(OPEN | Mutiny Log) Well it's been so long

[alittlesweptup]

Date & Time: Nov. 16 ~0300 through Nov.19th ~0230hrs, 3133
Location: Housing, Cafeteria, VR rooms, hallways etc (read: everywhere)
Characters: YOU!
Summary: Mutiny on the moon base! Vital systems are offline, mutineers are making PA announcements, and there’s conflict and turmoil brewing in the halls. Dun dun duuun!
Warnings: None yet (possible violence?)
Notes: Specify a date and location in your top comment. You may specify multiple dates/locations. A timeline for the plot and the IC PA announcements made during are available HERE.

[In the dead of night - or as close to ‘the dead of night’ as is possible to have in moon base - a small group of transports finally make the move they’ve been planning for weeks. Pre-determined teams, maintaining radio contact throughout, simultaneously take control of the Transporter Room and take multiple systems offline.

One moment things are normal; they next, they’re not. With a last message flagged as ‘maintenance’ left on the network, the network cuts out. A moment later, Transports across the base find themselves losing contact with the ground or shifting in their sleep and gently floating out of their beds from the force as the gravity drops. Lighting flicks over to emergency only: bathing corridors and rooms in a desolate, lonely red. Doors work - and then they don’t. Transports will find themselves confined to housing (and washrooms), the VR rooms, and the cafeteria; it’s plenty of space to be comfortable and largely covers most Transport’s basic needs (unless you’re fond of cheery light or having your feet on the ground in which case you may be out of luck).

Hours later-- Click-HHHSSSHK-click!

A woman’s voice speaks over the moon base’s PA system, echoing through the dark corridors and off the odds and ends gently floating through them thanks to the lack of gravity regulation. The voice is rich and accented, with a certain practiced ease to it - one that sharpens to a point the longer she talks:]

Testing. Testing-- are we good? Christ, I'm not echoing, am I? No?

All right good. Listen up, fellow transports. As you might have noticed, some of the base's general systems have gone offline: this, I assure you, is absolutely intentional. There's no need to panic.

So moving on from the understandably frustrating to the even more frustrating, I'm sure you all have also noticed the fact that we're currently all stuck-- starving and defenseless-- on the bloody moon. In a base that was, up until a few days ago, overrun with zombies. And before that, thousands of lives were bombed right out of existence, and before that, an entire world-- and before that we were all still being thrown at the United Earth for the sake of dying off repeatedly in a war we never stood a chance or had a say in. Transports have been treated like pawns since day one, and I'm sorry, but we don't deserve it.

If we're giving up our lives and our freedom, I'd say it's about time we earned ourselves a little equality.

We deserve a say in what goes on in this fight, and with that in mind, a few of us have decided to hold onto the transporter for a while. Just until the Initiative agrees to treat us like people instead of ammunition. Trust me, we’re not here to hurt anyone; none of this has to end badly. But it does need to end. Things have got to change. And if this is what it takes? This is what it’s going to be.

We need your help; please don’t make it any harder for us.

[The PA clicks off, pitching the base once more into complete radio silence.

Near the end of the first day, gravity regulation is re-established. The network is brought back online the following day, allowing everyone to communicate more freely. Lighting doesn’t come back online until the 18th and the door regulation isn’t normalized or operable until the 19th. Throughout the four days, the mutineers make multiple PA announcements.

In the mean time? Keep your friends close, come to the aid of your neighbors; help with reconnaissance and choose sides - are you neutral in this mess? Are you trying to help bring systems back online and root out the mutineers? Are you sympathetic to the mutiny and trying to sabotage those Transports standing for the Initiative?]

Comments

[badnewsboy]

[observation was a very good technique. there was a lot you could learn about people by just watching them. Volstagg had said once that all Lokis suffered the same affliction: the hunger of looking across the table for the weaknesses of others. but to him it wasn't so simple, it wasn't merely about that, it was about utilization. he knew the details to weave together, even if they were sloppy occasionally and he found himself picking up the loose ends.

Loki hardly hears him approach, and when he turns at the sound of his voice there's a look on his face like he's been doing something he shouldn't and he's been caught.]

Oh, hello. Quite the outage that we're experiencing, isn't it?

[individualist]

It's a very unfortunate time for it.

[The gravity hadn't really effected him; perhaps rather predictably, even the life support systems could go and he'd be fine, even if he broke out into space.]

Hopefully things improve - lighting and gravity is one thing, life support is an entirely different story.

[badnewsboy]

Is there any time that bodes well for such a thing?

[Loki briefly surveys what there is around him out of habit. everything had thrown him off a bit, and despite how cool it was to bounce around in zero-g, even if his affect on the world around him was different due to the increased density of his body.

Loki was very much hoping they wouldn't break out into space.]

Life supporty things sound very vital to, you know, the whole living bit. Have you an idea of what's going on?

[individualist]

["Life supporty things" does get a laugh out of him.]

A group of transports have decided to launch a mutiny against the Initiative and this is all a result of that.

Although I'm not exactly sure whether or not disabling some of the Moonbase's functions was intentional on their part.

[badnewsboy]

[well, a trickster does have their moments. there's something interesting about him, something akin to Mephisto, perhaps, or Hela, or someone that most certainly held themselves like they mattered in the gist of things. (in the gist of things according to godliness, perhaps, and the rejection of divinity. he'd accounted and dealt with many.)]

Curious. They have their own qualms with the Initiative to cause their own righteous uprising. Intentional or not with the disabling thing.

[individualist]

I suppose if you've an issue with how things are run, the best way to solve it is try things yourself.

[A thoughtful hum.]

After all, even if things become a disaster as a result, it's still a change. And change is a catalyst for many things - even miracles can be born from disorder.

[Although he's loathe to use the word "Miracles", since God takes the credit for those every damn time.]

[badnewsboy]

[it's sort of strange watching chaos erupt around him when he had absolutely no part in it. it was almost as if he would give himself too much credit to say that he had even caused a small bit of it—honestly, being the observer of chaos rather than the cause of it was oddly disorienting. moreso than he thought it would be.]

All change must come eventually. Those who try to starve it off will be unpleasantly surprised when they are uprooted, violently, if it must be. [though there's a tinge in his voice that says he's not quite all right with the violent sort of change.] Change happens, inevitably, as it would get quite boring if we were all the same all the time. I just seem to have arrived during a very interesting turn of events.

[individualist]

Unfortunately, such changes are too often necessary. For true change to take place, a reason must be given for others to go along with it - violence is something that spurs even the most stoic of hearts into the process, whether or not positively or negatively. Either they go along with it, or simply try to stop it, everything is set into motion from there.

[A shake of his head.]

A shame, really. But stagnancy has a tendency to infect those who usually aren't content with it, if it is allowed to enter one's heart. Only something drastic will shake them up a bit - hence the mutiny, I'd say.