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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.

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[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-09-28 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[It was similar to how Alex was feeling, really. She still remembered, talking about traveling through space just a few days ago and... there she was now, on the moon. It went beyond irony. For the longest time, Alex just stood there, looking through one of the windows. She knew what she was looking at, but it didn't make it any less unbelievable.

... The Moon.


She honestly wished things hadn't gone so terribly wrong for her to have arrived there. Alex sighed, then took notice of the person near her.]

Anniversary?
strategic_guile: (Wistful looks into the past)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-09-29 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blaine flicked his gaze towards her for a moment then looked back outside.]

I've been here a year.

[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-10-03 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... [A full year? Alex was amazed that the had been there for so long. But now that she knew, how was she supposed to react?

It seems weird to say say "Happy Aniversary."]


Um, sorry, that you had to spend it like this.
strategic_guile: (Is that so?)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-05 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[He gives a half smile.]

Yeah, could be better. how long've you been here?

[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-10-07 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Just a few months... I'll be starting my third soon.
strategic_guile: (Shhh! Talking takes concentration!)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-09 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
So you've seen... a few things.

[Blaine turns and rests his head against the side of the wall as he looks at her.]

This is the worst thing that's happened since I've been here. I feel like I'm lucky that it only got this bad after a year.

[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-10-09 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be afraid of anything that could be worse than this.

Do you think we'll ever be able to go back down to the city? [was there even anything left?]
strategic_guile: (Wistful looks into the past)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-10 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
We all are.

[He thinks about that for a second.] We should. I don't know how long it'll take is the thing. Depends on what we do.

[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-10-12 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think it'd be more... time traveling?
strategic_guile: (Clouded thoughts and dark feelings)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-15 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely. That's all we have left to try and put things back how they were, if not better.

[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-10-16 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope we can. For everybody here and those... that couldn't make it out in time.
strategic_guile: (Sadness is a temporary condition)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-17 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
We don't have a choice. [He gave her a half smile.] I don't know what'll happen to us if we don't fix this. We can't stay up here indefinitely.

[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-10-21 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Do you really think we'll end up running out of supplies, or... even air?
strategic_guile: (I feel a little relieved)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-23 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
No, we can get supplies just fine. It's the UE figuring out we're up here that's putting an undetermined time limit on us staying here.

[personal profile] collectedloot 2013-10-24 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
They haven't come after us so far. Maybe they can't bring anybody up here?
strategic_guile: (Setting off my bullshit-o-meter)

[personal profile] strategic_guile 2013-10-29 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
They don't have to bring anyone, just send a missile. I hope they haven't figured out we're here yet.