alittlesweptup: took my baby awaaaaaay (fiyah of an unknown origin)
Charlie Cutter ([personal profile] alittlesweptup) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-16 06:11 pm

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

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?]
hostage: (relaxed ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-19 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
You don't have to do that.

[Reassure him, he means. He'll take the hug. He cuddles up against her, giving her a tiny smile.]
controlledvariable: (PB >> but secretly we're saviors)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-19 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I wanna.

[It's the least she can do, especially when she believes it.]
hostage: (fatigued ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-19 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
If I go telling myself I'm really good when I know I'm not, all I'm gonna do is make myself crazy. Then I'll just be Mr. White.

I don't want that. Do you?
controlledvariable: (PB >> you've gotta deal with it)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-19 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesse.

[It's firm, but not harsh.]

I get that, I do. But there's good in you already, and you can't see it.
hostage: (condemned ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-19 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, Steph...

[It's the same tone of voice Mike used to use with him when he was being naive, defending Mr. White. She doesn't know, so he can't really blame her. It's just kind of sad.]
controlledvariable: (PB >> that we prepared)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-19 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
See? That's what I mean.

[He's dismissing her, because he's too broken by everything that's happened and that he's done to see the good parts of himself.

(She realizes she's a hypocrite).]
hostage: (lying ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-19 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
But I'm okay with it. I don't need anybody telling me I'm a great person. I know what kinda person I am and I'm living with it.

[He looks at her again and he realizes maybe he's being selfish, saying all that. Maybe she's looking for something in him. Like maybe she won't be okay if she isn't convinced he's good.]

I mean, I'm not - I'm not saying you shouldn't like me. You do whatever you want. But I don't want you to worry about me.

...I probably shouldn'ta said anything.
controlledvariable: (PB >> all eyes are on you)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Part of her wants to ask him how he lives with it, because she doesn't feel like she can. She has to, she has to live with what she's done and she knows that she'll keep doing what she has to, but that doesn't make it any easier.

It doesn't seem fair to ask, though, so what she does instead is just nuzzle against the crook of his neck, almost like an apology.]


I'm gonna worry about you no matter what, Jesse. That's what friends do.
hostage: (loving ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmmmmmnnnoooo.

[He cozies up to her, burying his face in her hair and kissing the top of her head. The rest is mumbled there:]

Friends have fun and feel good and do stupid things.
controlledvariable: (Batgirl -- let me explain you a thing)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jesse are you five.

Which is why she sounds like she's explaining a concept to a small child when she responds, teasing a little:]


And worry about each other, that's called caring.
hostage: (devious ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[What if he just tickles her right now? Because that's what he's going to do. His fingers go creeping slowly down her sides.]

You do too much of the one thing and not enough of the other things.

[Tiiiiiiickle.]
controlledvariable: (PB >> I've fallen down)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[In an haughty tone:]

I'm not ticklish.

[Suck it, Pinkman.

Not that his hands running down her sides isn't a little distracting.]


And I do plenty of the fun things.

[No she doesn't.]
hostage: (witty ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't believe you. You're not even ticklish. That's like... I don't even know what that is. It's cheating, is what it is.

[Yeah, he likes doing this, too.]
controlledvariable: (PB >> I want the applause)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
it's not exactly something I could lie about.

[She makes a playful, half-hearted attempt to bat his hands away.]

It's not even a Bat thing, I've just never really been ticklish.
hostage: (unimpressed ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine. Be like that.

[Now he's drumming on her belly instead. Tap, tap, tap...]
controlledvariable: (Batgirl -- grumpycat dot jpg)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[jesse...]

It's not like I can help it!

[Why is she apologizing for not being ticklish.]
hostage: (dubious ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[...tap, tap, tap...]

Even Mike's ticklish.
controlledvariable: (Batgirl -- how hard did you hit your hea)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[....]

How is that something you know?

[please ignore the way she squirms a bit.]
hostage: (dreamy ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
How d'you think?

[...tap, tap, tap...]
controlledvariable: (PB >> now we're in the ring)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess my real question is "how do you still have hands?"

[p l s]
hostage: (chatty ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
He likes it!
controlledvariable: (PB >> to be admired)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You're impossible.

[She means that in a good way.

Probably.]
hostage: (smiling ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. I'm amazing.

[He settles his hands on her hips.]
controlledvariable: (PB >> but we're the gladiators)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-11-20 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not the word I used.

[mike help]
hostage: (cute ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-11-20 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
But it's what you meant.

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