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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.

poolhall_killer: ([Xrd] you don't belong in the light)

[personal profile] poolhall_killer 2017-07-10 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[One very annoyed huff leaves Venom's lips. He should teach this man some tact, but who knows what might happen if he causes a disruption here. He remains calm for now.]

It's none of your concern. All you need to know is it was strictly professional.

[Though Venom would be lying if he said he didn't want something more.]
sweetwater: (001)

with great responsibility comes ????

[personal profile] sweetwater 2017-07-10 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Don't kill him, you bozo! [ god Peter, why can't you read her mind and also be fully versed on alien technology? is that so much to ask? someone has to know how the pods work. why not this guy? he's just sitting around. she would appreciate if he conveniently knew exactly the information she wanted.

she huffs. being Cheryl Blossom is very stressful and she is not handing this well. ]


Nevermind. I'll find someone who knows what they're doing. [ Cheryl looks more distraught than someone scolding a stranger for things he is not responsible for should be. shove the feelings down, Cheryl. it's the only way to really survive. ]

Why are you sitting here, anyway?
quevalry: (N1CwpLn)

[personal profile] quevalry 2017-07-10 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
He could just be into some really, really weird tastes. I can't really understand that one though. As long as he's happy then that's all that matters.
quevalry: (2OJObBu)

[personal profile] quevalry 2017-07-10 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Right! Time to put a stop to it.

... Does anyone actually know how to stop it though?
beknight: ([ bvs ] 46.)

[personal profile] beknight 2017-07-10 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
There is.

[ He drinks first — this has already been tested. It could have anything else in it besides poison, but Bruce is going to cross that bridge when it comes. ]

[ It's not like he has equipment to test it with. ]

I thought I'd start with exploring the station, establishing some connection with our benefactors here.
deadthenred: (thirteen.)

[personal profile] deadthenred 2017-07-10 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, they give you medals for getting shot. But you don't need to tell me about it. I'm decorated plenty. [ He has been shot a lot. ]
laveers: (10)

[personal profile] laveers 2017-07-10 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
The free men of the Iron Islands in Westeros are ironborn. House Greyjoy has ruled them since the days of Aegon the Conqueror.

[ If she doesn't elaborate, it's because everyone she met already knew. ]

[ "Soldier" has an interesting place in her worldview. Somewhere between a sellsword and a knight. She wouldn't say the former, but sellswords are a varied lot. Asha sits up. ]

That tells me little, Shrike. Come, a truth for a truth. One question each.
exorion: (eyyyy)

[personal profile] exorion 2017-07-10 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's, uh...

[He spreads his hands out, gesturing in an arc with a gentle waggling of his fingers, like he's about to say something amazing.]

Bad stuff. From space.
todeceive: (ɂ i can't keep track)

[personal profile] todeceive 2017-07-10 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't move to help. He could, certainly, but he doesn't. His statement before was--well, truth-adjacent: he's not a combatant. He works in shadows. He knows enough of fighting to survive, but that's all. He's certainly not going to put himself in harm's way for someone he doesn't know and whose life provides him with no survival advantage.]

[In quick sum, he's allowed her to put herself in this position to see what she can do. If she can survive this, she's got potential. If not, she's not his problem anymore. Either way, he's not about to step in.]

[Instead he watches, the motion of his passage through space letting him move into a crouch, one knee to the floor. His eyes are bright and curious, watchful on the lion's movements.]
todeceive: (ɂ we laugh while we spit)

[personal profile] todeceive 2017-07-10 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's true that snails are the cleverest animal of all. They carry their homes with them everywhere they go and never have to rush.
kimaris: (181.)

[personal profile] kimaris 2017-07-10 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Get better taste in entertainment, Crowley... no I agree, picking on Gaelio is also my favourite pastime. ]

Not really. I have a younger sister, but I don't think that counts.

[ There were always 1000 maids around to parent Almiria instead... ]
deadthenred: (sixteen.)

[personal profile] deadthenred 2017-07-10 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm twenty, I'll have you know. [ Not old enough to vote, sure, but old enough to enlist and change. Young enough still that he feels he's got to qualify how old he is.

He shrugs. ]


And if I fibbed a bit on the enlistment form, I'm not the only one.
Edited (let's make this less redundant w/my last tag) 2017-07-10 03:06 (UTC)
tricksune: (m031)

[personal profile] tricksune 2017-07-10 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ At least they'd know what to do if the objective were 1) burn and/or freeze something until it ceases to be a problem or 2) repeat option 1, except with weapons. Maybe they should've brought literally anyone in this cast besides each other. He frowns. ]

Have you ever known the law to be kind to thieves?

[ They're pretty boned either way is what he's getting at. Besides, Yusuke might be an oddball, but he's still a teenager. What teen wants to sit through a full legal procession? (Note: Goro Akechi may not be used as an answer.) Best to try and escape while they can—the future is dark and full of both painful and boring possibilities. Picking himself up slightly, he squints through the bars, assessing how much room they might have to slip through. Or maybe they could bust the lock, which brings back the problem of the guards— ]

Perhaps if one of us could catch their attention, the other can dispatch them.

[ The trick is... figuring out how to do that. They seem pretty set on ignoring them, to the point that conjecturing (quietly) about their escape plans doesn't seem to arouse much suspicion. ]
tricksune: (m031)

[personal profile] tricksune 2017-07-10 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
(it's totally fine!! i have no idea what i'm doing either, yolo)

[ He stays back, more used to playing the vanguard role himself, but it hardly seems right to get in her way. She's able to cast the shadows away in a flurry, though his attention is caught on how she's doing it—she slashes in a familiar way, like a painter might attack a canvas, brushlike. He has a hundred new, curious questions at that, but that's all the more reason to stay focused on the matter at hand first.

As soon as she's back at his side, he takes off his mask again. ]
Goemon!

[ This time, his summon—this weird thing—sticks around a few seconds longer, moving in tandem with him as he tosses a hand forward with a flourish. Ice blooms out around the nearest, largest creature, freezing it in place. The rest—a small, thinning group, now—gradually join it, frosted over and pinned with icicles, before he stops, winded.

But as long as she could keep up her earlier firepower, that should be enough anyway. He'll leave her to do the finishing touches. He has enough breath left in him to ask for her help one more time, at least: ]
Would you mind doing the honors?
todeceive: (ɂ of flirtatious thoughts)

[personal profile] todeceive 2017-07-10 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[What is he? That's a very personal question. To his credit, he doesn't hesitate, but that probably just means he had a good lie lined up.]

I'm a businessman.

[Yikes.]

And I'm not dead yet, so I'm a very good businessman. [Hahaha do you get the joke? Because he already died once? Hahahahaha. Hahaha. Ha.]
quevalry: (N1CwpLn)

[personal profile] quevalry 2017-07-10 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sorry Angela, it looks like she's going to dump some heavy stuff onto you. ]

But that's just it. I mustn't have done my best if I couldn't save one person.
I feel like if I... I don't know, just did something different then it wouldn't have ended badly.
quevalry: (EDdxPId)

[personal profile] quevalry 2017-07-10 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Bully!

He's forever marked as a bully now. ]


What?! They did that?! Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that. That's really unfortunate.
gitanes: (♘ even in the afterlife)

[personal profile] gitanes 2017-07-10 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's literally called a cage? So no thanks.

[Lila is incredibly averse to cages, both because of past life experience and because that just sounds objectively awful. You can't really blame her.]

Just a thought, but maybe ditch the crinoline next time. Live on the wild side.
quevalry: (lJPwha9)

[personal profile] quevalry 2017-07-10 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ If it helps him, she's bad at it as well. It doesn't help that where she's from, ost people know who Lena is. Turning to face him, she will give Prompto a two-finger salute with a wink. ]

Lena Oxton! Although, feel free to call me Tracer! Might be easier to remember.

[ Because there's a lot of name learning that will be happening here. It gets confusing to remember names and faces all the time so she doesn't expect anyone to actually remember her names.

It's a bonus if they do. ]
So, fought a lot of stuff before?
hoboish: (and their bindings held tightly)

[personal profile] hoboish 2017-07-10 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Must not be if they've got him secured in one of these.

[ He knocks on the glass. And then blinks a bit as she apparently imitates the monkey and starts giggling about it. This girl is strange! ]

A scientist monkey? Now you're pulling my leg.
hoboish: (just like the rest)

[personal profile] hoboish 2017-07-10 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ No, Wisely is definitely not screaming about poop trains. Though if that's a thought that crosses this other guy's mind, he's definitely giving him a weird look for a second here.

Then he shrugs, like it's no big deal. And it's not, not to him. He'd probably have fun with it, in fact. ]


Yeah, if I can. I mean, it's their fault we're in here, they'd deserve it.
galaxycannon: (norba5)

[personal profile] galaxycannon 2017-07-10 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Steering he can do! He is A-okay with steering! Yamagi is totally gonna beat his punk ass for getting stuck out here considering their consequences. But it's fine! They can do this!

He lets out a light laugh and gives him a thumbs up. ]


Leave it to me, boss!
gitanes: (♘ like it nurtures me)

[personal profile] gitanes 2017-07-10 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[An amazon. Lila squints a little. She doesn't know what that means, exactly; she knows the place, of course, and sometime in the past she probably read an old Greek myth or two, but she isn't at all familiar with the concept of Amazons.]

[The important thing is that this woman isn't human. She's a potential threat, even though she doesn't seem interested in starting anything right now. It's information to remember for the future.]


Don't ask me, I never did it. Just because I'm human doesn't mean I understand everything humanity does.
hoboish: (say all the right words)

[personal profile] hoboish 2017-07-10 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ He lifts his brows, then throws his hands up in a shrug. It doesn't seem like he's too opposed to her busting up the wall. In fact, the more chaos the better, he says. As long as he doesn't have to do any extensive labor. ]

No, by all means. [ He waves a hand at the wall. ] Blow it to smithereens.
tub: (pic#11516345)

[personal profile] tub 2017-07-10 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ included ... yourself?


he seems to mouth these words, his gaze slightly more punitive as they scan over her figure. that is, before it easily absolves back to derision.
] Is that what you think? [ while he could take offense, he decides it isn't worth it. it isn't as if he was proud of his lineage. he just merely thought ... it'd be too irritating to be connected with such fragile creatures.

... he doesn't deliberate over it any further.
] Sorry, but I'm not human. Nor, does your usual human logic apply to me.