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"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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thisavrou_log2016-08-01 12:13 am
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Which sucks if there's something on the ground that one might trip over, particularly so if that thing is also covered in hardened, rusty metal. Which is exactly the case for the thing Asriel just tripped over.]
OOF!
[The voice that comes from the floor is loud and deep - the voice of a man many times Asriel's size. Of course, upon closer inspection, such a man isn't actually there. Instead, Asriel had only tripped over the severed head of such a man.
For the record, it sucks to be the thing tripped over at least as much as it does to be tripped.]
1/3
[Asriel's yelp is loud, and his landing hurts. It's too dark to tell what he tripped over, but it sounds like it was a person.]
H-hello? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...
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what did he trip over?
Asriel feels around in the dark until he finds something close to his leg, and carefully picks it up.]
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that is a human's head.]
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Of course, this one can talk, so perhaps that isn't what is about to happen. The young... goat creature... seemed to be apologetic enough, at least.]
...it is all right. Just please be careful where you are stepping in the darkness.
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I will, I will! Again, I'm real sorry.
[Asriel pauses, not sure if he should set Vengarl back down.]
Um, where are you- [headed, is what he nearly says. Asriel stops himself before the word rolls out of his mouth.] -going? I can take you there, if you'd like. It might be easier than getting tripped over in the dark.
[Truthfully Asriel just wants to retreat to the safety of his room, but the new management might not be done looking it over yet.]
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I'm not sure, actually. One of the others had placed me on top of some kind of small, moving disk [ie one of the roombas that still roam around, cleaning the halls.]. I had ridden on that for a while, but it rolled away after you knocked me off.
[Not that he's mad. The whole novelty of moving on that thing had worn off anyway.]
If you would, though... I'd like to see the stars again. Is there someplace that you could take me, where I might see them?
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[Well, Asriel feels a little more guilty now. Should he try looking for it? Asriel's not sure if he could find a moving disk in this darkness, unless it was lit up like his identity disk.
That doesn't seem to be Vengarl's request though.]
Mhm! There's an observation deck on the ship. I'll take you to it.
[At least the observation deck would give him a nice distraction from the changes taking place on the ship. He carefully lifts Vengarl's head while trying not to accidentally hurt him. He's never had to carry around a human head before.]
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And you can see the stars on this deck? [He's never been on a spaceship before, Asriel, forgive him.] Before I was brought here, I watched the stars every night for so long... I have only been here a few days, but I have already come to miss it.
[Fortunately he's pretty easy to pick up. And considering the helmet he's wearing, it'd be pretty difficult for Asriel to hurt him even if he were to drop Vengarl.]
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[Asriel's not sure what it's like to miss seeing stars every night, but the Moira wasn't really the best place to be if someone missed the luxuries of the surface. Some days, Asriel wonders if he traded one Underground for a different kind of Underground.
But he doesn't tell Vengarl that. If he wants to see stars, that was an easy enough request. As afraid of the dark as he is, he starts to move through the hallways in the direction of where he thinks the observation deck is located.]
Well, to tell you the truth... I've never seen any stars before I arrived here. They're really pretty, I can see why you'd want to watch them every night.
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It's funny, when I had a choice in things I never looked up at the stars. My eyes were always ahead of me, looking for my next opponent, I never thought to look upward. I never really noticed their beauty until I was like this...
[That probably isn't reassuring to hear, of course. That Vengarl had access to these beautiful things for his whole life and took them for granted. He feels a small twinge of guilt for putting things that way, in hindsight.]
After I was... separated, though, I finally paid heed to the beauty of the heavens. You're right that they're good to use for thinking - I wish I had been a clever one like you, when I was your size.
[Size, not age. Because he has no idea how goat people work.]
...I'm sorry to hear that they have none where you are from. Truly, I hope you enjoy them now that you have them.