( open ) our ag wing's back and you're gonna be in trouble (hey now! hey now! our ag wing's back)

[initiates]

Date & Time: October 31st, 3313, 11:59PM - November 3rd, 3313, ????
Location: Agriculture Wing, Moon Base to start. Cafeteria, warehouse, docking bay, VR rooms, Transport Pad, or Observatory later on.
Characters: Any & all!
Summary: Space Zombies are allowed out of the Agriculture Wing, slowly revving up their systems to try and infect and absorb as many of the Transports (or 12 Initiative Members) as possible.
Warnings: Log will be locked for potentially graphic violence. Please warn in threads should the violence or gore become graphic.
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Everything is a success at first, from the cool rush of air out of the Agriculture Wing once the doors are fully unlocked, to the heady sense of accomplishment for finally moving forward on something good for the long-term usability of the Moon Base. It's intended to remain a resource, after all, but not be a permanent home. Fraying tempers and the sense of cabin fever descending on Transports continues to showcase how important it is to get back down on Earth to regain some breathing room.

There's little enough dust between all the unmoving, unlit structures, many even supporting the barest dried husks of what once grew there. Upon the lightest touch, they disintegrate, turning into a dust that falls to the ground. The silent rows will be reclaimed and turned into functioning units, based on Transport efforts, and Transport time invested in the project.

There's just one problem. Something stirs in the reclaimed wing, among tangles of hosing and wiring. Skitterings and movements that make no sense for a long abandoned Moon Base. The further in Transports go, relying on magic or technology to generate light past the bare minimum maintained by the base, the more disturbing sights they may run into.

Of course, the most disturbing of all might be lying just around the far corner -- but don't worry, it's only a flesh wound. Try not to get surprised in the machinery, caught suffering from not looking up or caught making out with anything unsavory this holiday season, Transports. We need all of you to stay alive!

We can't bring you back right now!

Comments

[resolve]

[Of course, it hadn't been the greatest plan. If the... thing is aware enough to become more relentless in its pursuit after being hit, her actions surely hadn't escaped its notice. The continual thumping just beyond the door is testament enough to that.

But she hadn't seen any other option.

She's leaning with her back against the wall, taking a moment to catch her breath, when the other girl speaks up. In an instant, her eyes cut over, glaring daggers. If there's anything Katniss doesn't much appreciate, it's being questioned about something like this.]

And if we go back out there, it won't be a minute before we're dead. [It's biting, downright callous, but also said with just the slightest degree of weariness.]

[celestial_wizard]

[ Lucy huffed, unimpressed. Katniss' glare was pretty tame compared to Erza's. That woman made her think she was going to lose her soul. But there was a lot more history between Erza and Lucy too. ]

So you think hiding in a closet with no other way out when that thing is just seconds from getting through the door is a better idea? I'd rather be out there, fighting, than hiding.

[ But she had better options against those things than Katniss' bow, since it didn't work on them. Thinking for a second, Lucy pressed herself as far back as she could. ]

If we can't go out, that way, then we'll need another way out. Move back some. [ There's not much room in the closet, but she needed to at least summon Virgo to get a tunnel made. ]

[resolve]

[If Lucy's unimpressed, then she is too. The glare persists, and before long, she opens her mouth to argue.

The argument, though, never comes. It's true; staying in here also means they'll be dead sooner rather than later, with sooner become more and more of a reality as the door slowly begins to cave in. But there isn't another way out, either, at least from what she can see. She has no idea what the girl is talking about. Maybe she's lost a smidge of the outright hostility, but she's still wary, cynical.]

Why?

[celestial_wizard]

[ Hearing the creature banging on the door and seeing the door start to splinter slightly under its efforts made her extremely nervous, lemme tell ya. In the closet, she glanced around for something they could use to push in front of the door. ]

I can call Virgo. She'll tunnel us out - not far, but anything is better than being in here..!

[resolve]

[To that, she has no response; the door beginning to splinter is what draws her attention, and finding something to try to barricade the door becomes a more immediate preoccupation. She knows that any effort she makes will only hold it temporarily at best, but that's better than none at all.

After a moment, her eyes land on something that might do the job, some large, metallic object she doesn't have a name for. She takes a few steps, and begins to drag it toward the door.]

[celestial_wizard]

[ No point in talking it through, the silence she took as agreement. While Katniss started to pull said object of unnameable origin towards the door to help block the creatures from getting in the way, Lucy touched her key, summoning the celestial spirit. In short order there was a rumble within the closet room as a tunnel opened up through the floor between Lucy and Katniss, and she called over. ]

We can get out through here!