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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-09-22 02:45 pm
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( open ) i'll fly you to the moon and back

Date & Time: September 21st - September 30th, 11:59 PM
Location: The Hold, the Moon Base
Characters: Any/all.
Summary: The Transports are evacuating to the Moon Base. Those on the Moon Base try to settle in and figure out their next move. Setting info can be found here.
Warnings: Talk of nuclear warheads and reference to immense loss of life. Please contact the mods should any individual thread get graphically violent or anything else of the sort.
Note: Use date and location tags in your subject headlines! Such as "On the moon, 23rd onward" or "On the spaceship, 25th" or "down at the Hold, 29th."

The Hold is a flurry of activity, grim faced members of the Initiative group directing supplies and people with the subdued air of people facing their own doom, and wondering at how to process the knowledge. None of the Initiative appears unaware of what will happen; their eyes linger on the Transports, expressions pleading, hopeful, doubtful, or immeasurably sad in turn.

Every eight hours, the space ship is sent back up with a load of people and supplies. The pilots are worked until they can't; the AI stolen ages ago by the Initiative greets and corrals people and supplies at both ends, and in the middle step between.

The network continues to broadcast on narrow channels between the Moon Base and Exsilium, up until the time that all connections are lost, with the carrier located en route to Exsilium. The first airship will pass by without dropping anything, but it's too early to celebrate. At a six hour delay from behind, the second airship arrives, and with it, the dark promise of the Black Code's nuclear weaponry.

The six hour window allows for time for those left behind, either by choice or circumstance, to be pulled to the Moon Base with the successful activation of the Transport Pad. New characters will ultimately arrive with the remainder of those not yet on the Moon Base, all in time to witness the explosive contact of the nuclear warhead with the ground of Exsilium live on satellite.

But until then, there's only the hurry, the silence, and the potential for full out rioting should the Transports spread word to the Exiles inevitably left behind to face this fate.
sweetling: (dramatic staring into the distance)

[personal profile] sweetling 2013-09-25 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi. That really sucks. 'm sorry.

[She's just... going to stay here for a moment. Because she really needs a hug and if there's one person she knows she can count on for that, it's Blaine.]
strategic_guile: (There's that chip on my shoulder again)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-09-26 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Blaine's hands rub her back as he cocks an eyebrow.]

What really sucks? Besides this whole situation.
sweetling: (what angelfuck told me)

[personal profile] sweetling 2013-09-28 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I heard what you said, about the anniversary. A whole year of this...
strategic_guile: (Softly smiling~!)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-09-29 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohh. [He gave her another hug and a soft smile.]

It's been an interesting trip, but I've met great people like you.
sweetling: (hello bright eyes)

[personal profile] sweetling 2013-10-03 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[She snorts.]

That's hardly worth it, though. I don't know, I just... [Am a big crybaby who gets upset when her friends' lives suck.]

Ugh.
strategic_guile: (Wistful looks into the past)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-05 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[A sad laugh.]

Probably not, but there's nothing I can do about it.

[He leans forward to drop his chin on the top of her head or her shoulder, whichever is at the correct level to be comfortable. He's totally not doing it to hide how much saying that bothers him.]

Nothing we can do. Except finish our job to change time so we can go home for good, sans crazy UE people following us and destroying our worlds.