( open ) i'll fly you to the moon and back

[initiates]

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.

Comments

[have_hat_will_travel]

... And he completely missed the epic level bard, whose entire powerset as far as he would likely have known basically consists of "I play music that does stuff"?

[Yes, Pid does sound offended. Fortunately, it's about Catsovi's actions.]

[charming_jerk]

[FLAT LOOK.] Are you seriously mad about him not kidnapping you? Consider yerself lucky. Once he got bored with it, he sent me off t that compound. I was one 'a the first ones there. I was there for like over two goddamn weeks.

[have_hat_will_travel]

On one hand, yes, I was definitely one of the lucky ones and managed to do some good stuff for it.

On the other, being completely ignored when someone's looking for a musician minion, even if it was only for a couple of days, does rather hurt.

Oh, right. You may not have seen the network post, given all that. So, straight out: I'm a Succubus. Don't expect perfect rationality out of me.

[charming_jerk]

You're nuts. If ya wanna be kidnapped and mind-fucked, by all means, I'll pass yer name along next time.

Wait - you are? [Oh. Huh.] Nah, musta missed that. Things have been friggin' insane lately.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I think that got revealed while you were "out".

So yeah. I'm not jealous that you got kidnapped, mind-fucked, etc... But I am sorta jealous you got acknowledged for your musical talents more than I.

[charming_jerk]

It's only cuz he saw me playing guitar when I was in the hospital. Did he even know you were a musician?

Succubus, huh... [He looks her over, frowning slightly. Not what he was expecting rom what he knew, but it was pretty clear from things Pidonus said that she wasn't from his world anyway.] ....You know I'm an incubus, right? Well, half, anyway.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I played a few times in public.

And, well. I think you mentioned it a couple times?

[charming_jerk]

'S just weird. Never expected to ever meet anyone who uh, is along the same vein. Even if we come from different places. Not that I can even tell ya much about it. I only found out like three years ago what the hell I even was.

[have_hat_will_travel]

That's definitely a difference. I chose my path three years ago. Well, part of it.

Also, I'd bet our powers behave differently in the details.

[charming_jerk]

Wait, that's a thing people can do? Why would you?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Let's just say it's a very long and painful story and leave it at that, okay.

[charming_jerk]

[He nods.] Yeah, okay. That's fair. None 'a my business. [It just baffles him that someone would choose it. What he wouldn't give for the opposite - something to turn him fully human.]

I guess the good news here is that since there's so many different kindsa people here, they don't really care what you are. The Exiles gave me a lotta grief, and sometimes I get shit from Rransports. But mostly people are okay with whatever here.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Meh. Exiles charm easily enough, in my book.

[charming_jerk]

...Yeah. They kinda are. [He wishes he didn't know, but he does.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

So I'll just take advantage when I need to, until it stops mattering, frankly.