander: (starscream 8)

[personal profile] aerospacecommander 2016-08-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Whelp. That was unexpected. Starscream doesn't move staying almost frozen in place. He's dealt with swords before. Grimlock's favorite weapon.]

No? Really? I had no idea. Go on. Tell me more about this "sword" thing.

[Sarcasm? Yes.]
aerospacecommander: (pic#7560868)

Re: medbay!

[personal profile] aerospacecommander 2016-08-19 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Overly excited Cyborg person. Starscream will have to keep that in mind. It might be usefl to him later.

"Scientist. Not that they allow for much creativity here. You?"
tearmeanewone: (158)

[personal profile] tearmeanewone 2016-08-19 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Elizabeth blinks at the question, tries to hold in a grin and fails. 'Alien books'. Books about 'aliens'. In general. She knows more or less what he's asking for, but she's going to poke a little fun at the question anyway.]

Oh yes, I have plenty of books about humans in general-- ones from Earth, from Barrayar, from Sokovia... [She waits for the reaction before relenting.] You'll have to be a bit more specific when you use the term 'alien' now. There are plenty of people-- beings-- here who are vastly different from you, but can't be listed under the same category as another group given they share almost no similar characteristics and yet... you might still call both 'aliens'.