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WAKE UP

The soft, rhythmic whoosh, whoosh of air is what you hear first, perhaps it's a breeze? The cyclical beep beep in the distance doesn't really jive with a lot of nature scenes, though. A moment or two later your vision comes back to you, blurry in the beginning but becoming clearer with each breath you take. All around you is an opaque blue dome, and when you can wrest your limbs to move, the blue retracts and you're met with a staid metal room.

What happened? Where are you? Your memory is fuzzier still, there being no easy way to jog it like your vision. What you can remember is that there was an accident: one minute you were in your home world, and the next you were in this foreign place surrounded by people you've never seen in your life. Not just any people—scientists, who were trying desperately to create matter, to break the laws of physics and chemistry, in order to save their world. Because their world was dying, and they had tried everything else and then some. Their experiment was a failure, but not all is lost—translocation is a valid solution, after all. They could just send all their people to a non-doomed world, and start anew. And they would have, if the machine they used to bring you here hadn't short circuited. Your combined luck isn't terrible, though, somehow, because there exists one more copy of the machine squirreled away in the space colony floating in a distant solar system somewhere, the Plan B of this dying civilization.

That's why you're here, waking up in this pod in a cloud of cold air and colder remembrances to the murmuring of other strangers around you. You don't recognize any of them (vaguely you remember something about keeping the other travelers separate for quarantine purposes), but a soothing, sonorous electronic voice interrupts your thoughts.

GOOD MORNING. WELCOME TO THE WILD DELIVERANCE. THE ONBOARD TEMPERATURE IS 25 DEGREES CENTIGRADE AND THE DAY IS SATURDAY. WE WILL BE ARRIVING AT OUR DESTINATION SHORTLY, SO PLEASE SIT BACK AND RELAX. THE CAPTAIN WELCOMES-

No I fucking don't. Wakey, wakey, you formerly comatose cryptids. We've got a bit of a problem, and no I'm not talkin' about the end of this world, or how you miss your bed and just wanna go home. It's a bit more immediate and simpler than that, ain't that grand?

There's fucking parasitic aliens on this ship and they're not friendly. Just ask our two engineers, Kelvin and Calli—wait you can't, because they're DEAD thanks to our local alien assholes.

Don't worry though, I've got a plan. But hey, if you can solve this on your own go for it—might wanna start with the basic profiles on your new fancy PDA. Maybe you can just ask someone if they're an alien? Hahahahaha.

Talk to ya later!

OOC: Welcome to Convive! All characters wake up in the pod room, completely naked, though their color coded space suit and personal effects are in a storage compartment attached to their pod. Additionally, all characters will naturally understand each other due to a totally innocuous implant!

Also, stand by to meet your friendly neighborhood NPC on Sunday at 1 PM EST. Be there or be square!

Comments

[particularlyexciteable]

[ He sighs a bit and there might be some inaudible mumbling about baby beavers being called kits but- ]

Not anymore than you are. Or I guess a little more than you are, considering they gave me the keys to this whole thing.

[hyping]

[ HM. ]

What's the purpose of this spaceship, anyway?

[particularlyexciteable]

Wait, you're the kinda kid who sleeps through classes aren't ya?

[ One second, he's clearing his throat and switching to that proper speech you heard before. ]

The purpose of the Wild Deliverance is to deliver the last hope of humanity to the Colony XZ-404. Additionally, it also houses the necessary supplies and equipment to activate schematic: #9899, which was found capable of inter-dimensional travel.

[hyping]

[ Well, that's not what he was expecting from this guy in particular. ]

I thought you'd have a different agenda.

[ But it's true, Akira doesn't always pay attention in class. Whoops. ]

Three aliens among us. Were they responsible for the horrible green coffee, too?

[ Stop ]

[particularlyexciteable]

[ Higgs is a lot of things, okay. And he's giving a laugh and then going back to his normal voice because unfort this is his normal. ]

Green coffee? What, is that some type of newfound health craze?

[hyping]

Maybe.

[ This is a productive conversation but look, at least it's a chat, right ]

You should try some, Captain Higgs.

[particularlyexciteable]

Aww, aren't you sweet. That would require me leaving the captain's quarters though, so no dice.

[ ...wait isn't he right here? Or is he? ]

[hyping]

But you're...

[ ???? ]

...Is this an illusion? Hologram?

[particularlyexciteable]

Bingo! A hologram, isn't it pretty cool? [ It actually looks like he's right in the lab but if anyone was to touch him they'd go right through him with a fritz of static. ]

[hyping]

Wow. How clever.

[ :| ]

Is there a point in hiding yourself from us?

[particularlyexciteable]

With aliens running about? It's just common sense. And it's nothing I'm not used to, this pad is considerably nicer than my old one.

[ read: he's just paranoid. ]

[hyping]

A Captain should be out and about with their crew.

[ Higgs...you're just Another Adult aren't you.... ]

It's not like we have the luxury of hiding from the aliens like you do.

[particularlyexciteable]

Maybe, maybe. But it's not like I wanted this job, this is just how it wound up. Do good by me and I'll do good by you.

[...that might be a little generous tbh. ]

And that's exactly the point. If they were able to get access into here, I'm sure they could fuck things up more than they already have.