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❪ test drive: #1 - the overflow ❫
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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.
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. 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... 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.
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[I mean, what do you say to all of that. His face kind of screws up a little, like he's having trouble processing it. It sounds completely insane, obviously, but also, he can remember remembering things that were completely insane, so, it tracks? It's not disbelief, it's just difficult to get his mind around.
There are a lot of questions running through his mind that he wants to ask. Does this mean Lucretia is evil? Are any of their memories even real? If he trained to fight the hunger for 100 years, how jacked did he get? Also, are you, like, okay right now? Though he might not be the most tactful person, he gets that Taako is dancing around the topic of his sister, and that sounds pretty heavy. He knows all too well what it's like to lose someone important to you, but not what it's like to forget you lost them in the first place.
But he doesn't voice any of this because it all seems either not quite the right thing to say, or at least not what Taako wants to hear.]
So then I guess it's end zone play final stand take two? Me and you, classic team up.
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[Taako most definitely realizes he sounds like a rambling lunatic, so he's fine with Geez! as the big reaction he gets. It could be worse. Jinkies, Scoob. Zoinks. Anyway, sorry buddy, but you'd reset any sick gains you made every year so there was a limit to how ultra-jacked you could get. A hard jacking limit. As for the other questions, Taako can get there eventually, but there's a lot to unpack. About six episodes worth?]
Don't ask me any tough questions about sports rules here, but I don't think that's how it works. Think we might be back at the scrimmage line, and more than half our team is out on chronic popsicle leave.
[ Sports??? Good enough. It could be encouraging to hear that at least Taako still thinks they're on the field instead of taking his ball and going the fuck home to give up forever. ]
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[Said in a trying to keep it light kind of way; yeah, these odds all seem pretty bad? And if anything, the loss of their planet hits him harder, since no matter what Taako might tell them about going to new worlds, letting them get devoured, and peacing out of existence, he can't wrap his mind around what that actually feels like. Sure, their friends are safe, but it's that odd experience of knowing, hey, that nice old guy at the bank that time? He's dead. That town, where you had a great evening once drinking at the tavern? It's gone. A little like what it was like when Raven's Roost was destroyed. Speaking of which, that's even more gone now than it was before. It's not okay, and it's hard to try and be optimistic when he actually wants to go be angry.
Thank god Taako is here to pull him back a little, or he really would go run after it all with a flaming sword. Speaking of... ]
Oops, hang on a sec. I'm getting word the hug train is coming into Taako station! And it seems someone's cut the brakes?? Oh no, it can't be stopped by any mortal man??? Hold on for your life!
[Yeah. C'mere, buddy.]
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Taako goes completely still in self-defense, arms pinned to his side and just accepting whatever is happening right now, which is a weird overly strong hug from a shirtless guy in cargo shorts. They've hit rock bottom, might as well lean into it. ]
Is this helping? Is this how you process? Tell me when you're done.
[ The most Magnus will get in return is one very awkward hand reaching up to sort of. Pat him on the back. Is that what you're supposed to do in these situations. ]
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[Holding him very gently and tightly in a big warm bear hug, rubbing a comforting circle on his back. Basically the warmest and nicest hug you will ever receive in your life. And, after thirty seconds, pulling away. There's definitely some smudged Gogurt on Taako's stupid forever 21 clothes now.]
Okay, done. Anyway. So, what exactly was the director - Lucretia? What was she trying to do? Was she evil?
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He just shakes his head at the "was she evil" question. He doesn't have the most insight of all of them into what she did, exactly - from his perspective it was a bit of a blindsiding and he's only started putting the pieces together, but he really doubts Lucretia's capacity for evil. Figuring out what went down, and why, isn't incredible difficult to logic out. It's possible to tell the question shakes him a little because he doesn't seem to care all that much about being 'gurt smeared.]
Um, nah. Not evil. [The opposite. Taako himself doesn't exactly have the credentials to be able to easily explain the concept of loving your dumb family so much you'll do anything for them, though. Voicing that sort of thought requires a few more levels in Emotional Intelligence he just doesn't have.] Like I said, our plan. Hm. Went kind of off the rails. She . . . uh, tried to fix it for us. I don't know, maybe she'll wake up and you can interrogate her yourself?
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[Since it's obvious Taako doesn't really want to explain, and it's not important. All he really wanted was to know how to feel about it. If Taako thinks it's complicated but not evil, then that's good enough.]
I just mean, well, would her plan have worked? We're going to have to figure out a new plan, at least, although we don't need to get into right this second.
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[ That might be kind of dope actually. Why didn't he think of that earlier. I mean there's the downside Magnus might get emotional insight into Taako's personal perspective on it, which has a lot of potential Yikes involved, but if he practiced enough he could probably hum some Kenny Loggins over the cool parts and it'd look pretty sick?]
As for her plan, I think you can kind of see the outcome of that yourself? We're here, aren't we? Kind of implies taking an L on that one, homie.
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[But, okay, he hasn't wanted to mess too much around with this stuff, it seems unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but still, it's going to eat at him if he doesn't ask.]
Hey Taako? How does the hundred years thing work in with all the other memories we have? Like, were those faked as part of the plan...?
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Oh, nah, all that shit is real. All this other stuff is just the surprise prequel you didn't ask for, like Wolverine. You know how the Fish works [sort of], it can only take things out of your head, not make up a decade wholecloth and implant it.
[Don't worry man, turns out THB imploded their lives just fine on their own, no fakes needed.]
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[I mean, Merle has kids. At least, as far as they vaguely know. Chewing on the bottom of his lip a bit, thinking this through.]
Just so you know? In case it's important. They told me that she's here? My wife, I mean. I haven't checked yet, because, well, you saw. [Running out to fight the Storm with a sword.] But that's a thing. Anyway.
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That said, he isn't exactly sure what Magnus is looking for from him here, if he's even looking for anything from him beyond just wanting to voice the fact. It sure is a thing!]
Oh. Uh. That's a thing.
[There's a lot buried in this minefield though. The fact they're offering to bring back the dead and done-zo is . . . shady, to say the least. The second fact is Magnus tipping his hand that, of course, this was his wish granted by whatever weird powers are in charge here. It isn't a surprise by any stretch of the imagination, it's simply a thing.]
If you want we can go scope that shit out later. I didn't exactly stick around to do inspections.
[ He had hauled ass out of the Dude Freezer pretty quick - it's a surreal place. Being surrounded by the figures of your friends and family is, in a word, creepy. He hadn't worked up the courage yet either to go searching for certain faces. Either outcome (finding and not knowing if they'd ever wake up, or being unable to find at all) seemed worse than the other. The Schrodinger's Frozen Friends and suppressing as hard as he could scenario seemed to be working out okay so far.]
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Taako offering to go with him is a pretty big surprise, though. Huh. Empathy. Who knew?]
Yeah. It seemed kind of fucked up to poke around. Plus I wanted to find you guys! But I'll check it out later, and you should come with if that's what you want.
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Well, you found the guys. It's just me, I'm the guy, the one other baller who can't be stopped. It's like you said, party's back together. Classic team up! Taako and Magnus take the town. We should get jerseys.
[ He's just gonna skip right on to goof goof goofin' because it's clear this has gotten heavy and his arms are tired. Free him.]
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Fuck yeah, we're getting jerseys. Limited edition! What do you want them to say?
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[Said with the tone of a joke, but. Is it.]
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[Going to stick with the strong 'don't talk about it' cues and just brush past it.]