>> FEB. TEST DRIVE

[majoritymods]

TDM

Welcome to Majority Rule's first Test Drive! If you did not visit our App This Please, here's the rundown: your character can "arrive" in one of two separate situations on this test drive. While you are welcome to play from both on the TDM if you like you will need to choose one version of initial setup at the point of application and interactions as a member of that crew will be considered game canon. The two "start points" are waking from a sleeping pod on the Yggdrasil on this test drive itself or waking from a cryosleep pod on the Caduceus three months prior. We plan to always offer different starting points and situations on our test drives and in our application rounds in order to keep things interesting.

Specifics about these situations can be found in the prompts below. If you have any questions please feel free to hit up our questions toplevel on this post. You may also report character actions or get investigation/exploration information at the actions & investigations toplevel.

As a note we have also posted a poll test drive post to sort of make it easier to find/vote on things for the purposes of this for anyone who would like to mess around with trying out polls. We're drastically shortening the run length of polls for the purposes of the test drive and will be applying any relevant changes from them every other day or so. This is as much a stress test for our systems as it is for you.

To see what changes have occurred you're going to want to check out the "Ship's Log" section at the tail end of this post. Every event post in Majority Rule will have this section which we will periodically update as any polls or character actions are reported to us that would change anything or that we simply feel everyone else should probably know about.

You find yourself in a graveyard amongst the stars.

One way or another you have found yourself on or around the derelict and ancient Keros station. How? Well...

Majority Rule Navigator R33500 "Rhys"

1

Wake.

You wake slowly from cryogenic sleep inside of a cryosleep pod. While most of these pods are located in cryogenic chambers on the Lethe some may have been set adrift during that long ago battle or passing time. All will be within habitable areas of the Lethe or the Keros station - unless you enjoy danger and drama and have a plan for surviving otherwise.

You remember what you were doing back at home but you can't figure out how you got here. Things feel jumbled. You're in familiar clothing and anything you had on your immediate person is still on you...unless it was somehow gamebreaking in the "dimensional portal back home" or "destroys every game problem with the press of a button" sense. Ask on the questions part if you're unsure.

The glass of the pods is frozen over and difficult to see through and you feel as though you have been plunged into the deepest part of winter. Scrolling across the inside of the glass are almost too fast letters and numbers. You think you've only caught the middle bit or the tail end of it as you start to focus.

>> Protocol: Majority Rule loading...
>> Loading...
>> Majority Rule locked.
>> Initializing...
>> Sys.Admin poll query release cryosleep locks active voters y/n?

The final line lingers until you put in an input. Yes or No? You can hit "no" on purpose or on accident. Luckily for you if it was on accident...

>> Loading results.
>> Poll query release cryosleep locks: majority y minority n.
>> Locks releasing from active voters.

Active voters? Yes. If you abstained from putting in any input you will find the lock on your pod did not release. You can either get someone else to manually release you or figure it out on your own. Or you can try to convince the Navigator to undo the locks. He might just advise you to run your own vote for release though.

Whether you are released or still trapped in your cryosleep pod the network bracelet will chime as a new notification comes in. The username is Sys.Admin; no other character can register this username or any other beginning with "Sys."

>> Attention all crew. Unidentified Yggdrasil-class hospital ship has entered this quadrant.
>> Please be advised scans indicate the ship is damaged with several lifeforms on board.
>> Some escape pods have been detected. Recording trajectory...recorded.
>> Unidentified hostiles are in pursuit of the hospital ship. Sys.Admin advisory incoming.
>> Loaded. Sys.Admin advisory: rescue operations are suggested. Fleet Protocol prohibits combat engagement from medical crews.
>> Sys.Admin advisory: engage hostiles at will.

Occasionally Rhys will make advisory statements. Characters and players do not have to listen to them - they are the Navigator's advice but the choice of how to proceed is up to them. They can listen, do the opposite, or do something else entirely. There are no current restrictions on the actions of the Lethe crew. The only time Rhys will actively impede characters is if blackmail or violence is used to force votes in any direction. Rhys will consider attempts to murder other crewmembers as violence impeding votes.

What you do next is up to you. Prompts in Majority Rule are just that: prompts. Until vote results come in and are tallied there are no other restrictions on crew operations for the Lethe. As restrictions or courses of action are charted by the Majority Rule protocol Rhys will alert the crew. Action poll results will be strong compulsions the Lethe's crew cannot resist - but they can democratically change anything they dislike, so there's that? Once released from their pods characters may explore the Lethe or proceed out into the Keros station.

The Lethe is currently in the process of booting up. Only the lowest levels of life support are online. Gravity is only turned on in cryogenic chambers, the bridge, and engineering. Everywhere else is currently a free-float area. Oxygen is only being filtered through the areas the crew has accessed. Many areas are closed off currently due to heavy doors locked down beyond which life support hasn't yet initiated. Priority will be given to any areas the crew accesses - it's up to them to prioritize what they're trying to do.

2

Jumper bay.

>> Please be advised the Lethe is not combat ready.
>> Sys.Admin advisory: restore power to non-essential areas.
>> Suggesting jumper bay priority.

The jumper bay is located mid-deck. There are 20 short-distance craft currently in vaious states of fueling. Each craft can fit up to four people and are suitable for making small trips to and from planets or other nearby areas. They have minor combat capabilities and are mostly meant for recon and short-distance travel. They can be used either to rescue Caduceus crew members or to engage the enemy combatants. Or to fuck off and do something else? Currently all ships are locked down. To take them out characters will have to work together to get things operational.

The jumper bay has a few space suits to each jumper which can alternately be used to traverse areas where life support isn't on or to space-walk. Or to go inside the Keros station where life support isn't really always a thing. These suits will adjust in size and shape to fit any crew member. They have no special capabilities beyond allowing you to breathe and not die in space for a while. The suit charges last roughly 48 hours when fully charged but none of these suits are fully charged. Some are dead and need charging and a few have anywhere from five minutes to three hours of energy. Probably someone should do something about that.

3

Weapons bay.

>> Please be advised weapons are currently inoperable.
>> Scans from weapons bay...inconclusive.
>> Sys.Admin advisory: send teams to examine situation.

The weapons bay is located near the top of the ship, close to the bridge but currently blocked off by a hell of a lot of fallen debris and one gaping open wound to the stars. They can...maybe fix that? Ignore it? Up to you. The weapons bay contains the armory as well as various defense systems. There is currently no power or life support to the weapons bay.

Once characters get into the bay they will be able to acquire cool phaser guns that...aren't charged. Yeah, might want to grab the melee weapons instead until you fix that. Or grab some of the trap mines and trip wires and other such gadgetry. Maybe you can lure some pirates into traps on the Keros station or on board the Lethe. If it's on the Lethe maybe try to mitigate the damage. Or don't.

4

Bridge & loading bay.

>> Most ship transporters offline.
>> Active transporters...one.
>> Sys. Admin advisory: fix transporters?

The Lethe bridge is currently mostly operational. There's life support and gravity - what more could you want? At the center of the Bridge is a holographic display that currently is showing the current spread of where the Lethe, the Caduceus, the Keros station, and enemy ships are in relation to one another. The viewport also gives a pretty decent view of...a lot of dead ships. Eventually it will also give a semi-decent view of some of the action.

There's a working transporter on the bridge to the loading bay. It's currently the only working transporter on the ship...and it only works one way. So if you used it, you're going to find yourself all the way down at the bottom-back of the ship instead of the tippy top. Enjoy the hike back!

The loading bay is currently connected to the Keros space station and is the easiest way to access the station. You can use less easy methods if you want, though.

5

Botany & Agriculture deck.

>> Critical alert: gravity offline in Agriculture.
>> All livestock unsecured.
>> Sys.Admin advisory: send teams to secure livestock.
>> Sys.Admin advisory: restore gravity functions.

Yeah, so. The Agriculture deck takes up an entire deck of the ship and is currently overgrown with some dead plants and a lot just wildly tangled. Lights are flickering on and off. There's oxygen, but there's no gravity.

There are, however, animals. Animals without gravity who have freshly escaped from their own cryopods. These animals are livestock such as: two...cows(?), a flock of particularly angry chickens(?), a pair of incredibly displeased cats, and a solitary and very confused dog(?). The horde of animals also happens to include character pets and companions if they, you know, have any of those. Floating around. Freestyle.

All of these animals are distressed for obvious reasons. Rhys will kindly advise against turning on gravity functions for this deck until the livestock is safely secured. Enjoy spacewalking to grab some animals who really don't want to be grabbed. This probably isn't the highest priority issue with pirates around but apparently Rhys felt it was worth noting. And the animals involved would probably feel it was priority one, actually.

Hippocratic Protocol Navigator A71355 "Alyce"

1

Wake...a few months ago.

You wake slowly from cryogenic sleep inside of a cryosleep pod...three months ago. As per the ATP, some characters found themselves waking from sleep aboard the Yggdrasil-class Hospital Ship Caduceus three months before the start of the TDM. Similarly to those on the Lethe, characters would wake slowly from cryosleep. They were in familiar clothing and similar to the Lethe crew anything they had on their immediate person was still on them...unless it was somehow gamebreaking in the "dimensional portal back home" or "destroys every game problem with the press of a button" sense. Ask on the questions part if you're unsure.

Unlike on the Lethe Caduceus crew did not have to submit a poll for freedom. Instead they were greeted with a very different methodology.

>> Protocol: Hippocratic Oath loading...
>> Loading...
>> Hippocratic Oath locked.
>> Initializing...
>> Cryosleep pod locks released.
>> Please report to the Medical Bay for recommended health examinations.

The crew of the Caduceus was able to get their ship fully operational while working together and learned from the Navigator, Alyce, that the Hippocratic Protocol had two main rules. First, do no harm. Second, treat harm where you find it. This Protocol prevents the crew of the Caduceus from attacking or injuring other people - if they try to do so they instead pass out. It also requires them to render aid if it is in their ability to do so, manifesting as an intense desire they can't shake. All crew of the Caduceus is bound by the Hippocratic Protocol and will be unable to break either of these laws until they become crew of the Lethe by the end of the TDM.

A71355 was unable to give the crew much information about how they found themselves on the Caduceus and no other lifeforms aside from the characters who woke there were anywhere to be found. The AI was initially shy and uncertain but was openly willing to answer any questions asked to the best of her abilities. Her memory was found to have been significantly damaged by a long hibernation and all the prior crew logs were deleted. The only information remaining were many medical logs, details on her Protocol, and the crew manifest. The manifest held the names of every character who awoke on the Caduceus along with some others.

2

Travel.

The Caduceus has been traveling ever since. After some time on the journey A71355 requested that the crew refer to her as "Alyce". Obviously a lot more than this happened in those three months. Characters visited two different worlds together and likely fell into learning how to work with one another and got to know Alyce as they sought answers together. Create as many noodle incidents as you'd like - this is just a basic outline to work with about what they'd have experienced and what they might have done. The two worlds that characters visited, in order and briefly, are:

Baatera, a large planet with two moons that is mostly comprised of huge tropical rainforests. The planet is near enough to the sun to be hotter than most are used to but not so hot that it can't be endured. Of the many species on Baatera there are two the characters would have had notable experiences with based on their landing site. The first are the Sashute, a small catlike folk known for being friendly and hospitable to strangers who live in elaborate treehouse villages. The second are the Vecialae, a large reptilian species known for their warmongering tendencies who live in underground caverns and tunnels they dig out. The Vecialae frequently attack the Sashute and anyone else who happens to exist in their vicinity.

Teclite, a smallish sized ice planet with no moons at the far edge of the star system Baatera is part of. Teclite is home only to the Tecra, a mammalian species with two legs and four arms who grow venomous spines over their body. Their "religion" is cybernetics and even their young children are made over into cyborgs. They are wary of anyone who doesn't have some form of cybernetic enhancement but allow certain visitors. They permitted the Caduceus to land after the hospital ship responded to a distress signal sent out by the Tecra due to an outbreak of illness in one of their smaller colonies.

3

Attack.

In the present day your crew was traveling to a new world after leaving Teclite. Well-stocked and somewhat familiar with how everyone worked together the mood was likely high right up until the attack came while in transit. While the crew experienced some friction on Baatera from the Vecialae the Sashute were well practiced at evading and repelling those attacks and the danger was "acceptable" in that no one died in the expedition or was grievously injured beyond healing. This moment right before the TDM started? That's when their luck ran out.

The familiar chime that comes before Alyce communicates sounds more harsh and frantic. A soft klaxon alarm as the Caduceus shakes with a series of small hits. The ship swerves as Alyce attempts to initiate an evasive pattern and they fall out of hyperspace.

>> Warning! Damage detected on the hull of the ship.
>> Hostile craft are in pursuit...
>> Please immediately fall back to bridge and escape pods.
>> I need to divert all available resources to shields.

Unfortunately The Caduceus has no offensive capabilities and under the Hippocratic Protocol characters are unable to cause harm or fight back. You hear Alyce's repeated warnings to retreat to safer areas as she shuts down life support and power to every other location once the crew is clear, diverting as much power as possible into defenses.

Unfortunately, some of the hits are heavy. Alyce does manage to steer them into the starship graveyard around Keros but the ship is floating dead by the time it comes into view. Characters may be injured from the attack or trapped in certain parts of the ship flying free. Characters who fell back to the bridge will hit the Keros station dock with the remnants of the Caduceus as pirates prepare to board.

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With every heavy hit as the ship accrued damage, Alyce's messages became harder and harder to comprehend. Her usually clear and helpful responses are mostly garbled and consist of frantic entreaties to stay safe. With the ship dying and gutted Alyce's functions are limited and she is "dying" in every sense of the word that matters but true to her programming her first and only concern is her crew.

4

Boarding.

As the crew scrambles to evacuate or chooses to stay put after the crash they will find the assorted Reaper spacecraft closing in are preparing to board the Caduceus. Alyce continues to urge the crew to leave but cannot force them to do so. If they choose to stay, or to try to figure out what the Reapers want...it seems they're pirates and scavengers both. And Yggdrasil-class ships are apparently very rare. One of the goals of the reapers is to take Alyce's core located in the depths of the ship below the bridge. If they are able to retrieve that they will next attempt to take Rhys's core, or will retreat with whatever they can grab.

The reapers are mainly this species but some other types of aliens can be found as well. No humans seem to be among their number. Actually, you haven't seen humans on any other planet so far...the reapers are armed with an eclectic variety of tech-y guns and less technical melee weapons. They will try to capture alive some of the crew but only seem to want a few captives. They're actively trying to take out anyone else.

5

Escape.

While some escape pods managed to make it to a nearby planet (these characters do not exist for this TDM but will be appable next round), many of the escape pods were lodged on Keros or are floating in space. One unlucky(?) pod managed to hit the weapons bay of the Lethe. The crashed Caduceus is lodged on the Keros station and characters who were trapped on the trip can get off as long as they've managed to put on one of the ship's space suits. The Caduceus's suits are white in color and each comes with medical kits and capabilities. Health scans, basic operational tools, that sort of thing.

Starship Graveyard

The Keros space station is a huge ringed structure with docking for several dozen large craft and hundreds of smaller craft...or it was. Abandoned so long ago that few remember the place exists the station is now in intense disrepair with many huge scars of damage open to space. While there are several ships still docked many are entirely nonfunctional or barely functioning. There is notable damage from a long past battle to the station and many of the ships and wreckage drifts around the station in a huge minefield. Some of the combatant ships from that long ago battle are part of the drifting wreckage. Since what does function includes ancient mines and some functioning weapons locked into defense mode few dare to go anywhere near Keros these days.

The Lethe has been sleeping at Keros for a long, long time. And now it has woken up as the Caduceus came flying through the debris to crash into the station, the Reapers hot on its tail.

1

Ancient defenses.

Currently some of Keros station's defenses are still active. Unfortunately for everyone these defenses are active against everyone, pirate and crew member alike. These include: laser turrets attacking incoming ships and escape pods; detonation mines within the station itself; chambers that quickly fill with paralyzing gas and so on. You can make up your own sci-fi traps within the station as you choose. It's a dangerous place that clearly thought it was going to be attacked or boarded. And it was obviously correct about that. Getting through the defenses and taking over the station would be hugely helpful in repelling the attack if you feel like doing that.

Currently the station is home to no lifeforms other than those that just woke or entered: the Lethe crew, the Caduceus crew, and the Reapers. The reapers are mainly this species but some other types of aliens can be found as well. No humans seem to be among their number.

Oh, and there's the monster in the station trash compacter area. But as much as that wants to kill you it wants to kill you just a little bit less than the pirates. Maybe.

2

...Trash compacter monster?

Much like the scene in the original Star Wars trilogy there is a huge room full of various space trash (ancient space trash even) on the Keros station that also houses a large...thing. Under the water and trash. You probably are best off if you never get a good look at it as it will try to drag you under and eat you if you're close enough. It can be scared off if you do real damage to it though.

The room WAS inactive, but guess what? It's one of the traps you can fall into. Ancient garbage and moldy gross water and suddenly you can hear a grinding sound and walls start to close in on you. So, like, have fun with that?

3

Crew swap?

Upon contact with any Lethe crew member Caduceus crew members will be offered the chance to officially join the Lethe crew once things are quiet enough that Rhys can voice the offer. Generally after any rescues are preformed. To accept Caduceus crew members must link their network bracelets to that of the Lethe crew member's for an uninterrupted minute.

>> Alert: I cannot contact the Hippocratic Navigator.
>> Sys.Admin advisory: suggest bringing crew under the Majority Rule protocol.

This will free them from the Hippocratic Protocol so they can fight but immediately put them under the Majority Rule Protocol. They will also no longer be able to contact Alyce on their devices until and unless something is done about Alyce's current situation and status.

4

Downtime & resupply.

Eventually the Reapers will either be defeated and scared off or will head out with their spoils in victory - that's up in the air dependent on player actions. Either way one thing is certain: characters will eventually be able to regroup and attempt to resupply the Lethe, preform repairs, and explore Keros and the ships docked there. Characters can kind of choose their own adventure for what they'd do next at this point.

The TDM will be flowing into our first in-game event in March, which will consist of landing (or crashing, or something else) on our first planet. The first planet is pre-determined in order for us to have the first event and TDM written well in advance but every planet after game open will be decided by vote as per our FAQ.

Wildcards welcome.

We aim to let players take creative lead for themselves when possible. Don't feel constrained by the above prompts. They're guidelines to help you get a feel for things - we're cool with people making shit up as long as it isn't making up an interdimensional portal home or something like that. Use common sense and "yes, and" away. We encourage use of our investigations and questions and will be trying to get to things in a timely manner. Most of our responses will come in the evenings.

Ship's Log.

This section of the event will be updated regularly with a brief outline of what's going on that everyone should know about. Just check it every so often if you want to be up to date!

Pursued by Reapers the Caduceus fled to the starship graveyard that was home to Keros station and the sleeping Lethe. As soon as the Caduceus was within sensor range the Lethe and some of its crew awoke. Some short time after the Caduceus crashed into the station after jettisoning several escape pods.

Alyce's core and several servers were removed from the Caduceus by Izuku. The remaining servers were removed by Alhaitham.

NAV • LOGS • NET • OOC • MEMES

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Comments

QUESTIONS

[majoritymods]

If you have any questions for us, ask here! We do appreciate players doing a quick ctrl+f on the FAQ page just to see if something has already been asked but we are here to help in any way we can.

We will try to get to every question in a timely manner but keep in mind all of the moderators work and our responses will mostly happen in the evenings!

[socialize]

Hi mods! I was just curious since I see that the outer damage to the ship seemed to reflect on Alyce—does any and all damage to Caduceus cause harm to her, or is it a matter of resource usage and overall ship capability reflecting in her communication abilities!

Specifically, would it be possible to damage something inside of the ship and rest assured that Alyce would be okay as long as her core and code are intact?

[nugrass]

Hello, got two questions for you!

1. This probably would have been better to ask on the FAQ, but I wasn't sure if you were accepting questions there due to the wording both on that page and this one, so -
How does language work in this game? I assume there aren't language barriers, are things automatically translated?
Can we still do character quirks like using honorifics or other languages' words mixed in with the one they're using?

2. More to the point of the TDM, how fixable would Alyce's core be? Obviously if that's gonna take forever due to story and plot that's understandable, but if there are any more minor repairs that can be done in the meantime, I'd be interested to know!

ACTIONS & INVESTIGATIONS

[majoritymods]

As you explore or if your character does something with someone else in a thread that you think might have a larger impact please feel free to report it here or ask for details about what happens when you do x y or z. For larger scale actions we may request players hold a vote on our Poll TDM but we're largely just here to keep track of chaos rather than to contain it.

Keep in mind that actually threading out these investigations amongst yourself instead of only completing them OOCly here would be eligible for your first participation token if you'd like. Don't worry about it if you wouldn't.

We will try to get to everyone in a timely manner but keep in mind all of the moderators work and our responses will mostly happen in the evenings!

[defendure]

Hi, guys! So, I'm working on my toplevel. Izuku would like to bodily yank Alyce's core out of the ship to take to relative safety of...not the dying ship? How is it set up? Is that doable? He's got super strength and some superpowered ropes (essentially, that's a bad explanation but it works for these purposes) that he could use to do it theoretically! Or would moving her core kill her because if so please ignore me...

[coveteur]

gmornin, mods!

quick question as i work on my top level. because im 100% overthinking it, hi,

when pirates and scavengers wind up injured as a result of traps or the rhys crew, are the alyce crew obligated to lend them aid as well?

R33500 // "Rhys"

[majoritymods]

Communications with Rhys can be in audio, text, or video. He can project his voice and chosen appearance through the ship broadcast system or through the communication devices his crew is outfitted with.

You do not have to intend to choose Rhys as an initial navigator to tag him for a thread. All threads with Rhys may be considered game canon regardless of crew but please note if you'd like him to consider your character as a Lethe crew member or a Caduceus crew member as it may slightly alter his responses.

We will try to get to everyone in a timely manner but keep in mind all of the moderators work and our responses will mostly happen in the evenings!

A71355 // "ALYCE"

[majoritymods]

Communications with Alyce can be in audio, text, or video. She can project her voice and chosen appearance through the communication devices her crew is outfitted with.

You do not have to intend to choose Alyce to tag her for a thread currently, but only threads with applicants who join her crew will be considered game canon - if the players in question wish to keep them.

As stated in the above prompts Alyce begins the TDM rather heavily damaged so her responses may not be useful or coherent. If you would like to interact with Alyce as she was during the original three month trip please go back in time to our ATP.

We will try to get to everyone in a timely manner but keep in mind all of the moderators work and our responses will mostly happen in the evenings!

roxy lalonde // homestuck // ota (repping aly crew btw)

[voidkafree]

[ooc: heeeey it's ava! you can plot with me on atp or just dm me here thank you! i'm happy to plot with everyone so don't feel shy about dropping a line! i am COMMITTING to being the first commenter i guess don't look at me lmao]

one // oh nooooooo
[roxy was enjoying her interdimensional space travel vacation honestly. like, okay, sure she missed her friends! but she grew up as the only human being in a nearly planet wide radius since there was only this one other dude, so it isn't like she isn't used to being apart from her pals. she can still function. and waking up in a cryo tube on a spaceship is actually pretty far down on her weirdometer, all things considered. it has nothing on that candy bender she and her friends all went on that she likes to pretend isn't a thing because lord! was that embarrassing. luckily no one here knows anything about her so roxy can pretend anything she likes.

she uses this superpower of no one knowing her personally to just not talk about all the awkward embarrassing sad stuff and to instead talk up her super cool interests of wizards and cats. and wizards. and also cats. and SCIENCE. and cloning. and not alcohol. you know, super cool interests for a super cool girl. being told she can't fight is like...thank you? she's here for it? like she can throw a punch and use a rifle and some other types of weaponry because when you live past the waterpocalypse you just learn to survive and thrive but that doesn't mean roxy really likes fighting or goes looking for it.

her favorite thing is making friends and getting along with friends and having tea parties and just...chilling. she can do without the battles. so she gets this huge feeling of oh noooooo followed by of fuckin course when that alarm starts off and the ship shakes and she careens into someone else because haha what is footing when your super cool spaceship is being attacked?]

Escape pods?? Wait wait wait escape pods to, like, where? Shit, is Aly gonna be ok? [roxy grips the arm of the person she knocked into as she's straightening up. she's just touching for comfort. the novelty of touching other human beings is still kind of a thing even after her stint being around the other four and then later her momdaughter and ectoson and yadda yadda homestuck.]

two // evacuee bomb
["One unlucky(?) pod managed to hit the weapons bay of the Lethe" roxy is one of the losers on that pod now. of course she is this is exactly the way her life likes to go!! although she doesn't seem to mind exactly? like yeah crashing in an escape pod isn't exactly her idea of a good time but whatever she can roll with the punches. she floats over near to the window of the pod and peers outside. she can't see shit with all the smoke going on so she tries squinting. it fails to work.]

Ok...ok. So those of us who cannot breathe in space should probs make sure our face plates are locked and loaded before we leave the vehicular vehicle. On account of living being a positive thing to aspire to and dying being lame and not fun at alllll. [also if you're a lethe person feel free to investigate the escape pod that crashed into your ship lol whoops?? she wasn't driving she swears.]

three // stealthy traps of STEALTHINESS
[man if she could punch a pirate she WOULD punch a pirate. sadly roxy is banned from pirate punching pursuits. is this how jane felt whenever she'd get grounded to her room? probably not. jane's dad was an awesome dude and would definitely let jane punch a pirate if that pirate wanted to punch her first. roxy also can't cause harm to pirates. but annoyance? annoyance isn't against the rules, right? so once she has evacuated unwillingly and gotten out of that mess she's setting up some elaborate blockades throughout the station. out of what, you ask?

perfectly generic objects. to translate the homestuck lingo: a perfect green cube. she can POOF them into existence and is using them to build elaborate fort blocks and random maze detours. it's tough to say if roxy is actively trying to be an asset or if she has gotten half distracted and is just goofing around. the way she cheerfully peers out of her fort at anyone who doesn't seem to be an angry space alien puts a tick in favor of the goofing around column though.]

Hey hey heyyyyy. Do you wanna join Fort Rolal? The rules are you must like cats. Or wizards. I will take either option. If you don't...banned. Banned for life. [roxy holds her hands apart like she's about to clap them, then pulls them further apart. another generic green cube pops into being. how many does she plan to make? who knows. if someone wants her to stay on task she may need just a little bit of help with that.]

four // after all the nonsenses have nonsensed
[okay but this is like the same prompt above. except now she is building forts in the lethe. for fun and absolutely no profit because no one is paying her to build elaborate generic block forts that are sort of starting to block some of the passageways. all her hard work for absolutely no payoff at all. sue her she finds building these things kind of soothing okay!! if you want to scold you can or if you want the above invite into the fort with the rules of cats and wizards being cool insert that here yo and roxy will wink wonk at you and conscript you into her super cool fort that clearly everyone wants to get in because who doesn't like a fort. losers, that's who.]

five // just aly ship things
[since there's three months of past cr bullshit to make up if you wanna thread something from in that timeframe here is a prompt where we can do that!! roxy was pink pep from the start and LOVED the sashute. like so much. an illegal stupid amount. cute cat people she is THERE...and then she thought the tecra on teclite were also pretty rad because who doesn't like cyborgs? she kind of feels like dirk would get more out of it than her but she was all around a pleasant ball of sunshine in both places. i can make up random noodle incidents for us if you hit me and ask me to randomize something or! just hit me up assuming roxy came over to bother and bug someone happily. also she spent a ton of time in the med lab poking around because that shit is cool and she loves mad medical science. the ectobiologies as it were.]

six // idk just hit me
[i will take surprise tags with random happenings any day of the week. bonus points if you somehow involve cats for roxy.]

one

[violetlies]

[To coincide with Roxy's distaste for battle, Kokichi's felt much the same. The Cadeuceus is entirely his style, because he's never been a fighter. He's a thinker. But they've both been engaging in the same tactic of 'woo! nobody knows us!' so they're having a decent enough time.

More or less.

Until shit goes wrong, inevitably.

When the ship careens into something else, Kokichi is barely on his feet again before he feels a touch to his arm.]

...You know about as much as I do, so I'd suggest we make it a priority to find out.

Izuku Midoriya | My Hero Academia | OTA (Caduceus/Alyce selected)

[defendure]

1. BOARDING

[ Izuku doesn't evacuate. Of course he doesn't - anyone who has known him for any length of time knows that he has a helping people problem. The problem is that he can't stop helping people or just throwing his own body and safety at a problem for the sake of someone else. And Alyce, even though she is made up of 1s and 0s or...maybe some kind of alien coding instead, Izuku doesn't really know and hasn't seen it - well, she's still a person. An artificial person maybe but still a person. So after urging others to escape and evacuate he stays behind, unwilling to abandon the person running the ship.

To his credit he won't tell anyone else who stayed to leave if they ignored Alyce and his own "get to the escape pods!" earlier. Instead, he's frantically looking around the bridge. They don't have any weapons, they can't fight...but they can run. He just wants to run his way. So as soon as he can he's ripping already ruined banks of machinery and metal out of the ground to press up against the entry points, before turning his attention to those still left behind. Izuku's strength is way more than it should be for his size, green lightning flickering over his skin - if he could use it against the Reapers it might be of more use but for now he'll settle for being a brute force blockade. And, hopefully, using his strength to... ]

What if - hey, help me out...we can't just leave, so - what if - what if we take her core first? If we can just get her out of here we can worry about fixing her later... [ After the attack, Izuku looks all grimy from explosions and his arm is definitely complaining about having been landed on wrong, but he has a firm and steady expression on his face as he strides over towards where he knows there's a way down into the heart of the ship. ] I think I'll be able to carry the core out but we should go together...and I need help making sure I don't hurt her more.

[ What is the point of super strength if you can't simply rip your maybe dying AI friend from the ship and, like, carrying her inside? Who wants to join him in Mission Save Alyce Maybe? Per this she can be moved so help him do that! ]

2. REVERSE RESCUE

A. DAMSEL
[ Hopefully Mission Save Alyce Maybe is successful, but either way it's time for the next prompt. As Izuku is a member of the Caduceus crew he is unable to fight at first! Which means he is ripe to be the damsel in distress. If the damsel in question is a short but leanly muscular teenaged super hero, anyway. The thing is, Izuku's kind of an idiot. Saving people: it's a whole thing. So while he's definitely in need of rescuing, he's trying to do the rescuing himself. It works sometimes - he can yank people out of the way with blackwhip, black whips of energy lit with that same mint green electricity that shows up for many of his powers - but in others...well. Let's just say if he has to choose between himself being hit and someone else being hit Izuku will throw himself in front of other people first and foremost. Which is dumb as hell considering he can't even currently fight or even maliciously lead pirates into traps. ]

Look out! [ Whether he saves you or you're turning right around and saving his dumb ass, this is the prompt for you. ]

B. BATTLE-READY
[ And then if a Lethe crew member saves him and he can crew swap, Izuku will do so while feeling horribly guilty so he can be of more use...he still loves you, Alyce?! Anyway, this means Izuku cracks his knuckles as he considers the situation, scanning the area of the Keros he's on. He's got his spacesuit on since this is one of the areas apparently just open to the yawning depths of space... ]

I think it's about time we got rid of these guys.

3. SPACESHIP OF DOOM

A. MINE PROBLEMS
[ There's a click under your foot and, suddenly, a black whip of solid energy around your torso. Not to drag you back, but to keep you there for a moment as Izuku frantically says: ]

Wait! Don't move...did you hear that?

B. TRASH COMPACTOR, BECAUSE I HAD TO
[ Unfortunately Izuku isn't quite as quick on the uptake with another trap. He plummets immediately down into the trash chute when a pit opens up under him. He's quick to respond once it happens? He starts to slow his drop with Float, which is exactly what it sounds like, and reaches out to grab anyone else who started falling - though considering the ceiling closed up behind them he can't just fly them out. So he'll set down gently on the top of the trash heap... ]

...I'm not sure we're going to find anything useful in here, but I guess you never know what people will throw away? [ The ominous creaking hasn't started yet. But it can in your tag! ]

4. DOWNTIME

A. ANIMAL HOUSE
[ In my heart the animals are still free floating by the time Izuku swaps crews and the fighting has died down...in which case he'll actually be doing fairly well in the lack of gravity, orienting himself easily and using Float to cheat a bit but not much. Ironically the training for his Quirk helped him a lot here... ]

I think if we secure them in the indoor pens over there it should work. Even if they end up getting free again it'll be a much shorter drop when we turn on the gravity - [ Izuku turns almost gracefully, accidentally leaving an opening for one of those...chickens...to divebomb him. And therefore you when he accidentally moves out of the way. Enjoy a chicken to the face and a frantic apologetic noise from Izuku? ]

B. LOOTING
[ Or maybe we can loot and explore one of those other dead ships we weren't on! If you'd like to join me just hop in and we can ask about it or make stuff up, idc. Izuku looks a lot happier by this point since probably the pirates are gone, although he should definitely maybe go sit down or at least get medical attention but no, instead he is off exploring alien spaceships because that is who he is as a person. ]

This ship looks sort of organic, don't you think? [ Since they're all kinds of ships probably there can definitely one that looks like it has almost honeycomb textured walls with translucent panels slotted in. ]

5. IN THE PAST: CADUCEUS CREW PROMPTS

A. HEALTH SCREENINGS
[ Sitting on the medbay bed, Izuku's feet don't hit the ground. They dangle as he sits there looking around anxiously at the others getting scanned by, idk, tiny medical drones or something? What does an AI health screening include? I'm going to say there's a window to the stars outside here that he can look at anxiously as well, green eyes wider than anything. ]

I've never been in space before... [ If he sounds a little bit dazed, who could blame him? It's both really cool and really confusing and really overwhelming all at once. And a high tech droid is beeping at him because he keeps moving around, which leaves Izuku looking sheepishly guilty as he's chided by essentially a round floating orb. Go figure. ]

B. BAATERA
[ The Sashute don't phase Izuku too much. Mutants are a well known thing where he's from so he's used to non-standard humans or non-standard...people, basically? These guys are just adorable, though, and he kind of can't help but smile around them. The treehouse villages are impressive, too. Izuku's sitting on the ledge of a railing one evening, legs dangling as he takes it all in. ]

I wonder if they started living up here to stay out of the way of the Vecialae? [ Since those live down below. It makes sense, right? It's more an idle comment than anything as he takes in unfamiliar constellations in the night sky. ]

C. TECLITE
[ I'm going out on a limb here and thinking the cyborg cybernetics fans will also offer to make other people into fans of the same thing. Izuku's holding his hands up in front of him like a "whoa, calm down" gesture or to sort of ward off an offer from a grateful Tecra, laughing sheepishly. ]

Um, no, I know my arm would probably be way more...uh, less old injury...if I let you replace it, but I'm kind of attached to it as it is now...?

D. TRANSIT
[ Or you can find him in transit between worlds or pre-attack just kind of sitting anywhere with a good view outside one of the viewports. Izuku's fond of the view, okay. ]

WILDCARD.

[ If none of the above work for you please feel free to make something up and throw it at me! I'm also willing to write unique starters for people if you pm me. Additionally I do have an ATP toplevel if you'd like to hash something out there or determine Alyce crew CR! Now I have to run back to do work things since lunch is ending pray for me... ]

1

[violetlies]

You can just--... [No. Wait. Why is he surprised? He's spent three months with this guy. He chronically has a problem with the notion of hey, just because you CAN help someone doesn't mean you, like, should. Kokichi freezes on the spot, and then he just...waves a hand.] ...If you're going to do this, you better step on it.

I'll help, sure, fuck it. Do it, but be careful!

Erichthonios | Final Fantasy XIV | Alyce

[aetherialshackles]

1] Bateera

[Erichthonios wasn't a traveler, nor an explorer. He spent most of his life in the same facility he was born into, only occasionally leaving for study trips to a nearby facility, still he was trying to adapt to what, by his people's standards, was the life of a Wanderer. That, of course, translated in abandoning the safety of the ship and traveling outside it to meet the locals of the planet they were visiting.

The man adjusted his satchel, letting out a small sigh, and started to walk toward the Sashute village with a notebook in hand.]

Since we're basically compulsive healers and we don't know what kind of creatures we may encounter during ur travels, it may not be a bad idea to find medical plants and, conditions allowing it, growing them... right?

[He wasn't planning to stay there for long anyway.]

2] Under attack

[Even if Erichthonios was allowed to fight, his entire experience on the field was using aetherial chains to hold enemies in position and trap them. One at the time. There was little he could do against an enemy fleet... especially considering that by the standards of his people, he had always been incredibly weak. He dropped the book he was reading, getting up and grabbing the little satchel where he stored the food for the day and a couple of interesting seeds and plants he obtained on Bateera.

When he left his room, Erich had only that and the clothes he was wearing. Now... the bridge, right? He was going to stay on the ship as long as possible, hopefully everyone was going to make it to the pods.]

Does anyone need help? [He finally asked, yelling at the top of his lungs. Erich didn't leave his coworkers in the Pandaemonium behind and he wasn't going to leave the other members of the crew fall to the enemy if he could avoid that.]

3] Boarding

[He was a one trick monoceros, but he knew said trick very well. With his very limited powers, Erichthonios could at least conjure aether chains to slow down the enemy's advance and allow his crewmates to escape. And if the enemies were after Aly's core... well, he had no idea on where to find it, nor the time to worry about that while using all his energy to create small barricade after small barricade.

After a while of that stupid game, with fingers shaking and sweat covering his skin, he finally tried to get the attention of one of the other crewmembers]

Hey, do you know how many people still have to take the pods?

4] Ancient defenses

[His luck, after leaving on one of the pods, lasted only so long: one of the turrets on Keros turned in the direction of Erichthonios's pod and shot it down as it was landing. Him and the other passengers were tossed around inside the small vehicle as it impacted against the space station's surface, leaving a trail of debrifs and flames behind, and they found themselves upside down when it finally impacted against the wall.]

By the creation... [It took him a good moment to regain control of himself and process what just happened. Okay, everyone seemed alive, that was good... hopefully the suits they were wearing were going to keep them safe.] Is everyone- Oof.

[In his attempt to free himself from the security belts, Erich only managed to fall down on the ceiling of the pod. At least it had been a very short fall.] Okay... first thing, don't do what I just did. Second thing.. I don't know, the ground feels solid?

5] Crew Swap

Fantastic... now I can fight.

[The man almost glared at his own bracelet, still trying to recover from the earlier events. At least he had a valid excuse not to raise his hands before, but now...]

Remember when I said the only thing I could do was creating chains out of nowhere to slow the enemies? Well, that still applies.

[He wasn't a fighter and the only time he fully transformed he was under the literal influence of a greater force that may or may have not provided him the energy to transform in the first place.]

I'm... sorry? At least I can buy you guys time?

6] Wild Card

[ooc: Hit me with anything? Despite his canon of origin, Erich isn't a fighter/is considered in canon one of the weakest between his people and can more easily be found doing maintenance or tending to animals/plants since he comes from the Pandaemonium in his universe, a research facility that doubles as a very dangerous zoo for creatures that aren't allowed to roam around unchecked. He's friendly, just a bit awkward! Feel free to poke him.]

1

[taediosum]

[ Arcade seems surprised by the suggestion, but not because it hadn't occurred to him. He smiles, a touch of genuine enthusiasm in his reply (which isn't exactly usual, for him). ]

You read my mind.

[ A large portion (if not all) of his research with the Followers was based on using the local flora to synthesize new medicines - this is kind of his area of expertise. And even if he's not at all familiar with whatever alien plant life they're likely to find, here, he's not completely demoralized by the daunting task of starting over entirely from scratch. ]

I have to imagine we'll be spoiled for choice, here. [ The thick jungle housing the nearby village (and covering just about everything else in sight, barring the small clearing where their shuttle managed to land) is a riot of potential biodiversity, and no doubt some of it will have beneficial properties. ] But maybe we should ask the locals where to start?

Maple | Your Turn To Die | Alyce/Caduceus

[socialize]

1.) Search & Rescue

( Maple, for one, has no intention of abandoning her precious newfound friend to these pirates.

Sure, she can't necessarily harm them. She gets that. But being a machine herself, she understands at least in a basic sense how Alyce's wellbeing will hang in the balance primarily of her code; while the attack itself may have impacted her, she'll be alright as long as her crew can make sure she doesn't sustain any damage to that crucial component of herself. As such, Maple can't bring herself to leave Alyce behind and retreat as instructed. She needs to make sure that their navigator is alright too, and her first stop is to head deeper into the heart of the ship, rather than to the escape pods that Alyce had advised.

Whether the others she runs into are fleeing or heading towards the same destination as herself, she reaches out a hand to stop anyone she passes along the way. )

Alyce—Do you know where Alyce is?

2.) All paths blocked

( Or maybe the one who she runs into on her way to or away from the heart of the ship isn't a friend at all, but a foe.

Maple isn't deterred if such is the case, but she is upset. While she knows she can't attack them directly, that doesn't mean that she's completely defenseless though. Alyce would want her to be safe. That's what Maple tells herself. Alyce would want her to be safe, and she wants Alyce to be safe; these creatures are threats to both of these statements, and so the only relevance that their existences have to her is as pests to be kept away.

Jagged-edged, jet black metal extends from the crevice on her back, and instead of targeting the enemies in front of her, they crash into the load-bearing segment of the wall to her left as Maple shouts with all her might. )

Leave us alone!!

( The structure gives in, and the ceiling and floor above too, crashing down between herself and the enemies without causing direct harm to either party. Well, unless you were on the floor above, maybe, but hearing the crash bang and arriving to see the dust clear works too. At the very least, it should prevent this group of Reapers from progressing closer to where Alyce's core has been kept via this route. )

3.) Mood Swing Simulator

( And unfortunately, Maple isn't aware that not every strange individual she encounters is an enemy. Any crew members of the Lethe fall into the same category in her mind whether they mean to help or harm. As for how they might find her, she refuses to leave Caduceus until she knows for certain that Alyce will be safe, but anyone would be stressed out by a situation like this, right? So you might hear her before you see her, sniffling in some damage hallway here or there, and her attention snaps up to anyone who enters her line as sight the moment they do, eyes wide and blue and filled with tears fresh and ready to fall at any moment. )

Why... Why are you doing this...?

4.) Wildcard

( Feel free to hit me up with wildcards or any pre-attack adventures on the planets Caduceus has visited! I'm super open, but you can also reach me by PM if you want to run something by me first. Also just a note to be warned that Mood Swing Simulator has a chance of her passing out depending on how well the game goes, Hippocratic Protocol and all... )

4

[luck]

[ it's on the keros space station that he's found himself with maple who happens to be a rather chatty individual, but has gone through various emotions since the attack on the caduceus ship. she's more attached than he is considering she's worried over the well-being of alyce, but why wouldn't she be? with that protocol hanging over their heads, they have no choice, but considering her emotional state... that seems to be the norm for her. he finds.

he's not crying about what's happened, and he hopes he doesn't get as bad as she is. due to her emotional state, he decides not to say anything at all as he doesn't want to prompt anything dangerous like... feelings. perhaps she needs some time to adjust, and if she feels the need to speak she will.

for now, he's already crouching down at one of the inactive ships, seeing if he can pull away the metal plates to find any inner wires. ]

Kokichi Oma | Danganronpa V3 | Alyce/Cad

[violetlies]

I
[Kokichi's felt that his stay on the Cadeuceus has been...a more stable stay than his last environment, that's for certain. Which is odd, considering this is the middle of space and he's pretty unused to that. Kaito would be having a blast right now. He tries not to think on that too hard. Best to not carry regrets with him. He's met plenty of people by now - his fellow Cad crew, and Alyce. He likes Alyce. More or less, she seems to be someone who helped save his life. So he owes her, in a way.

Not that he's sure he deserved it.

When the ship begins going to hell, however, he's clenching his teeth. He has to help where he can, he supposes. He owes them that much.

He's just not sure what he can do, so he freezes. Great.]

II
[By the time Kokichi boards the other ship, he's injured. His shoulder is cut open, bleeding pink blood, and he's definitely stumbling a bit. His head is swimming a bit, too, but he manages to get near someone, and offer them a lopsided smile.]

Hey. How's it goin'--

[And then he almost passes out. Almost. He's teetering on the brink here. Either you're part of the Lethe crew and this is a stranger, or you're another Cad and your crewmate is almost passing out on you. Help?]

III
[The option to transfer crews is offered to him. Kokichi stares at the alert, and then his expression hardens a bit. He crosses his arms.]

Yeaaaaaaah....not likely. I have kind of a loyalty program going. I'm not just going to transfer to someone else's crew so easily when we don't know who you are. We can't trust you.

[It may take some convincing...]

IV
[If you want to do a wildcard or a pre-attack mission, I'm game! Just hit me with whatever and we'll see how it goes!]

iii

[needily]

[ There's a small sound, puzzled and almost startled by the sharp refusal, and Kokichi is rewarded with an equally confused smile as the older man stops in his tracks. He's not stupid, but deferential to authority, and so it's left to stronger personalities to make those comments.

There's a pause as he waits for somebody else to refute him, but seconds stretch out and there's only the tension that hangs in the air, and he wonders what to do... He doesn't like to interfere in the business of others, as that too is left to those with stronger personalities than his own, but maybe it'd be bad if he just leaves him? His doctor had encouraged him to talk to others, but she's not here to tell him what to do now.

Emil coughs to cover up the silence, or maybe that's just because his throat is suddenly dry. ]

You want to stay here? You won't be able to fight then.

[ If something happens, that is. That's been a problem here. ]

alhaitham | genshin impact / alyce

[luck]

1.) ATTACK

— BELOW THE BRIDGE

[ deep within the depths of the most protected area, anyone will be able to stumble across alhaitham focusing on specific servers that haven't been touched yet. they hardly seem worth the taking, but the way his eyes linger on them could make someone think the opposite. his hands settle against the surface of the machine, pushing it with a rumbling sound from the rubble littered underneath the device.

he stops, taking a step back as he looks it over. there's about a dozen of them to move, and he already knows he's not leaving any of them behind. alyce had said she was missing parts of her memories, and others forcibly removed, but if they leave these here then that information will most likely be completely lost. he's already noticed her core is missing along with other servers, so he might as well play clean up. ]

1a.)

[ jewel-like eyes flicker over to the side, catching sight of someone. he doesn't particularly care as to why they're down here, but they could just be walking by checking things out and he'll speak up all the same: ]

Are you just going to stand there? Make yourself useful.

1b.)

[ above him is a hole that peers down into the room of where alyce would be and her servers. light filters through along with smoke into the room, and it's the subtle change in the rays of light that gives way that someone above has passed by. alhaitham will glance up at the nice-sized hole, wide enough that it can be used for what he has in mind. ]

Is that area clear? [ he questions, raising a brow. ] Or has it been blocked off by the explosions.

2.) BOARDING

— ANYWHERE ON CADUCEUS SHIP.

[ the sound of metal creaks, and there's an unknown language spoken through the halls that echo here and there from far away. an unknown presence has boarded, and from the sound of things, it's easy to interpret that they aren't friendly or under the protocol that alyce has set in place. aside from the constant shaking of the ship, the noise is just as equally annoying. his back remains pressed against the wall next to the door, silent as he pays attention to where the footsteps go.

what he does notice is that there are steps different from the heavy scraping, and that tells him the person walking through this area isn't the same as the creatures. it's with a quick extension of his arm, he reaches out to grab the wrist of whoever is outside the door that he's hiding behind, pulling them into the broom closet with him and to his side. he brings a finger to his lips, hinting that the other should keep quiet as he tilts his head towards the hallway he just pulled the other from.

a minute passes, and there's the sound of heavy steps again, and nails scraping against the floor as a creature passes by the open door with a gun in hand, surveying the route for any stray humans to capture among other creatures aboard the ship. it's when the creature makes a healthy distance between the two does alhaitham take a step out, looking down the opposite path as though he's chosen which way he wants to go. ]

3.) WILDCARD

— ANYWHERE, OUT AND ABOUT

[ you can run into alhaitham wherever you see fit! he'll be trying to work on the damaged servers on the lethe, probably scrouching around for information, or you can bump into him being somewhere in the way asleep because he's that type of guy? you wanted to use this table? well, he's sleeping on it, i'm sorry. there's also tons of things to do on the keros station, let's get into some problems!!! ]

1a? 1b? a bit of both

[flamechaser]

[ You'd think he'd be a little warmer towards her, considering the time the entire crew had spent together. But Alhaitham is Alhaitham, and she's quite used to his no-nonsense and curt way of dealing with people. If anything, he reminds her of someone she knows very dearly.

She peers cheerfully from the other side of the machine, all smiles and good nature. ]

I wanted to check if dear Alyce is all right, of course.

[ Their Navigator had been taking care of them since they'd awoken despite her missing memories, and Elysia has grown fond of her. Her smile softens a little as she presses a hand against the machine that the scholar is pushing along, giving it a bit of a pat. ]

Also, to tell you that that way is going to be very challenging to navigate. [ She points at the path behind her. ] Shall I show you another way?

arcade gannon | fallout: new vegas | alyce / ota

[taediosum]

ᴄᴀᴅᴜᴄᴇᴜs
i. travel (teclite)

[ He liked Baatera better. Even with the violent reptilian raids (at least they weren't Deathclaws??), it had its charms. Like, heat. And plant life. And heat. Which isn't something Arcade ever thought he'd have to miss, given he's only ever lived in desert or desert-adjacent climates, his whole life. But, well, here they are.

Still, he's doing his best, even if it's not at all without complaint. Medical outreach was already his calling, well before he ended up here, and even if there's no amount of bundling up that could ever, possibly, make vacationing on an ice planet palatable, the work is a decent distraction.

They've set up a little makeshift clinic within one of the Tecra villages (or, near it, given their outward wariness), and though he was mostly able to duck out of patient-facing work, with the Followers, he's fallen into it easily, now. Shots, scans, fielding awkward questions typically reserved for once-yearly medical check-ups - he's an old hand at this, and willing enough to lend one to anybody struggling with the concepts.

And even occasionally making conversation, during the lulls between patients. (But he's gotten comfortable enough among the crew not to be avoiding all small talk.) ]

So, on a scale from one to ten, just how offended do you think they'd be if I asked about the spines? [ He's joking, despite the very real curiosity. That might be a little too awkward a question, though, as cagey as the Tecra are. ]

ii. attack (medical bay)

[ It's pretty incredible what a person can grow accustomed to, in just a few short months. Space travel is definitely not something Arcade can imagine ever feeling rote, routine - but by now he's at least gotten a baseline for it, knows enough about its ins and outs, its idiosyncrasies, to have some kind of a grasp on what's normal.

Or at least enough that that sudden drop out of hyperspace starts setting off alarm bells in his head seconds before the real ones start to register, blaring dully in the background. What he'd mistaken initially for a small bubble of turbulence (or whatever you'd call it, when there's no air around you) wasn't, apparently, and he misses an opportunity to brace before a much larger hit reverberates through the ship.

He's thrown sideways into a counter, barely catching himself. Glass shatters as the contents of the table beside him are thrown to the ground, but what's a little lost research in comparison to your definitely impending death in the vacuum of space? No big deal.

Whether it's the intermittent explosions still rocking the ship or the sudden syphoning away of power, the medical bay doors are sealed by the time he reaches them, only a few emergency lights flickering dimly overhead. The panel beside them yields only errors, and his voice is as muffled as the pounding of his fist against the plexiglass as he peers out into the dark hallway beyond. ] Hey! Is anybody out there? What's going on?

ᴋᴇʀᴏs / ʟᴇᴛʜᴇ
iii. trash compactor

[ Escaping to Keros is, at best, a lateral move. But at least it's also a good time to already have extensive experience dodging laser turrets, as well.

...Unless during the course of said dodging, you just so happen to be unlucky enough to stumble right into another kind of trap. To be fair, though, who could've expected the floor to just open up like that, dumping Arcade and any other unfortunates in his immediate vicinity into - trash? Just, so much trash. Wet trash. Ugh. But that's what he gets for wearing a white space suit, right? It was probably inevitable.

And wholly the least of his concerns, considering he's not the only one who just took a short trip to the trash compactor. A couple of those marauding reapers have dropped in, too, and as the lot of them regain their bearings, they're beginning to realize they're not in friendly company, reaching for their weapons. Hopefully Arcade is, though. And maybe even with someone who can land a hit on these guys. Because he... still can't. ]

iv. downtime

[ Triage - that's another regular occurrence Arcade is not so unused to. But not one he ever hopes to experience often. As is, he's just grateful not to be nearly dying at every turn, anymore, even if he's clearly wearing a more somber look than usual, as he takes stock of the medical supplies salvaged from the Caduceus.

His humor is also just a tiny bit drier than usual, as he glances up from his diligent inventory, distracted. ] I hope you're not looking for medical attention, because we just lost nearly an entire ship's worth of supplies.

[ ...He reels it back in after a second glance, though, somewhat sheepish. ] Sorry. If I don't occasionally vent the bitterness, I'm afraid I'll give myself gallstones. If you need help, I could probably use a break from all this quiet seething, anyway.

ᴡɪʟᴅᴄᴀʀᴅ

[ other prompts, assumed cr w/alyce crew, etc! feel free to pm me if you want to plot something specific, but i'm open to anything. arcade was a doctor before he woke up in space, and he's happy to help anyone who wants to learn/needs some help with the medical side of things. he's not very forthcoming with personal matters, but he's generally friendly enough. sarcastic, but friendly. ]

downtime

[flamechaser]

[ Elysia, too, is taking stock of things, mostly rations and whatever else they can use.

After they've essentially lost Alyce and the ship, she's been hoping to find something in the junkyard for anything that could help them out. The mood with the crew has certainly been depressing, to say the least, and for good reason. But as long as they're alive, then they can fight another day and soon, things will eventually turn out well.

She offers him a gentle smile, spreading her arms and turning around to show that she's very much fit and lacking of any injuries. Not at all in need of medical attention. ]

That's all right, your feelings are understandable and valid. Everyone's been feeling down, too.

[ She moves towards him, crouching next to the supplies, letting her gaze flicker over the items. ]

Is this all we have left?

peter quill, marvel comics | rhys/lethe.

[astrologics]

——one, LETHE, ARRIVAL.

( even at the best of times, peter's sleeping habits are poor. shitty. suboptimal. apparently it'd been four am(ish) when he'd gone to bed last night ("last night"), but that'd been earth time. he has, frankly, no idea what time it'd actually been or how long he's been asleep, but based on the way he feels, the answer's definitely: not long enough.

peter thinks he recalls something about the galaxy ending or being destroyed or something equally dramatic, which he'd ignored because the thought of moving hadn't thrilled him. he supposes there's a chance that groot and the other (ha) guardians had decided to deal with whatever it was by themselves, which was frankly grand, but—

—god, he feels like shit, imagines he probably looks it too, as that'd been all anyone felt like bringing up before he'd gone to bed, but he supposes it was either that or "peter, you're an embarrassment right now."

but christ, he's cold, and the scrolling text is just bright enough that he reflexively closes his eyes and groans, before cracking open eye and reading the message. given where he'd been, it makes precisely zero sense, although 'release locks' at least manages to sound promising.

yes it is, then. )

Ugh, ( is groaned unceremoniously as the pod opens and peter all but falls out of it, pausing momentarily on the ground as he gets his bearings. his gaze slides across the other pods, one by one by one as he gets to his feet, eyebrows pulling together in a tight frown.

anything he'd been about to do is briefly interrupted by a network chime which peter soundly ignores, choosing instead to pad towards another pod at random. he leans forward to peer into the glass, expression searching, he pauses and pulls at a sleep, rubbing it across the glass in an effort to see through the frost and the — ice?

he doesn't get very far. there's a sound behind him and he jumps, startled, spinning round to face—

—whatever other poor soul has just woken up, really. )

——two, LETHE, SOME STUFF

( there's an announcement that says the lethe — which is both a far more ominous name and far less charming than, say, milano or ryder — is not 'combat ready', which given the preceding message about a hospital ship and hostiles strikes him as less than ideal.

fortunately, peter had awoken on the lethe in much the same manner he'd gone to bed — that is, in his clothes. unfortunately, 'falling asleep in his clothes' was not the same as 'falling asleep armed'. his element gun is almost certainly exactly where he left it: next to his bed, back on the ryder.

after the third message — suggestion? — had popped up on the network, peter had pointedly stopped what he'd been doing and scrolled back. peter had managed to just about experience the joys of clippy before he'd left earth, and he finds himself thinking that the unstructured 'jumper bay', 'weapons', 'bridge' commentaries contain more than a few similarities.

that is to say: they're flarking useless.

the weapons bay is — something, as the incredible 'inconclusive' commentary states. it exists, and that's about all he's willing to piece together. the jumper bay is suggested as a priority for power restoration which, given the first, first message, makes sense.

he lingers in a hallway, weighing up his options. he knows what he'd do if he was on the ryder but he's not. there's a small part of him that thinks this could all be some d'ast trap, but bad ideas and a sense of foreboding have never done much to stop him before.

—jumper bay, then. he doesn't pass many others on his way, the ship seemingly eerily empty and quiet, but when he does encounter hints of other people, he slows, ducks into empty doors — where they open — and hides behind convenient objects. there's a chance they could be just like him, poor saps who'd woken up in a freezer with no knowledge of how or why, but there's a chance they could be who and what put him there.

peter jason quill: not a man who easily trusts.

when he eventually finds his way to and into the jumper bay, peter's decidedly underwhelmed by what he finds. given the series of messages, he's not really sure what he'd been expecting, but he'd hoped for more than what he (they've) got.

he gravitates towards the suits first, fiddling with them one-by-one to ascertain charge levels and— )

—Come on, ( it's a frustrated utterance, volume increasingly somewhat towards the end and punctuated by the sound of blunt impact. )

——three, GRAVEYARD, MAN

( he creeps through the keros cautiously. for as much as he hates all of this — there's a consistent, constant question at the back of his mind that mostly amounts to 'what the fuck?' — it's enough of a distraction that he has precisely zero (0) time to stop and pause and reflect. it's familiar in a way that's disturbingly comforting, even if he'd be more comfortable if he had his element gun.

still, he's found a weapon and he's clearly and evidently at home with it. if there's a part of him that struggles with or internally debates the morality of fighting the pirates, it's not obvious (conveniently aided by the fact that he doesn't, at all).

the pirates remind him of the ravagers, loosely speaking. he doesn't think he'll be able to talk his way out of anything or talk them into anything, and whilst he's not bound by any hippocratic protocol, peter doesn't dive into fighting them indiscriminately, he's not armed enough for that. )

Oh, fuck. ( half an exclamation, half a release of tension when he enters a room and realises he's not alone. the weapon — claimed from a pirate — is pointed first at the stranger before peter realises they're not one of very attractive fellows attacking the ship(s). ) Woah, hey, it's okay—.

( is it? who knows. maybe they're in the room with the trash monster, maybe it's just the realisation that this is all a bit of a shitshow, but it's probably not quite okay, not yet. )

——WILDCARD

( if you want to do something else, feel free to drop a starter — i'm v. easy and happy to go w/ the flow as far as prompts go/be flexible w/ rhys vs alyce, however i'm heavily leaning towards rhys as quill's starting ship.

outside of that, for anyone familiar with the comics, quill's canon point is vol 5 of GOTG, near the beginning of cates' run. )

three!

[luck]

I see. [ this is said tiredly, his eyes drifting to the weapon in the other's hand. ] They just hand weapons to anyone.

[ the protocol that alhaitham's under orders him to not do harm, and if there is aid he can give to the nearest person, then he'll have to do so— be it pirate or another crew member. a quick cursory glance over the other, and he can say the only problem the other seems to have is shot nerves, and aside from that he seems fine. as for the room that they're in, it's filled with debris up to his hips: water, metal, and among other stuff as the smell is severely the worst part of this room along with the sound of something ominous swimming in the depths on the far side of the room.

alhaitham takes a step forward, his attempt to pull himself up and out of the liquid that stains his clothing. he appears unharmed, and there's no weapon visible on his person from what it looks like. it seems peter has more of an impact than alhaitham does. ]

Once you come into this room, the door locks, and I assume you weren't aware of that.

[ since the other came in here willingly, though alhaitham glasses to the far side of the trash room that stretches almost like a football field. you know, aliens just have a lot of trash to get rid of. ] We have to get to the other side.

poe dameron | star wars | rhys/lethe crew

[withinreach]

wake

[ Release cryosleep locks? Yes, thanks, he's not claustrophobic but he's ready to get out now.

This whole thing is disorienting, from waking up in the pod with BB-8 squeezed in at his feet, the droid is just as confused as he is, to stumbling into a ship that he's never seen before, let alone remembers boarding in the first place, but Poe is used to hitting the ground running. There's usually not much of a choice when things with the Resistance have a bad habit of going sideways at any given moment lately, so having a crisis over what he's missed and how he got here can wait. There are people who need help, first and foremost.

He's checking other pods as he goes, noticing that they're not all lined up neatly the way they were probably supposed to be and some are apparently missing from the room entirely which isn't a good sign at all. But Poe knows ships, even if this is a new one, so he's going to search until he finds the bridge.

If he finds another occupied pod along the way he'll stop to help pry out whoever happens to be stuck in there if they need it. The small spherical droid tagging along with him does have an arc welder which might come in handy if any of the pods are damaged and not opening properly. Poe's no slouch either, he's strong enough to pry some things loose if he has to. ]

Hey, you alright?

jumper bay

[ As Poe's making his way through the ship he's also prodding at the device that's been latched onto his wrist, and like the ship itself it's unfamiliar but close enough to the things that he does know for him to catch on quickly enough. Not that it takes much technological know-how to know that hostiles in pursuit of a hospital ship is bad news.

He's used to that.

Hostiles means they need some way to defend themselves, and since fighters are his thing he figured he's going to be most useful in the jumper bay, where they actually have some smaller ships that would be useful right about now. Getting them all up and running is going to be a task, so Poe is focusing on one at a time. ]

Let's just hope that these things are fast enough to keep up with those pirates. [ BB-8 is busy studying schematics while he's sorting out the fuel situation, and hoping that this lockdown won't be too tough to get around. As he's eyeing up the suits that seem to go with the ships he glances over at one of his fellow new crew members with a tight smile. ] So how good is your aim?

[ He's pretty confident that he could fly one solo but it seems like it would work better with at least one extra pair of hands. ]

[ ooc: just let me know if you want to wildcard something different, I'd be happy to write more starters! c: ]

Wake!

[fubarbundy]

[ Not the first time Isaac had woken without recollection of how he'd gotten there or where he was. Not the first time he'd been in cryo either. They called it stasis but it did the same shit. He didn't even know how fucking old he was anymore because of it but that was a tangent for another day. It was too similar, this situation. Cold sweat threatened the back of his neck before he was even fully conscious. When the man finally came to and saw the scrolling text he could feel his heart begin to race and muscles tense. Release y/n? Yes. Yes. Yes, immediately yes. His hands went to his side and while he wasn't in a straight jacket this time, still seemed to be in his Engineering RIG, he definitely didn't have any weapons on him anymore and that made him a lot of nervous.

Crazy. It was crazy to think how non-violent he used to be. Reminiscing had to end quickly though because there was a face that came into view and all of Isaac's alarm bells went on at exactly the same time. Cranked up to fucking eleven. He could almost hear it. Visibly winced when Poe stopped by his pod. Isaac wasn't stuck. Not in the 'shit there's something physically preventing me from getting out' sort of way. No, he was just hallucinating and having a minor panic attack. Which, well it could be considered stuck. He could almost see one of those things come up behind the guy and here he'd be, again, on another ship, or station, or whatever it was.

But it didn't happen, and he might have looked for a moment like a bit of a lunatic over nothing. Although Isaac was really good at hiding his emotions (spectacular at it), a sharp person would be able to see the fleeting terror in the smallest of signs before it was determined that Poe was probably human and probably fine. For now, there was no threat. So finally, he took the offered help. ] Hey, yeah. Yeah, just. [ His voice sounded a little rough and fingers twitched as his temple like he was going through a rolodex of thoughts once he finally got up to his feet before finally relaxing. ] Just a little disoriented. Thanks.

[ One or two seconds later. The robot didn't phase him. Being on a ship didn't either. But: ] Where the hell are we?

Doctor Who | The Doctor (2nd) = Caduceus/Alyce

[funnylittleclown]

1 - Caduceus Arrival

The cryopod hissed as the seal snapped open and allowed the very rumpled looking man to escape from the deep freeze. His legs swung free and he dropped, a bit shakily, to the metal floorboards.

"Oh... my head... I feel giddy."

He clasped his hands over his face, feeling the contours of his cheeks and nose while trying to will the dizziness to fade. After a few moments it had.

"Mmm, this isn't Earth. Mirror, mirror... I need a mirror."

The shiny surface of one of the interfaces would suffice. He leaned over the console admiring his face in the red reflection of the dials, the right side, the left, he pulled a few funny faces, before he burst out laughing like a maniac at the unseen others he now addressed.

"HAHA! It didn't work did it! I'm still me! You've failed!"


2 - Travel - Baatera

The treehouse was under siege. The friendly Sashute did what they always did in these situations, they pulled up the ladders, removed the bridges, and did their best to fortify themselves in the safest and most secure area of the tree house village complex. The Vecialae were large and not well suited to free climbing so this was in large part a very effective means of keeping the lizard warriors out.

Even more effective was a huge fruit dropped from above which one of the more industrious Sashute decided to employ. This fruit caught one of the Vecialae in the head and knocked him out cold.

"Oo! We'll have to see to him once this is over. That's quite a nasty bump on the head." For the moment there was no safe way to get down to the injured soldier so all the visiting Doctor could do was wince, "Why are they attacking? Has anyone managed to discover that?"


3 - Travel - Teclite

The illness that raged through the colony was unlike any he had seen before. It seemed to hit the children the hardest perhaps because they were so young or because they had fewer cybernetic augmentations... He couldn't say yet and had only these things as theories as he worked with a blood sample on a slide.

"Careful with those samples," He spoke to whomever was working with him in the medical bay, "The last thing we need is this illness infecting the rest of the ship."


4 - Attack - Escape Pods

"Hurry! This way!"

The Doctor held up the emergency exit door for far longer than it should have been allowed but it was the only way to make certain those in the hall beyond had a chance to make it to the pods. He would have held it open longer if the ship hadn't shuddered violently to the right tossing everyone, including the Doctor to the deck. He landed hard, hard enough in fact to knock himself clean out. He might need some help getting into one of those escape pods himself.

blue / pokemon adventures (manga) / lethe

[coveteur]

-- 001. ARISE.
cryogenic chambers, lethe.

( talk about rude awakenings.

it goes a little like this: a sharp intake of breath, an immediate choice to be made, a dizzying amount of revelations - something about a hospital? being unable to fight back? it sounds like trouble, and lots of it. the chime of notifications after another on a bracelet she finds herself with advises, but not implores, that they help.

after a moment to catch her breath and gather her bearings, the sound of fists on glass muffled from within catches her attention. she doesn't think twice before reaching for the small of her back to tap at one of the mechanisms situated there to release a lizard-like behemoth.

before long, its claws are able to find purchase on the cover and rip it out of the hinges. by its side, the brunette waves, smiling sweetly as if they weren't just informed of pirate attacks and a whole fleet of defenseless passengers weren't out there fending for themselves. )

Slept through the vote? I wish I slept that well.

---

-- 002. RESTORE.
lethe, misc.

( to say she's in over her head is a little bit of an understatement. she knows computers, sure, but something spaceworthy is a little more than the usual fare she's dealt with in her part of the world, especially if it includes any actual hardware to fix. but she's here! fussing with suits to see if she can mimic the wiring of the most intact and charged ones in order to at least get that started.

while the suits are charging, she can likely be seen fussing with a computer and trying to make heads or tails of it, mumbling to herself. sometimes, you might even spot her glaring at the ships as if that'll do any good in unlocking them through sheer annoyance. maybe help her before she takes another one of her little guys out to do some 'manual dislodging'... )

---

-- 003. SEARCH AND RESCUE.
keros or caduceus.

( another creature accompanies her this time - a pink one with longer ears, leporine in nature, its ears perked and peeking its beady eyes under rubble and debris as it listens for survivors. it doesn't seem like blue is making much noise so that her current partner could work, stalking through as to not attract the attention of more hostiles.

give her a sign you're there! or perhaps, come help her search for people or anything useful! if you find yourself on keros, she'll likely turn to help reclaim the space station as well! )

---

-- 004. RESCUE.
also on keros or caduceus.

( from her awakening, this has been her goal. the moment she heard from rhys that there is a protocol out there that rendered people on the other ship unable to even defend themselves, she knew exactly where she needed to be. it might've taken some time, considering how much trouble she had to go through in powering up various sectors of her own ship to get here, but the important part is that she's here finally!

maybe not much assurance in knowing that the one coming to the rescue is a girl with no brawn or weapon to speak of, but that's life. )

You must be real proud of yourselves going after the ones that can't bite back. ( pirate, scavenger, whatever. she sticks her tongue out. ) How about you play with me instead?

( and to the rescued: a wink. )

---

-- 005. WILDCARD.

( i know i said she'd likely be caduceus but there was a Great Need for lethe so here we are! throw something at me. plot with me on my atp! whatever! get over here. )

004.

[socialize]

( at first, maple thinks they must be another enemy—her posture is poised as if to strike, and while she may not be able to do harm, there are many things that she still can do if she assesses the possibilities of the situation. but when blue gives her little challenge, glancing back in maple's direction, it feels like she may have misread the situation here. her battery is running low by this point too, and so blue's eyes meet hers, and the expression she wears resembles a deer caught in the headlights. )

...

( maple blinks back at her, tear-filled eyes a brilliant cerulean, and blue might just find her own attention drawn to the black, spider leg-like metal appendages that seem to be extending from her back. don't... don't worry about those... instead, give her a moment for her processors to catch up with this chain of events, and she'll clench her fists tightly, calling out to the other girl with quiet, softspoken voice. )

Please... Please be careful...!

Bakugō Katsuki 💥 Boku no Hero Academia

[blastedass]

      Event Prompts

💥 [Individual starter prompts are going below. If none of them grab your attention, let me know and I can write up a prompt for you or feel free to reply with your own prompt/idea and I'll be happy to go off of that! I have an ATP toplevel as well if you'd like to hash out some plot ideas or prior CR before we start something in the prompt logs. Or PM me. Preferences and information are all in Bakugou's journal! Thanks!]

Wake (Navigator R33500 "Rhys" ~ Crew: Lethe)

[blastedass]

1 ▶ WAKE

💥 ➊ [Frozen. That's exactly how he feels. Everything's heavy and numb, as if he came to after falling through an iced-over pond. At least it's getting warmer? "Ice" melting and nerves starting to pick up. Images rush through his mind, a sudden flash of memories of where he'd been last, and Bakugou's eyes snap open with a jolt. First thing he sees is scrolling lights, until his pupils shrink and focus on what turns out to be data flowing past his face. A pod? Capsule? Shit- The fuck's going on?! As his body comes back to waking and warmth, he's left twitching a fingertip, then a finger, then his hand curling, etc.

Gives him time to read the data rushing past his face. Majority Rule... Locked... Cryosleep locks?

FUCK YES!! Smashing the "yes" with his thumb. Let him out!

Wait- Did it say "majority y minority n"? There are other people here? The moment the pod door uncouples with a hiss, Bakugou rams his metal kneepad into it, knocking the panel upward and screeching the hinge. Loud enough to wake anyone around him or at least alert them. Blood pumps though his veins hotter again and he grasps the edge of the pod, muscles hardening as he pulls himself up from the frosty bed amidst tendrils of chilly vapor. Rise from the ice coffin, huh.

This shitty bracelet's making noise again. Glaring at it, he reaches down with one arm and massages at his legs while reading through the information. A username? Hmph. Easy enough... But that comes later, when he's not being briefed of a ship arrival. Immediately this is clicking in his head like some kind of science-fiction movie. People transported in cryosleep and an issues arises necessitating waking some or all of the populace. Doesn't explain why he's here and not back home, but...

Bakugou narrows in on the "hostiles" part. Rescue mission. Medical crew prohibited from combat engagement. Fucking stupid rules, but if that's what he has to work with. Engage hostiles at will.]

This shit now. Fuck.

[Slamming one fist into his palm, Bakugou steps forward and leaves his pod behind. Out of that thing. He can start to question things in a few, once he gathers his bearings. Red eyes glance around from within the black shielding of his mask, noticing the other pods around. Some of them are opening, some of them remain frosted, some are already open with other people getting out of them. Looks like he's not the only one here.]

Hey! [Barking at another woken sleeper.] Stop fucking dawdling! Make yourself useful and wake the others, get 'em outta their pods, or find a map of this place! I'm gonna open the doors.

Rico Dredd | Judge Dredd | Lethe crew

[judgementcrime]

[OOC: Make sure to check out Rico's general character warnings!]

[Arrival - Lethe]

[Disoriented when he'd woken up, Rico had immediately slammed his hands against the glass screen of the pod, accidentally locking himself in. Alright, not the finest moment from Mega-City One's best. But you had to give him a little credit here - one minute you're having a little downtime before your next shift in half an hour, the next minute you're locked in what feels like a freezer. When you come to your senses like that, that's nothing but bad news. Couldn't fault him for giving himself a little pat-down to make sure his squeeze of the week hadn't been working for organ-leggers and stolen his kidneys or something.

That's fine. Rico reads the flickering words, takes a deep breath, and smiles. Isn't this his lucky break?

Time waits for no man. He rips off a strip from the bottom of his shirt - hanging off his shoulders and missing more than a few buttons. To the potential interest of anyone who had been sensibly released from their pod and investigating the area, there's a sound coming from inside one of the pods. The faint shadow of someone moving inside, underneath the semi-opaque frost. A thump of an impact against the glass, hard enough to rattle the frame. And again. And then-

-a fist expertly wrapped in a strip of Hawaiian print fabric smashes right through the glass from the inside.]

[Bridge - Lethe]

[Rico's watching the holographic display intently, eyes flicking between the positions of the ships. It's a chaotic mess to make sense of, but he's up for the job.

Whether he's wearing a garish unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt ripped at the bottom, oversized sunglasses tucked away in a pocket, jorts and a single flip-flop -- or the much more dignified armored space suit from the jumper bay depends entirely on timing. Maybe you're one of the (personally or not) rescued crew members from Alyce resting up. Or someone he's met up with on the way. Either way, whatever he's wearing, Rico carries himself with perfect confidence.]

Majority rule. Democracy in action.

[Rico sounds thoughtful, his voice a deep rumble in his chest. A little distant, maybe - he's got more than a few trains of thought running at the same time. He takes a split second to look away from the display at the other person, a faint smile on the edge of his words.]

What do you think about it?

Rescues - Keros

[Eventually, Rico does what he does best. He isn't an engineer, or a Tek-Judge - there's only so much he can do with support systems or getting spacecraft operational. But with any kind of weapon in his hands? A young man with quick reflexes and a lifetime of practice might dabble in some applied violence. For the greater good, of course. And of a camaraderie with his fellow humanity.

Aha. No. He's looking to get his hands on some answers. And clothes. And weapons. But the selection he'd picked out from the armory wasn't a bad start at all. And he makes for a great bodyguard. Never in a safer pair of hands when you're with Rico Dredd.]

Weird looking guys, huh? [he says, toeing over the body of one of the aliens whose face he'd smashed in. Brutally, but efficiently. He kneels down at its side, frisking it for things he could use - the gun's an obvious choice. There’s a faint quirk playing at the corner of his mouth, like he’s amused at some private joke.] Can't say he looks much prettier now.

[Wildcard!]

[OOC: Rico will be all over the place. Investigating, arming up, changing clothes, dragging people out of traps, etc. Feel free to hit me with something that isn't explicitly laid out here!]

bridge

[hyperpotamous]

[ the bridge is unsurprisingly high on john's list of places he needs to visit. if he's going to be here, he requires information. plus, the nerd in him wants to get a look at the fancy tech.

that's why he's distracted poking at displays, so it takes him a few seconds to realise anyone's even speaking to him directly. people don't really do that, so it's rather quaint. ]

What?

[ briefly confusion and then amusement registers in his strange black eyes, but part of that might be rico's ability to exude confidence despite his ridiculous outfit. it's not to his personal taste, but john can respect it. ]

What do I think about democracy? [ he chuckles. ] I think we might be screwed if there comes a time when somebody needs to start making hard decisions.

Cassian Andor | Star Wars

[festianbargain]

1. Wake, Lethe

[ Cassian doesn't move at first. He takes in as much as he can just by moving his eyes. This isn't the cell he fell asleep in. By instinct, his hands go behind his head. On Program. He is complying.

He can't tell how long he remains like that, unmoving, barely breathing, frozen with something between caution and terror. He expects to hear one of two things: either the screams of the other men as they're fried, or shouts of guards ordering him to do... whatever it is he's supposed to do in here. He's so focused on listening he almost misses the message.

Of course he votes yes. When someone asks you if you want out of a cell, you say YES. When the door opens, he drops out immediately, shivering a little. He's still barefoot, still in his white and orange prison jumpsuit. He focuses on the bracelet, trying to tug it off and otherwise examining it. That is, until he hears somebody ]

1.a [ Somebody approaches him. He looks up and then scrambles to his feet. ]

Hey. I just got here, but I think it was some kind of mistake.

1.b. [ He hears a sound from one of the other pods and darts over. ]

Hang on, I'll get you out.

2. Jumper Bay, Lethe

[ Cassian had originally tries to go to the weapons bay, but is stopped by the impassable gap. So he doubles back to the jumper bay. He's not a fan of going out in a suit. Only Mandalorians are stupid enough to do it. But if it's his only option, he'll put on a suit.

But not a suit with only a fraction of a charge. He turns to the other person trying to find one that works and points to the power gauge. ]

This is supposed to be full, right? This couldn't mean anything else?

3. Weapons Bay, Lethe

[ Cassian isn't sure what's going on with this hospital ship, but there's some kind of skirmish going on and he wants to be armed. If the weapons aren't working as intended, he is pretty sure he can either fix them or get them to do something else. Bombs and guns and even blasters aren't all that complicated once you get down to it. Just a series of controlled explosions.

It takes some effort but he gets there eventually. First things first: inventory. Whoever is there he hands them a box. ]

Go through this. We need to figure out what options we have. Quickly.

4. Wildcard!

ooc: Surprise me! Or request a starter for one of the other prompts.

[merelychewed]

[ Surprise, the person he's handing the box to happens to be a quadrupedal lizard creature with wings and yet said creature takes the box with ease. He does, thankfully, have very hand-like foreclaws, and a box full of heavy weapons seems to be of no problem to him. Even now only horse-sized, Draco's strength has not completely abandoned him. ]

Hmm... [ One look at the contents within once he's set the box down and fumbled it open has him speaking up immediately with, ] If you could describe what I should be looking for as I do that, I would greatly appreciate it.

[ He tells Cassian that in a gruff Scottish accent but the sheer lack of knowledge won't stop him from going through it. He can sort similar items even if he doesn't know exactly what they are. ]

draco / dragonheart / lethe crew

[merelychewed]

i. here there be dragons... and cows? are those cows? (the lethe)

[ When Draco said that dragons who pass go to the stars, this was not what he had meant. Waking up to floating freely in the air — having no gravity affected him as much as any other creature here on the agricultural deck — and seemingly down-sized to roughly the same height as a large horse was not a happy moment for him.

Worse yet was the fact that the other beasts around him immediately began throwing a fit to not only be floating about but to be doing so with a still considerably large predator. The noise from the... cattle? No, not cattle, those were...

He wasn't sure but whatever they were, they were already giving him a headache for sure. ]

Will you cease your useless bleating already? [ The dragon grumbles aloud at them but there's no change, voice gruff and already well put-upon despite being here for like two seconds so far. Of course, there wouldn't be any response. Not much to be expected from simple animals. ] ...stars save me, how do I get down from here...?

[ He would have to ignore them for now as he tried to turn himself right way up in the sheer lack of gravity. One wing out, flapping a little, trying to rotate, oh boy, this was nothing like real flight and a real sight to behold, a dragon flailing awkwardly about with no gravity. ]

ii. this was not what the trash compactor monster was expecting (the keros)

[ Somewhere on the Keros, a trap is triggered and someone finds their way all too abruptly dunked into the trash compactor's foul and murky waters below. Normally what follows would be a scramble to escape the grasp of the monster dwelling in that same water, only this time they appear to have lucked out.

Said monster is already tangling with a second monster. Well, perhaps not a monster, not really, although it heavily depends on how one defines what a dragon is. Regardless, Draco had fallen for the same trap minutes before elsewhere on the space station and is already thrashing about with it in the water. He may not be as massive as he used to be but he's hardly a pushover. He already has one of its tentacles in his jaws and is busy prying another from around his neck with a hand-like foreclaw.

At seeing another join him from yet another trap chute, he bites down on the one in his mouth hard enough for sharp teeth to sever it, and then, with a sputter, as the taste is most assuredly foul, he snaps, ]

Either stand back to the wall or lend me your aid! I do not care which!

[ Essentially, either stay out of the way or help him! And then he carries on thrashing about in the water as another pair of grasping tentacles come shooting up out of the water. ]

iii. downtime amongst the stars (the keros)

[ With the pirates gone, there was only so much Draco could help with. Everything here was beyond his comprehension apart from, well, the stars, which they were now living amongst. Heavy lifting, certainly, that he could do, and he offered to drag anything larger than what the average human could handle from loading docks to ships and back again. He could clear debris on the space station, too, easily enough, provided someone was along to deal with the sneakier traps still active, but at the end of it all...

Well, at some point in the crew's exploration of Keros, an observation deck with an acceptable amount of life support still functioning was found and that is where Draco has settled in when not needed. He lays along the edge of the vast window looking out into the sprawling grave of spaceships floating still and silent and, beyond those, the stars themselves, only— ]

I cannot see them out there.

[ Anyone else around taking in the same view or even just wandering in might hear him say with a quiet sigh. Who, though? Who can't he see? ]

(ooc: for the sake of Draco being able to get around, he has been shrunken down to size of a large Clydesdale horse; still big but more of a "can move around a spaceship" big! that said, he is a little limited on the Keros to spots where the station still has life support. i'm just assuming his handy dandy bracelet will warn him not to go where he can't breathe...)

iii! omg i love draco, i'm so glad you play him!!

[luck]

[ the observation deck is the best place to sleep and read without being bothered by others, and alhaitham has decided to do the latter. with the pirates having fled, the place has gotten a lot quieter as everyone thinks over what's happened so far. how to repair the caduceus, ensure the safety of alyce, and ways to assist the lethe... there's always something going on which surprises him how quiet it is.

with a turn of the page, his brow raises as he notices a voice echo, and he figures that he should mind his business since that's not his place.

... ]

Can you be any louder?

[ don't mind alhaitham... he's just a man who wants complete peace and quiet. ]

yae miko / genshin impact / the caduceus

[fauxtale]

 – 01 / BREAK.
a trading port, baatera – a few months prior

( this one has found herself in quite the predicament.

she's not in any danger, nor are the people around her, considering the non-physical shackle placed upon those within her group. it's likely the only thing keeping her from feeding one of the kits to one of her own. that, and perhaps a certain propensity for the playfulness that children tend to have. she seems to have a tendency to extend more patience than usual to those she sees as a possible source of mischief - but she didn't think they'd be so bold as rope her into being the subject of it.

so, here she is, a veritable posse of (somehow) even smaller sashute at her heels like ducklings as she wanders about the market to browse the varied wares. one is even in her arms, if only to prevent the little thing from pulling at her hair. this does not deter the determined kitten.

and now one is jealous, climbing up the side of her thigh and sinking its little kitty claws into fabric and skin as to better make its way up - this one, she scuffs.

and if you happen to be in her vicinity, she'll be handing it to you! )

Hold this.

 – 02 / HUNT.
the keros station, or the lethe – during the attack

( the problem with a woman like her being under the hippocratic protocol is that while she plays at the role of a shrine maiden, her general temperament and repertoire of skills does not exactly.. fit. while she's got the grace and poise for it, the sharpness of her tongue and the way she gaze lingers in a way that says she's likely thought about prying the object of her interest apart in every way that mattered.

so while she does fairly well in keeping herself out of trouble, that incessant tug to make sure the others did as well is starting to get irritating. not the mention the inability to enact whatever violence she saw fit.

so it's only by the grace of fickle fate that put her in particular under this restraint is she here, tending to the wound of another by drowning the smell of iron with antiseptic. she doesn't tend to get her hands dirty, and anyone can see the displeasure pulling at the corners of her mouth. )

We're going to need to secure you in bandages before we go anywhere lest you redecorate our path.

( as pretty as the color red is, perhaps she doesn't need to explain why that might be a bad thing. )

 – 03 / TRADE.
the keros station, or the lethe – after the fighting

( unfortunately for a member of the lethe, this one's had enough of the compulsion that drives her into doing things like.. go out of her way to help people. she will if she damn well pleases, thank you. she's capable of it. she just does not care for the lack of choice in the matter. if anything, the fox feels as though she's been rather patient about that particular collar for long enough.

but maybe she should've done a little better than simply corner someone. she just doesn't want them running off until she got what she came for, that's all. at least what she wants is immediately made clear when she holds her bracelet out. she wants to be transferred to the lethe officially. )

It shouldn't take too much out of your busy day, then we can both move on.

 – wildcard!

i couldn't resist taking a shot with her too,
since miko is in the caduceus, we can hash out details of any previous dealings with her on my atp if you so desire (or pm me, im chill either way)! or talk more situations since there's plenty of prompts and i very clearly did not want to write all of them. put her in a position where she needs to be rescued from a pirate! let her heckle you! or maybe some shenanigans where she assumed no one would think a pink fox is her on an alien planet. and she'd dismiss them and say she has no idea what they're talking about? maybe they've gone crazy? or play out a situation where she IS still a pink fox wandering around just minding her own business.

the emperor | the locked tomb | lethe / rhys

[hyperpotamous]

[ ooc: general warning for spoilers for the locked tomb to follow ]

① WAKE

[ sometimes the last thing you remember was the worst thing you can think of and you find yourself in a half-frozen over cryo pod and seriously don't want to be there.

he missed the prompts for the vote but doesn't wait to find another way to get the tech to disengage the locks, simply busting through the glass instead with what looks like—... bone?

it's there and then it isn't, all gone to ash that dissolves away to nothing in the artificially circulated air, and a man steps out of the ruined pod and quickly realises he's not on a Cohort ship. or any type of ship he's ever seen before. huh. ]

Well.

[ he stares off into the middle distance for a few seconds as he considers the implications of his being here where he definitely shouldn't be and quickly decides that's a problem for future john to worry about. ]

So, anyway, who wakes up on a strange spaceship and votes 'no' on keeping the doors locked?

[ that's really not the most important question right now, and there is a very real possibility that he's just talking to himself, but that's never stopped him. ]

② GRAVEYARD

[ it feels appropriate that he should currently be haunting this ancient space graveyard, all rotted out and full of barbs and traps to trip over inside. it's very on the nose in a literary sense and john wishes he didn't have a mind for that sort of thing.

he isn't armed because he doesn't need to be. he'd debated that initially, but as long as no one who knows him wakes up, people really have to take his word for it, don't they?

and he's a necromancer. which is fine! no one has to know he's God.

killing the pirates would be easy even for a low level adept, but unnecessarily heavy-handed. why kill when you can just take people out of the fight? a migraine here, a sudden and debilitating bout of gastrointestinal distress there. in a few hours everyone's fine. maybe some people have acquired new and colourful nicknames from their friends. everybody wins!

john enters the next room in this dungeon crawl, unsure of what to expect. as it turns out, he's not alone again. ]

Oi, you there.

[ he's a pretty unassuming guy with his hands in his pockets and his weird, shimmery cape and his odd, oil slick eyes and he's just here now. ]

You're not a pirate, are you? 'Cause I'd really prefer not to fight. If you pick a fight, then it's going to get weird.

③ WILDCARD

[ ooc; want something else? hmu @ koutenko or use my ATP post. john's permission and opt-out post is here if you need it! ]

Graveyard

[festianbargain]

[ Cassian is definitely armed. He found a club and has a blaster. He is pretty sure he's managed to get it charged enough to fire off a couple of rounds before it dies on him, but that is something he's not eager to test. Clubbing is going to be his first resort. And seeing as he's much more comfortable with a firearm, he's cranky about it. ]

I'm not a pirate.

[ The denial is gruff and emphatic and almost a snarl. He sizes the Emperor up and makes no effort to hide his skepticism. ]

It's already been weird. What do you know about salvage?

[ The Lethe needs a lot of repairs. Cassian is on a mission to get more of the ship functioning. ]