MISSION: RELEASE THEM BACK INTO THE WILD

[initiates]

Date & Time: April 27th - May 1st
Location: Wollongong, Australia, 2464.
Characters: All voluntary transports + maybe a few drafted ones.
Summary: Make those stay-at-homes leave their nerdcaves! My god, do they even know what sunshine looks like???
Warnings: none planned, will be updated accordingly!

The city is old, dark, and very, very quiet. A good deal of the buildings are crumbling and old, but the ones that are actually inhabited glow like candles in the dusk the Transporter has dropped you into. All of these buildings are infested by wiring pouring in from every angle, ensuring that each inhabitant in his or her little block of a room has every modern convenience available in 2464.

There is no one on the streets, no public transportation, and even cars look scarce. But that doesn't mean there's no movement. Maintenance drones, controlled remotely, run deliveries or work repairs. Armed law enforcement drones patrol on rounds through the city, although their mechanized attention is mostly turned outward. Still, they might come to investigate a ruckus within the city limits. And if the persons causing the ruckus don't respond to peaceful attempts to get them to cease, the drones might attempt to subdue them with paralyzing technology and haul them in for a night in the city jail — another dark, unused place.

If you get hungry, there are entire warehouses dedicated to the production of foods. It can't be that hard to sneak in and collect a meal, right? Or you can hack into the system and order whatever you want, if you're good with that kind of thing. Or you can just scavenge—or fast for four days, maybe—if thieving and hacking aren't your style.

And somewhere around here, in those glowing, secluded towers, behind the legions of automated drones, live the reclusive citizens of Wollongong. The methods are up to you, as long as you can get them to come out and breathe the fresh air somehow.

[[ ooc; Mission details are here! This will run from 27th of April to May 1st, with those on the mission returning to Exsilium at the same time that the new arrivals show up. It's an optional mission, but if you'd like your character to go along that would ICly sit it out, feel free to say that the Initiative drafted them for this one.

There aren't any teams or structured threads to this one, so go wild! ]]

Comments

[fintastic]

Well yeah! But apparently they do not.

[ So what can they do about it.. hmmm. ]

Maybe we should try to go in and keep them company!

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose can't help but smirk at that.]

The goal is to get them out here, Feferi. Also given how little they move around, they probably smell terrible.

[fintastic]

So it's like Sollux only there's more of them.

[ Okay that's mean, he doesn't smell that bad. ]

But if we go in there, we'll have an easier time of convincing them to come out, than if we just stand out here and try to make them come out with our mind!

[flightybookshrew]

We also run the risk of scaring them and causing them to notify the authorities. And I would rather not spend another afternoon blowing up police robots.

Still, the idea has some merit...talking to them might accomplish something.

[fintastic]

But if we can't go in and talk to them... then we are right back where we started!

[flightybookshrew]

Perhaps we could simply try knocking on one of the resident's doors.

[fintastic]

...oh. Yeah, I guess we could do that! I thought that seemed to easy, but it is worth a try.

[flightybookshrew]

Well there's no certainty they'll answer. [She glances back inside.] Or if they even remember how.

[fintastic]

[ And that would leave them right back where they started. With all that said, Feferi starts for the door, but pauses and turns back. ]

Well, let's go then! Standing around certainly won't help.

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose just waves a hand as she follows after the fishy troll.]

After you.

[fintastic]

Okay!

[ Not even a second's hesitation, she once again goes for the door, this time knocking as loud as she can. ]

Hello? Is anyone home?

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose just waits patiently behind her, her hands folded behind her back, her head tilted slightly to the side as she tries to hear what is going on inside.]

Hmm.

[There are the sounds of movement, at least!]

Try knocking again.