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ɴᴀᴛʜᴀ orbiters ❰ mod collective ❱ ([personal profile] natha) wrote in [community profile] elnyan2017-08-29 07:08 pm
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❪ test drive: #2 ❫ THE OVERFLOW

ORIGINAL POST



THE PROLOGUE    

Many people in stasis seem to be medically sound enough to wake up, brother. Are the preparations ready to go?



Yes, I've long prepared myself for this. Watching them everyday has been truly rewarding.



... Right. Yeah. Okay, let's get them ready to wake up. We should keep their minds active to ease the transition into consciousness. A simple VR program should do the trick, I think.


I will boot one immediately. There! All systems are green. Their consciousnesses are linked. However, their minds appear to be too active... They may be over-stimulated, brother.



Huh? How can that be...? Can we pull them out safely?


Not from my end, no. This may be too large for us to fix alone. Do you think...?



Yes, I think so... It will have to be done organically. Can you send out a message to our refugees?



Of course, brother. I will send one swiftly. We must be sure to fix this before Darma returns.



There is urgency in the Orbiters' request. Refugees currently in El Nysa are asked via mass message to please return to Thesa Station virtual reality area immediately. Zasere tells them that the next set of Refugees are scheduled to wake, but there's been an issue.

On Thesa, refugees will find that the people in stasis are still apparently trapped in slumber. Most of them are complete strangers, but there's a chance you may recognize a familiar face or two. Normally, these people would wake up from their pods without issue, but due to a malfunction caused by the unforeseen force during The Descent, they have to go through extra measures to make this possible. Those in slumber require extra stimulation, something to keep their minds active. What better than a simulation of an area of El Nysa?

Keeping their minds active requires an extremely involved simulation. Those subjected to the VR (prospective characters) will find themselves completely immersed in their new environment, believing themselves to be native Olympians. To wake up from the simulation, characters must work together to accomplish a certain objective(s) in the icy tundra. Characters in-game will be aware that this is a simulation, but this is good practice for properly interacting with El Nysa natives, isn't it?

An AC-length log thread on this TDM may be submitted for Two (2) Natha REP points HERE. Please read the OOC note at the bottom of this post for the terms.
PROMPT: WINTER CAME    


The wind in the icy wasteland is bitter and frigid. You are wrapped up in a winter coat, but even still, the cold bites at your skin and leaves you yearning for a warm fire. Perhaps you're a merchant from the city, here to make a delivery, or you're a royal guard, sent to patrol the area. Who are you? The sky is the limit. One thing is certain — you won't snap out of your new identity until you finish a task.
1. Due to the vast diversity of the creatures on El Nysa and the fact that new ones are constantly being discovered, an important objective is to carefully chronicle different species. Unfortunately, to research these new species, they happen to need more than just a visual. More than just fleeting glances in over a snowy hill. Researchers are constantly looking for ways to secure...

You guessed it! Blood and stool samples.

The supplies for the former will be given. Supplies are offered in a small box; one per person. In this box is a small dart that will automatically procure a small touch of blood, and easily shaken off so the creature will be able to securely escape. As for the latter— well, they'll give you a plastic bag if that counts. Look, sometimes to get a job done, you have to get your hands dirty.

Specifically, they seek samples from a newly recorded rare beast known as a Klep. Kleps spend much of their time hidden in caves, so hitting them with the darts will be tricky. They are also nocturnal, but you may be able to lure them out of the cave with fish as bait. When struck with a dart, you must grab the dart and escape immediately, as they will charge you, and killing such an endangered species is illegal. As for stool samples, well... Once you find a pile, you will have plenty of sample to work with.

2. It's cold, to say the least. Too cold to continue forward. Whatever you were doing, you must stop and seek shelter. Looks like your goal is clear, at least. Get warm. Not finding a way to sustain heat, whether it be seeking shelter, building a fire, cuddling up, or all of the above, will likely end in serious consequences.
3. You are stuck in a dilemma. On one hand, you are set to work for Olympia. One the other, you're not completely sure what is really expected of you, or who the man who gave you this mission truly is.

You and your partner are meant to protect precious trade cargo for them. You were told that these were essential supplies for one of the outer colonies. They assured you it was mostly food. In loading the cargo onto the supplied wagon with your partner, however, you noticed something inherently off about it. The weight and even the sounds of some of the contents inside definitely don't sound like food.

Moreover, some boxes are more obviously more concealed— draped in black sheets and reinforced on all sides. You've also caught wind of rumors that you are potentially being utilized to supply advanced weapons and other contraband to Wyver terrorists in the colonies.

But what do you do? Refuse to make the delivery, and people in the colony will surely starve. Try to remove the weapons and only deliver the food, and you will be killed on sight for being too suspicious. Make the delivery as-is, and not only will Olympians die at the hands of terrorists in the future, but you will betray your country.

Decide quickly...

4. There are many dangers associated with traveling in such an isolated, harsh environment. You must help each other to survive. Perhaps someone has fallen on thin ice, and requires a rescue. Maybe someone is on the brink of starvation, and you must share what provisions you have.
When you come to, you will awaken in Thesa Station. All will be explained to you by Zasere or Sael via telepathic link. Your world is no more. The Storm has consumed it. We offer proof in the Observation Deck if you desire it, but it won't be an easy thing to stomach. We offer you a new life, in our planet of El Nysa. We just ask for your help in maintaining the vitality of El Nysa. What can we offer you in exchange for your help?
PROMPT: STASIS UNIT    


You have found the massive section of Thesa known as the Stasis Unit. There’s no special access required to access this part of Thesa Station, but refugees are warned that it may not be for the faint of heart. Here, in large pods that nearly cover every square inch of the space, are all of the people the Orbiters have managed to rescue. Your loved ones, your greatest enemy, your next door neighbor— you might find them here. These people are in a state of deep cryosleep. Due to the damaging effects of The Storm, their bodies are not yet ready to be awoken.

PROMPT: GET REKT    


The Orbiters have noticed that some of the refugees really miss their video games. The technology in El Nysa could be much worse, but it definitely leaves much to be desired. Which is why, after expressing relief that everyone awoke safely, the Orbiters have decided to provide a little fun in the form of video game competitions.

Anything from old-timey arcade machines to state-of-the-art computers, consoles, and VR headsets (though you may be a little tired of VR right now...) is available, and yes, they have your favorite games! Enjoy PAC-MAN, Starcraft 2, or perhaps Dance Dance Revolution! Teach a friend how to play. Get unnecessarily angry and competitive. Most importantly, have fun. Keep fourthwalling to a minimum, please.

Recommended playing: QWOP
PROMPT: OMAGE    
Upon receiving your mobile phone, you will be asked to set a username. Voila, you can now access the network! You can choose to send a message to the entire network, specific usernames, or you can try out the Orbiters’ service, Omage, which connects you to a random user. They thought this might be a good way for their new guests to make friends with each other...
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with...
You’re now chatting with [username]... Say hi!
PROMPT: WILDCARD    
You are welcome to write any scenarios in Thesa Station! Characters have been granted temporary access to the Observation Room, and are encouraged to study it carefully.

FINAL OOC NOTE    
Please give toplevel priority to prospective characters! Current characters wishing to thread these scenarios with other current characters are encouraged to create separate logs. However, threads between 2 current characters are not eligible for Natha Orbiter REP.

These threads may be carried over as game canon if players choose! Players are encouraged to submit TDM threads as application samples, but they are not required. Please direct any OOC questions to the questions thread below! A TDM thread of AC length may be submitted HERE for 2 NATHA ORBITER REPUTATION POINTS. Current players may submit their thread at any time, and prospective players may submit a thread after acceptance.

Please note that threads must contain at least five (5) log comments from your character. A toplevel counts as a comment. Network threads are not eligible.

terrantrash: (42)

[personal profile] terrantrash 2017-09-04 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure if I'm made for luxury.

[Which is his way of saying he's not sure if he's capable or even worthy of such a thing. Trusting others at this point is something he's not sure he can manage anymore, not after everything that's happened.]
priorly: (➣ lumen)

[personal profile] priorly 2017-09-04 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, mon cher, if any truth was going to be universal, it'd be that all waiters flirt for tips.
priorly: (➣ glory)

[personal profile] priorly 2017-09-04 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
They've tried, sugar. All efforts bounce right off. I am tenaciously broken, if nothing else.

Well, science and magic, who really knows the difference, right?

[personal profile] judicia 2017-09-04 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
( He'd mourn the loss too, if he was being perfectly honest. They're nice to look at, but Isabela has plenty of good-looking features about her, so it's not like it'd be a complete loss or anything.

Getting back to the matter at hand, though, )


Seems like quite the hassle for a few moth-eaten clothes. ( He quips, throwing a look over his shoulder at her before reaching for the fire iron near the hearth. He kneels down in front of the fire and nudges a few of the logs around. )

You think whoever lived here left some of their valuables behind?
polkabrows: (009。)

[personal profile] polkabrows 2017-09-04 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ??????????? how ]

D-Don't just sneak up on someone like that!

[ what if she'd been holding a weapon... she could have hurt you right then and there!

except she'd been too busy getting freaked out. whatever. ]
inaurare: (Yet also pouty and blushy.) (Unsure)

[personal profile] inaurare 2017-09-04 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I shall try it.

[mind made up, he's all set to head off and get his bowl of noodles, but he backs up, hesitantly-]

May I sit with you?
terrantrash: (42)

[personal profile] terrantrash 2017-09-04 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[The pat only serves to make him flinch, despite himself, his eyes fixated on the gun as she more or less discards of it. Great. Lovely. He needed that Euphie, thanks. If Slaine's gaze couldn't get any more hollow, it has now. Why is it important that he's here? He's anything but important.

The invitation to stay for dinner takes the wind out of him as he decides the surface of his tea in the mug is a lot more interesting than anything else in the room to stare at. He's never been invited to dinner before. Sure, he's been forced to attend dinners before, but those were mandatory events, never something he had a say in. This...also feels a bit like that. Sure, it was worded in the form of a question but it feels like a command more than anything else.

He needs to drink the tea he's been given but it's too hot still. The quicker he drinks it the quicker he can get out of here. The faster he can dodge the bullet that feels like this dinner invitation...but at the same time she has his gun. He needs that.

Why is this happening? Why, for once, can't he be graced with a sliver of luck?

It's not like having dinner with this girl and Mikazuki would be the end of the world, but his stomach sure feels like it will be.

Excuse him, he's having a mild panic attack.]


I...I wouldn't want to impose. [His legs won't move. Why won't they move? Why can't he just get up and leave?] I'm not very good dinner company to have.
Edited 2017-09-04 20:11 (UTC)
worldlyafflictions: (ch054pg04p1)

[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2017-09-04 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Roughs a hand through his hair as he watches her go... For a moment there's too much whirling around in his head--all the reasons that it'd be pointless to try to explain what actually happened, all the ways in which he specifically just wouldn't be able to make a difference since he's not like their other classmates...

But the world ended. And there's nothing else to really do. So as soon as she's far away enough he follows after her again. Casually keeping out of sight until she gets wherever she plans to hide for a while. Maybe he'll drop off some food for her later or something, he's pretty sure he interrupted her lunch.]
Edited 2017-09-04 20:14 (UTC)
emotionmore: (Default)

[personal profile] emotionmore 2017-09-04 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I said hi. [Clearly, this justifies everything. There's no way a relatively tall girl with weird-looking eyes and a tattoo on her neck could scare someone, if she said hi first.]

... Were you going to hit me in the face with the bra if you got too surprised?
milesedgelord: Law Daddy (Default)

[personal profile] milesedgelord 2017-09-04 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[He thought that would get your attention. He couldn't help the corners of his mouth turning upward into a wry smirk. Phoenix would always be Phoenix.]

No. Not over this in any case. My experiences were much the same. It was a little jarring to wake up here after all that...

From the information I could gather, I believe we were in a simulation that would prepare us for the environment we will be residing in.

[He spoke as he began to make his way out of the chamber. The cafeteria would have tea right?]

likethelight: (114)

1/2

[personal profile] likethelight 2017-09-04 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, that's—

...that's what it looks like when you have no one, doesn't it? Or anything left in the world or how you fit into it anymore.

(Is that what he'd looked like? Small?)

It's.. sad. ]
likethelight: (121)

2/2

[personal profile] likethelight 2017-09-04 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

Do you want to go down to the planet then? [ It's said gently, brightly and easily, but not like it's a light sort of thing to offer. It really isn't, to Allen who is so reflexively conscientious still that he should probably be alone. Until he's certain of himself. Because people around him get caught up in bad things.

But how could he not? When he looks like that.

It's why Slaine will find himself being offered a hand again. A hand down off the table—and perhaps to punctuate what he says, too. ]


Together.

[ Because it's the most reflexive thing of all. ]
objectionattorney: (Phoenix Serious Business Stare Down)

[personal profile] objectionattorney 2017-09-04 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[APPARENTLY.]

Yeahhh, no. I'm good. Besides, whose lives are at stake now? Last I recall none of what's going on now requires my sacrifice.

If you're going to mess with me at least be a little more sensible with it.
bakazaru: (not sure if understand)

[personal profile] bakazaru 2017-09-04 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine I will. I was just looking for some recommendations. I don't want to eat something that other people say is disgusting.

[But he probably would anyways.]

As long as none of it has bugs in it.

[Does Goku possibly have a line he won't cross with food??]
worldlyafflictions: (ch067pg29p1)

[personal profile] worldlyafflictions 2017-09-04 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't seem like there'd be much for me ta do is all.

[And what does Mephisto have that he could offer Shima at this point? Though this was definitely the monkey-paw way of getting the freedom from his family that he'd wanted... but lets not dwell on that!!]
Edited 2017-09-04 20:49 (UTC)
exorion: (080)

winter

[personal profile] exorion 2017-09-04 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Cayde's having a similar series of thoughts; that all this is way too suspicious. Maybe they just have weird food down here, but his gut tells him otherwise. Cayde looks at the crate in his hands, resisting the urge to just crack it open or shake it or something stupid like that. Whatever's in there, they can't open it up here.

He glances over at Ianto when he hears him mutter, wondering if he's just cold or if he's having Concerns too. "You alright?" He asks quietly.
vorrutyer: (explaining everything (badly))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2017-09-04 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Mess with you? Dear sir, I'm wounded. Do you think I do not desperately wish the return of my beloved countrymen?
inaurare: (Happy)

[personal profile] inaurare 2017-09-04 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
>it will be nice to meet a friend face to face.

>if i may call you a friend?
punshots: (✘ grit.)

[personal profile] punshots 2017-09-04 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm looking forward to hearing about your results!!
publish them for the sake of science
just make sure the ladder/stepladder you use has exactly five steps
latrodectus: (двенадцать)

[personal profile] latrodectus 2017-09-04 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Dammit. ]

Later than that. The sun is out longer, this far north. We have to get you to that cave.

[ Then, a fire. Her mind races through protocols. She's worried— it doesn't show, not in the obvious ways. But Clint knows her less obvious ways. Or maybe he's too delusional to pick up on them, now. ]
crushingly: (Default)

[personal profile] crushingly 2017-09-04 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'll ask again later.]
jesus_is_gundam: (You're an idiot)

[personal profile] jesus_is_gundam 2017-09-04 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
What they have is a problem, as the do have a crate full of weapons, ones that likely aren't meant for the people of the colony. But now that he knew, it begged the obvious question of what now? But given that they were in the middle of the frozen tundra, and the colony needed the rest of the supplies on hand, they didn't have a whole lot of time to sit and debate about it, nor did they have a lot of options to debate over.

"This isn't part of our mission."
crushingly: (Default)

[personal profile] crushingly 2017-09-04 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Headtilt.

He knew you were wearing double fuckin' socks.]


Alright.
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[personal profile] swordfish 2017-09-04 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, I'm too heartbroken at my loss to possibly go another round.

( Ignore the shit eating grin on his face. )

Soooo... guess I gotta get you a number.
courtintrigue: (you may need that sense of humor)

[personal profile] courtintrigue 2017-09-04 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
How fortunate we are to have no communication barriers.

You propose an exchange? I have only had one title, though I have been called many things. I once traveled with a golem who would only refer to me as the swamp witch. Creativity was not its strong suit.