ViewScream: avante en garde

[idolpro]

The bulkhead seals behind you; there is a brief warning buzzer before THEMiS’s A.I. pleasantly informs you that you have been “quarantined for your protection.”

A specialized room is arrayed before you, and you suddenly find you are aware of not only of the game’s rules, but also of a limited collection of specialized knowledge suitable to your team’s Role.

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ROLE: WEAPONS

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Available solutions:

1. Phase-Shifted Tachyon Missiles
2. Antimatter Blast Cannon
3. Force-Shield Generator

To your right are a series of lockers containing changes of clothes to more Role-appropriate ones—though they still contain just enough elements to match your unit aesthetic. You may use these if you wish (if so, they will not disappear after the game ends). To your left, there is what appears to be a comms station. It seems you’ll be using this to contact the other units.

It quickly becomes apparent, in fact, that you will very much need their help—

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Quick Links: How to Play | Rules | Bridge | List of Roles

Comments

PROBLEMS

[idolpro]

Psionics
There’s something at the corner of your eye—no, the other corner—no, it’s writhing beneath your skin—

Wait. It’s none of those things. All of this is just in your mind; there’s a creeping paranoia that borders on madness. Then you notice it: the broken canister in the corner of the room, its contents already dispersed. Whatever was in there is clearly beginning to work its way through your brain. The effects are easy enough to ignore, now that you realize what’s going on… but they’re only going to get worse.

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Engineering
There’s an alarm klaxon like a tornado siren that extends for about twenty-five seconds than you wish it would have.

Once you can finally uncover your ears, you see the flashing alert:

PROTON CORE IN CRISIS MODE
IMMINENT REPAIR REQUIRED TO PREVENT MELTDOWN

Better find someone who can get you those repairs...

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Helm
Over at your communications hub, there’s a flashing red light: obviously some kind of warning signal. Checking the monitors triggers a pop-up message, read aloud in the pleasantly neutral voice of what must be THEMiS’s A.I.

“External sensors offline. Temperature regulation and collision maintenance systems compromised.”

Well, that doesn’t sound good.

“Do you wish to jettison this sector to preserve station integrity?”

A countdown appears on the pop-up. Okay, so that’s really not good.

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

TURN-IN

[idolpro]

[unbr8kable]

[stares at the broken canister, then the still flashing lights of the alarms. Then down to the blisters and dark, overly detailed marks still on her arm from the last game (sure they're moving, sure the eyes and limbs and shape are really--) before laughing--looking to the others.]

...If we just blow up the ship, that'll take care of everything, right?

[dienamite]

[ He can't stop glancing over his shoulder or scratching uneasily at his arm. This is the worst problem and

wait ]

That's gonna kill us too.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[More irritably than normal, voice a little shaky,]

Are you trying to fuck us all over?

Re: DISCUSSION

[emptymind]

[ covering her ears ]

Ara ara ara ara...

[unbr8kable]

We're all gonna die anyways. Aren't we about to get shot off into space right as the core explodes and then we're eaten from the inside out?

--If we're in quarantine already, there's only one way to make sure we stay that way.

Re: DISCUSSION

[softlyfalling]

Ah, so we need to contact... pep or Heart Soldier, alcheME or BARiTONES, and then Taisho or future is now... I, I'm having trouble concentrating.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ Rubbing at his ears, he sure was missing from the pre-game mingle but he's here now, looking at the everything going on. ]

We... should we concentrate on one thing at a time or split up to work on each one?

[unbr8kable]

We were fucked when we showed up here! Do you really trust anybody else to take care of what has to be done? We're on our own to fix this, so we gotta use what we got!

[deicider]

[Calmly,]

Get it together, we're not doing that. So what are we doing instead? Griffin.

Re: DISCUSSION

[composeur]

[ if you want him he'll be losing his stupid little mind up on one of the windows that opens out to the THE GREAT EXPANSE OF SPACE

the sheer awesomeness of just. being here. combined with the constant beeping and hallucinations-- well that last part's not much different from usual, but he's kind of sensory overloaded right now. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Griffin's not going too great already. He's taken his prosthetic off and his voice is shaky. Is this room getting warmer? It could be the fever, but... brainworms]

Can we... can we please fix the worms in my brain? Gold or, or someone...

Re: DISCUSSION

[emptymind]

Heart Soldier Senshi, Baritones, and... Taisho Roman Revolution.

Re: DISCUSSION

[emptymind]

We should contact Baritones. I'll do it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[softlyfalling]

I... heard Heart Soldier and Taisho put out an all-call. I'll see if we can get in contact with them, still.

[emptymind]

Even if we die, will this stop? The noise. The poison.

[ the noise stopped a while ago ]

[dienamite]

You don't know that! We gotta try to get fixes for this shit from the other teams!

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Deep breaths. Deep... breaths... he keeps scratching at the stump of his right arm, like he's hoping whatever slithered into his skin can be picked out from there.]

The whole thing's... a gamble, right? We're gambling. Pretty much doesn't matter how much we negotiate, we might just end up fucked anyway.

But the whole team's here. So we gotta try. So... play and see where the dice land.

Re: DISCUSSION

[emptymind]

Wait. We should focus on two. We can only give so much. Baritones we need.

Re: DISCUSSION

[gigadevilbreaker]

You think they're likely to give us something?

Re: DISCUSSION

[softlyfalling]

Mm. That's—a good point, if they have problems we can solve.

[unbr8kable]

I sure as hell hope so! Otherwise, what's the point of blowing it up?

[calmthefoxdown]

Then we'll be ultra dead.