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ɴᴀᴛʜᴀ orbiters ❰ mod collective ❱ ([personal profile] natha) wrote in [community profile] elnyan2017-06-28 04:48 pm
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❪ test drive: #1 - the overflow ❫

YOUR STORY BEGINS    


The Storm came. You only remember darkness, but you don't remember much after that.

All you know, perhaps, is that it was cold as you slept. You don't know for how long you slept, but the dreams were short, at least. You remember the expanse of stars and the universe that came in view. Every world and solar system ever known was displayed in your dreams in careful, pristine detail. You have also witnessed The Storm, which has devoured a fair portion of these galaxies. It was a dark, thick smog; ominous in appearance and ever foreboding.

Your Earth and similar planets were immersed in The Storm. Somehow, you knew it would be the last you'd see of it. That was when she told you what happened, and how you can help. You knew that you'll be living somewhere new, even though you never asked for it. The details here weren't clear, but you knew you'd made a deal with Darma.

Not long after, you'll wake at Thesa Station — Your body is still cold.

It was all a dream, but somehow, you knew it wasn't — now, will you keep that promise you made to Darma?
PROMPT: THE MESS HALL    


It's fascinating to the Orbiters how such a dull room can be turned around so completely with people in it. All meals are served by Roman, and while all the food is delicious, some of it is a bit odd. Is that neon green soup? That’s hideous.

If you happen to be in the mess hall at a particularly unlucky time, you and the food will suddenly begin to drift. Someone’s got jokes, and they’ve turned off the gravity control. Now it’s just you, your fellow refugees, and the floating sea of food. Wait, did that person just chuck a pie in your direction?
PROMPT: TRAINING MODULES    


While it’s all nice and well to familiarize oneself with Thesa Station, it is most advised that new arrivals venture out a bit. Not physically. No one is quite prepared for that yet. However, there will be several virtual reality training programs set for those who dare to be adventurous. For those who aren’t and don’t dare, well— good luck, all the same. Be advised, however, that participating in one of the training modules will start you off favorably with the Natha Orbiters’ in terms of REPUTATION.

Once seated and appropriately strapped in, the system will automatically whir to life and the dense foliage and forestry of a section of El Nysa will open up. According to one’s map registry, it clear to see that it’s miles from the outer gates of Olympia, but not as far enough to venture into any other territories. So, in that sense, you’re safe.
  • 1. Or you could have been, but unfortunately the wilderness is home to various types of beasts and monsters hailing from different universes and galaxies. On the bright side, perhaps one of them will be oddly familiar to you. Or maybe someone else who is currently synced is willing to give you that extra helping hand.

    Fortunately, if you’re powerless, there are options. From telekinesis to flight, there are strange abilities one can adopt and “test” out in the virtual reality. Granted, you’re only limited to one at a time. They say in the near future, some of you may be granted these abilities under certain conditions.

    But, please practice some caution. You aren’t alone in the system, after all.

  • 2.. Who do you fight for, the VR system will ask you individually before you enter the module. The righteous Olympians, or the free-spirited Wyvers? Whatever your choice, when you enter El Nysa, you will wholly and truly believe your allegiance.
    • A. Working together: You now have to suffer the consequences of your choice, as you and your partner have been captured by guards of the opposite faction. Now jailed and soon-to-be tortured, you must find some way to negotiate your release. Perhaps you’ll find some means to escape without detection. Maybe you’re the “fight your way out” sort of people.

    • B. Facing your enemy: That person you stepped into the VR with? They’re out to capture you. Or maybe you seek to capture them.
  • 3. When you enter the virtual reality, things aren’t exactly how they’re supposed to be. Maybe that’s natural, especially if this is your first time, but the problems here seem a bit more fundamental. Maybe you find yourself under a parental safety lock, and you’re suddenly censored. Exposed back? Censored. Body suit? Censored. Or replaced with a mascot costume. Worst of all? You can’t sign out. Not right now, at least. Regardless, whatever it is— ridiculous filters, body alterations, or even body swaps with other users... you are assured it’ll all be fixed with due time. Zasere sends his humblest apologies and promises no more wire chewing, or so the announcement states.
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: HANGAR STATION    


You find your way to the hangar station. Here rests are a factory worth of docked mobile suits. You recall how the Orbiters had previously spoken of a "space frontier," but only after seeing this you realize how real their words are. Most machinery have marks of wear and tear, assurance that they have indeed been used before, and an assembly of others are going through repairs and maintenance. No one seems to care that you've just strolled in.

In fact, there seems to be a couple of the aircraft that beckon you to take a closer look. Maybe you’ll only look on the outside, maybe you'll be greeted by the hand of a mobile suit extending toward you and welcoming you to its cockpit.

You go out and explore SPACE!!! Unfortunately, that mobile suit should have warned you it only had 20 minutes of flight time left in its system. Or, perhaps, you’re a particularly ambitious pilot and you’ve strayed past the designated perimeter. Either way, the HUD display is now blinking with errors, cropping up with a single message: DISTRESS SIGNAL.

  • 1. You’re the poor sap who happened to chill around the Observation Deck. Unfortunately, everyone seems busy with the influx of mobile suits out and about, and the only one who can answer this distress signal is on the Navigation System, well, you. Hope you can figure out the controls fast enough. Guide the pilot back to the safety of the hangar using the most efficient route possible. Keen Navigators will find an instruction manual that provides a shortcut to automatically return a suit back to base.

  • 2. You’re actually sitting in a two-seater mobile suit. Funny how that works, isn’t it? Maybe you were unwittingly dropped down a hatch, or dragged along for a joyride by your ambitious co-pilot. Either way, it looks like help is going to take some time...
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    
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 Training Module thread of AC length on the TDM may be submitted for 1 NATHA ORBITER REPUTATION POINT after acceptance.

rhygret: (mom is that you)

[personal profile] rhygret 2017-07-06 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, not...really? And I know how that sounds but pretty much everyone I care about is sleeping in the pods and I am more than happy to be off that murder-planet.

[ It's not like he was born on Pandora or had any love for the place. It's the literal worst. Give him one of the Eden's any day.

This probably makes him a bad person in some way. He can live with this. ]
clandestina: by <user name="chillarmy"> (focus)

[personal profile] clandestina 2017-07-06 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair enough. [ If someone's gonna judge him, it's not her. ] I've run into people from mine too. But they're more...colleagues. Than friends.

[ If even that. Her tone's dry, her smile only halfway there. ]
21stcenturyguy: (sigh)

[personal profile] 21stcenturyguy 2017-07-06 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aoi shrugs.]

Good change. You're less embarrassin' to look at now.

[People skills, who needs 'em? Cool people die friendless and alone.

The door to the lounge slides open as they reach it. The couches aren't as nice or as plush as the ones on the not-Gigantic, but Aoi drops onto one in a sprawl anyways.]


Ok, this is probably as much privacy as we're gonna get. We can talk or whatever.

[There's a non-zero chance that the participants of the Second Nonary Game might've had some unanswered questions.]
exorion: (065)

[personal profile] exorion 2017-07-06 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Great.

[Cayde gets himself up, thank you very much, and fixes his cloak with a loud huff. He already doesn't like this guy.]

I found one of the mouthy ones.
rhygret: (I wish this was x-ray)

[personal profile] rhygret 2017-07-06 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The good kind or the asshole kind? Because last place I worked? Lots of the second one.
apathet: (pic#11539715)

[personal profile] apathet 2017-07-06 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ uhm? beg his fucking pardon? spinning on the spot in the direction of the voice, Laura takes a long... long old chunk of seconds to squint angrily out at him through the blood stuck to her face. are you serious? ]

Turn up before an entire forest of fuckin' Eldritch abominations tries to kill me and maybe you'll get a turn next time.

[ alright Laura calm down they probably weren't that bad ]
Edited 2017-07-06 14:16 (UTC)
rhygret: (the easy part)

[personal profile] rhygret 2017-07-06 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe next time you try going up there you should take a harness. Safety rope. It might help.

[ Rhys just needs to get one last poke in there okay. He can't not with what a spectacular spill that was. For once it wasn't him doing it. ]

Seriously though, that looked more than a little painful. You okay?
ofobedience: please do not take (pic#11048279)

[personal profile] ofobedience 2017-07-06 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I should think they would. That's the point.
exorion: (eyyyy)

[personal profile] exorion 2017-07-06 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cayde snorts.] That was nothing, I'm fine.
xwings: (ʟᴇᴀᴅᴇʀsʜɪᴘ)

[personal profile] xwings 2017-07-06 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
i can do one better and show you how it's done
beatupgrass: (✘did you just call my girlfriend a cow)

[personal profile] beatupgrass 2017-07-06 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rocket crosses his little furry arms over his chest.] Those're your words, not mine. I'd like to call it a profitable way to make sure I still have a place to live tomorrow.

[it's like 12% of a lie.]
xwings: (ʜᴏᴘᴇ)

[personal profile] xwings 2017-07-06 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
If you've never flown anything before? Probably a year or two. [ that's assuming you do nothing but learn how to fly, which poe is assuming because -- is there really anything but flying? (yes, there is, and he knows it, too, but flying will always rank high up his list of priorities.) ]

But I'm betting I can figure it out in under ten minutes. [ look, it's easier if you've learned how to fly almost before you could walk. ]
xwings: (ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ)

[personal profile] xwings 2017-07-06 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, I got you.

[ poe's flown ships designed for pilot and co-pilot teams on his own before, it's not a big deal. but he might be able to teach the kid a thing or two. it'll be fun! what could possibly go wrong? ]

Just buckle up. [ after climbing into the cockpit, poe does just that. ]
beatupgrass: of disappointment (✘ you're the grand central station)

[personal profile] beatupgrass 2017-07-06 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[WOW DAMN, LEGION.]

By loving myself more than I could ever love anyone else.

[THE BIGGEST LIE ROCKET HAS EVER TOLD TO ANYONE EVER.]
xwings: (ᴇᴍᴘɪʀᴇ)

[personal profile] xwings 2017-07-06 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
the empire? as in death star, darth vader, that empire?
rhygret: (how does this work)

[personal profile] rhygret 2017-07-06 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You sure? That fall sounded really, er, solid. [ Like a ton of metal hitting the floor actually. But hey! At least Rhys isn't poking fun at him this time? ]
rhygret: (my son's a little...loud)

[personal profile] rhygret 2017-07-06 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, damnit. That's actually kind of adorable? But Rhys gets the feeling if he says that he's going to regret it. A lot. ]

Profitable as in you get paid to save the galaxy?
blooded: ᴀʟʟ ɪᴄᴏɴs ʙʏ SHITHOUSE. ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ. (Default)

DAMON SALVATORE.▎ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇ ᴅɪᴀʀɪᴇs.

[personal profile] blooded 2017-07-06 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
i. ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ɪs ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛs ʙᴜʀᴅᴇɴ ɪs ᴀ ʙᴇᴀsᴛ ❰ mess hall ❱
( getting the lay of the land is always damon's first instinct, when it comes to situations like this. ...not that he's really ever been in a situation like this, but you wouldn't know that to look at him. he looks every bit the experienced spacefarer, interested mostly in what's available for eating in a place like this. never let them see you sweat, that's damon's motto — and if they do, kill them.

murder's a bit of a leap, though, when he doesn't really know what's going on. it's one thing in mystic falls, where he generally knows who he's pissing off and why. here, wherever here is, he doesn't know shit. better to lay low and not make any waves. killing can come later, if there's cause for it.

(there's always cause for it.)

he heads for a table just to people-watch and try to figure out the important players here, but no sooner has he sat down than a glass bottle pops up in front of him, cheerfully declaring itself to be diet blood to anyone who looks at the label. for a moment damon just stares, eyebrow raised, unsure of whether to be amused or angry at the premature blowing of his cover. eventually, he decides it's nothing he can't work around if he has to, and he picks up the bottle.
)

Think it's real? ( he asks whoever's seated next to him, turning to them with a raised eyebrow. )

ii. ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ғɪɢʜᴛ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴛᴏ ʙʟᴇᴇᴅ ❰ training module ❱
( usually, damon's loyalty is reserved for those who have earned it. when he decided to enter the module and fight for wyver, it was really just because he likes to be contrary, and he assumed olympia was the choice expected of him. he didn't expect to care about the faction he chose — it's a simulation. virtual reality. he doesn't have to actually care about it if he doesn't want to.

but care he does. he's stuck in a room, about to be interrogated, tortured — but olympia has underestimated wyver, as they always do. (do they always? it seems they must, if they've left damon in a room alone, no vervain in sight.) there's a camera in one corner of the room, but just the one, and damon stands beneath it, out of its line of sight. someone will come through, wondering where he's gone, in three... two...

the door opens and damon blurs to it, grabbing whoever might have stepped through. it could have been another wyver operative, though he's not counting on that. before the camera can really register the movement, he and his new friend are back in the corner, and damon growls against their ear:
)

Make a sound and you'll regret it, Olympian.

iii. ʟᴇᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅs ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ sᴛᴏʀᴍ ❰ omage ❱
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with...
You’re now chatting with salvatore... Say hi!

> The fuck is this

iv. ɪᴛ's ᴀ sᴜᴅᴅᴇɴ ᴛʜʀɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴜɴᴛᴇʀ ғᴇᴇʟs ❰ sleeping quarters ❱
( having left the mess hall behind, damon prowls the halls of the sleeping quarters — though prowl is probably too sneaky a word. he knows perfectly well how to be inconspicuous even as he's actively on the hunt, and he is now — he looks, in fact, like a somewhat befuddled young man who's probably more than a little bit lost. a few people pass him by, and even if they offer him help he doesn't take it, assuring them he's fine, thanks, just a little turned around —
none of them are people he's keen to sink his teeth into.

and then someone new passes by, and they are exactly what he's looking for.
)

Hey, ( he says, stepping a little closer, a little urgent — he's lost, you see, and it's starting to fray his nerves — ) You wouldn't be able to help me, would you? I'm not used to... ( damon gestures at the halls around them, but the movement seems to reference more than just the halls, encompassing the whole of thesa. ) all this, and I've gotten turned around pretty bad. I'm just trying to get back to my room, but all these halls look the same.

( help a guy out, friend. you certainly won't regret it! )

v. ɪ'ᴍ ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴘʜᴇɴᴏᴍᴇɴᴏɴ ❰ wildcard ❱
( this is a repost of damon's original top level, with an added option for vampire funtimes!

want to play with damon but don't like the look of those prompts? feel free to hit me with something else, or hit me up on plurk at [plurk.com profile] salvatrice and we can plot something out!

regarding those vampire funtimes: if you're down for it, damon would like to feed on your character, then "compel" them to forget it happened. tagging that option indicates to me that you're cool with that, but if you want to discuss any part of that idea before you do, feel free to hit me up on plurk!
)
motivation: (【 134 】)

[personal profile] motivation 2017-07-06 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
very. i might just have to swoon.

[ # sarcasm. ]
competing: (117!)

[personal profile] competing 2017-07-06 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ???? ]

thats not fun thats murder??!
competing: (077!)

[personal profile] competing 2017-07-06 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hard to read sarcasm in text, dutch!




and when one is willfully optimistic. ]


you should at least wait till im around
so i can be sure to catch you when you fall
;)


[ also hard to tell who he's talking to in these things... god he hopes he just hit on a cute girl. and not. you know. not a cute girl. ]
blooded: ᴀʟʟ ɪᴄᴏɴs ʙʏ SHITHOUSE. ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ. (🌑|063.)

for dutch

[personal profile] blooded 2017-07-06 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
( from here! )

They explained that pretty well in the dream, actually. What they didn't explain was sci fi omegle.
Edited 2017-07-06 14:50 (UTC)
competing: (043!)

[personal profile] competing 2017-07-06 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
omg what about hologram info-tutorials

[ he's heard good things about coran's. (mostly from coran himself...) ]
motivation: (【 TWENTY-THREE 】)

[personal profile] motivation 2017-07-06 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hard to read, maybe, but just wait until you meet her in person. the sarcasm just drips off her tone in moments like this, to the extent that even lance won't be able to ignore. ]

i'll pass, thanks.
so what have you done to defend the universe lately, hotshot?
ofobedience: (pic#10920577)

[personal profile] ofobedience 2017-07-06 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do those two things have to be seperate? Besides, it's only murder if someone dies.