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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
mero deck | eyyyy hallway neighbors :3
It's a focused exercise he's always tried too hard at and one that he fails because of too much focus, rather than not enough reasoning and contemplation. It's a struggle of constant reminders that thinking too much on clearing his mind does the exact opposite, and so he lets himself drift, thinking only on maintaining his breathing despite the pain in his ribs. Images pass by in that solitary darkness, his mind flitting from one event to another until they all blur together in a stream he pointedly ignores.
"Let them go," he can hear Yoda saying, and it's the one solid piece of advice he tries to maintain (at least in this). Thoughts are not something that can be lost, but this focus can be.
At first, he's grappling around in that solitude for nothing in particular. Reaching, vaguely, for familiarity: people, routine,
and if he's lucky, whatever it is that's holding his friend's own powers hostage, though a long shot. What he finds instead is nothing of the sort. There's a presence here, one he doesn't recognize, probing just as insistently. It's a familiar mental push, but the light around it is all wrong. Strange.His eyes shoot open in an instant. Is it possible there's another one of them on board, and he'd missed it entirely? That both Ahsoka and Obi-Wan had either both missed it too, or failed to make note? Perhaps, but unlikely.
He shrugs his robe on as he leaves his own room and tries to follow the faint, foreign signature of whoever (or whatever?) this presence is. It leads him down the quiet hallway, past several neighboring rooms, and then simply stops. He contemplates leaving then, dealing with this in the morning when this tomb of a barracks hallway can't be disturbed so easily, but what if he misses it (again)? What if he can't find it?
He knocks.]
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She sits up in her bed and pads over to the door in the dark. Should she? But then she feels the other walking towards her. A man.
She flinches away from the door when he knocks. Swallowing hard, heartbeat thudding in her eyes, she hopes she'll be quick enough to defend any attacks... Not that she can feel that from him. She felt his worry, his anxiety. But there's no maliciousness or anger coming from him.
Eventually, she opens her door a crack, peeking out at the person on the other side. She's not really sure what to say... She ends up going with the lame: ]
Hello?
i am so sorry
He cracks a smile, but he still looks a wounded mess. He's given worse introductions.]
Was that you?
[...But not by much.]
lol don't ever apologize
...what was what?
[ #nailedit. ]
<3!
In the Force. Was that you?
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"The Force"? Really?
[ What a lame joke. Although she had secretly thought of herself as a jedi once upon a time... ]
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Yes, really. I've never met anyone with reach that strong. [Not if it wasn't a connection he was seeking, in any case. It's hardly his realm of expertise, when he's left the mind reading to those with the patience for it. Premonitions, on the other hand...] It's...impressive.
[Which from how awkwardly his gaze shifts, is clearly not a thing he offers often.]
...Are you positive you know nothing about it?
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No, I don't. I was asleep.
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He knows he must look ridiculous there in her doorway with his eyes sliding closed, but sure enough, that presence is still there. Closer even, than it had been moments earlier. He nudges. He isn't close enough to her for words, for him that requires familiarity and trust to open one's mind up to another that far, but alerting one presence to another is almost such a menial task that he has to think about it in order to search and push against that relatively strange shape in a way that's at all reminiscent of the touch that's brought him here in the first place.
When his eyes blink back open, he's slipped again into that annoying smirk.]
Are you sure you still know nothing about it?
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Yeah, I am. Goodnight.
[ And then closes her door firmly in his face. Possibly with a little help from her telekinesis. ]
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[He posits through the door, uncaring of how it really sounds. It's not stalking if it's genuine interest, and he doesn't intend anything...right? He's just more than a little
curiousdesperate to figure out what exactly is going on here. Who she is. What she is, if it's salient.Of course, he lacks the attention to his prescience to understand what kind of thinking that really leads to.]
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She crosses her arms and brings her legs up to sit cross-legged.
Joke will be on Anakin. She doesn't plan to be here in the morning. In fact, it might be an hour or two later that she leaves her room and the deck completely. It's only a temporary solution, obviously. ]